v0.5.0

v0.5.0 (2026-01-29)

Chores

• Add CLAUDE.md to repo for project context (c30dc50)

• Remove CLAUDE.md from .gitignore

• Add CLAUDE.md with project overview, commands, architecture notes

Authored by: Aaron Lippoldlippold@gmail.com

• Gitignore beads runtime artifacts (6cb78c8)

Add .beads/last-touched to gitignore - this is an auto-generated timestamp file that changes on every beads operation.

Note: .beads/issues.jsonl IS tracked (contains actual task data)

Authored by: Aaron Lippoldlippold@gmail.com

• Update uv.lock for v0.4.0 (0078ab7)

Authored by: Aaron Lippoldlippold@gmail.com

Continuous Integration

• Add manual trigger to release workflow (3b0bd50)

Allows re-running release via workflow_dispatch when automatic trigger fails due to race conditions.

Authored by: Aaron Lippoldlippold@gmail.com

• Fix release workflow to allow manual dispatch (5f3bc09)

The if condition was blocking workflow_dispatch triggers.

Authored by: Aaron Lippoldlippold@gmail.com

Documentation

• Update CLI documentation for simplified auth workflow (2791e14)

• Remove --browser and --cookies flags from download/get command docs

• Add --cookies option to auth login documentation

• Add Windows troubleshooting for Chrome App-Bound Encryption

• Update CI/CD example to use auth login with cookies

• Update test count to 1,100+ and coverage to 96%

• Update version to 0.4.0

• Fix markdown list formatting in CHANGELOG

Auth is now centralized: use 'cis-bench auth login' for all authentication, then other commands use the saved session automatically.

Authored by: Aaron Lippoldlippold@gmail.com

Features

• Add batch export for multiple benchmarks (#7, 9729c64)

• feat: add batch export for multiple benchmarks

• Export multiple benchmark IDs in single command
• Add --output-dir option for batch exports
• Progress tracking with [1/N] prefix
• Continue on individual failures with summary
• 15 new TDD tests in test_batch_export.py
• Backward compatible with single ID exports
• Update commands-reference.md documentation

Authored by: Aaron Lippoldlippold@gmail.com

• docs: fix README links to point to GitHub Pages

• Update all relative doc links to use full GitHub Pages URLs
• Add prominent link to https://mitre.github.io/cis-bench/
• Add batch export to current features list
• Fix Quick Links section at bottom

Testing

• Achieve 95.96% test coverage with comprehensive unit tests (8fe8425)

Add 356 new unit tests across 10 test files covering:

• cli/commands/catalog.py: 32% → 100% (53 tests)
• cli/commands/auth.py: 70% → 99% (67 tests)
• cli/commands/download.py: 75% → 99% (27 tests)
• cli/commands/get.py: 76% → 99% (included above)
• catalog/parser.py: 66% → 100% (78 tests)
• exporters/xccdf_unified_exporter.py: 56% → 98% (50 tests)
• config.py: 67% → 97% (41 tests)
• validators/disa_conventions.py: 70% → 100% (38 tests)
• utils/xml_utils.py: 70% → 95% (60 tests)
• utils/html_parser.py: 67% → 98% (included above)

Total: 1106 tests passing, overall coverage 95.96%

Authored by: Aaron Lippoldlippold@gmail.com

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Detailed Changes: v0.4.0...v0.5.0

v0.4.0

v0.4.0 (2026-01-29)

Bug Fixes

• Include YAML config files in PyPI package distribution (dbe533e)

Fixes Issue #6 - users installing from PyPI got 'cis is not one of .' error because YAML style configs were not included in the package.

