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]
Zeek 7.1.0 is here! See Development Updates for details.
Zeek webinars continue. See Upcoming Events for details.
Registration is still open for the free two day Zeek workshop in Munich, Germany on 26-27 February 2025. Day 1 features technical presentations by the Zeek team and community. We’ll cover common use cases, recent releases, Zeek’s roadmap, and more. Day 2 offers optional, hands-on training by Zeek team members on Incident Response with Zeek and Writing Zeek Analyzers With Spicy. See this site for details:
https://zeek.org/workshop-muc-2025/
Development Updates
Zeek 7.1.0 is here! This is the new “feature release.”
https://download.zeek.org/zeek-7.1.0.tar.gz
See the release notes for details of the addressed bugs and security issues:
https://github.com/zeek/zeek/releases/tag/v7.1.0
Binary packages for the new releases will also be available shortly:
https://github.com/zeek/zeek/wiki/Binary-Packages
Python 3.9 is now required to run Zeek and all of its associated tooling. This may cause breakage in workflows.
Zeek 7.1.0 ships with Spicy 1.12.0.
https://github.com/zeek/spicy/releases/tag/v1.12.0
See the NEWS file
https://github.com/zeek/spicy/blob/v1.12.0/NEWS.rst
for a high-level summary.
See the CHANGES file
https://github.com/zeek/spicy/blob/v1.12.0/CHANGES
for a detailed list.
Zeek 7.0.x is now the current LTS release. 7.0.5, released 16 December, is the latest version.
https://download.zeek.org/zeek-7.0.5.tar.gz
https://github.com/zeek/zeek/releases/tag/v7.0.5
Binary packages for the new releases will also be available shortly:
https://github.com/zeek/zeek/wiki/Binary-Packages
The 6.x series is being retired but may get a final patch.
For more information on release cadence, see:
https://github.com/zeek/zeek/wiki/Release-Cadence
Zeek in the Community
Seth published a new version of Malcolm. Please see the project site for details:
Zeek in the Enterprise
The recording of the 11 December webinar, Zeek File Extraction and Automating Malware Analysis by Seth Grover, is live here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw__xplbx1o
Friends of Zeek
The Suricata project released version 7.0.8. Visit their site for details:
Upcoming Events
The next Zeek webinar, Designing Logs in the Real World, by Steve Smoot, will take place on Wednesday, January 8th at 1 pm ET.
Register for free here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_frarKCKgSE2n5dwCbEHAqQ
Another Zeek webinar, Pluggable Cluster Backends, by Arne Welzel, will take place on Wednesday 22 January at 1 pm ET.
Register for free here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__CoPGGUNT-m7A9BzOsZI_Q
The next Training Group Call is 17 January at 12 noon ET. Here is the Zoom link:
<https://ESnet.zoom.us/j/6445948648>
Meeting ID: 644 594 8648
Passcode: Rockon!
The next Zeek Community Call is scheduled for 5 March at 1 pm ET. There is no need to register. Here is the Zoom link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/99882457331?pwd=WVZLRGtpbmx1V2FqSnlRT1FLRC9lQT09
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:
1/7/25, 4:14 AM shodan-zeek
1/4/25, 11:47 PM wildcard-domain
1/4/25, 11:45 PM anomalous-dns
1/3/25, 9:42 PM zeek-kafka
1/2/25, 12:37 PM spicy-redis
Get Involved
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