PF_RING 8.6 Release

• PF_RING Library

• New Runtime Manager for injecting and removing filtering rules to the socket via Redis
• Fix memory leaks in PCAP module
• Fix caplen/MTU on loopback capture

• PF_RING Kernel Module

• Add support for probabilistic sampling with kernel capture

• FT Library

• Improve application protocol guess with nDPI

• PF_RING Capture Modules and ZC Drivers

• Add initial support for NVIDIA/Mellanox BlueField
• Add Napatech ns timestamp in PCAP mode
• Add support for probabilistic sampling with userspace capture
• Optimize hw timestamping on ice adapters (Intel E810)
• Fix timestamp support when using the ZC burst API with ice adapters
• Fix drivers compilation on Kernel 6.x
• Fix drivers compilation on RH 8.8

• nPCAP

• Fix memory corruption with big index files

• PF_RING-aware Libpcap/Tcpdump

• Add PF_RING support to pcap_inject
• Fix pcap_read_pf_ring return code (number of packets)

• Examples

• zbalance_ipc: add support for multiple balancer threads when using NVIDIA/Mellanox adapters
• pfsend: add -c option to balance on dest ip rather than src up
• pfcount: compute drop rate in packet mode only
• pfcount: report expired licenses
• Fix ftflow_dpdk compilation on DPDK 22 or later
• Fix memory leaks in pcount, alldevs, preflect, ftflow_pcap,

• Misc

• Add support for Debian 12
• Add libelf and libbpf dependencies to packages
• Add sbsigntool dependency which includes kmodsign required by dkms
• Add revision to pfring-dkms dependency in packages
• Fix check for init/systemd presence
• Cleanup support for legacy adapters