Added [tool.setuptools.package-data] to include exporters/configs/**/*.yaml

Authored by: Aaron Lippoldlippold@gmail.com

Chores

• Fix semantic-release to use standard conventional commits (191b96d)

Only feat/fix/perf now trigger releases:

• feat: minor release
• fix: patch release
• perf: patch release
• docs, chore, refactor, style, test, ci, build: no release

Authored by: Aaron Lippold lippold@gmail.com

• Update beads with recovery card (9e28ac6)

Authored by: Aaron Lippoldlippold@gmail.com

• Update project status and beads tasks (07f6bf4)

• Update version to 0.3.3

• Add semantic-release fix to completed work

• Update open tasks list

• Sync beads database

Authored by: Aaron Lippold lippold@gmail.com

Features

• Add Windows cookie extraction fallback and --cookies option (84152cd)

Issue #3 improvements:

• Auto-fallback to Firefox when Chrome/Edge fails on Windows with permission error
• Add --cookies option to 'auth login' command for cookie file import
• Better error messages explaining Chrome App-Bound Encryption limitation
• Windows permission error detection (_is_windows_permission_error)
• Helpful workarounds in error messages (Firefox, close browser, cookie file)

Authored by: Aaron Lippoldlippold@gmail.com

Refactoring

• Remove auth flags from download and get commands (DRY) (69ffbd1)

Simplify CLI structure - auth flags now only on 'auth login':

• Remove --browser, --cookies, --no-verify-ssl from download command
• Remove --browser from get command
• Users must run 'auth login' first, then other commands use saved session
• Better error messages directing users to auth login

This follows DRY principle and prevents user confusion (Issue #3 user tried --cookies on wrong command).

Authored by: Aaron Lippoldlippold@gmail.com

Testing

• Add comprehensive tests for Issues #6, #3, and CLI structure (e23d8fa)

New test files (92 tests total):

• test_package_data.py: Verify YAML configs included in package (9 tests)
• test_auth_windows_fallback.py: Windows permission detection, Firefox fallback (13 tests)
• test_cli_structure.py: Verify auth flags only on auth login (15 tests)
• test_metadata_models.py: CIS Controls and Enhanced Metadata models (30 tests)
• test_xhtml_formatter.py: XHTML element creation and serialization (25 tests)

Updated existing tests for new CLI structure (removed --browser from download/get).

Coverage improved: 81.9% → 83.6%

Authored by: Aaron Lippoldlippold@gmail.com

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Detailed Changes: v0.3.3...v0.4.0

v0.3.3

v0.3.3 (2025-12-19)

Chores

• Add beads task tracker for project management (4e0f733)

Initialize beads (bd) for tracking completed, current, and future work:

• .beads/ directory with config and issue database
• AGENTS.md with session completion workflow
• .gitattributes with beads merge driver

Authored by: Aaron Lippold lippold@gmail.com

• Update beads task statuses (c32c51d)

Documentation

• Add CURRENT_STATUS.md for project state tracking (18b2a72)

Quick reference for resuming work after breaks:

• Project state and feature status
• Open tasks from beads
• Completed work summary
• Recovery prompt for new sessions

Authored by: Aaron Lippold lippold@gmail.com

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Detailed Changes: v0.3.2...v0.3.3

v0.3.2

v0.3.2 (2025-12-19)

Documentation

• Add Catalog System section to architecture (5587850)

• Document SQLite database with SQLModel ORM

• Document FTS5 full-text search implementation

• Document schema with tables and relationships

• Explain catalog metadata vs downloaded benchmarks distinction

• Document Alembic migrations for schema versioning

• Add platform inference patterns documentation

• Update package structure to include catalog module

• Update dependencies to include sqlmodel and alembic

• Add catalog commands to Commands section

Authored by: Aaron Lippold lippold@gmail.com

• Reorganize design docs and fix documentation issues (dff7974)

Session 29-30 documentation cleanup:

Design document reorganization: - Move ARCHITECTURE_PRINCIPLES.md → docs/design/design-principles.md - Move SYSTEM_ANALYSIS.md → docs/design/handler-reference.md - Move REFACTOR_PLAN.md → docs/design/xccdf-mapping-design.md - Move FINAL_PLAN.md → docs/design/architecture-decisions.md - Reduce total from 2,596 to 1,090 lines (58% reduction) - Add Design Documents section to mkdocs.yml navigation

