On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 01:51:48PM +0200, ????????????? wrote: > Hi, > > looked at the NFT homepage and its wiki and also run an inet search > "nftables version history/list" and came up all but empty. Is there are > place for the layman to read/access the NFT release history and to see > what are the changes between the version bumps? > > Asking about implementation - recently I had discussion with a developer > about their product support for NFT and been told that: > > quote > ... > we can???t actually make use of nftables until it???s reviewed for security > and has a LTS commitment from Canonical (is promoted to |main|). Until > such time, .. and ... cannot depend or recommend it at the packaging > level, even if we did add support for it in the upstream code. > > unquote > > I found this rather astonishing considering that NFT is said to be > available upstream since Linux kernel 3.13 (JAN 19 2014) and it > certainly confuses me about NFT security and LTS commitment. > ftp://ftp.netfilter.org/pub/nftables/changes-nftables-*.txt Not the easiest thing to find, I must say. Cheers ... Duncan. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
