# Blog: Falco Weekly 7 - 2024

DevFeed: [Blog: Falco Weekly 7 - 2024](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/blog-falco-weekly-7-2024-32513.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://falco.org/blog/falco-w-7-2024-weekly-recap/>)

Published: 2024-02-16T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Falco - Falco](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/falco-falco.md>), [Falco - The Falco blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/falco-the-falco-blog.md>)

Topics: [Falco](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/falco.md>), [C++](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/c-plus-plus.md>), [Windows](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/windows.md>), [Compiler](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/compiler.md>), [Dockerfile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dockerfile.md>)

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## AI overview

Falco Weekly 7 - 2024 recaps fixes, cleanups, and testing and documentation updates across the Falco project and related repositories. It highlights changes in libs, Falco, Falcoctl, the kernel-testing framework, and project documentation.

## Source excerpt

What happened in Falco this week? Let's go through the major changes that happened in various repositories under the falcosecurity organization. Libs Multiple fixes and some cleanups happened in the libs repo: newfstatat syscall is now configured with UF_ALWAYS_DROP: https://github.com/falcosecurity/libs/pull/1683 Fixed null destination address in sendto and sendmsg in modern bpf: https://github.com/falcosecurity/libs/pull/1687 Added a CT_UNKNOWN container type zero value and properly initialize uninitialized value: https://github.com/falcosecurity/libs/pull/1688 Fix in chisels: don't fail if a chisel directory does not exist: https://github.com/falcosecurity/libs/pull/1689 Cleaned up more memory reads/writes in filterchecks to avoid UBs: https://github.com/falcosecurity/libs/pull/1690 Properly initialize m_exe... fields in threadinfo: https://github.com/falcosecurity/libs/pull/1691 Fixed a small source of memleak in scap platform: https://github.com/falcosecurity/libs/pull/1692 Properly enforce the static CRT on Windows by default: https://github.com/falcosecurity/libs/pull/1695 Falco Falco has seens quite a bit of C++ improvements, thanks to Samuel Gaist! Keep up the great job! C++ cleanups: https://github.com/falcosecurity/falco/pull/3069, https://github.com/falcosecurity/falco/pull/3074, https://github.com/falcosecurity/falco/pull/3083, https://github.com/falcosecurity/falco/pull/3085 Consolidated Faclo engine and rule loader tests: https://github.com/falcosecurity/falco/pull/3066 Added http-headers option to Falco driver-loader images: https://github.com/falcosecurity/falco/pull/3075 Cleaned up an unused builder Dockerfile: https://github.com/falcosecurity/falco/pull/3088 Fixed some compiler warnings: https://github.com/falcosecurity/falco/pull/3089 Cleaned up falco_engine deps and include paths: https://github.com/falcosecurity/falco/pull/3090 Falcoctl Falcoctl has seen a small yet important fix: Correctly report artifact type: https://github.com/falcosecurity