Documentation fixes: - Fix Python version requirement: 3.8+ → 3.12+ (4 files) - Fix project version: 1.0.0 → 0.3.1 (3 files) - Fix 12 broken links (case sensitivity: UPPERCASE → lowercase) - Standardize navigation header indentation (8 files) - Add CHANGELOG.md and NOTICE.md symlinks to docs/ - Add Third-Party Notices to About nav section - Fix NOTICE.md link path in licensing.md - Fix 3 missing anchor links (catalog-commands, scenario-4, yaml) - Fix mermaid syntax error (Loop → FieldLoop reserved keyword)

File cleanup: - Delete obsolete setup.py and requirements.txt - Move fix_markdown_lists.py → scripts/ - Add redownload_samples.py to scripts/ - Move python-project-setup-guide.md to root (general reference) - Update .pre-commit-config.yaml for new script location - Add RECOVERY*.md to .gitignore

Build verified: mkdocs build --strict passes with no warnings

Authored by: Aaron Lippoldlippold@gmail.com

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Detailed Changes: v0.3.1...v0.3.2

v0.3.1

v0.3.1 (2025-12-17)

Bug Fixes

• Add --all-extras to packaging test step (bc5cf77)

Authored by: Aaron Lippold lippold@gmail.com

• Correct CLI packaging for pipx/uv installation (0a9a48b)

• Add main.py for python -m cis_bench fallback

• Add pipx.run entry point for pipx compatibility

• Fix hardcoded version (now reads from importlib.metadata)

• Update author to MITRE SAF Team

• Add packaging verification job to CI (tests pipx install)

• Update docs to recommend pipx/uv over pip (per Python Packaging Authority)

• Fix 14 broken doc links (wrong case)

• Add CHANGELOG to mkdocs nav

• Docs now deploy after CI passes (not just after Release)

Authored by: Aaron Lippold lippold@gmail.com

• Update version test to use dynamic version (c1f307b)

Test was expecting hardcoded 1.0.0 instead of actual package version

Authored by: Aaron Lippold lippold@gmail.com

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Detailed Changes: v0.3.0...v0.3.1

v0.3.0

v0.3.0 (2025-12-17)

Bug Fixes

• Preserve types in VariableSubstituter and fix empty element handling (a91b42b)

VariableSubstituter changes:

• Preserve original type for single-variable templates ({item.ig1})
• Convert to string only for mixed templates (text + variable)
• Fixes boolean attributes (False → 'false' for XML)

Empty element handling:

• Allow elements with attributes but no content (DISA fix element)
• Skip only if no value AND no attributes

Fixes:

• CIS Controls ig1/ig2/ig3 now lowercase 'true'/'false'
• DISA fix elements now generated

Authored by: Aaron Lippold lippold@gmail.com

Chores

• Add OpenSCAP schema library for validation (ef78dc0)

Add complete XCCDF/CPE/OVAL schema collection from OpenSCAP (551 XSD files).

Includes:

• XCCDF 1.1 and 1.2 validation schemas
• CPE 1.0, 2.0, 2.1, 2.3 schemas
• OVAL 5.x schemas (all versions)
• ARF (Asset Reporting Format) schemas

Updated XML catalog for proper schema resolution (local files, no network).

Enables NIST XCCDF schema validation without external dependencies.

Source: OpenSCAP/openscap (NIST certified SCAP 1.2 toolkit)

Authored by: Aaron Lippold lippold@gmail.com

Continuous Integration

• Install libxml2-utils for xmllint schema validation (d6c7218)

The test_disa_export_validates_nist_schema test requires xmllint to validate XCCDF exports against the NIST schema.

Authored by: Aaron Lippold lippold@gmail.com

Documentation

• Complete Phase 5 - comprehensive documentation updates (29faca9)

Updated ALL documentation files for generic structure refactor:

Core Docs Updated: - design-philosophy.md: DISA vs CIS export patterns - architecture.md: Generic handler architecture - mapping-engine-design.md: Handler specifications - mapping-engine-guide.md: Practical examples - how-to-add-xccdf-style.md: Zero-code extensibility - yaml-config-reference.md: Updated structure names

New Docs: - REFACTOR_SUMMARY.md: High-level overview - ARCHITECTURE_PRINCIPLES.md: Design enforcement - FINAL_PLAN.md: Implementation plan - SYSTEM_ANALYSIS.md: System review - adding-pci-dss.md: Framework extension guide

All references to deleted patterns removed: - official_cis_controls → metadata_from_config - enhanced_namespace → ident_from_list - custom_namespace → metadata_from_config - build_cis_controls → (deleted, now generic)

Documents DISA/CIS differences, generic patterns, extensibility.

