[ANNOUNCE] iptables 1.8.13 release

Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-03-04T01:34:17Z

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Hi!

The Netfilter project proudly presents:

iptables 1.8.13

This release contains the following fixes:

* Revert "libxtables: refuse to run under file capabilities",
which breaks Docker.
* Fix compilation warning with strchr() and const.

Upgrade from iptables 1.8.12 is recommended.

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

You can download this new release from:

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

To build the code, libnftnl >= 1.2.6 is required:

http://netfilter.org/projects/libnftnl/downloads.html

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

https://bugzilla.netfilter.org

Happy firewalling.

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Florian Westphal (1):
Revert "libxtables: refuse to run under file capabilities"

Pablo Neira Ayuso (1):
configure: Bump version for 1.8.13 release

Rudi Heitbaum (1):
src: fix discards 'const' qualifier