The openscap project is a set of open source libraries that support the SCAP (Security Content Automation Protocol) set of standards from NIST. It supports CPE, CCE, CVE, CVSS, OVAL, and XCCDF.
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Perl regular expressions are now on by default. In OVAL, float type support was added and non-compliant handling of empty variables was fixed.
XSL transformation improvements were made, Dublin Core support was added, and XCCDF export functionality was fixed.
In OVAL: optimization of memory consumption, reporting correct results on unsupported objects, a fix for directory traversals, and Python API improvements. Updated Fedora content was added and XSLT transforms were improved.
XSL transformations for generating report and guidance from XCCDF. SQL and xinetd OVAL probes. Updated Python bindings. Fixes for building on Debian-based distributions. Memory usage optimizations and many bugfixes.
A high level OVAL API was added. Integration of OVAL in XCCDF_POLICY was improved. OVAL variables are supported. A new Python API was introduced. OVAL and XCCDF schemas are included. Validation and cvss support were added to oscap tool.
This release adds OVAL variable support to almost all tests, an environmental variable test, semantic validation of variable models, XCCDF export and clone functions, and XCCDF policy wrappers for Python and Perl.
