What’s New with OpenRMF^® OSS

Please refer to the OpenRMF Projects listing on GitHub for more information on feature updates and timeline.

Version 1.11 (Security and Performance Update)

Version 1.11 has the following added features and fixes:

Added MARKING, HOST IP, HOST MAC, Web or Database Fields for display and editing
Get Host IP, MAC, FQDN from the SCAP scan results, if there, for a checklist
Read for Not Applicable in SCAP scan results, and fill in CKL record accordingly
Updated Keycloak KC_PROXY environment variable from passthrough to edge for HTTPS setup later
Updated base images for web, code
Updated 3rd party infrastructure images
Updated matching SCAP to DISA Checklist Templates on naming conventions
Removed Jaeger and OpenTracing older code not used
Removed build warnings on NLog and throwing extra exceptions
Sped up loading of report and template data
Latest DISA Templates as of April 18, 2024
Mounted the initial JS for database collections with :Z versus :ro to work in REL/podman

Version 1.10 (Performance, Reports, Fixes and Updated Templates)

Version 1.10 has the following added features and fixes:

Sped up reports using AJAX calls to load some tables versus “foreach” Javascript
Added indexes on certain fields for speeding up the listing and searching of data in 5 MongoDB databases
Added a report to list vulnerabilities by status and severity options
Added a report to show activity on checklists for age and stale data
Added a report to show all Vulnerabilities with severity override set
Added a report to list all Checklists that require an Upgrade
Fix for Empty Comments / Details not saved on Checklists
Fix for Apostrophe and special HTML characters being escaped in data on textboxes
Fix for matching SCAP to Checklists on certain changed DISA templates
Fix for Severity Override not resetting after being on a VULN record that has one, to one that does not
Remove Caching on Reporting API to show proper data after deleting checklists correctly
Latest DISA Templates as of November 4, 2023
Updated help with better descriptions and overview

Version 1.9

Version 1.9 has the following feature updates:

Fix for SCAP Scans featuring enhanced information from SCC tool
Fix for hostname filter to be case insensitive on system package checklist listing
Allow searching Vulnerability from Reports with a partial VULN ID match
Updated base container images for vulnerability fixes
latest DISA templates (480) for SCAP scan matching up to March 08, 2023
support for podman and podman-compose
use of docker compose versus docker-compose in scripts

BREAKING CHANGE of Keycloak 20 with new configuration, all under a single port 8080 / 8443

BREAKING CHANGE of Grafana under a single port 8080 / 8443

Version 1.8.2

Version 1.8.2 has the latest DISA templates (460) for SCAP scan matching up to August 28, 2022 as well as updated base images for web and service components for vulnerability issues.

Version 1.8.1

Version 1.8.1 had some small fixes in it immediately after v1.8 went public:

Fix the Nessus SCAP parser to pull results correctly
Fix the msg-system consolidated code from msg-checklist to score new checklists correctly
Please see the note on v1.8.0 release on updating the MongoDB compatibility before upgrading from 1.7.2 or earlier

Version 1.8

Version 1.8 has the latest DISA templates (438) for SCAP scan matching up to May 10, 2022 as well as the following feature updates:

Allow creating a new checklist from a template from the template checklist page
Allow removing a Nessus patch scan from a system package record
Updated the POAM to DoD format for use in eMASS and other applications
Show the checklist template version and release on the template listing page
Updated button help throughout
Updated XLSX formatting with merged cells and borders
Logging configurable with LOGLEVEL environment variable 0 - 5 (Trace through Critical), defaulting to Warn = 3
MongoDB 5.0
Keycloak 15.0
NATS 2.8
.NET Core 6 runtime
consolidated 4 APIs into 1
consolidated 2 MSG clients into 1

Version 1.7

Version 1.7 has the latest DISA templates for SCAP scan matching up to December 24, 2021 as well as the following feature updates:

updated base container image for vulnerability fixes
updated NGINX container for the web UI for vulnerability fixes
easier editing of vulnerabilities, all on one page w/o a popup
fixing a bug removing \n from Template formatting
fixing loading of HTML / XML characters in checklist details listings
adding the NGINX prometheus exporter for tracking metrics of the web UI
allow tagging of checklists (one at a time)
listing all templates, including internal ones from DISA’s public site
better formatting of plugin description for Nessus report
better formatting for vulnerability detail on reports and chekclist vulnerability listings

Version 1.6

Version 1.6 fixed the POSIX bug after updating to Docker Desktop where the .env file and APIs read the environment variables but they had a “-“ in them. That was breaking it.

Version 1.5.4

Version 1.5.4 added the updated DISA Templates from April 27 and April 28 2021. These allow you to match on SCAP scan uploads to automatically create checklists.

