Current Projects
These projects are in the works, or scheduled to be worked on shortly. Note however that some of the detailed descriptions may represent initial proposals for the targeted functionality, and not necessarily match how the end result will look like eventually.
- New data input interface
- An API for importing external data into Bro.
- Testing Strategy
- A summary of how we plan to do comprehensive regression testing.
- File Analyzer
- Enabling Bro to look into files.
- Binary logging
- Switching Bro output to a high-performance binary format.
- Probabilistic Counting
- Probablistic data structures for estimating cardiniality and frequency with low memory footprints.
Old
These projects are finished, and this information is kept here only for reference. Please note that since these are initial design thoughts, specifics probably don’t match with what ended up being implemented in Bro.
- New logging interface
- A complete redesign of how Bro does logging.
- A BroControl plugin API
- Making BroControl extensible with custom functionality.
- Generating documentation for scripts with Sphinx
- A doxygen for Bro scripts.
