- Upgrade of PCRE1 to PCRE2. See :ref:`pcre-update-v1-to-v2` for more details.
- IPS users: by default various new "exception policies" are set to DROP
traffic. Please see :ref:`Exception Policies <exception policies>` for details
- on the settings and their scope.
-- New protocols enabled by default: bittorrent-dht, quic, http2
+ on the settings and their scope. For trouble shooting, please check `My traffic gets
+ blocked after upgrading to Suricata 7
+ <https://forum.suricata.io/t/my-traffic-gets-blocked-after-upgrading-to-suricata-7>`_.
+- New protocols enabled by default: bittorrent-dht, quic, http2.
- The telnet protocol is also enabled by default, but only for the ``app-layer``.
Security changes