by Christian Kreibich | May 14, 2026 | 8.2, development, development update, release
The Zeek team is proud to announce Zeek 8.2! This release marks our final checkpoint on the road to Zeek 9, and rounds out our new ZeroMQ support in important ways. It also includes a range of new features and improvements, so let’s cover the highlights in this blog...
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 | 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...
by Christian Kreibich | Mar 31, 2025 | 7.2, development, development update, release, Testing Group
We’re three months into the Zeek 7.2 development cycle, so now is a good time to share an update about ongoing development and our planned timeline for the Zeek’s next feature release. We recently merged two of the biggies planned for this release: the new storage...