Released: 2023.10.31
Summary:
- Updates Watchmaker default config to use Salt 3006.4
- Documents invalid finding in EL8 for remote access monitoring methods
- ash-linux-formula
- Addresses several EL8 Cat2 findings from recent SCAP scans
- join-domain-formula
- (Linux) Adds cron config that refreshes AD computer object attributes
Released: 2023.10.05
Summary:
- Fixes clobbering of
computer-name
grain whencomputer-name-pattern
is also provided. This prevented thename-computer-formula
from setting the name specified by the user - Updates FAQ to include vendor guidance for EL8.8+
- Adds guidance on OpenSSH key signing requirements for EL8
- ash-linux-formula
- Adds handler to address pam faillock findings on EL8
Released: 2023.09.14
Summary:
- Add watchmaker config argument
computer_name_pattern
, and exit with error if providedcomputer_name
does not match. Also writes grain for use with name-computer-formula - Updates default watchmaker config to use salt 3006.2
- Documents customization options for the watchmaker salt content
- Documents workarounds for known "gotchas" when applying EL7 and EL8 STIG controls
- ash-linux-formula
- Supports customization for mapping users to different SELinux contexts
- Removes el7 and EL8 STIG handlers that are now provided by SCAP remediation content
- Consolidates all separate EL8 PAM handlers to states based on new authselect capabilities
- join-domain-formula
- Adds support for
tries
option that retries a failed join domain action - Integrates with ash-linux PAM handlers to apply STIG controls, if available
- Adds support for
- trellix-agent-formula
- Refactors firewalld states around newer salt functionality
- name-computer-formula
- Supports reading pattern from salt grain
Released: 2023.08.07
Summary:
- Adds doc section on troubleshooting Watchmaker, to include common errors, issues, and relevant log files
- Updates AWS provider to support EC2 instances configured for only IMDSv2
- ash-linux-formula
- Addresses additional STIG findings for EL7 and EL8
- join-domain-formula
- Resolves issue with collision detection when deploying a new system with a hostname that already exists in the domain
- Corrects usage of StartTLS when searching for a computer object in the domain
- Provides several new options for controlling whether TLS is used when searching for a computer object in the domain, and whether an error will be treated as fatal or not
Released: 2023.06.28
Summary:
- Updates guidance on Linux STIG findings relating to SELinux context and sudo privilege escalation
- ash-linux-formula
- Adds additional guidance on pillar content usage
- Adds additional EL7 STIG handlers
- Removes duplicate EL7 STIG handlers for audit rules
- forescout-secure-connector-formula
- Adds state to ensure correct directory ownership
- join-domain-formula
- Updates sssd to support a variety of conf parameters
- scap-formula
- Updates DISA SCAP content
Released: 2023.05.25
Summary:
- Fixes issue with standalone binary on FIPS-enabled EL8 systems, by packaging libcrypto and libssl libraries in the binary
Released: 2023.05.18
Summary:
- Adds support for salt 3006
- Builds standalone executable using Python 3.10
- Documents additional expected findings for EL8 systems
- Uses Python 3.10 in all documentation references
- Updates default config to use salt 3006.1
- Uses SCC 5.7.1 in default salt content
- ash-linux-formula
- Simplifies logic for managing faillock.conf
- ash-windows-formula
- Updates custom modules for compatibility with Salt 3006 while remaining backwards compatible with salt 3005 and earlier
- splunkforwarder-formula
- Sets splunk user/group on files and directories, eliminating "Changes" when re-executing the formula
Released: 2023.05.08
Summary:
- Fixes typo in upload of Windows standalone binary to GitHub Releases
- Documents known/spurious EL8 findings that scanning utilities may flag erroneously
- Fixes the check that skips reinstalling salt when the correct version is already installed
- Publishes EL8 scap scans as a release artifact to
watchmaker.cloudarmor.io
, alongside the standalone binaries - Updates scap pillar in default salt content to run scans properly on CentOS Stream and scap version 1.3
- ash-linux-formula
- Fixes oscap remediation on CentOS Stream 8 and Oracle Linux 8
- Addresses numerous additional STIG findings on EL8 systems that were not addressed with oscap remediation
- Attempts to address EL8 issue with aws-cli, where fapolicyd blocks execution
- forescout-secure-connector-formula
- Establishes symlink so logs are written to
/var/log
