# 2.5 Roadmap **URL:** \ **Category:** Development\ **Tags:** development\ **Created:** [May 7, 2016, 12:56am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/2-5-roadmap/4144 "2016-05-07T00:56:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![robin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/community.zeek.org/robin/32/599_2.png) [@robin](https://community.zeek.org/u/robin)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2016, 12:56am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/2-5-roadmap/4144/1 "2016-05-07T00:56:24Z")
To summarize a team discussion today, we decided that we'll start wrapping up development for Bro 2.5. There's a lot of new functionality in git master now, and it will be good to get that all into general use. The main piece missing from our original 2.5 roadmap is porting the Bro Cluster to Broker. While much of that work is in place already in a development branch, we are going to postpone integration for now and will instead merge it at the beginning of the upcoming 2.6 development cycle. That way we will have more time for testing stability and performance of that new cluster setup. For 2.5, we're still targetting a few more pieces that aren't yet in master, including:      - Fixing the flare code to improve performance.      - New SMB and NTP analyzers.      - A simpler Broker API. Furthermore, if there are any tickets pending that you'd like Bro 2.5 to address, now would be a good time to point them out. Robin ---
**Author:** ![Jan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce7236/32.png) [@Jan](https://community.zeek.org/u/Jan)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2016, 8:36am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/2-5-roadmap/4144/2 "2016-05-07T08:36:46Z")
> Furthermore, if there are any tickets pending that you'd like Bro 2.5 > to address, now would be a good time to point them out. Coordinated with Seth I have done some refactoring of the intel-framework ([GitHub - J-Gras/zeek at topic/jgras/intel-update](https://github.com/J-Gras/bro/tree/topic/jgras/intel-update)). There are only two changes left to do: - adding Seth's extension mechanism - adding expiration for items I would be happy to finish that and open a pull request if you consider this as relevant for 2.5. In case, what would be the deadline for the PR? Best regards, Jan ---
**Author:** ![robin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/community.zeek.org/robin/32/599_2.png) [@robin](https://community.zeek.org/u/robin)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2016, 4:48pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/2-5-roadmap/4144/3 "2016-05-09T16:48:58Z")
We don't have a concrete deadline yet, it'll most likely take a few more weeks until we call a feature freeze. I'll let Seth comment on content but generally merging your changes in for 2.5 certainly sounds good to me. Robin ---
**Author:** ![Seth\_Hall3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Seth\_Hall3](https://community.zeek.org/u/Seth_Hall3)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2016, 5:22pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/2-5-roadmap/4144/4 "2016-05-10T17:22:37Z")
Agreed, looking forward to the changes Jan! .Seth ---
**Author:** ![robin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/community.zeek.org/robin/32/599_2.png) [@robin](https://community.zeek.org/u/robin)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 7:32pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/2-5-roadmap/4144/5 "2016-05-20T19:32:53Z")
Updates from today's meeting regarding 2.5 progress:     - Seth will send summary of the "flare situation" to bro-dev.     - NTP analyzer is in progress.     - SMB analyzer almost ready for merge. We'll not load it by       default. We will put it into policy instead and leave it       commented out in local.bro, marked as experimental.     - Intel updates are in the queue.     - New Broker API is in progress. Also, everybody, please look at tickets:     - Check any 2.5 tickets assigned to you; if you don't think you'll       make it, bump to 2.6.     - Assign further tickets to 2.5 that should go in but aren't       marked so yet. Robin ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/zeek/original/1X/f09d732bc2cc7c7cc7e35db67cf4e1d5233ce7a7.png) [@system](https://community.zeek.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 3:43pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/2-5-roadmap/4144/6 "2022-05-06T15:43:39Z")