# Bro stable release date

**URL:** <https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-stable-release-date/4467>\
**Category:** Zeek\
**Created:** [November 4, 2016, 3:12pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-stable-release-date/4467 "2016-11-04T15:12:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Rotondo\_Simone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a5b964/32.png) [@Rotondo\_Simone](https://community.zeek.org/u/Rotondo_Simone)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 3:12pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-stable-release-date/4467/1 "2016-11-04T15:12:33Z")

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Hi,

I’d like to switch from Bro release 2.4 to 2.5 because of its new features, but currently v2.5 is a beta version yet.

Do you know if Bro 2.5 will be released as “STABLE” in near term ?

Do you have a rough idea for release date ?

Thanks for your support and your work.

Best Regards

Simone

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**Author:** ![James\_inthe\_box](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6f9a4e/32.png) [@James\_inthe\_box](https://community.zeek.org/u/James_inthe_box)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 3:30pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-stable-release-date/4467/2 "2016-11-04T15:30:24Z")

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Ya +1 to this...people itch when I talk about putting a beta into production.

James

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**Author:** ![Slagell\_Adam\_J](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Slagell\_Adam\_J](https://community.zeek.org/u/Slagell_Adam_J)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 3:37pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-stable-release-date/4467/3 "2016-11-04T15:37:25Z")

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Weeks, not months, assuming nothing goes wrong. But we want the second beta to at least get a couple of weeks of testing in production at multiple sites.

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**Author:** ![James\_inthe\_box](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6f9a4e/32.png) [@James\_inthe\_box](https://community.zeek.org/u/James_inthe_box)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 3:57pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-stable-release-date/4467/4 "2016-11-04T15:57:27Z")

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Adam which would be more helpful for Bro...to test the official packaged beta, or git?

James

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**Author:** ![Slagell\_Adam\_J](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Slagell\_Adam\_J](https://community.zeek.org/u/Slagell_Adam_J)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 4:05pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-stable-release-date/4467/5 "2016-11-04T16:05:52Z")

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If you are keeping up with master, that’s fine. The reason we released the second beta was because a lot of fixes had already been pushed into the master since the first beta, and we wanted to get people testing those.

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**Author:** ![James\_inthe\_box](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6f9a4e/32.png) [@James\_inthe\_box](https://community.zeek.org/u/James_inthe_box)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 4:11pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-stable-release-date/4467/6 "2016-11-04T16:11:01Z")

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Good deal...I'll stick with master then thanks.

James

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**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, 3:44pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-stable-release-date/4467/7 "2022-05-06T15:44:15Z")

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