Version 1.5.3

Version 1.5.3 included these updates:

Keycloak v 12.0.3 OpenRMF Theme
Download All CKL into ZIP for a System Package
Merge POAM and RAR fields into one for XLSX download
Table cell click for filtering Checklists and Templates Vulnerabilities listing
Color code reports for status
Improved UI on messaging and spacing
Various small bug fixes

Version 1.5.2

Version 1.5.2 included one update:

Update to Keycloak v 12.0.3
Fix for Keycloak Windows-based realm creation script

Version 1.5.1

Version 1.5.1 included a few updated features:

Updated base image and application container image to use Alpine and self-contained application executables for reduced scanning surface and size
Bug fix for the Reporting when you upgrade to a new STIG Checklist release with changing Vulnerability IDs
Auto-logoff after 15 minutes
Auto-refresh of the Keycloak token when on a page longer than 5 minutes

Version 1.4

Version 1.4 included one added feature:

Feature #216: Ability to upload OpenSCAP results XCCDF XML file to create Checklists, along with Nessus and DISA SCAP XCCDF XML results

Version 1.3.2

Version 1.3.2 was a bug fix release primarily as outlined below:

Fix score calculation bug #213 on checklists for Not a Finding counts
Added additional DISA public STIG Templates

Version 1.3.1

Version 1.3.1 was a bug fix release primarily as outlined below:

Fix a bug #203 on CAT 3 checklist Not a Finding counts not matching the checklist file
Updated to the Jan 22, 2021 DISA public STIG templates

Version 1.3

Version 1.3 was a bug fix release primarily as outlined below:

Display the status of the vulnerability in the checklist/template view
Scoring a checklist now uses the Severity Override as the severity if it is filled in (API and MSG client)
Fixed a bug in the low/moderate/high loading of NIST 800.53 Controls
Fixed a bug where PII controls are always used in the Compliance engine – now only if the checkbox is set

Version 1.2

Version 1.2 was also a security fix primarily with some updated functionality as outlined below:

.NET Core 3.1 update with Debian 10 based containers
Updated .NET Core 3.1 components such as Jaeger client, Swashbuckle, etc.
Keycloak 10 upgrade from 7.0
Keycloak theme for OpenRMF for seamless look-and-feel interaction
Header Security fixes from an active scan of the web application
Compliance Summary buttons are interactive for filtering now
Help documentation is now local to the application, not up on github.io pages

Version 1.1

Version 1.1 was a security fix primarily with some updated functionality as outlined below:

Rootless containers for APIs, messages, NGINX, and MongoDB databases
Updated jQuery, File Upload, Bootstrap and other JS components
Security Fixes from an active scan of the web application
Upload an existing checklist for a given checklist type and host = update the info (it was just duplicating the information)
Allow Bulk Edits on Vulnerabilities across similar checklist types within a System grouping
Container “restart: always” on the Docker Compose file
All CSS, HTML, JS are local not reaching out over the public Internet

Version 1.0

Version 1.0 of OpenRMF Core has these updates below:

Fixing a bug on the Web UI updating Vulnerabilities via the web form in a checklist
Updating the version descriptions to 1.0 throughout the codebase

Version 0.15

Version 0.15 is the last update before going to version 1.0 of OpenRMF Core. The recent updates on that are below:

Migrating the Web UI and all APIs behind NGINX for a single port 8080
Automatically updating the checklist score on the page when editing a vulnerability status
Various small bug fixes

Version 0.14

The recent updates on version 0.14 are below:

A new Report API for certain reports, using eventual consistency for behind the scenes reporting and faster data.
Better indexing across all databases.
Caching of certain data to quicken retrieving (reports, control listing, list of values, etc.).
A new NATS Client Metrics exporter and Grafana dashboard we created to track metrics to the consumer level.

Version 0.13

The recent updates for version 0.13 are below:

Showing the CCI title and NIST related controls for each Vulnerability in a Checklist
Export the Compliance listing to MS Excel
Updated /healthz checks for Kubernetes for database connectivity
Model showing an external API connected to OpenRMF via Kong API Gateway for “Scoring” a raw checklist
All APIs show tracing information in Jaeger UI
Initial Kubernetes CNI network policies in the Helm 3.0 chart

Version 0.12

The latest working version is version 0.12. The recent updates on that are below:

Live editing of Checklist Asset data and Vulnerability status data
Showing the version of the checklist
Updated UI of the Template page to match the Checklist page
Filtering on the System page listing checklists by status and severity/category of Vulnerabilities across all System checklists
Filtering on the Checklist page by status and severity/category of Vulnerabilities within that checklist
Create a Test Plan Summary across your System of Checklists and Nessus ACAS scan data
Updated color coding throughout the UI for Open items to show severity / category better
Generating the POA&M for Open and Not Reviewed items for a system (across all checklists)
Generating the Risk Assessment Report (RAR) for a system (across all checklists)
Generating the Test Plan Summary for a system (across all checklists)
Upgrading a Checklist to the latest version and release with the click of a button!

What’s New with OpenRMF® OSS