doc: add napatech plugin upgrade notes

Issue: 7165
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Jeff Lucovsky 8 months ago committed by Victor Julien
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- sip.to
- sip.content_type
- sip.content_length
- Napatech support has been moved to a capture plugin. See :doc:`Napatech plugin
<upgrade/8.0-napatech-plugin>`.
Removals
~~~~~~~~

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:orphan: Document only referenced from upgrade.rst
Napatech as a Plugin
====================
Suricata 8.0 moves Napatech packet capture support to a dynamically loaded
plugin. For convenience, this plugin is still bundled with Suricata, but it
may be removed from the Suricata source tree into its own repository in a
future release.
Upgrading
---------
Suricata 8.0 continues to respect the ``--enable-napatech`` compile time
option, as well as the ``--napatech`` command-line options, and also
the ``napatech`` section of the configuration file.
.. note:: When the Napatech capture plugin is eventually removed from the
Suricata source tree these options may be removed and/or changed
as this would allow the Napatech capture plugin to have its own
release cycle and make changes independent of Suricata.
However, the ``napatech`` capture plugin must be loaded before it can be
used. If doing a fresh build of Suricata with Napatech support, the
``suricata.yaml`` configuration file should be configured to load the
plugin already, for example::
plugins:
- /usr/lib/suricata/napatech.so
If you are upgrading, you will need to add the location of
``napatech.so`` to the ``plugins`` section of your ``suricata.yaml``
manually, as shown above.
Existing Napatech command-line options and configuration should continue to work.
Caveats
-------
Currently building the Napatech capture plugin is not compatible with the
``--disable-shared`` configure argument.
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