Phase 5 complete.

Authored by: Aaron Lippold lippold@gmail.com

• Update documentation for generic structure handlers (b847a0d)

Updates:

• design-philosophy.md: Document DISA vs CIS export differences
• REFACTOR_SUMMARY.md: High-level overview of changes
• developer-guide/adding-pci-dss.md: Framework extension example

Key changes documented:

• DISA uses idents only (no metadata) - fixes Vulcan errors
• CIS uses dual representation (ident + metadata for CIS Controls)
• MITRE now as idents (not in metadata - cleaner)
• Profiles at Benchmark level (proper XCCDF standard)
• Adding frameworks requires only YAML config

Phase 5 complete.

Authored by: Aaron Lippold lippold@gmail.com

Features

• Add fix element to DISA exports (94f2858)

Add empty elements to match official DISA STIG structure.

Official DISA STIGs have fix elements as placeholders with ID attributes. Required for full DISA STIG compliance.

Authored by: Aaron Lippold lippold@gmail.com

• Add LibCST utility for safe code refactoring (7ff8470)

Add scripts/remove_code.py with comprehensive test suite for safely removing functions, methods, and classes during refactoring.

• LibCST-based code removal (preserves formatting)
• 27 comprehensive tests (edge cases covered)
• Dry-run mode for safety
• Handles decorators, async, dataclass, nested functions

This tool enables safe cleanup during XCCDF refactoring.

Authored by: Aaron Lippold lippold@gmail.com

• Config-driven STIG IDs and Vulcan compatibility (40522b5)

• Add config-driven ID generation (V-/SV- for DISA, descriptive for CIS)

• Add ref_to_stig_number() helper (3.1.1 → 030101)

• Add strip_version_prefix transform (v4.0.0 → 4.0.0)

• Restructure configs: base.yaml + styles/{disa,cis}.yaml

• Fix duplicate CCI deduplication

• Remove status from Rules (belongs at Benchmark level only)

• Add 40+ new tests for ID formats and Vulcan compatibility

• Move test_remove_code_script.py to tests/scripts/

Tested: 583 tests pass, validated with stig_parser and Vulcan 2.2.1

Authored by: Aaron Lippold lippold@gmail.com

• Implement generic config-driven structure handlers (e46ef23)

Add three generic handlers for XCCDF generation:

1. generate_idents_from_config(): Generate ident elements from any list - Works for CCI, CIS Controls, MITRE, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, etc. - Template-based (system, value, optional attributes)

2. generate_metadata_from_config(): Generate nested XML from config - Supports grouping (e.g., CIS Controls by version) - Recursive children with attributes and content - Requires post-processing flag for lxml injection

3. generate_profiles_from_rules(): Generate Benchmark-level Profiles - Builds Profile elements with select lists - Works for CIS Levels, DISA MAC, any applicability system

All handlers are fully config-driven (no hard-coded structures). Removes organization-specific methods (build_cis_controls, generate_cis_idents).

Tests: - 11 unit tests for metadata generation - 4 integration tests for profile generation - All passing

Authored by: Aaron Lippold lippold@gmail.com

Refactoring

• Update CIS export to use generic patterns (058dacb)

CIS configuration changes:

• Use metadata_from_config for CIS Controls (with post-processing)
• Use ident_from_list for MITRE (not metadata - cleaner)
• Add profiles configuration
• Remove old enhanced_namespace and official_cis_controls patterns

Exporter changes:

• Implement generic _inject_metadata_from_config() method
• Remove hard-coded CIS-specific injection
• Metadata injection now config-driven (requires_post_processing flag)

Test updates:

• Update CIS tests for new architecture
• MITRE now as idents (not in enhanced metadata)
• Profiles now at Benchmark level (not in metadata)

CIS exports now use dual representation:

• CIS Controls in both ident and metadata (official pattern)
• MITRE in idents only (no namespace pollution)

Authored by: Aaron Lippold lippold@gmail.com

Testing

• Fix all skipped tests and improve assertions (5078775)

• Remove skip from NIST schema validation (schemas now available)

• Remove skip from DISA conventions validation (works correctly)

• Fix CIS ident/metadata count assertion (dual representation = 2x idents)

• Fix boolean attribute test (now checks for lowercase)

• Add mock PCI-DSS config to prove extensibility

• Fix Pydantic validator for total_recommendations count

All 575 tests now passing (0 skipped, 0 failed).

