23 September 2004

NuFW 0.9.3, application and OS filtering

NuFW 0.9.3 introduces two new features :

 Application filtering
 OS filtering

It is now possible to have filtering policies such as : "I authorize user John to access to the mail server if he uses mozilla-thunderbird on a Windows XP computer to connect.". Currently, this feature is only supported by the plaintext module, but will be soon available for other acl checking modules.

NuFW 0.9.3 also features lots of improvements and bugfixes, among them :

 libnuclient : correct server disconnect handling
 libnuclient : better error handling via errno
 nutcpc : automatic reconnect on server disconnect
 nufw : signal handling for verbosity
 nuauth : user packet parsing has been improved to support bad packets