Suricata Newsletter for September 2025

Welcome

Hello and welcome to the September issue of the Suricata Newsletter! It’s been a busy few months over here at the Open Information Security Foundation, with Suricata 8.0 final released, as well as the speakers and agenda for SuriCon 2025 being finalized. Read on for more details.

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Message From OISF’s President, Kelley Misata

Over the summer and into the fall, OISF’s leadership team and Board have been taking a close look at how we work with our Consortium members and how we can strengthen those partnerships. Some of the changes may feel like big shifts, others subtle enhancements to how we’ve always operated. With the release of Suricata 8, we’re reminded of just how critical this project is—not a handout, but a vital line item that keeps networks secure. At SuriCon, we’ll share updates on refinements to membership levels, benefits, and engagement that underscore Suricata’s value and make the case for open source unmistakable.

Looking ahead, and thanks to the renewed support of our members, we’re also preparing to expand our development team. These new hires will help us connect with you more often, accelerate the roadmap, and keep Suricata strong for the global community. I look forward to sharing more in Montreal—see you there!

Message From Suricata Lead Developer, Victor Julien

While most users are still exploring upgrading to Suricata 8, the dev team and members of our community have already started to work on the upcoming Suricata 9. The main branch in our git repository has now switched to be the 9.0.0 development branch, with a newly created main-8.0.x for the 8.0.x series. We’re still very early in the 9 development cycle, with current plans for a final release being in June/July 2027. In the coming months we’ll be spending time in the team, with our consortium members, and with the broader community to define what we want the next major installment of Suricata to become. SuriCon in Montreal will be a great opportunity to join that conversation and influence the roadmap. Hope to see you there!

SuriCon

The SuriCon 2025 Speakers and Agenda have been published!
- Speakers
- Agenda
There is still time to get your tickets for SuriCon 2025 in Montreal this November, see https://suricon.net for more information!
There is also still time to register for the world-class training at Suricata, now with bundled pricing along with your SuriCon ticket. See the available training at: https://suricon.net/trainings/
A big thank you to all the sponsors of SuriCon 2025: OPNsense, Neox Networks, Corelight, Greynoise, Detections.ai, Napatech, Sensorfleet, Catena Cyber, Security Onion, ENEA, Nomic Networks, AWS, and our Mob Sponsors.

Release Announcements

Suricata 8.0.0 was released on July 8, 2025. This release is a testimony as to how the Suricata team has grown in consistency and stability as a team in the 15+ years of work: with the introduction of a Roadmap that is easier for the community to follow, and in keeping up with and honoring the planned dates.
- Hear more about the release in these videos from the Suricata team!
Suricata 8.0.1 and 7.0.12 have also been released with security and bug fixes. Please remember to keep your Suricata up to date with the latest patch releases!

Recent Suricata and OISF Blog Posts

Upcoming Events and Webinars

Pre-SuriCon Webinar with Soner Tari: FOSS Active Inline IPS: Unlocking Deep Inspection of Encrypted Traffic with ICAP, Suricata, and SSLproxy – September 25, 2 PM UTC: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_za5O8DCPQ-SCMat5e8RePg
Pre-SuriCon Webinar with Éric Leblond: Suricata Language Server 1.0.0 and beyond – October 16, 2 PM UTC: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NMZrpXV0RWSO7DV-nIQ5lg
SharkFest’ 25 Europe: Kelley Misata will be speaking at Sharkfest ‘25 this November: Shift the Conversation: Open Source is Free, But Not Free-Free

Recent Webinars and Events

Shivani Bhardwaj from the team spoke about Suricata at IndiaFOSS 5.0. Accepted talk proposal: https://fossunited.org/c/indiafoss/2025/cfp/3v54abv460
Juliana Fajardini and Lukáš Šišmiš, also from the team, did the Suricata Webinar: Two for one: exploring Suricata Exception Policies and Firewall Mode (new in Suricata 8)

Development News

For those who follow our git branches, we have renamed master to main. You might have some scripts and workflows to update! See our forum post here: https://forum.suricata.io/t/important-main-announcement-to-our-contributors/6019
- We’ll be making similar changes to our other repos in the coming weeks.

In the Community

Special Thanks

A big Thank You to all those who contributed to Suricata 8.0 and the recent patch releases: Adam Kiripolsky, Alex Savage, Alexandre Iooss, Alexey Simakov, Alfredo Cardigliano, Alice Akaki, AlirezaPourchali, Angelo Mirabella, Arne Welzel, Binghui Niu, Boris Tonofa, Bruno Franca, Bryan Benson, Charlie Vigue, Cole Dishington, Comfort Amaechi, Coverity, daniel zhao, Daniel Olatunji, Dean Balandin, Eloy Pérez González, Eric Leblond, Fupeng Zhao, Giuseppe Longo, Gleb Smirnoff, Hadiqa Alamdar Bukhari, Ilya Bakhtin, James, jason taylor, Jo Johnson, Joseph Reilly, Joyce Yu, Kirjan Kohuladas, Liam Wilson, Liza Opar, Mahmoud Maatuq, Nancy Enos, Nathan Scrivens, Noah Liu, Pierre Chifflier, Ralph Eastwood, Richard McConnell, Sascha Steinbiss, Simon Dugas, Stephen Donnelly, Theo Buehler, Thomas Winter, Todd Mortimer, Tommy Wang, Travis Green, Vincent Li, Yatin Kanetkar, Zemeteri Kamimizu