ANNOUNCE: Firestarter 1.0.1

[Tomas Junnonen <tomas fs-security com>]

About Firestarter

  Firestarter is visual firewall tool for GNOME. The program aims to
  combine ease of use with powerful features, serving both desktop
  users and administrators.

  The program features a friendly setup wizard, a real time firewall
  event monitor and an advanced rules based system for creating traffic
  policy. The program also helps you set up Internet connection sharing
  in just a few clicks, or port forwarding when used on a LAN.

Availability

  Firestarter is available from http://www.fs-security.com
  Program screenshots: http://www.fs-security.com/screenshots.php

Changes in policy and program behavior:

- Added separate controls for controlling external and internal network
  broadcasts in the preferences
- LAN broadcasts are now accepted by default, fixes various Samba issues
- Forwarding policy only applies to traffic coming from the Internet
- The program now checks and upgrades your firewall without intervention
  on the first run after installing a new version
- The active connections list now consumes less CPU time when the list
  gets very long, for example when using BitTorrent
- Unsupported traffic, such as IPSec, now show up in the events list
- Updated translations

Bugs fixed:

- Fixed the default broadcast filtering not working in many
  configurations
- Fixed a race condition sometimes causing a crash when looking up
  hostnames in the active connections list
- Fixed a crash when trying to complete the wizard for the first time
- Fixed many services not being correctly identified in the events list
- Fixed incorrect error message when enabling broadcast filtering on
  a ppp connection
- Fixed the firewall third party startup hooks not being updated if
  changed from the preferences instead of the wizard
- Fixed DHCP hook not being written if not using the dhclient program
- Fixed DHCP hook not being removed properly in some cases
- Fixed system DHCP configuration being overwritten
- Fixed crash when entering invalid values into the some of the rules
- Fixed some strings not being translated properly

Regards,
Tomas