# Firewalld (open-source security and privacy app)

> Firewalld is a free, open-source security and privacy app for Linux. Stateful zone based firewall daemon with D-Bus interface. It has 1,049 GitHub stars and is released under the GPL-2.0 license. Its source code is on GitHub at firewalld/firewalld.

FirewallD - A firewall daemon with D-Bus interface providing a dynamic firewall ==================== firewalld provides a dynamically managed firewall with support for network or firewall zones to define the trust level of network connections or interfaces. It has support for IPv4, IPv6 firewall settings and for ethernet bridges and a separation of runtime and permanent configuration options. It also provides an interface for services or applications to add ip*tables and ebtables rules directly.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/firewalld/firewalld |
| Platforms | Linux |
| Interface | desktop GUI |
| GitHub stars | 1,049 |
| License | GPL-2.0 (open source) |
| Replaces | n/a |
| Language | Python |
| Website | none listed |
| Official | no |
| Category | Password managers, encryption & privacy |
| Latest release | v2.5.2 (Sep 17, 2026) |
| Last commit | Oct 8, 2026 |

## Install

Download a build for your system from the project's releases (https://github.com/firewalld/firewalld/releases) or website, or build it from source by following the README.

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