Feedback on evaluation of Suricata-8.0.0-beta1

[Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org>]

Hi everyone,

So I have good news and bad news.

The good news is that, apart from minor adjustment of the patch to disable sid-2210059, suricata-8.0.0-beta1 built without any issues.

I then installed the iso I had built with it and the IPS started up and worked as expected, so also good news.

Suricata-8 has some new capabilities such as landlocked is enabled by default now, Suricata can be used via sockets and encrypted traffic bypass has been decoupled from stream.bypass setting.
These may or may not require or benefit from modifications in how Suricata is used in IPFire. I am not knowledgeable enough currently to judge that.


The bad news is that the syslog output is deprecated in Suricata-8 and will be removed in Suricata-9.
It will still work in Suricata-8 but we will need to figure out how to change how we log some things before we move to Suricata-9 but at least we have some time, so better to find this out now.

libhtp is no longer being used by Suricata. They have replaced it with a rust version. So libhtp should be able to be removed.
I will test this out.
I tried ./make.sh find-dependencies on libhtp.so.2 and libhtp.so.2.0.0 but both with Suricata 8 and the existing suricata 7 version the command showed no dependencies on libhtp. I would have expected it to be shown as a dependency for suricata.
We have a libhtp section in the suricata.yaml file.

Regards,
Adolf.