# Blog: Introducing Falco 0.38.1

DevFeed: [Blog: Introducing Falco 0.38.1](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/blog-introducing-falco-0-38-1-32485.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://falco.org/blog/falco-0-38-1/>)

Published: 2024-06-19T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

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>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Docker](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/docker.md>), [Linux](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/linux.md>)

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## AI overview

Falco 0.38.1 is a patch release that fixes crashes, startup issues involving plugin events and audit-enabled Kubernetes clusters, rule comparison operators, NSS user and group loading, and metric-related plugin API issues. The release also bumps the Plugin API to 3.6.0, enables plugin metrics, and updates libs to 0.17.2.

## Source excerpt

Today we announce the release of Falco 0.38.1 🦅! Fixes Falco's 0.38.1 is a patch release aimed at addressing a few important bugs. It includes the following fixes: A Falco crash while running with plugins and metrics enabled has been solved (https://github.com/falcosecurity/falco/issues/3229) Falco -p output format option can now be passed to plugin events while -pc and -pk can only be used for syscall sources. Fixes an issue that could result in Falco exiting with LOAD_ERR_COMPILE_OUTPUT on startup with k8s clusters that had -pk and audit enabled (https://github.com/falcosecurity/falco/pull/3239) Fixed an issue that could prevent the integer compare operators <, <=, >, >= in rules from working properly (https://github.com/falcosecurity/falco/issues/3245) Ignore NSS user and group entries while loading users and groups (https://github.com/falcosecurity/libs/pull/1909) Issues related to the new metric-related plugins API (https://github.com/falcosecurity/libs/pull/1885). Plugin API was also bumped to 3.6.0. Plugin metrics are now enabled in Falco (https://github.com/falcosecurity/falco/pull/3228). Note that plugin must make use of the new metrics-related API to expose metrics. Libs were updated to 0.17.2 Thanks to everyone in the community for helping us in spotting these annoying bugs 🐛! You make Falco successful 🦅! Thanks as always to the Falco maintainers for their support and effort during the entire release process. Try it! 🏎 As usual, in case you just want to try out the stable Falco 0.38.1, you can install its packages following the process outlined in the docs: CentOS/Amazon Linux Debian/Ubuntu openSUSE Linux binary package Prefer to use a container image? No problem at all! 🐳 You can read more about running Falco with Docker in the docs. You can also find the Falcosecurity container images on the public AWS ECR gallery: falco falco-no-driver falco-driver-loader Let's meet 🤝 We meet every Wednesday in our community calls, if you want to know the latest and t