partition
- Establishes symlink so logs are written to
- scap-formula
- Updates openscap content to v0.1.67, using scap 1.3 datastreams. This also addresses issues with expiry on passwordless local users
Released: 2023.03.31
Summary:
- Releases support for EL8 platforms, to include Red Hat 8, CentOS 8 Stream, and
Oracle Linux 8. Future work may also add support for Rocky Linux 8 and Alma
Linux 8
- CAVEAT: With this release, on FIPS-enabled EL8 systems, please use the PyPi install or the source install methods. Currently, the standalone method for EL8 does not work when the system is FIPS-enabled. The problem is not yet entirely understood. Further investigation is needed before this issue can be resolved
- UPDATE: The issue with FIPS-enabled EL8 and the standalone binary is fixed in Watchmaker 0.27.3
- Updates salt worker to avoid re-installing salt when
salt-call --version
matches thesalt_version
in the Watchmaker config - Updates EL7 findings documentation to line up with latest stig version
- Installs
dnspython
package when using default Watchmaker config, to support the join-domainnsupdate
state - ash-linux-formula
- Adds handlers to address findings in latest stig versions and increase coverage
- mcafee-agent-formula
- Adds a
trellix-agent
salt state to support the new name for the software
- Adds a
- join-domain-formula
- Linux: Adds an
nsupdate
salt state that will register forward and reverse dns records - Windows: Updates collision handling and join actions to use the same domain controller
- Windows: Supports collision handling where an existing computer object was created by a different service account than is now specified for the join action
- Linux: Adds an
- winrepo: Adds a
trellix-agent
package definition
Released: 2023.03.10
Summary:
- join-domain-formula
- Linux: Output journald logs on join-domain failures
- Linux: Re-order sssd conf file Salt states and explicitly set replace setting to false
- Linux: Patch find-collision.sh script to fix computer-object search
Released: 2023.03.03
Summary:
- Attempts to fix the release automation so the Windows standalone is published to GitHub Releases
- Validates functionality with salt 3005.1 and updates default config to use salt 3005.1
- join-domain-formula
- Windows: Provides pillar options to configure DNS registration settings, to support registration of reverse DNS records
Released: 2023.02.27
Summary:
- Skips provider detection when provider requirements are not installed
- Updates watchmaker salt log config to avoid capturing senstive data in salt log
- forescout-secure-connector-formula
- Adds support for EL8 when FIPS is enabled
- name-computer-formula
- Sets hostname as fqdn when
dns_domain
is provided
- Sets hostname as fqdn when
- join-domain-formula
- Runs fix-collision script when using sssd
- Updates fix-collision to avoid capturing sensitive values in salt log
- Updates sssd method to set extra os attributes only when requested
- Updates windows join script to avoid capturing sensitive values in salt log
Released: 2023.02.13
Summary:
- Fixes publishing of Windows standalone to GitHub Releases
- docs
- Provides guidance on using S3 URL feature in config references
- Describes prerequisites for using AWS and Azure features
- Removes references to EL6 and Python 2.6
- Removes references to deprecated
--s3-url
argument
- join-domain-formula
- Adds support for EL8, using
sssd
to perform the domain-join
- Adds support for EL8, using
Released: 2023.02.08
Summary:
- Uses pyinstaller directly to build standalone packages, eliminating dependency on gravitybee
- Uses new python apis to reference package metadata and resources, improving support for alternative packaging methods, like in-memory runtimes (pyoxidizer) or ziparchives
- Adds PEP517 package metadata
- [Alpha] Allows watchmaker to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Centos 8 Stream, Oracle Linux 8, Alma Linux 8, and Rocky Linux 8. Currently on the ash-linux hardening formula will work; none of the other salt formulas have yet been updated for EL8 support
- ash-windows
- Fixes warning in
lgpo
module about usingis
instead of==
to compare string-literal values
- Fixes warning in
Commit Delta: Change from 0.25.0 release
Released: 2022.12.21
Summary:
- Adds support for posting to a status provider. Initial capability supports AWS and will post the Watchmaker status to an EC2 instance tag. Status values include "Running", "Completed", or "Failed". For more information on this feature, see https://watchmaker.cloudarmor.io/en/stable/configuration.html#status.
