The table below gives a brief synopsis of the status and suitability
(for use today) of various Gibraltar releases.
See also
How to Upgrade and Why You Might Want to and
possibly also the
Gibraltar Changelog.
| Version | Status | Notes |
| 2.5 | Stable | md5 hash of gibraltar-2.5.iso.bz2: 546fa6ff11b8ec745de603d8d80f6245 Most Recommended (with caveat about ipsec tunnels). Use with rule-generator 1.74 or higher and uw-setup 1.75 or higher. See also How to Upgrade and Why You Might Want to. |
| 2.4.1 | Stable | md5 hash of gibraltar-2.4.1.iso.bz2: 5a266cc26651320eb061f5fd209e42de Recommended (with caveat about ipsec tunnels). Use with rule-generator 1.74 or higher and uw-setup 1.73 or higher. See also How to Upgrade and Why You Might Want to. |
| 2.3 | Stable | md5 hash of gibraltar-2.3.iso.bz2: cfd497d3a8c4f48198edd38a89eddb29 Recommended. Use with rule-generator 1.74 or higher and uw-setup 1.72 or higher. See also How to Upgrade and Why You Might Want to. |
| 2.2a | Untested | md5 hash of gibraltar-2.2a.iso.bz2: 04c4bab898f07fb446bd00e6c1aa1bc1 No significant changes from 2.2 so I didn't test it. Use with rule-generator 1.74 or higher and uw-setup 1.69 or higher. See also How to Upgrade and Why You Might Want to. |
| 2.2 | Stable | md5 hash of gibraltar-2.2.iso.bz2: d1e5b1ef61f578f470a329406db5edae Recommended Use with rule-generator 1.74 or higher and uw-setup 1.69 or higher. See also How to Upgrade and Why You Might Want to. |
| 2.1 | Usable | md5 hash of gibraltar-2.1.iso.bz2: 0c402626c954378fa821d95e734e7844 Some performance issues for LFW configuration Use with rule-generator 1.74 or higher and uw-setup 1.68 or higher. See also How to Upgrade and Why You Might Want to. |
| 2.0 | Stable | md5 hash of gibraltar-2.0.iso.bz2: 2d73f6f766248b3607e011a04ccf3984 Recommended Use with rule-generator 1.74 or higher and uw-setup 1.67 or higher. See also How to Upgrade and Why You Might Want to. |
| 1.2 | Untested | md5 hash of gibraltar-1.2.iso.bz2: 4d93b930dcc341694e2e886ca09b8bbe No significant changes from 1.1 so I didn't test it. Use with rule-generator 1.74 or higher and uw-setup 1.66 or higher. See also How to Upgrade and Why You Might Want to. |
| 1.1 | Stable | md5 hash of gibraltar-1.1.iso.bz2: fa3449373cb350c68bc258bbfa347e8a Recommended Use with rule-generator 1.74 or higher and uw-setup 1.66 or higher. See also How to Upgrade and Why You Might Want to. |
| 1.0 | Stable | md5 hash of gibraltar-1.0.iso.bz2: 50101d6e9985025ae5d79e16507d13d5 Recommended (Virtually identical to 0.99.8a). Use with rule-generator 1.74 or higher and uw-setup 1.63 or higher. See also How to Upgrade and Why You Might Want to. |
| 0.99.8a | Stable | md5 hash of gibraltar-0.99.8a.iso.bz2: b02668ce2d4855f7ce92b2f73d6bb4ed Recommended (Virtually identical to 1.0). Use with rule-generator 1.74 or higher and uw-setup 1.61 or higher. See also How to Upgrade and Why You Might Want to. |
| 0.99.8 | Replaced | md5 hash of gibraltar-0.99.8.iso.bz2: 6eaf46f69da7dfd073b121ff60871c2f Not Recommended. See also How to Upgrade and Why You Might Want to. |
| 0.99.7a | Stable | md5 hash of gibraltar-0.99.7a.iso.bz2: e369533dff3eaf2ca8596ad06a96a521 Conditionally Recommended (but 1.1 is better). Use with rule-generator 1.74 or higher and uw-setup 1.59 or higher. See also How to Upgrade and Why You Might Want to. |
| 0.99.7 | Replaced | md5 hash of gibraltar-0.99.7.iso.bz2: bc10296f1c70962801d96c8c05558085 Not Recommended. See also How to Upgrade and Why You Might Want to. |
| 0.99.6a | Stable | md5 hash of gibraltar-0.99.6a.iso.bz2: 26d8df26d541d646cb34e2aaaee1f424 Conditionally Recommended (but 1.1 is better). Use with rule-generator 1.74 or higher and uw-setup 1.56 or higher. See also How to Upgrade and Why You Might Want to. |
| 0.99.6 | Replaced | md5 hash of gibraltar-0.99.6.iso.bz2: ff72d8dcc36d002d7dee22b68b63a5ca Not recommended. See also How to Upgrade and Why You Might Want to. |
| 0.99.5 | Stable | md5 hash of gibraltar-0.99.5.iso.bz2: 56036a89a2d0c16b1efab68b6e96bdee Conditinally Recommended (but 1.1 is better). Use with rule-generator 1.74 or higher and uw-setup 1.56 or higher. See also How to Upgrade and Why You Might Want to. |
| 0.99.4 | Stable | md5 hash of gibraltar-0.99.4.iso.bz2: 077bde0762ba9554226c7fa1637b5e0a Conditionally Recommended (but 1.1 is better). Use with rule-generator 1.74 or higher and uw-setup 1.44 or higher. See also How to Upgrade and Why You Might Want to. |
| 0.99.3a | Test | Requires rule-generator 1.74 or higher to make REJECT work. Supports large ramdisks. Adds "frox" FTP proxy. |
| 0.99.2 | Test | CD-ROM access is slow Ipsec (only needed for tunneling) doesn't start automatically Otherwise works well. Supports large ramdisks. |
| 0.99.1 | Test | Requires rule-generator 1.74 or higher to make REJECT work. Save-config script is finicky. Supports large ramdisks. |
| 0.98c | Stable | md5 hash of gibraltar-0.98c.iso.bz2: 84e541724beebfd39afa4ec4f084dab2 Conditionally Recommended (but 1.1 is better). See also How to Upgrade and Why You Might Want to. |
Corey Satten
Email -- corey @ u.washington.edu
Web -- http://staff.washington.edu/corey/
Date --
Mon Jan 28 12:28:04 PST 2008