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Firewalld upstream has used nftables as the default backend for the past two minor releases. It is also the default in other distributions (e.g. RHEL-8). This change will bring Fedora in line with upstream.
Using nftables bring many advantages. See firewalld's upstream [blog post](https://firewalld.org/2018/07/nftables-backend). It also highlights a few behavioral changes.


== Benefit to Fedora ==
== Benefit to Fedora ==

Revision as of 13:59, 28 August 2019


Firewalld Default to nftables

Summary

This change will toggle the default firewalld backend from iptables to nftables. All of firewalld's primitives will use nftables while direct rules continue to use iptables/ebtables.

Owner

Current status

  • Targeted release: Fedora 32
  • Last updated: 2019-08-28
  • Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
  • Release notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Detailed Description

Firewalld upstream has used nftables as the default backend for the past two minor releases. It is also the default in other distributions (e.g. RHEL-8). This change will bring Fedora in line with upstream.

Using nftables bring many advantages. See firewalld's upstream [blog post](https://firewalld.org/2018/07/nftables-backend). It also highlights a few behavioral changes.


Benefit to Fedora

Scope

  • Proposal owners:
  • Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
  • Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
  • Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

How To Test

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

User Experience

Dependencies

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Contingency Plan

  • Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)
  • Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
  • Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No
  • Blocks product? product

Documentation

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Release Notes