- [Alpha] Support posting status to Azure as a Virtual Machine tag
- [Alpha] Support for EL8 platforms is improving but still in development. Targeted platforms include: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Centos 8 Stream, Oracle Linux 8, Alma Linux 8, and Rocky Linux 8
- ash-linux-formula
- Supports EL8 platforms
- join-domain-formula
- Fixes hostname logic so automatic renaming works correctly
- scap-formula
- Supports EL8 platforms
Commit Delta: Change from 0.24.3 release
Released: 2022.10.05
Summary:
- [Alpha] Begins initial preparation to support running watchmaker on EL8 platforms
- forescout-secure-connector-formula
- First release that packages a formula for ForeScout Secure Connector
Commit Delta: Change from 0.24.2 release
Released: 2022.09.16
Summary:
- ash-linux-formula
- Adds check to ensure root account password is set to not expire
- join-domain-formula
- Removes PAM Lsass login re-configuration
Commit Delta: Change from 0.24.1 release
Released: 2022.08.16
Summary:
- scap-formula
- Updates OpenSCAP and DISA STIG content
- Linux: Adds EL8 content
- watchmaker-salt-content
- Windows: Re-adds scap scan using public distributable SCC 5.5
Commit Delta: Change from 0.24.0 release
Released: 2022.07.27
Summary:
- Builds Linux standalone with python 3.8
- Updates default config to use Salt 3004.2
- Updates Windows usage docs with requirement to enforce modern TLS versions
- join-domain-formula
- Windows: Quotes path when running scripts to configure local admin group
- ash-linux-formula
- Tests if grub.cfg exists before attempting to modify it
Commit Delta: Change from 0.23.4 release
Released: 2022.03.09
Summary:
- Updates default config to use Salt 3004
- scap-formula
- Fixes invalid requisite reference for scap.scan
Commit Delta: Change from 0.23.3 release
Released: 2021.12.20
Summary:
- ash-windows: Adds baseline
ash-windows.cis_1_3_0
- Builds python 3.8 into standalone binary instead of python 3.6
- Uses SERVER_AUTH for ssl context, fixing bug resulting from incorrect use of CLIENT_AUTH previously
Commit Delta: Change from 0.23.2 release
Released: 2021.09.28
Summary:
- Added publishing of SCAP reports for Linux systems with each release
- Fixed CLI behavior when passing 'none' value, e.g.
--salt-states none
- Updated default config to use Salt 3003.3
- mcafee-agent-formula
- (Linux) Refactored to allow install over an existing installation
Commit Delta: Change from 0.23.1 release
Released: 2021.08.11
Summary:
- Patched Salt worker to be case-sensitive when processsing Salt states
- Refactored Salt states handling between CLI and config.yaml
- Standalone packages are now based on EL7 and are no longer compatible with EL6 (EL6 hasn't been supported for a while now)
Commit Delta: Change from 0.23.0 release
Released: 2021.07.15
Summary:
- ash-linux-formula
- Supports managing FIPS when / and /boot are on the same partition
- Allows
oscap remediate
to exit non-zero on valid errors
- Supports parsing extra_arguments when passed using
=
as the separator- E.g.
--user-formulas='{"foo-formula": "https://url-to/foo-formula.zip"}'
- E.g.
Commit Delta: Change from 0.22.2 release
Released: 2021.07.08
Summary:
- Adds capability to run extra states after highstate
- E.g. from cli,
--salt-states highstate,foo,bar
- E.g. in config file,
salt_states: highstate,foo,bar
- E.g. from cli,
- Adds capability to pass complex worker arguments on the cli as JSON or YAML
- E.g.
