From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso Subject: Re: Merging iptables-nftables into iptables Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 09:24:09 +0100 Message-ID: <20131205082409.GB4557@localhost> References: <20131204114834.GA13280@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Netfilter Development Mailing list To: Arturo Borrero Gonzalez Return-path: Received: from mail.us.es ([193.147.175.20]:34473 "EHLO mail.us.es" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751234Ab3LEIYT (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Dec 2013 03:24:19 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 04:11:18PM +0100, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote: > On 4 December 2013 12:48, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The iptables-nftables tree [1] currently stores the iptables over > > nftables compatibility support. This allows you to run iptables > > commands using the nftables kernel infrastructure. > > > > JFYI, my plan is to merge the iptables-nftables into iptables at some > > point of this week given that it contains stuff that is scheduled for > > 3.13. After that merge, the iptables-nftables will be disabled. > > > > [1] http://git.netfilter.org/iptables-nftables/ > > Could you give some hints about releases of userspace stuff? > (libnftables, nft, new iptables...) > > Is 3.13 a deadline for releases? The initial release of the userspace libraries and tools will happen by when the Linux kernel 3.13 is released, that should happen by the beginning of 2014. The nftables compatibility layer (the so-called iptables-nftables) will be included in regular iptables releases, since it will be part of that package.