= Lynis 2.1.0 (2015-04-16) =

General:

• Screen output has been improved to provide additional information.

OS support:

• CUPS detection on Mac OS has been improved. AIX systems will now use csum utility to create host ID. Group check have been altered on AIX, to include the -n ALL. Core dump check on Linux is extended to check for actual values as well.

Software:

• McAfee detection has been extended by detecting a running cma binary.
• Improved detection of pf firewall on BSD and Mac OS. Security patch checking with zypper extended.

Session timeout:

• Tests to determine shell time out setting have been extended to account for AIX, HP-UX and other platforms. It will now determine also if variable is exported as a readonly variable. Related compliance section PCI DSS 8.1.8 has been extended.

Documentation:

• New document: Getting started with Lynis https://cisofy.com/documentation/lynis/get-started/

= Lynis 2.0.0 (2015-02-25) =

• The first release within the 2.x branch! It includes several new features, to simplify or improve auditing on Unix based systems, including BSD, Linux, Mac OS and more traditional systems like AIX, HPUX and Solaris.

• New features and many improvements are the reason for the bump to a major release, also a beginning of a new era. Many tools to audit or harden systems have being released, yet none have been maintained over a long period of time.

Helpers:

• New in this release is the support for helpers. Small utilities which enhance Lynis by providing a single goal. The first helper available is to audit Docker build files.

Improved OS support:

• Many changes have been implemented to better support Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD DragonBSD and OpenBSD in particular. Upcoming releases will include smaller "improvement rounds" for other systems as well.

New technologies:

• More utilities and technologies are supported now. Technologies and tools like systemd, Docker, nftables.

New parameters:

• Several new options have been added:

--dump-options (see all options) --report-file (define a different location for the report file)

General:

• Documentation on the website has been extended: https://cisofy.com/support/

• The man page, Lynis binary and several tests have improved texts.