# Zeek Newsletter - Issue 47 - January 2025

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**Category:** Announcements\
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**Created:** [February 4, 2025, 1:59pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/zeek-newsletter-issue-47-january-2025/7701 "2025-02-04T13:59:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 1:59pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/zeek-newsletter-issue-47-january-2025/7701/1 "2025-02-04T13:59:27Z")

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Welcome to the Zeek Newsletter.

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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

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[TL;DR]

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. The schedule is now live:

[https://zeek.org/workshop-muc-2025/schedule/](https://zeek.org/workshop-muc-2025/schedule/)

See this site for details:

[https://zeek.org/workshop-muc-2025/](https://zeek.org/workshop-muc-2025/)

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Development Updates

There are no updates since the last newsletter.

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Zeek in the Community

Seth published a new version of Malcolm. Please see the project site for details:

[https://malcolm.fyi/](https://malcolm.fyi/)

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Zeek in the Enterprise

The recording of the 8 January webinar, Designing Logs in the Real World by Steve Smoot, is live here:

[https://youtube.com/live/dHthJNFt-NI](https://youtube.com/live/dHthJNFt-NI)

The recording of the 22 January Webinar, Pluggable Cluster Backends, by Arne Welzel, is live here:

[https://youtube.com/live/FPU6clovKUI](https://youtube.com/live/FPU6clovKUI)

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Friends of Zeek

The Suricata project released version 7.0.8. Visit their site for details:

[https://suricata.io/download/](https://suricata.io/download/)

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Upcoming Events

The next webinar is Wednesday 5 February at 1 pm ET. Tim Wojtulewicz will discuss the Zeek Telemetry Framework. Register for free here:

[https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN\_Nsq4w6d4Rl2liPmd1\_W1fg](https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Nsq4w6d4Rl2liPmd1_W1fg)

The next Training Group Call is 14 February at 12 noon ET. Here is the Zoom link:

\<[https://ESnet.zoom.us/j/6445948648](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](https://us06web.zoom.us/j/99882457331?pwd=WVZLRGtpbmx1V2FqSnlRT1FLRC9lQT09)

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Zeek Package Updates

Changes to packages are available via this search:

[https://github.com/zeek/packages/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed](https://github.com/zeek/packages/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed)

The [https://packages.zeek.org](https://packages.zeek.org) site reported the last 5 updates as of 2 June:

1/28/25, 4:14 AM shodan-zeek

1/27/25, 9:20 PM ja4

1/24/25, 3:25 PM zeek-spicy-wireguard

1/24/25, 3:23 PM zeek-spicy-ipsec

1/24/25, 3:21 PM zeek-spicy-openvpn

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Get Involved

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[https://zeekorg.slack.com](https://zeekorg.slack.com)

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[https://join.slack.com/t/zeekorg/shared\_invite/zt-12z1pjy93-zuVGuT1BF~yUJJvERxhp7g](https://join.slack.com/t/zeekorg/shared_invite/zt-12z1pjy93-zuVGuT1BF~yUJJvERxhp7g)

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[https://community.zeek.org](https://community.zeek.org)

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[https://community.zeek.org/archives/list/zeek@lists.zeek.org/](https://community.zeek.org/archives/list/zeek@lists.zeek.org/)

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[https://github.com/zeek/zeek/wiki/LT-Meeting-Notes](https://github.com/zeek/zeek/wiki/LT-Meeting-Notes)

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See you next time!
