firewallfabrik 1.3.0

Modern fwbuilder successor: Qt GUI for managing iptables/nftables policies. Centralized policy DB with reusable objects, scales to hundreds of firewalls, generates deployment-ready shell scripts.

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FirewallFabrik

FirewallFabrik is a modern successor to Firewall Builder (fwbuilder), preserving its core design philosophy while updating it for current firewall technologies. It is a Qt-based GUI that manages firewall policies for multiple platforms, including iptables and nftables, from a single unified interface. All objects, rules, and device definitions are stored in a centralized policy database, allowing consistent reuse of services, networks, and rule sets. This architecture scales cleanly from a handful of devices to hundreds of firewalls, all managed from one policy file and one UI, with platform-specific configuration generated automatically.

This project was developed with the assistance of Claude Code by Anthropic.

Quick Start

# Run FirewallFabrik without installing (requires uv)
uvx --from 'firewallfabrik[gui]' fwf

# Or install it
uv tool install 'firewallfabrik[gui]'

For the full installation guide (pipx, pip, development setup, native themes, desktop integration), see the User Guide: Installing FirewallFabrik.

Documentation

• User Guide -- installation, GUI overview, working with objects, firewall policies, cookbook, and more.
• Migrating from Firewall Builder -- import .fwb files and differences.
• Developer Guide -- database manager, debugging, rule processors, testing, and design decisions.
• Changelog -- release history.
• Contributing -- how to contribute.
• Issue Tracker -- bug reports and feature requests.

Building the Documentation

The documentation is built with Sphinx using the Read the Docs theme. To build it locally:

pip install sphinx sphinx-rtd-theme myst-parser
cd docs
make html

The generated HTML will be in docs/_build/html/. Open docs/_build/html/index.html in a browser to view it.

Source Code Documentation

To generate browsable API documentation for all Python modules:

pip install pdoc
pdoc --output-dir docs/source-code src/firewallfabrik

Open docs/source-code/index.html in a browser to view it.

License

# Copyright (C) 2026 Linuxfabrik <[e-mail]>
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# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License
# version 2 can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.

# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later