Authored by: Aaron Lippold lippold@gmail.com

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Detailed Changes: v0.2.3...v0.3.0

v0.2.3

v0.2.3 (2025-12-16)

Documentation

• Add comprehensive Python project setup guide (d4b383f)

Reusable template for MITRE Python projects covering uv, ruff, semantic-release, CI/CD, testing, and community health files.

Also copied to repo-minder for organizational reuse.

Authored by: Aaron Lippold lippold@gmail.com

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Detailed Changes: v0.2.2...v0.2.3

v0.2.2

v0.2.2 (2025-12-15)

Documentation

• Add community health files and document gitflow workflow (8b13420)

• Add SECURITY.md (vulnerability disclosure policy)

• Add CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md (Contributor Covenant)

• Rename LICENSE to LICENSE.md (standard naming)

• Update contributing.md with gitflow workflow documentation

  • Document branch-based development (required for semantic-release)
  • Add conventional commit guidelines
  • Update setup instructions to use uv
  • Explain why we don't commit directly to main

Authored by: Aaron Lippold lippold@gmail.com

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Detailed Changes: v0.2.1...v0.2.2

v0.2.1

v0.2.1 (2025-12-15)

Documentation

• Add community health files and document gitflow workflow (5de6095)

• Add SECURITY.md (vulnerability disclosure policy)

• Add CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md (Contributor Covenant)

• Rename LICENSE to LICENSE.md (standard naming)

• Update contributing.md with gitflow workflow documentation

  • Document branch-based development (required for semantic-release)
  • Add conventional commit guidelines
  • Update setup instructions to use uv
  • Explain why we don't commit directly to main

Authored by: Aaron Lippold lippold@gmail.com

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Detailed Changes: v0.2.0...v0.2.1

v0.2.0

v0.2.0 (2025-12-15)

Bug Fixes

• Add --all-extras to all uv run commands in CI (e9f5443)

• Ensures dev dependencies (pytest, ruff, etc.) are installed

• Fixes 'pytest: command not found' errors

Authored by: Aaron Lippold lippold@gmail.com

• Docs deploy only after successful release (6393d9f)

• Change docs workflow to depend on Release success, not CI

• Ensures documentation matches published PyPI version

• Prevents docs updates for failed releases

• Add PyPI version badge to README

• Update Python version badge to 3.12+

• Add CI status badge

• Update installation to use PyPI package

Authored by: Aaron Lippold lippold@gmail.com

• Use --frozen instead of --locked in CI workflows (d7d3129)

• Change from --locked to --frozen for uv commands

• --frozen allows metadata updates while using lock file

• Fixes lockfile update errors in CI

• Simplify security job to use uv run --with bandit

Authored by: Aaron Lippold lippold@gmail.com

Features

• Complete migration to uv package manager (fb30489)

• Update CI workflow to use setup-uv@v7 with caching

• Use uv sync --locked for reproducible builds

• Use uv run for all commands (pytest, ruff, bandit)

• Remove ruff-action, use uv run ruff instead

• Add uv.lock for dependency locking

• Update README to recommend uv installation

• Faster CI runs (10-100x faster than pip)

• Consistent with modern Python ecosystem (2025)

Authored by: Aaron Lippold lippold@gmail.com

• Migrate to uv for dependency management (edfbb7c)

• Add uv.lock for reproducible builds

• Update README to recommend uv for installation

• Align local development with CI (already uses uv)

• 10-100x faster than pip

• Better dependency resolution

Authored by: Aaron Lippold lippold@gmail.com

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Detailed Changes: v0.1.0...v0.2.0