Below is the roadmap for near- and medium-term Bro releases. The feature lists are neither complete nor static, and entries may be moved forward or backwards as demand and available resources change. Still, they should give a good picture of what we are heading for. See the tracker’s roadmap for a complete list of tickets currently scheduled for upcoming versions.
When will the next version be released? When it’s ready. :-)
Bro 2.1
Overhauled IPv6 support.
New user manual.
- Logging extensions.
- Threaded logging system. [P]
- Binary logging. [P]
- Python interface to logs. [P]
- CouchDB backend. [P]
Perl-bindings for Broccoli. [P]
- New input framework: [WIP]
- Integrating external information in realtime.
- Initial support for file input.
Integration with REN-ISAC’s CIF [WIP].
Reaction framework. [WIP]
- New Analyzers:
- Syslog/GridFTP/NFS/SMB/BitTorrent [mostly WIP].
CBAN: The Comprehensive Bro Archive Network
Coverage-based unit tests for Bro.
Regression tests for BroControl.
More may come.
Bro 2.2
Protocol-independent File Analyzer.
Unified packet acquisition and control.
Deep Cluster.
- Internal code reorganization:
- Modularize protocol analyzers.
- Modularize log backends.
- Modularize packet sources.
More may come.
- Legend:
- [*Done*]
- Done and merged into git master.
- [P]
- A prototype exists; will be merged into master after further testing and tuning.
- [WIP]
- Work in progress: somebody has started working on it.
