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Guess what's coming soon...  :)

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(legacy) fix crashreport PHP Warning:  Illegal string offset 'rule' in /usr/local/www/firewall_nat.php on line 71

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This one and the former were good ideas, but:

o They only affected a very small percentage of the actual code, and
o Reviewing changes is best done in the config.xml, not the revision message.

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We moved past a critical section with 15.7.18, so this no longer
has any operational value.  :)

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(Already had issues in the code that were obvious, some may still
linger in there.  Also uselessly confuses our dedicated translators.)

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