From 90d7bdb9eb389999701e9ecfd34d9816e21da559 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Wojtulewicz <tim@corelight.com>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 09:12:46 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Update CHANGES, VERSION, and NEWS for 7.2.1 release

---
 CHANGES |  4 ++++
 NEWS    | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 VERSION |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 0291554d74..73cd5bdf4e 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+7.2.1 | 2025-05-20 09:12:46 -0700
+
+  * Update CHANGES, VERSION, and NEWS for 7.2.1 release (Tim Wojtulewicz, Corelight)
+
 7.2.0-9 | 2025-05-19 12:34:10 -0700
 
   * Bump `auxil/spicy` to v1.13.1 (Benjamin Bannier, Corelight)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3a72411f79..93b800ba6e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -6,7 +6,21 @@ release. For an exhaustive list of changes, see the ``CHANGES`` file
 Zeek 7.2.1
 ==========
 
-We would like to thank Ivan Navi (@i2z1) for their contribution to this release.
+We would like to thank Ivan Navi (@i2z1), Seth Grover (@mmguero), and Simeon Miteff
+(@simeonmetiff) for their contributions to this release.
+
+This release fixes the following bugs:
+
+- GCC 15.1 failed to build both Zeek and the integrated Paraglob library.
+
+- The requirement for the BIND library to be present for the build was removed. This
+  library is not needed since we migrated to C-Ares for DNS lookups.
+
+- The new cluster-based websocket endpoint gained some performance improvements when
+  dealing with very high rates of requests.
+
+- The Spicy submodule was updated to v1.11.5. This version brings a fix for a compilation
+  failure when iterating over a byte value.
 
 Zeek 7.2.0
 ==========
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index a0bfed021d..b26a34e470 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-7.2.0-9
+7.2.1