--user-formulas '{"foo-formula": "https://url-to/foo-formula.zip"}'
- E.g.
Commit Delta: Change from 0.22.1 release
Released: 2021.06.17
Summary:
- ash-linux-formula
- Patches RHEL-07-040810 to apply to only iptables-services RPM and not core-package iptables RPM
Commit Delta: Change from 0.22.0 release
Released: 2021.05.11
Summary:
- ash-linux-formula/nessus-agent-formula
- Patches maxdepth parameter to use integer type to support Jinja rendering in Salt 3003
Commit Delta: Change from 0.21.9 release
Released: 2021.05.07
Summary:
- Updates default config.yaml to use Salt 3003
- ash-linux-formula
- Adds ability to selectively skip extra EL7 STIG handlers
- nessus-agent-formula
- (Linux) Updates nessus-agent to call install and configure states
Commit Delta: Change from 0.21.8 release
Released: 2021.04.26
Summary:
- Provides support for Salt 3003
- ash-linux-formula
- Updates syntax to support Salt 3003
- RHEL-07-040160 - Ensure no (competing) attempts to set TMOUT
- RHEL-07-040860 - Adds ability to handle lack of /etc/sysct.conf file
- nessus-agent-formula
- Separate agent install and configuration to support baked-in Nessus agent installations
- join-domain-formula
- (Windows) Add double-quotes to Members parameter in order for startup task state to work with Salt 3003
Commit Delta: Change from 0.21.7 release
Released: 2021.03.11
Summary:
- Updated CI configs to set the correct version for the Windows standalone package. Effectively, this version is the same as 0.21.7.
Commit Delta: Change from 0.21.6 release
Released: 2021.03.10
Summary:
- ash-linux-formula
- Coordinates
sshd
service restarts across all states that modify/etc/sshd_config
, so the service restarts only once. This avoids systemd failures when the service restarts too frequently. See ash-linux-formula PR #303.
- Coordinates
Commit Delta: Change from 0.21.5 release
Released: 2021.03.03
Summary:
- ash-linux-formula
- Adds patch to re-enable NOPASSWD sudo for users in /etc/sudoers.d/ after oscap remediation.
Commit Delta: Change from 0.21.4 release
Released: 2021.02.25
Summary:
- ash-linux-formula
- Replace
watch
withlisten
to restart thesshd
service a single time - Make state RHEL-07-040560 more resilient when the yum group info is missing
- Replace
- scap-formula
- Updates SCAP content from DISA (as of February 2021) and OpenSCAP (v0.1.54)
- Update watchmaker default
config.yaml
to use salt v2019.2.8 - Ability to browse Watchmaker Cloudarmor repo
Commit Delta: Change from 0.21.3 release
Released: 2020.12.04
Summary:
- nessus-agent-formula
- (Linux) Switch to using Salt service state to ensure Nessus agent service is running
Commit Delta: Change from 0.21.2 release
Released: 2020.10.26
Summary:
- watchmaker-salt-content
- (Linux) Updates scap-formula pillar to use alternative stig profile parameter for Red Hat
Commit Delta: Change from 0.21.1 release
Released: 2020.10.05
Summary:
- (Windows) Removes winrepo.genrepo usage in Salt worker since it's no longer required
Commit Delta: Change from 0.21.0 release
Released: 2020.08.20
Summary:
- splunkforwarder-formula
- (Linux) Patches splunkforwarder state to work with Splunk Universal Forwarder v7.3.6
Commit Delta: Change from 0.20.5 release
Released: 2020.08.12
Summary:
- Updates default watchmaker config.yaml to use salt 2019.2.5
Commit Delta: Change from 0.20.4 release
Released: 2020.07.16
Summary:
- splunkforwarder-formula
- (Linux) Patches splunkforwarder state to work with salt 2019.2.5
Commit Delta: Change from 0.20.3 release
Released: 2020.07.15
Summary:
- splunkforwarder-formula
- (Windows) Patches splunkforwarder state to work with salt 2019.2.5
Commit Delta: Change from 0.20.2 release
Released: 2020.07.07
Summary:
- join-domain-formula
- (Linux) Fixes issue with admin users not being able to sudo
Commit Delta: Change from 0.20.1 release
Released: 2020.07.01
Summary:
- scap-formula
- Updates SCAP content from DISA (as of June 2020) and OpenSCAP (v0.1.50)
Commit Delta: Change from 0.20.0 release
Released: 2020.05.19
Summary:
- ash-linux-formula
- Fixes issue with Postfix occasionally failing to start
Commit Delta: Change from 0.19.0 release
Released: 2020.05.06
Summary:
- Adds capability to install Python packages using Pip in Salt's Python interpreter
