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New on April 1, 2025

SAST updates:

New on March 30, 2025

  • Dynamic analysis (DAST):
    • Test Policies tab is now added under Organization. Here, you can manage your test policies and upload a custom policy that you created in AppScan Standard or AppScan Enterprise.
    • Policies tab under Organization is now renamed as Compliance policies.

New on March 27, 2025

  • IAST for Kubernetes (1.0.5)
    • Dependencies update
    • Fix container privileges
    • Fix Windows installation
    • Install script can get registry name as a parameter, for customers using private registry.

New on March 17, 2025

  • Dynamic analysis (DAST):
  • Software Composition Analysis (SCA):
  • Platform improvements:
    • Report customization: Personalize your reports with your brand identity by easily adding your company logo and creating custom headers and footers.
    • Custom policies: Issues can now be filtered based on technology, along with the other filtering options that were already available.

New on March 11, 2025

SAST updates:
  • Static analysis client updated to 8.0.1628.
  • Bug fix from version 8.0.1623: File paths for files at the root of a Git repository are now relative file paths.

New on March 05, 2025

  • New IAST .NET agent (1.13.1)
    • Performance improvements.
    • Reduced frequency of heartbeat communication to AppScan on Cloud when the agent is disabled.
    • Enhanced algorithm for merging similar issues.

New on March 3, 2025

  • Static analysis client updated to 8.0.1623.
  • Support for .NET 9.

New on February 28, 2025

New on February 02, 2025

  • Dynamic analysis (DAST):
    • API testing: AppScan on Cloud provides a native workflow for automatic scanning based on the OpenAPI specification file, with improved configuration capabilities and enhanced coverage.
    • Compliance Reports and Policies:
      • New compliance reports:
        • [EU] Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)
        • OWASP Application Security Verification Standard
      • Updated compliance reports:
        • [US] DISA's Application Security and Development STIG. V6R1
    • Support for EXD file: When you upload a traffic recording for "Explore with Guidance", you can now import the EXD file generated by AppScan Standard or AppScan Dynamic Analysis Client (ADAC).
    • Support to import scan files, including the results, without running the scan in AppScan on Cloud. This option is only available through the API.
  • Integrations updates
    • A new JetBrains Android Studio plugin lets you secure your Android apps early through seamless code analysis.

New on January 20, 2025

  • Static analysis client updated to 8.0.1616.
  • Client-only update.
  • Removed stage in the path for SCA Java archives.

New on January 10, 2025

  • Static analysis client updated to 8.0.1612.
  • Client-only update.
  • Java archives now properly extracted for Software Composition Analysis (SCA) in source code-only mode.

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