Welcome to the Zeek Newsletter.
In this Issue:
- TL;DR
- Development Updates
- Zeek in the Community
- Zeek in the Enterprise
- Friends of Zeek
- Upcoming Events
- Zeek Package Updates
- Get Involved
[TL;DR] Special Announcement
Zeek 7 and Spicy 1.11.0 are here. See Development Updates for details.
Development Updates
Zeek LTS releases 6.0.5 and 7.0.0 are now available:
https://download.zeek.org/zeek-6.0.5.tar.gz
https://download.zeek.org/zeek-7.0.0.tar.gz
See the release notes for details of the addressed bugs and security issues:
https://github.com/zeek/zeek/releases/tag/v6.0.5
https://github.com/zeek/zeek/releases/tag/v7.0.0
Binary packages for the new releases will also be available shortly:
https://github.com/zeek/zeek/wiki/Binary-Packages
Zeek 7 features Spicy 1.11.0.
https://github.com/zeek/spicy/releases/tag/v1.11.0
See the NEWS file for a high-level summary, or the CHANGES file for a detailed list of changes which went into this release.
Spicy 1.11.0 is a LTS release built into Zeek 7.0 and maintained with it.
With the arrival of 7.0, the 6.2 feature release series is now unmaintained. There will be no other 6.2 releases. The 6.0 long term support (LTS) series will continue to get patches until 7.1 is released in approximately months. Users running 6.2 should upgrade to 7.0.
For more information on release cadence, see:
https://github.com/zeek/zeek/wiki/Release-Cadence
Zeek in the Community
On 27 July Seth published a new version of Malcolm. Please see the project site for details:
Zeek in the Enterprise
There is nothing significant to report this month.
Friends of Zeek
On 27 June, the Suricata project released versions 7.0.6 and 6.0.20. Visit their site for details:
Upcoming Events
The next Zeek Community Call is 7 August at 1 pm ET. There is no need to register. Here is the Zoom link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/99882457331?pwd=WVZLRGtpbmx1V2FqSnlRT1FLRC9lQT09
The first Mal.Con conference supporting Malcom will be held 4 September in Arlington, VA. See this post for details:
https://github.com/cisagov/Malcolm/wiki/Mal.Con-'24-Announcement
The next Security Onion conference will be held 4 October in Augusta, GA. See this post for details:
https://blog.securityonion.net/2024/04/security-onion-conference-2024-save.html
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:
8/5/24, 4:14 AM shodan-zeek
8/5/24, 12:40 AM ja4
7/30/24, 1:35 PM ExtendIntel
7/29/24, 2:21 PM zeekjs-redis
7/26/24, 5:12 PM zeek-open-connections
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