Commit Delta: Change from 0.18.2 release
Released: 2020.05.01
Summary:
- Updates Watchmaker file permissions and makes them more restrictive
- Adds new SaltWorker optional argument
--salt-content-path
that allows specifying glob pattern for salt files located within salt archive file
Commit Delta: Change from 0.18.1 release
Released: 2020.04.02
Summary:
- vault-auth-formula
- Rename state to vault-auth
- Add url keyword argument to read_secret execution module
Commit Delta: Change from 0.18.0 release
Released: 2020.03.23
Summary:
- Updates version constraint in default config to allow newer versions
Commit Delta: Change from 0.17.5 release
Released: 2020.03.23
Summary:
- Removes deprecated
emet-formula
anddotnet4-formula
submodules - Adds new
vault-auth-formula
submodule - ash-windows-formula
- Replaces usage of Apply_LGPO_Delta.exe with native python and salt functionality
- Addresses additional findings for domain-joined systems
- Removes deprecated baselines from Windows Server 2008 R2, 8.1, and IE 8, 9, and 10
Commit Delta: Change from 0.17.4 release
Released: 2020.03.13
Summary:
- join-domain-formula
- Allow use of password with Linux join domain capability
Commit Delta: Change from 0.17.3 release
Released: 2020.02.28
Summary:
- ash-linux-formula
- Updates custom STIGbyID baseline to address several scan findings.
- Add content for RHEL-07-040530/SV-86899
Commit Delta: Change from 0.17.2 release
Released: 2020.02.26
Summary:
- dotnet4-formula
- Fix compatibility with Windows Server 2019 by using 2019 hotfixes
- ash-linux-formula
- Improvements for STIGv2r6
- Fix collisions caused by cat2 IDs and DISA numbering change
- Use Salt Stack version 2019.2-2
Commit Delta: Change from 0.17.1 release
Released: 2020.02.25
Summary:
- Documents configuration vs cli argument handling and precedence
- Provides a table mapping common scan findings to an associated Finding ID
- Restores propagation of the
None
value on the cli to the workers - ash-linux-formula
- Ensures aide configuration complies with FIPS requirements
- ash-windows-formula
- Adds missing sls to restore support for Windows 10
- join-domain-formula
- Suppresses join-domain command in salt log output
- (Windows) Supports using salt-native pillar security for the
password
value
- nessus-agent-formula
- (Linux) Suppresses gpg verification so the pkg can be installed from a URL
Commit Delta: Change from 0.17.0 release
Released: 2020.01.28
Summary:
- Fixes release date in changelog for 0.17.0
- Removes salt worker special handling for
salt_states
since it is now handled properly in theArguments()
class - pshelp-formula
- Updates PowerShell help content, including Windows Server 2019
Commit Delta: Change from 0.16.7 release
Released: 2020.01.21
Summary:
- Add support for Windows Server 2019
- Use native markdown processing for PyPI long description
- Deprecate use of 'None' (string) in
config.yaml
- Add optional
watchmaker_version
node to configuration - Use Salt 2018.3.4 in default configuration
Commit Delta: Change from 0.16.6 release
Released: 2020.01.06
Summary:
- Pins
PyYAML
dependency when running on Python 3.4 or earlier
Commit Delta: Change from 0.16.5 release
Released: 2019.12.04
Summary:
- Uses CDN URLs for watchmaker config and content, instead of direct S3 URLs
- Pins
backoff
dependency when running on Python 3.4 or earlier
Commit Delta: Change from 0.16.4 release
Released: 2019.09.23
Summary:
- join-domain-formula
- Add support for restricting Active Directory sites that will be consulted if the
ad_site_name
key-value is set in the pillar
- Add support for restricting Active Directory sites that will be consulted if the
- ash-linux-formula
- Fix issue with log spamming by
systemd
related to file permissions
- Fix issue with log spamming by
- ash-windows-formula
- Update STIG baselines for 2019-07 SCAP content
- scap-formula
- Rename DISA content files to reflect SCAP version
- Update DISA SCAP content to July 2019 release
- salt-content
- Update SCAP pillar to match filename changes in SCAP formula
Commit Delta: Change from 0.16.3 release
Released: 2019.08.23
Summary:
- Updates documentation on pip usage in Linux to always use
python3 -m pip...
