WanGuard 8.3 New Features with AMD Support

WanGuard 8.3 features :

• Flow Sensor detects attacks faster in some cases, and it uses multiple threads to compress the raw flow data.
  Now it also supports ZSTD, a modern compression algorithm that offers a higher compression ratio at a lower CPU consumption.
  ZSTD and LZ4 can be configured with custom compression levels
• A new sub-tab called Geo Distribution, located in Reports » Tools » Firewall and in Filter tabs, that shows the distribution of attackers over an interactive world map
• Hardware Offload support for filtering packets on Mellanox 5/6 NICs when using DPDK. Packet and byte counters are also supported for offloaded rules
• Support for capturing packet dumps when using DPDK. Due to limitations in the DPDK library, simultaneous captures are not possible, so subsequent captures are queued for up to 5 minutes
• Console Theme "Classic Flat" was removed; icon set "Modern" is now default for Modern themes
• A new decoder for the SLP protocol
• Support for Debian 12
• Support for PHP 8.2
• Support for PF_RING 8.6
• Support for DPDK 23.11
• Support for AMD CPUs for DPDK
• Updated Netmap to git master from December 2023
• Updated the AS number database and the GeoIP data
• Many other small improvements and bug fixes
• Updated User Guide

Below You can find more on AMD EPYC processors and their posistioning, for WanGuard purposes we will focus on Core Performance as that is the most important for network performance operations.