# Spicy 1.16 release

**URL:** <https://community.zeek.org/t/spicy-1-16-release/7988>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Tags:** releases, spicy, announcement\
**Created:** [May 11, 2026, 3:04pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/spicy-1-16-release/7988 "2026-05-11T15:04:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Benjamin\_Bannier](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/community.zeek.org/benjamin_bannier/32/595_2.png) [@Benjamin\_Bannier](https://community.zeek.org/u/Benjamin_Bannier)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2026, 3:04pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/spicy-1-16-release/7988/1 "2026-05-11T15:04:29Z")

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We are excited to announce the release of Spicy 1.16.0.

> **[Release v1.16.0 · zeek/spicy](https://github.com/zeek/spicy/releases/tag/v1.16.0)**
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> New Functionality
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> Improvements to generated C++ code
> We continued our work to improve the C++ code generated from Spicy grammars by removing artifacts from automated parser construction, and obse...

See the [NEWS file](https://github.com/zeek/spicy/blob/v1.16.0/NEWS.rst) for a high-level summary, or the [CHANGES file](https://github.com/zeek/spicy/blob/v1.16.0/CHANGES) for a detailed list of changes which went into this release.

Spicy 1.16.0 is targeted to go into the upcoming Zeek 8.2 release.

Thanks to everyone who helped make this release happen!

Cheers,

Benjamin