iptables 1.4.15 sets state information that is not displayed by iptables 1.4.16 binaries (iptables and iptables-save)

output of the go script

#!/bin/sh -v

STATES='NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED,INVALID,UNTRACKED'

uname -a
Linux plop 3.10.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Aug 5 08:04:22 CEST 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux
ls -l
total 1040
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    551 Aug  7 20:41 go
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root    520 Aug  7 19:53 iptables-1.4.15
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 514830 Jul 31  2012 iptables-1.4.15.tar.bz2
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root    520 Aug  7 19:53 iptables-1.4.16
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 536827 Oct  7  2012 iptables-1.4.16.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    167 Aug  7 20:41 output
rm -rf /usr/local/{lib,bin,sbin}/* >/dev/null 2>&1
iptables --version && iptables-save
./go: line 8: iptables: command not found
make install -C iptables-1.4.15 >/dev/null 2>&1
iptables --version && iptables-save
iptables v1.4.15
# Generated by iptables-save v1.4.15 on Wed Aug  7 20:41:45 2013
*filter
:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
COMMIT
# Completed on Wed Aug  7 20:41:45 2013
iptables -A INPUT -m state --state $STATES
iptables -A INPUT -m conntrack --ctstate $STATES
iptables --version && iptables-save
iptables v1.4.15
# Generated by iptables-save v1.4.15 on Wed Aug  7 20:41:45 2013
*filter
:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
-A INPUT -m state --state INVALID,NEW,RELATED,ESTABLISHED,UNTRACKED
-A INPUT -m conntrack --ctstate INVALID,NEW,RELATED,ESTABLISHED,UNTRACKED
COMMIT
# Completed on Wed Aug  7 20:41:45 2013
rm -rf /usr/local/{lib,bin,sbin}/* >/dev/null 2>&1
iptables --version && iptables-save
./go: line 15: iptables: command not found
make install -C iptables-1.4.16 >/dev/null 2>&1
iptables --version && iptables-save
iptables v1.4.16
# Generated by iptables-save v1.4.16 on Wed Aug  7 20:41:46 2013
*filter
:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
-A INPUT -m state
-A INPUT -m conntrack --ctstate INVALID,NEW,RELATED,ESTABLISHED,UNTRACKED
COMMIT
# Completed on Wed Aug  7 20:41:46 2013

the actual go script

#!/bin/sh -v

STATES='NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED,INVALID,UNTRACKED'

uname -a
ls -l
rm -rf /usr/local/{lib,bin,sbin}/* >/dev/null 2>&1
iptables --version && iptables-save
make install -C iptables-1.4.15 >/dev/null 2>&1
iptables --version && iptables-save
iptables -A INPUT -m state --state $STATES
iptables -A INPUT -m conntrack --ctstate $STATES
iptables --version && iptables-save
rm -rf /usr/local/{lib,bin,sbin}/* >/dev/null 2>&1
iptables --version && iptables-save
make install -C iptables-1.4.16 >/dev/null 2>&1
iptables --version && iptables-save