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is hyperscan abandoned? #421

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cloudlinuxadmin opened this issue Nov 23, 2023 · 4 comments
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is hyperscan abandoned? #421

cloudlinuxadmin opened this issue Nov 23, 2023 · 4 comments

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@cloudlinuxadmin
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Seeing that there have been no new commits since Apr 2023 is it safe to assume that Hyperscan has been abandoned?
@arkamar
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arkamar commented Nov 24, 2023

Funny, I was just about to create the same issue :) I was recently pointed to Accelerate Snort Performance with Hyperscan and Intel Xeon Processors on Public Clouds document via vectorscan repository, where they state in section 2.2 that they are changing the license to proprietary since version 5.5 onward. I am very interested about the answer and its implications to various Linux distributions, especially since I'm responsible for maintaining this package in Gentoo.

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gliwka commented Nov 24, 2023 •
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There's a great fork called vectorscan maintained by @markos over at @VectorCamp: https://github.com/VectorCamp/vectorscan

It has been created after contributions to introduce multi-arch support have been ignored. It's quite active, the last release was just this week.

It introduces multi-arch support and has many improvements, but drops windows and 32-bit support. They were closely tracking upstream until the license change recently.

arkamar added a commit to arkamar/gentoo that referenced this issue Nov 25, 2023
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virtual/hyperscan: new package, add 5.4.2, 5.4.11
16557c5 
dev-libs/hyperscan has recently changed the license to Intel Proprietary
License (IPL) beginning from version 5.5, see section 2.2 in [1]. It is
currently unclear if upstream will maintain the public version [2].

However, there is dev-libs/vectorscan fork already present in the tree.
It is actively maintained drop-in replacement of hyperscan, but it has
some ABI incompatibilities.

This package should be used instead of dev-libs/hyperscan, it will
naturally solve a transitions between hyperscan and vectorscan. Users
can still select the preferred version by appending it to the world list
or by masking the other one.

[1] https://networkbuilders.intel.com/docs/networkbuilders/accelerate-snort-performance-with-hyperscan-and-intel-xeon-processors-on-public-clouds-1680176363.pdf
[2] intel/hyperscan#421

Signed-off-by: Petr Vaněk <[email protected]>
@hardboydu
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The new version of Hyperycan is now 5.6.1
https://blog.csdn.net/weixin_37097605/article/details/130143527

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@jamesbiederbeck
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https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/introduction-to-hyperscan.html

An open source version of the library is available at https://github.com/intel/hyperscan. Intel has an upgraded library version that is available through your Intel sales representative.

How do I reach an Intel sales representative on GitHub? 🤡

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