Welcome to the Zeek Newsletter.
In this Issue:
- TL;DR
- Development Updates
- Zeek in the Community
- Zeek in the Enterprise
- Upcoming Events
- Zeek Package Updates
- Get Involved
TL;DR
ZeekWeek 2022 videos finished premiering on YouTube in December. Benjamin Bannier released Spicy 1.6.0. Otherwise, it was a fairly quiet month.
Development Updates
On 12 December, Benjamin Bannier announced the release of Spicy 1.6.0. See the NEWS file for a high-level summary, or the CHANGES file for a detailed list of changes.
https://github.com/zeek/spicy/blob/v1.6.0/NEWS.rst
https://github.com/zeek/spicy/blob/v1.6.0/CHANGES
Zeek in the Community
On 5 December, Doug Burks announced the release of Security Onion 2.3.190, including Zeek 5.0.4:
https://blog.securityonion.net/2022/12/security-onion-23190-now-available.html
On 6 December, Seth Grover announced the release of Malcolm 6.4.3, including Zeek 5.0.4:
https://github.com/idaholab/Malcolm/releases/tag/v6.4.3
On 7 December, Fatema Bannat Wala hosted a Zeek community call. The recording is here:
Thanks to everyone subscribed to our YouTube channel, we’ve hit the 4,000 mark, with 250k views! Check us out here:
https://youtube.com/c/zeekurity
Zeek in the Enterprise
Thanks to Gavin Li who prompted the creation of a #windows channel in the Zeek Slack. He has been trying to compile Zeek on Windows using Microsoft’s contribution to the code base.
At this point we provide experimental support for Windows. The Zeek 5.2 release, scheduled for early 2023, will be the first to formally feature Windows support. Please consider testing the new code by compiling it on Windows:
https://docs.zeek.org/en/master/install.html#building-from-source
Upcoming Events
All ZeekWeek 2022 videos are on YouTube.
The easiest way to stay informed on this content is to subscribe to the Zeek YouTube channel:
<https://youtube.com/c/Zeekurity>
The following playlist contains all 19 videos:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2EYTX8UVCMhWO6m_uanhXLrSPrCMxO74
Zeek Package Updates
Changes to packages are available via this search:
https://github.com/zeek/packages/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed
The https://packages.zeek.org site reported the last 5 updates as of 3 January:
1/3/23, 4:12 AM shodan-zeek
1/1/23, 10:53 PM anomalous-dns
12/27/22, 7:20 PM bro-http2
12/23/22, 10:27 AM spicy-dhcp
12/23/22, 3:02 AM zeekjs
Get Involved
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