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We are excited to announce the release of Calico v3.26! This latest milestone brings a range of enhancements and new features to the Calico ecosystem, delivering an optimized and secure networking solution. This release has a strong emphasis on product performance, with strengthened security measures, expanded compatibility with Windows Server 2022 and OpenStack Yoga, and notable improvements to the Calico eBPF dataplane.

Kubernetes has become the de facto standard for container orchestration, providing a powerful platform for deploying and managing containerized applications at scale. As more organizations adopt Kubernetes for their production workloads, ensuring the security and privacy of data in transit has become increasingly critical.

Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms – or CNAPP solutions – are steadily gaining traction as the best solutions to address Cloud Native security. Regardless of your cloud adoption maturity (whether you’re PoC-ing some services in the cloud, running a few applications, or fully embracing this new era), We’re sure you have likely already noticed that cloud-native security is different from IT-managed data center security. But how exactly is it different?

Almost all modern network systems, including stateful firewalls, make use of connection tracking (“conntrack”) because it consumes less processing power per packet and simplifies operations. However, there are use cases where connection tracking has a negative impact, as we described in Linux Conntrack: Why it breaks down and avoiding the problem.

Organizations are adopting Kubernetes on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to modernize their applications. But Kubernetes clusters and application lifecycles demand a considerable investment of cost and resources, especially for edge applications.