by Christian Kreibich | Apr 16, 2026 | 8.2, development, development update, Release Candidate
The Zeek development team is closing in on Zeek 8.2, our final feature release in the 8.x cycle! This blog post provides a sneak peek at some of the new functionality and changes in that release. As always, this is an excellent opportunity to test-drive the upcoming...
by Christian Kreibich | Jan 21, 2026 | 8.1, development, development update, release
The Zeek team is proud to announce Zeek 8.1! This release achieves a major milestone in our architectural shift away from the Broker messaging backend, includes a bunch of analyzer enhancements, takes first steps to phase out MD5 support, and features a host of other...
by Christian Kreibich | Dec 16, 2025 | 8.1, development, development update, Release Candidate
The first release candidate for Zeek 8.1 is out! This release includes the last major building block in our multi-release effort to move Zeek’s cluster communication off of Broker. Work on this release began in August and includes the switch to ZeroMQ as...
by Christian Kreibich | Aug 22, 2025 | 8.0, development, release, Spicy, Zeek
We’re proud to announce the release of Zeek 8.0! This release introduces a range of technical innovations and culminates architectural improvements we’ve been working on since the release of Zeek 7 a year ago. Customizable Flow Tuples For the first time ever, it’s now...
by Christian Kreibich | Jul 28, 2025 | 8.0, development, development update, release
Zeek 8.0, our next long-term support (LTS) release, is just a few weeks away! Time for a quick recap of what the development team has been up to lately, and a look at our planned release timeline. The major features we planned for this release have landed at this...