diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index c4c858d8cf..0b477cf8bd 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+7.0.0-dev.59 | 2024-03-15 13:36:30 +0100
+
+  * testing/external/cluster: Switch to docker-compose v2 (Arne Welzel, Corelight)
+
+    The Python docker-compose executable in the docker_builder image is not
+    functional anymore (TypeError: kwargs_from_env() got an unexpected
+    keyword argument 'ssl_version').
+
+    docker-compose v1 has been sun-setted for quite some time. Do the
+    minimal to switch to docker compose v2.
+
 7.0.0-dev.57 | 2024-03-13 10:17:48 -0700
 
   * Add community contributions for the 6.2 timeframe to NEWS. [skip ci] (Christian Kreibich, Corelight)
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index c446958739..3427e8b26e 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-7.0.0-dev.57
+7.0.0-dev.59
diff --git a/testing/external/commit-hash.zeek-testing-cluster b/testing/external/commit-hash.zeek-testing-cluster
index d8bbdd301b..6c5a060b06 100644
--- a/testing/external/commit-hash.zeek-testing-cluster
+++ b/testing/external/commit-hash.zeek-testing-cluster
@@ -1 +1 @@
-4545b99967c9388d0034791d4c7ffc9bb40db581
+216efb97832e412ae0197dc8e36069d8c35fd81c