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
We enjoyed seeing you at the Meet the Zeek Developers event in Amsterdam this week. We will have more to say after the team returns to their day jobs and locations.
Development Updates
On 19 May, Tim released Zeek 5.0.9 and 5.2.2. Check out the details here:
https://community.zeek.org/t/zeek-bugfix-security-releases-5-0-9-and-5-2-2/
On 31 May, Tim released Zeek LTS pre-release candidate version 6.0.0-rc1. Check out the details here:
https://community.zeek.org/t/zeek-lts-pre-release-6-0-0-rc1/
Zeek in the Community
On 22 May, Doug Burks announced the inclusion of Zeek 5.0.9 in Security Onion 2.3.250:
https://blog.securityonion.net/2023/05/security-onion-23250-now-available.html
Zeek in the Enterprise
On 18 April, Microsoft published a blog post explaining how Windows uses Zeek to improve its detection processes on the endpoint:
Upcoming Events
The next Zeek Community Call is 7 June at 1 pm ET. Register in advance for this meeting:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lf-usqzwpGdXz35YcBhYtJOEjvSZcgl6W
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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 2 June:
6/2/23, 4:12 AM shodan-zeek
5/31/23, 2:17 PM spicy-ldap
5/31/23, 5:08 AM zeekjs
5/30/23, 1:49 PM spicy-plugin
5/26/23, 3:35 PM bzar
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
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