[ANNOUNCE] ipset-5.1 released

[ANNOUNCE] ipset-5.1 released

[Jozsef Kadlecsik]

Hi,

I'm happy to announce the 5.1 version of the new ipset branch. Here 
follows the changelogs for the userspace and kernel parts:

userspace:
 - Test cases for IPv6 restore and more complex restore sessions added
 - Restore mode did not work for IPv6, fixed (reported by Elie Rosenblum)
 - libipset: static annotations (Jan Engelhardt)
 - libipset: const annotations (Jan Engelhardt)
 - libipset: remove redundant casts (Jan Engelhardt)
 - libipset: remove redundant indirection via union name (Jan Engelhardt) 
 - libipset: ipset_strncpy is really a strlcpy-type operation
   (Jan Engelhardt)
 - Prevent calling Makefile directly in the kernel/ subdirectory
 - Put back the Sparc specific workaround at getaddrinfo
   (reported by Jan Engelhardt)
 - Check old system kernel header files
 - Check from `configure` that the kernel source is patched with
   netlink.patch
 - Use configure to detect compiler warning flags
 - Try to solve PKG_CHECK_MODULES issue (reported by Rob Sterenborg)
 - Fix incorrect comparison in check_allowed (reported by Jan Engelhardt)

kernel part:
 - Kernel version compatibility: support bumped starting from 2.6.34
   (Supporting older kernel releases would mean too much burden for me,
   sorry.)
 - kernel: use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL (Jan Engelhardt)
 - kernel: const annotations (Jan Engelhardt)
 - kernel: use __read_mostly for registration-type structures
   (Jan Engelhardt)
 - kernel: do not mix const and __read_mostly (Jan Engelhardt)
 - xt_set: avoid user types in exported kernel headers (Jan Engelhardt)
 - build: enable parallel building (Jan Engelhardt)
 - Fix Kbuild for me to delete backup files

You can download the source code from:
        http://ipset.netfilter.org
        ftp://ftp.netfilter.org/pub/ipset/
        git://git.netfilter.org/ipset.git, ipset-5 branch

Best regards,
Jozsef
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Re: [ANNOUNCE] ipset-5.1 released

[Mr Dash Four]

> kernel part:
>  - Kernel version compatibility: support bumped starting from 2.6.34
>    (Supporting older kernel releases would mean too much burden for me,
>    sorry.)
>   
Does that mean the previous 5.0 (kernel?) patches need to be applied or 
is this version removing that requirement? Are the prerequisites the 
same (i.e. mnl-1.0 etc) as in 5.0?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ipset-5.1 released

[Jozsef Kadlecsik]

On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Mr Dash Four wrote:

> 
> > kernel part:
> >  - Kernel version compatibility: support bumped starting from 2.6.34
> >    (Supporting older kernel releases would mean too much burden for me,
> >    sorry.)
> >   
> Does that mean the previous 5.0 (kernel?) patches need to be applied or is
> this version removing that requirement? Are the prerequisites the same (i.e.
> mnl-1.0 etc) as in 5.0?

The requirements are the same: kernel patch has to be applied, libmnl 
required. 

Best regards,
Jozsef
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