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
Welcome to 2023. This month’s newsletter is mostly about development updates, but we also want to know what you think about Zeek!
We’re running a survey until 10 February – no login or identifiers required unless you want to talk with us directly. Share your thoughts on how you use Zeek to defend your environment or conduct network research:
Development Updates
On 5 January, Arne Welzel announced that Krisan Timur had transferred control of the “zeek” Docker Hub account to the Zeek project. Tags from the old zeekurity/zeek account have been re-pushed to zeek/zeek and the latest documentation is now updated. We plan to retire the “zeekurity” account in the future and recommend changing to “zeek” if you’re consuming these images.
On 9 January, Tim Wojtulewicz announced the release of Zeek 5.0.5, a bug fix release. Please update Zeek as soon as possible.
See the release notes for details:
https://github.com/zeek/zeek/releases/tag/v5.0.5
Binary packages for the new releases are available:
https://github.com/zeek/zeek/wiki/Binary-Packages
Updated source code is available:
https://download.zeek.org/zeek-5.0.5.tar.gz
On 20 January, Benjamin Bannier announced the release of Spicy 1.5.3. This is a bug fix release for the 1.5 Spicy release series we maintain for long-term support in Zeek LTS.
See the CHANGES file for a detailed list of changes.
https://github.com/zeek/spicy/blob/v1.5.3/CHANGES
On 25 January, Benjamin Bannier announced the release of Spicy 1.6.1. 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/v1.6.1/NEWS.rst
https://github.com/zeek/spicy/blob/v1.6.1/CHANGES
Zeek in the Community
Please visit our survey and let us know what you think about the Zeek project:
There are 10 days left at the time of publication.
On 18 January, our friends at the Wireshark Foundation released Wireshark 4.0.3. For more information, please read their release notes:
https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-4.0.3.html
On 31 January, our friends at the Open Information Security Foundation released Suricata 6.0.10. For more information, please visit their announcements page:
https://forum.suricata.io/t/suricata-6-0-10-released/3175
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
We continue to 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:
1/31/23, 4:12 AM shodan-zeek
1/30/23, 4:27 PM spicy-plugin
1/30/23, 3:32 PM spicy-tftp
1/24/23, 11:36 PM icsnpp-opcua-binary
1/19/23, 8:42 AM zeekjs
Get Involved
If you have any comments or material for the newsletter please email news@zeek.org or join the #news Slack channel.
The Slack channel has been very active during the past month. Here is an invitation link:
https://join.slack.com/t/zeekorg/shared_invite/zt-12z1pjy93-zuVGuT1BF~yUJJvERxhp7g
Stay up to date by joining the Zeek Discourse:
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See you next time!