v1.6.0

What's Changed

• Update product version to 1.6 by Shankar Seal (@shankarseal) in #5504
• Fix HASH_OF_MAPS replacement object handling by Alan Jowett (@Alan-Jowett) in #5506
• Fix netebpfext fault-injection null dereference  by Laksh (@lakshk98) in #5512
• Update step-security/harden-runner action to v2.21.0 by renovate[bot] in #5507
• Bump regression detection test version by Laksh (@lakshk98) in #5523
• new multithreaded stress tests using sample extension. by Shankar Seal (@shankarseal) in #5430
• Update remaining files to use vs2026 and windows-2025 by Nicholas L (@nmlud21) in #5503
• Remove dead runtime user NMR mocks by Shankar Seal (@shankarseal) in #5526
• Deprecate BPF_PROG_TYPE_BIND in favor of BPF_PROG_TYPE_CGROUP_SOCK_ADDR by D. Michael Agun (@mikeagun) in #5385
• Fix epoch CPU admission for hot-add by Alan Jowett (@Alan-Jowett) in #5411
• Fix bpf2c subprogram stack frames by Alan Jowett (@Alan-Jowett) in #5516
• Optimize LRU hash map lookup by Alan Jowett (@Alan-Jowett) in #5494
• driver-test: build tcp_udp_listener and guard the target's build closure by Nicholas L (@nmlud21) in #5499
• Bump WDK version by Nicholas L (@nmlud21) in #5535
• Update CODEOWNERS to include new owner by Shankar Seal (@shankarseal) in #5539
• Implement sock_addr bind hook usermode tests by D. Michael Agun (@mikeagun) in #5300
• Add bind multi-attach test suite and framework extension (#5338) by D. Michael Agun (@mikeagun) in #5381
• Update step-security/harden-runner action to v2.21.0 by renovate[bot] in #5540
• Update dependency windows to v2025 by renovate[bot] in #5541
• Update step-security/harden-runner action to v2.21.1 by renovate[bot] in #5557
• Fixing policy naming by Keith Horton (@keith-horton) in #5559
• Fix committed ETL cleanup in ebpf_tracing.cmd on Windows Server 2025 by D. Michael Agun (@mikeagun) in #5532
• Fail setup on DuoNic installation errors by Laksh (@lakshk98) in #5538
• Upgrade actions/checkout consistently by Dave Thaler (@dthaler) in #5562
• Update bpf_performance version to v0.14.0 by Anurag Saxena (@saxena-anurag) with @Copilot in #5563
• Make netebpfext unit test resilient to fault injection. by Shankar Seal (@shankarseal) in #5547
• tests: allow retries on transient bind errors (WSAEADDRNOTAVAIL, WSAEADDRINUSE) in socket_helper by adri22235 in #5515
• fixing const correctness of the new helper function bpf_sock_addr_get_network_context by Keith Horton (@keith-horton) in #5565
• ci: fallback to GITHUB_TOKEN in scorecard analysis when SCORECARD_READ_TOKEN is unavailable by adri22235 in #5510
• Reduce redundant eBPF error logs by Anurag Saxena (@saxena-anurag) in #5551
• Separate flow classify hook requirements by D. Michael Agun (@mikeagun) in #5533
• Normalize and correct sock_addr verdict handling by D. Michael Agun (@mikeagun) in #5546
• Native coverage for end to end tests by Nicholas L (@nmlud21) in #5524
• Generated SPD for release 1.6 by Nicholas L (@nmlud21) in #5578

New Contributors

• adri22235 made their first contribution in #5515

Full Changelog: v1.5.0...v1.6.0