We’re closing in on Zeek 7.1, the next feature release in Zeek’s current release cycle. Here’s a quick look at our planned release timeline.
Early next week the last planned 7.1 features will land in our master branch. We’re planning to fork the release branch and create RC1 on Friday, December 13 (yes, we believe in lucky numbers!). Given the upcoming holiday break and end of the year, we’re aiming to release 7.1 on January 6, to give our community ample time to test the release candidates.
As in past years, the 7.1 release will mark the end of updates to our past LTS line, 6.0.x. We’ll decide whether that series will receive a final patch release around the time of 7.1 finalization. We will likely do a patch release for 7.0 around the same time.
If you’re running Zeek clusters in production and would like to help us test our release candidates, we’d very much like to hear from you. While our testsuites cover much of Zeek’s functionality, we do rely on Zeek users and the testing subgroup for the final go-ahead for a release. If you’d like to join our testing subgroup, please get in touch on Slack.
In our Zeek community call, on the first Wednesday of each month, we regularly report on feature development. We encourage you to join and ask questions! These calls are also available for later viewing on our Youtube channel.