OpenSCAP v0.5.9 released

The OpenSCAP Project was created to provide an open-source framework to the community which enables integration with the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) suite of standards and capabilities.

It is the goal of OpenSCAP to provide a simple, easy to use set of interfaces to serve as the framework for community use of SCAP.

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Version 0.5.9

  • built on windows (without probe support)
  • better support on RHEL5
  • OVAL model validation functionality
  • OVAL, XCCDF xml file validation functionality
  • update XCDDF model manipulation functions
  • introduction of XCCDF_POLICY tailoring interface
  • new probes: filemd5, filehash
  • removed libnl dependency
  • extended and improved library selfcheck
  • alternative solution to atomic functions based on mutex
  • important fixes

More information: here