LT Meeting Notes 2022‐04‐19

Meeting date: 2022/04/19

Zeek Leadership Team Members

(bold indicates attendance)

• Aashish Sharma, Lawrence Berkeley Lab
• Fatema Bannat Wala, ESnet
• Johanna Amann, ICSI/Corelight/Berkeley Lab (chair, Zeek merge-master)
• Keith Lehigh, Indiana University
• Nick Turley, Brigham Young University
• Robin Sommer, Corelight (Technical Lead Seat, Zeek merge-master)
• Seth Hall, Corelight (Zeek merge-master)
• Vern Paxson, Corelight & University of California at Berkeley (Founder Seat)

Minutes

Project updates:

• The LT got a short update on our financial situation.
• We will start the migration process from our mailing lists to Discourse soon.

Testing subgroup:

• The testing subgroup has been very active in the last few weeks. Testing included branches that improve broker, and some of the ZAM optimization code, leading to finding and fixing a problem where memory usage would grow over time, an issue related to a change from January of this year
• We are now looking for more contributors for the testing group. If you are interested in participating, please reach out to us by mailing [email protected] or [email protected]. For more details on the testing group, see our original announcement blog post.

Training:

• We recently announced a training event that will happen on May 20th 2022. Please see the blog post for more details.

Zeek 5 release timeline:

• Zeek 5 should be released around June or July; feature freeze for the code will be the end of May. Zeek 5 will include Spicy by default.

Zeek Week:

• The LT discussed some specifics of Zeek Week. This included a first iteration over a potential list of keynote speakers, and a discussion of the talk selection process we will use this year. The second involved whether the event should be hybrid or focused on in-person attendance.
• We will post a Call for Paper with more details in the coming weeks.