FAQ for TheHive 5’s upcoming distribution model

In a nutshell, we want to secure the future of TheHive through a resilient, scalable model while providing a licensing plan that is fair to the incident response community.

Our ambition is to allow everyone to access best-of-breed products, no matter how small or big their organization is. Our FREE Community license will include the main incident response features.

Keeping up with the growing expectations around the products involves delivering more features, more frequently, all the while improving the quality assurance process. This requires a significant resource increase, both human and capital-wise.

While being open source, TheHive has exclusively been developed by the original core team and, since late 2018, by StrangeBee.TheHive 4 and thus TheHive 5 do not include any external code contribution.

We remain committed to support our user community and will keep welcoming its useful feedback, bug reports and feature requests.

TheHive is included or referenced in over 50+ MSSP offers to address local markets. While we’ve been flattered to see such an incredible adoption, we’ve realized it has prevented our users from having the best possible support and has kept us from being able to grow sustainably. We have a fair and dedicated offer suited to the business model of MSSPs, as well as upcoming features that fit their specific needs.

Any existing subscription to TheHive Cloud Platform (SaaS) will be upgraded to TheHive 5 Gold License seamlessly and completely free of charge.

TheHive 3 will be End Of Life (EOL) on December 31st, 2021. TheHive 4 will continue to be supported until December 31st, 2022. This support includes fixes for critical bugs as well as any security vulnerabilities that may arise.

TheHive 5 is compatible with TheHive 4! It’s just a simple upgrade. No migration plan is needed.

Yes, a migration plan, similar to the one from TheHive 3 to TheHive 4, will be provided in the very near future.

Our current plans do not include any change of license for Cortex.

Private source/freemium means that the code won’t be publicly available to everyone. We can, however, grant access for specific requirements, such as independent security reviews. A simple NDA will be required beforehand.

If your custom integrations use TheHive APIs, they will still work thanks to the backward compatible APIs. If they rely on TheHive WebHooks, you will need to upgrade to TheHive 5, at least, the Gold License.

StrangeBee will maintain TheHive4py as a free, Open Source library and will provide an optimized version for TheHive 5.