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Release Digest: GNOME, May 4, 2004

Firestarter 0.9.3

About Firestarter

Firestarter is visual firewall tool for GNOME. The program
features a friendly setup wizard, a real time event monitor, an
advanced rules based system for traffic shaping and many advanced
features like kernel tuning, NAT and port forwarding setup
tools.

Availability

Firestarter is available from http://firestarter.sourceforge.net

Program screenshot: http://firestarter.sourceforge.net/fs-mistshot.png

Shout Outs

A big thanks to all the contributors, we were very happy to see
so many patches this time, and to all the testers that provided
input for this version. Kudos to the GNOME translation teams too,
the program now features some completely ludicrous amount of
localizations, 38 or so last time I checked.

Major changes in this version

  • New logo and program icon
  • GConf based configuration system
  • Firewall events no longer spam the system console
  • Firewall policy changes (Paul Drain):
    • Support for the new IPV4OPTSSTRIP netfilter module
    • UNCLEAN matches have been deprecated
    • The INVALID match now works for outgoing packets
    • Forward chain defaults to block, even if not using multiple
      networks
    • Removed the LRTCP target
    • Set FIN timeout to 30 seconds (Manuel J. Galan Moreno)
    • Many more small tweaks
  • Non-routable networks check is now in a chain of its own, fixes
    LAN problems when using Firestarter on an already once NATed
    machine (Peter Harvey)
  • The list of non-routable networks is now user updatable and
    kept in /etc/firestarter/non-routables
  • Added support for user defined pre and post scripts as
    /etc/firestarter/user-pre and user-post
  • Fixed problem with pppd not running firewall script (Boris
    Huisgen)
  • Fixed “Unknown Error” dialogs in GNOME, especially when run
    remotely (Phillip Compton)
  • Updated list of known services (Brian Hurley)
  • Fixed problem with no hits showing up in GUI
  • Fixed crash in KDE3 when contents of system tray changes
    (Hetfield)
  • Fixed some small Linux 2.6 kernel detection problems (Mark
    Bidewell)
  • Various Slackware specific fixes (Rene Vahtel)
  • New translations: Albanian (Laurent Dhima), Croatian (Robert
    Sedak), Punjabi (Jaswinder Singh), Canadian English (Adam
    Weinberger)
  • Many updates to existing translations
  • A whole lot of small fixes here and there

Regards,
Tomas


Epiphany 1.2.5

Hi,

What is it ?

Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the mozilla rendering
engine. It aims to be simple and easy to use.

http://gnome.org/projects/epiphany

What’s changed ?

Epiphany 1.2.5

Bugfixes

  • Make saving a web page not re-fetch the page (Christian)
    [#141652]
  • Fix crash on startup (Marco) [#141262]

Translations

  • Duarte Loreto (pt)

Documentation

  • New translation of help into Basque (eu) by Hizkuntza
    Politikarako Sailburuordetza
  • Updated screenshots in help (Piers)
  • Updated help on smart bookmarks (Matthew Gatto) [#139616]

Epiphany 1.2.4

Bugfixes

  • Fix problem with font selection in prefs dialogue
    (Christian)
  • Fix encoding of downloaded and saved content (Marco) [#126571,
    #141050]
  • Fix crash when closing a window while in print preview mode
    (Christian) [#121298]

Translations

  • John C Barstow (mi)

Where can I get it ?

Source code:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/epiphany/1.2/epiphany-1.2.5.tar.gz

[MD5 sum: 1f901ab81de614618be759c083115e3f]

Epiphany 1.2.5 requires mozilla 1.4, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.5, or
1.6.

The recommended version is Mozilla 1.6:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.6/src/mozilla-source-1.6.tar.bz2

More about dependencies and installation tips: http://gnome.org/projects/epiphany/downloads.html

Enjoy.

Christian

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