Hi!

The Netfilter project proudly presents:

        nftables 1.0.6

This release contains enhancements and fixes:

- Fixes for the -o/--optimize, run this --optimize option to automagically
  compact your ruleset using sets, maps and concatenations.

eg.

     # cat ruleset.nft
     table ip x {
            chain y {
                   type filter hook input priority filter; policy drop;
                   meta iifname eth1 ip saddr 1.1.1.1 ip daddr 2.2.2.3 accept
                   meta iifname eth1 ip saddr 1.1.1.2 ip daddr 2.2.2.4 accept
                   meta iifname eth1 ip saddr 1.1.1.2 ip daddr 2.2.3.0/24 accept
                   meta iifname eth1 ip saddr 1.1.1.2 ip daddr 2.2.4.0-2.2.4.10 accept
                   meta iifname eth2 ip saddr 1.1.1.3 ip daddr 2.2.2.5 accept
            }
     }
     # nft -o -c -f ruleset.nft
     Merging:
     ruleset.nft:4:17-74:                 meta iifname eth1 ip saddr 1.1.1.1 ip daddr 2.2.2.3 accept
     ruleset.nft:5:17-74:                 meta iifname eth1 ip saddr 1.1.1.2 ip daddr 2.2.2.4 accept
     ruleset.nft:6:17-77:                 meta iifname eth1 ip saddr 1.1.1.2 ip daddr 2.2.3.0/24 accept
     ruleset.nft:7:17-83:                 meta iifname eth1 ip saddr 1.1.1.2 ip daddr 2.2.4.0-2.2.4.10 accept
     ruleset.nft:8:17-74:                 meta iifname eth2 ip saddr 1.1.1.3 ip daddr 2.2.2.5 accept
     into:
             iifname . ip saddr . ip daddr { eth1 . 1.1.1.1 . 2.2.2.3, eth1 . 1.1.1.2 . 2.2.2.4, eth1 . 1.1.1.2 . 2.2.3.0/24, eth1 . 1.1.1.2 . 2.2.4.0-2.2.4.10, eth2 . 1.1.1.3 . 2.2.2.5 } accept

+ The optimizer also compacts ruleset representations that already use simple
  sets, to turn them into set with concatenations, eg.

     # cat ruleset.nft
     table ip filter {
            chain input {
                   type filter hook input priority filter; policy drop;
                   iifname "lo" accept
                   ct state established,related accept comment "In traffic we originate, we trust"
                   iifname "enp0s31f6" ip saddr { 209.115.181.102, 216.197.228.230 } ip daddr 10.0.0.149 udp sport 123 udp dport 32768-65535 accept
                   iifname "enp0s31f6" ip saddr { 64.59.144.17, 64.59.150.133 } ip daddr 10.0.0.149 udp sport 53 udp dport 32768-65535 accept
           }
     }
     # nft -o -c -f ruleset.nft
     Merging:
     ruleset.nft:6:22-149:                      iifname "enp0s31f6" ip saddr { 209.115.181.102, 216.197.228.230 } ip daddr 10.0.0.149 udp sport 123 udp dport 32768-65535 accept
     ruleset.nft:7:22-143:                      iifname "enp0s31f6" ip saddr { 64.59.144.17, 64.59.150.133 } ip daddr 10.0.0.149 udp sport 53 udp dport 32768-65535 accept
     into:
                iifname . ip saddr . ip daddr . udp sport . udp dport { enp0s31f6 . 209.115.181.102 . 10.0.0.149 . 123 . 32768-65535, enp0s31f6 . 216.197.228.230 . 10.0.0.149 . 123 . 32768-65535, enp0s31f6 . 64.59.144.17 . 10.0.0.149 . 53 . 32768-65535, enp0s31f6 . 64.59.150.133 . 10.0.0.149 . 53 . 32768-65535 } accept

- Fix bytecode generation for concatenation of intervals where selectors use
  different byteorder datatypes, eg. IPv4 (network byte order) and meta mark
  (host byte order).

    table ip x {
           map w {
                 typeof ip saddr . meta mark : verdict
                 flags interval
                 counter
                 elements = {
                         127.0.0.1-127.0.0.4 . 0x123434-0xb00122 : accept,
                         192.168.0.10-192.168.1.20 . 0x0000aa00-0x0000aaff : accept,
                 }
          }
          chain k {
                 type filter hook input priority filter; policy drop;
                 ip saddr . meta mark vmap @w
          }
    }

- fix match of uncommon protocol matches with raw expressions, eg.

     meta l4proto 91 @th,400,16 0x0 accept

- unbreak insertion of rules with intervals:

     insert rule x y tcp sport { 3478-3497, 16384-16387 } counter accept

- enhancements for the JSON API, including support for statements in sets and
  maps, and asorted fixes.
- extensions for the python nftables library to allow to load ruleset and
  perform dry run, support for external definition of variables, among others.
- allow to intercalate comments in set elements.
- allow for zero burst in byte ratelimits.
- fix element collapse routine when same set name and different family is used.
- ... and manpage updates.

See changelog for more details (attached to this email).

You can download this new release from:

https://www.netfilter.org/projects/nftables/downloads.html
https://www.netfilter.org/pub/nftables/

[ NOTE: We have switched to .tar.xz files for releases. ]

To build the code, libnftnl >= 1.2.4 and libmnl >= 1.0.4 are required:

* https://netfilter.org/projects/libnftnl/index.html
* https://netfilter.org/projects/libmnl/index.html

Visit our wikipage for user documentation at:

* https://wiki.nftables.org

For the manpage reference, check man(8) nft.

In case of bugs and feature requests, file them via:

* https://bugzilla.netfilter.org

Happy firewalling.