ansible.nftables/CHANGELOG.md

v1.7.0

Features

• Allow to merge group variables with nft_merged_groups (#11 #12).

Enhancements

• Debug var with nft_debug (useful to set up merging group variables).
• Extra example to override default variables.

Fix

• Add missing ICMPv6 rule.

v1.6.0

Features

• Able to manage a new NAT table (with prerouting and postrouting chains).
• Block ipv6 multicast by default.

Enhancements

• Clean tasks name and comments in tasks/main.yml file.
• Order and clean comments in defaults/main.yml file.
• Reload rules instead of restart to avoid to loose rulebase due to invalid syntax (#3 Github).

Fix

• Fix deprecation warning with ansible 2.7: Invoking "apt" only once while using a loop via squash_actions is deprecated.
• Turn nft_old_pkg_list into a list.
• Add libiptc0 (iptables dependency) to the list of old package to remove.
• The 10 minutes delay at first run (#1)!

v1.5.0

Enhancements

• Add a variable to disable "Protect" instructions in systemd unit.
• Improve vars description/comments in default/main.yml.
• Add a variable to manage custom content (table, include,…).

v1.4.1

Fix

• Set empty dependencies line to fix Galaxy warning.
• Add possibility to restart Fail2ban service.
• Use to_nice_json to manage packages list.
• Fix E405 Remote package tasks should have a retry.

v1.4.0

Enhancements

• Set a variable to enable/disable the support of Nftables.
• Move two tasks in systemd handler (try to fix #1).
• Add a additionnal level for all vars for all hosts (group_vars/all).

Fix

• Deprecation warning for state "installed".
• The role now might require Ansible 2.5 (available in Debian Stable backports).

v1.3.1

Fix

• Reload systemd daemons only if unit file change.

v1.3.0

Features

• Provide the systemd unit.

v1.2.3

• Rename firewall table to filter table (most use on Debian).

v1.2.2

Fix

• Set's name can't exceed 15 characters !

v1.2.1

Features

• Allow icmpv6 outgoing traffic.

v1.2.0

Features

• Ensure to remove old packages (iptables,…).

Fixes

• Ensure to create the the directory to store the differents configuration files (/etc/nftables.d).

v1.1.0

Features

• Manage nftables service at startup.
• Rollback to inet family to manage both ipv4 and ipv6.
• To allow multiple ports/range ports, it's possible to redifine vars or add a rule in a dict.

Default Rules

• Use more sets and vars definitions for input/output to avoid multiple rules.
• Allow outgoing icmp.
• Remove DHCP incoming packets. The connection is started by the host, don't need incoming rule.
• Allow outgoing OpenPGP HTTP requests.

v1.0.0

Features

• Install nftables package for Debian based distros.
• Generate nftables main configuration file.
• Manage global, input and output chains with three dicts.
• Manage vars, sets and maps definition file.
• Restart nftables service.

Default Rules

• Drop blackhole set input packets.
• Allow localhost traffic.
• Allow DHCP traffic.
• Allow SSH input (otherwise Ansible won't work).
• Allow DNS request.