Hello everyone!

As we all know, Friday evenings are a great time to release a new software version, and there it is, the log awaited feature release 3.4.0! :)

Version 3.4.0 of IntelMQ brings changes to 16 bots and two new bots. It contains changes of four contributors: Kamil Mankowski, Sebastian Wagner, Radek Vyhnal and Frank Westers. A big thanks goes to CSIRT.LI for making this release possible!

Please refer to https://docs.intelmq.org/latest/admin/upgrade/ for upgrade instructions
The release is available in the GitHub repository, on PyPI and in the deb-package repositories.

Read the full NEWS and changelog here:

https://github.com/certtools/intelmq/blob/develop/NEWS.md#340-feature-release-2025-03-14
https://github.com/certtools/intelmq/blob/develop/CHANGELOG.md#340-feature-release-2025-03-14

The most important changes potentially requiring administration attention:
- Requirements: Python 3.8 or newer is required.
- CIF 3 API Output is deprecated
- Twitter Collector is removed (was dysfunctional)
- The Twitter Parser is renamed to IoC Extractor Parser (intelmq.bots.parsers.ioc_extractor).
- Packages are now also available for Ubuntu 24.04. To upgrade an Ubuntu 22.04 installation to 24.04 please refer to the Ubuntu documentation: https://documentation.ubuntu.com/server/how-to/software/upgrade-your-release/index.html

Please refer to the NEWS file linked above for more details on these changes.

We encourage you to share your feedback with us, also positive news about seamless upgrades :)
We don't hope you experience any abnormal behavior, but if you do, please report it to us via GitHub or e-mail.

best regards
Sebastian
for the IntelMQ maintainer group: Aaron, Kamil, Sebastian

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