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Leonardo Di Giovanna 387499546f chore!: drop legacy BPF probe
Falco 0.43.0 deprecated the legacy eBPF probe. Drop it as well as any
reference to it.

BREAKING CHANGE: drop legacy eBPF probe

Signed-off-by: Leonardo Di Giovanna <leonardodigiovanna1@gmail.com>
2026-02-05 13:15:54 +01:00

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<p align="center"><img src="primary-logo.png" width="360"></p>
<p align="center"><b>Cloud Native Runtime Security.</b></p>
# Falco Branding Guidelines
Falco is an open source security project whose brand and identity are governed by the [Cloud Native Computing Foundation](https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/trademark-usage).
This document describes the official branding guidelines of The Falco Project. Please see the [Falco Branding](https://falco.org/community/falco-brand/) page on our website for further details.
### Logo
There are 3 logos available for use in this directory. Use the primary logo unless required otherwise due to background issues or printing.
The Falco logo is Apache 2 licensed and free to use in media and publication for the CNCF Falco project.
### Colors
| Name | PMS | RGB |
|-----------|------|-------------|
| Teal | 3125 | 0 174 199 |
| Cool Gray | 11 | 83 86 90 |
| Black | | 0 0 0 |
| Blue-Gray | 7700 | 22 92 125 |
| Gold | 1375 | 255 158 27 |
| Orange | 171 | 255 92 57 |
| Emerald | 3278 | 0 155 119 |
| Green | 360 | 108 194 74 |
The primary colors are those in the first two rows.
### Slogan
> Cloud Native Runtime Security
### Writing about Falco
##### Yes
Notice the capitalization of the following terms.
- The Falco Project
- Falco
##### No
- falco
- the falco project
- the Falco project
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# Glossary
This section contains key terms specifically used within the context of The Falco Project. For a more comprehensive list of Falco-related terminology, we invite you to visit the [Glossary](https://falco.org/docs/reference/glossary/) page on our official website.
#### Modern eBPF Probe
Robust eBPF probe, which brings the CO-RE paradigm, better performances, and maintainability.
The modern eBPF probe is not shipped as a separate artifact but bundled into the Falco binary itself.
This is one option used to pass kernel events up to userspace for Falco to consume.
#### Kernel Module
Used to describe the `.ko` object that would be loaded into the kernel as a potentially risky kernel module.
This is one option used to pass kernel events up to userspace for Falco to consume.
#### Driver
The global term for the software that sends events from the kernel. Such as the [Modern eBPF probe](#modern-ebpf-probe), or the [Kernel Module](#kernel-module).
#### Plugin
Used to describe a dynamic shared library (`.so` files in Unix, `.dll` files in Windows) that conforms to a documented API and allows to extend Falco's capabilities.
#### Falco
The name of the project and also the name of [the main engine](https://github.com/falcosecurity/falco) that the rest of the project is built on.