[Open-scap] OpenSCAP 1.2.0

Simon Lukasik slukasik at redhat.com
Tue Dec 2 09:31:53 UTC 2014


Hello OpenSCAPers,

We are thrilled to announce general availability of OpenSCAP 1.2.0 release.

Changes:
  - new features
    - native support of bzip2ed SCAP files (file extension needs to be 
'.xml.bz2')
    - improved performance on huge XML documents, especially DataStreams
    - minimized use of temp files to absolute minimum
    - added OVAL-5.11 release candidate schemas
  - API changes
    - overall 50 new symbols added to public API
    - introduced oscap_source abstraction for input files
      - further info: http://isimluk.livejournal.com/4859.html
      - all the parsers converted to use oscap_source abstraction
    - introduced ds_sds_session, high level API for playing with Source 
DataStreams
    - introduced cpe_session, abstraction to approach multiple CPE resources
    - introduced ds_rds_session, high level API for playing with Result 
DataStreams
      (ARF files)
    - deprecated dozens of API calls dependent on filepath
    - introduced API for waivers (xccdf:override) and modification of ARF
      - initial support for waivers in HTML Report
    - dozens of small improvements
  - maintenance
    - dozens of small fixes
    - dozens of memory leaks (whole test suite is now leak free)
    - updated gnulib

Download:
https://fedorahosted.org/releases/o/p/openscap/openscap-1.2.0.tar.gz

SHA512:
1c290e0c20382c45da7d1c12ae69d33a71c04b34db39843805401b74f6bc392b10e2b401e0e8f4a62deef19d99254eadcc3b9702c2d5c12967ca9616f02cf2ed

Audit, Fix, And Be Merry!

-- 
Šimon Lukašík
Security Technologies, Red Hat, Inc.
on behalf of OpenSCAP contributors




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