diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index c13d44e162..3d8e5d4bc6 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+4.2.0-dev.157 | 2021-09-08 12:04:45 -0700
+
+  * fix for looping over vectors with holes per https://github.com/zeek/zeek/issues/1763 (Vern Paxson, Corelight)
+
+  * btest for https://github.com/zeek/zeek/issues/1763 (Vern Paxson, Corelight)
+
 4.2.0-dev.154 | 2021-09-08 12:03:51 -0700
 
   * Fix mis-usage of string::append that leads to an overflow (Tim Wojtulewicz, Corelight)
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index f3480913be..6e49fb7671 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-4.2.0-dev.154
+4.2.0-dev.157
diff --git a/src/Stmt.cc b/src/Stmt.cc
index a832aea2c4..a8618536eb 100644
--- a/src/Stmt.cc
+++ b/src/Stmt.cc
@@ -1349,9 +1349,13 @@ ValPtr ForStmt::DoExec(Frame* f, Val* v, StmtFlowType& flow)
 	else if ( v->GetType()->Tag() == TYPE_VECTOR )
 		{
 		VectorVal* vv = v->AsVectorVal();
+		const auto& raw_vv = *vv->RawVec();
 
 		for ( auto i = 0u; i < vv->Size(); ++i )
 			{
+			if ( ! raw_vv[i] )
+				continue;
+
 			// Set the loop variable to the current index, and make
 			// another pass over the loop body.
 			f->SetElement((*loop_vars)[0], val_mgr->Count(i));
diff --git a/testing/btest/Baseline/language.vector-hole-loop/out b/testing/btest/Baseline/language.vector-hole-loop/out
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..98cb76e32b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/btest/Baseline/language.vector-hole-loop/out
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+### BTest baseline data generated by btest-diff. Do not edit. Use "btest -U/-u" to update. Requires BTest >= 0.63.
+[, foo, bar, , baz]
+1
+2
+4
+foo
+bar
+baz
diff --git a/testing/btest/language/vector-hole-loop.zeek b/testing/btest/language/vector-hole-loop.zeek
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..961ee3fbd6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/btest/language/vector-hole-loop.zeek
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# @TEST-EXEC: zeek -b %INPUT >out
+# @TEST-EXEC: btest-diff out
+
+event zeek_init()
+	{
+	local v: vector of string;
+
+	v[1] = "foo";
+	v[2] = "bar";
+	v[4] = "baz";
+
+	print v;
+
+	for ( idx in v )
+		print idx;
+
+	for ( idx in v )
+		print v[idx];
+	}
+