Breaking changes, my favorite words to hear about something I learned to use last week.
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2026
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That's the best time to hear the words. You most likely haven't set up anything that will be broken by the changes. Sometimes you get a "yep, that doesn't affect me" and sometimes you get a "Wow, I'm glad they changed that. That sounded awful."
Yes, but breaking changes means that they're going to remove old legacy components. Still a breaking change, but hopefully less impact than other possible changes.
Love more features for quadlets. Quadlets are slick as hell.
How frustrating, last time I tried to learn nftables, I gave up because the documentation was just not as good or as widespread as iptables.
I hated dealing with iptables already so my brain definitely doesn't want to spend the energy learning something else that's similar to iptables.
I was so close to having a nice stable, self maintaining home server that I didn't have to think about on a technical level before this announcement :(