by Arne Welzel | Mar 12, 2024 | development, performance, Zeek
Over the course of the past year we’ve made a number of changes to Zeek that have positively affected its performance, sometimes considerably. This blog post highlights a few places and changes that knowingly improved performance between Zeek 5.2 and Zeek 6.2....
by Christian Kreibich | Feb 20, 2024 | community, development, infrastructure, open-source, Windows, Zeek
Since we announced experimental Windows support in 2022, we’ve received a slow but constant influx of bug reports and support requests for this platform. Over the past months our workload has increased substantially, for reasons that we’re very happy...
by Christian Kreibich | Jul 13, 2023 | 6.0, development, release, Zeek
The Zeek team is proud to announce the release of Zeek 6! Work on this release began in February and comprises around 720 commits in 210 PRs. We’re deeply grateful to our contributors in this release cycle, including Jan Grashöfer, Eldon Koyle, Michael Torres, and...
by Christian Kreibich | Mar 6, 2023 | 5.2, development, release, Zeek
The Zeek team is proud to announce the release of Zeek 5.2, starting the final line of feature releases in the 5.x cycle. Development on 5.2 began in late September 2022 and has included some 660 commits, 178 PRs, and external contributions from the teams at Microsoft...
by Benjamin Bannier | Nov 30, 2022 | development, Scripting, Zeek
The typical experience of developing in a programming language has changed substantially since the time Zeek script was first introduced in the mid 90s. Today users rightfully expect an inclusive environment with approachable ways to interact with the community, and...
by Johanna Amann | Jun 1, 2012 | 2.1, development, input, preview
Bro now features a flexible input framework that allows users to import data into Bro. Data is either read into Bro tables or converted to events which can then be handled by scripts. The input framework is merged into the git master and we will give a short summary...