[Open-scap] OpenSCAP 1.2.17

[Jan Cerny]

Hello OpenSCAPers,

We are thrilled to announce general availability of OpenSCAP 1.2.17 release.

This is the latest release from maint-1.2 maintenance branch. API/ABI is
fully compatible with 1.2.0 release. Users of 1.2.x releases are
recommended to update.

Changes:
  - New features
    - HTML Guide user experience improvements
    - New options in HTML report "Group By" menu
    - oscap-ssh supports --oval-results (issue #863)
  - Maintenance
    - Support comparing state record elements with item
    - Updated Bash completion
    - Make Bash role headers consistent with --help output
    - Fixed problems reported by Coverity (issue #909)
    - Fixed CVE schema to support 4 to 7 digits CVEs
    - Fix output of generated bash role missing fix message
    - Fix oscap-docker to clean up temporary image (RHBZ #1454637)
    - Fix Ansible remediations generation
    - Add a newline between ids in xccdf info (issue #968)
    - Fix unknown subtype handling in oval_subtype_parse (issue #986)
    - Outsourced the pthreads feature check and setup
    - Speed up in debug mode
    - Refactored the Python handling in build scripts
    - Prevent reading from host in offline mode (issue #1001)
    - Many probes use OWN offline mode
    - Improve offline mode logic in OVAL probes
    - Do not use chroot in system_info probe
    - Prevent a segfault in oscap_seterr on Solaris
    - Out of tree build is possible
    - Use chroot for RPM probes in offline mode
    - PEP8 accepts lines up to 99 characters
    - New configure parameter --with-oscap-temp-dir (issue #1016)
    - Fixed OVAL record elements namespace and SEXP conversion
    - Removed '\r' characters from help output (issue #1023)
    - Full Python 3 compatibility
    - Removed basic Python implementation of oval_probes.c
    - Added support for Travis CI and Sonar Cloud
    - Minor fixes inspired by Sonar Cloud
    - Added Fedora 29 CPE
    - New tests in upstream test suite (offline mode, Ansible, etc.)

Special thanks to our new contributors Axel Nennker, Nitin Ravindran,
Vincent Batts and Yoon Jean Kim.

Download:
https://github.com/OpenSCAP/openscap/releases/download/1.2.17/openscap-1.2.17.tar.gz

SHA512:
38b80215e4815c3a4a50e86376fbd680e58d2470b67dbc02dda052b11de5dd4af4b525d639c3ad5359ac70194c63276fbecbe7445df36009f5fe492a80a77a27

Audit, Fix, And Be Merry!


Jan Černý
Security Technologies, Red Hat, Inc.
on behalf of OpenSCAP contributors