- dotnet4-formula
- Adds .NET Framework 4.8 version and associated KB to lookup tables
- fup-formula
- New salt formula to install packages via URL
- scap-formula
- (Windows) Adds configuration to allow scan results to be generated when using SCC v5.0.2 and higher
- watchmaker-salt-content
- (Windows) Adds .NET Framework 4.8 info to dotnet winrepo package content
Commit Delta: Change from 0.16.2 release
Released: 2019.08.7
Summary:
- join-domain-formula
- (Linux) Modifies method used to retrieve hostname to avoid issues with
hostname -f
- (Linux) Improves error messaging if tooling dependencies are not installed
- (Linux) Modifies domain controller search mechanism to preserve compatibility with EL6
- (Linux) Logs the computer name in the domain-join output
- (Linux) Modifies method used to retrieve hostname to avoid issues with
- mcafee-agent-formula
- (Linux) Adds a pillar option to pass args to the mcafee agent installer
- (Linux) Fixes match on OS version to ensure firewall ports are opened
- name-computer-formula
- (Linux) Updates /etc/hosts with hostname fqdn, when the domain name is provided
Commit Delta: Change from 0.16.1 release
Released: 2019.07.11
Summary:
- join-domain-formula
- Fixes detection of running system's join state, searches for shortname, and retries joins
- Improves compatibility with strict Bash
- Adds option to skip GPG check
- amazon-inspector-formula
- Adds option to skip GPG check
- splunkforwarder-formula
- Redirects splunk log folder with symlink
- Adds option to skip GPG check
Commit Delta: Change from 0.16.0 release
Released: 2019.06.21
Summary:
- join-domain-formula
- Updates find-collision.sh ldap search to include uppercase and lowercase versions of provided hostname
- scap-formula
- Adds script to build OSCAP content with 'stig' profile included for CentOS
- Updates OSCAP content to v0.1.44
- watchmaker-salt-content
- Switches Linux scap profile pillar settings to 'stig'
Commit Delta: Change from 0.15.2 release
Released: 2019.05.10
Summary:
- Adds salt content locally as a submodule to better support Watchmaker standalone packages
- dotnet4-formula
- Updates formula to support the use of Python3 versions of Salt
- join-domain-formula
- Adds additional enhancements and logic to better handle the domin-join process in Linux
Commit Delta: Change from 0.15.1 release
Released: 2019.04.12
Summary:
- ash-linux-formula
- Removes outdated and conflicting states to allow setting of custom banner text
- join-domain-formula
- Fixes issue with improper handling of admin names with spaces in Windows
Commit Delta: Change from 0.15.0 release
Released: 2019.04.05
Summary:
- join-domain-formula
- (Linux) Avoids
unique
jinja filter to preserve compatibility for older versions of salt
- (Linux) Avoids
Commit Delta: Change from 0.14.2 release
Released: 2019.04.04
Summary:
- Updates documentation to install pip using
ensurepip
module instead of externalget-pip.py
- ash-linux-formula
- Adds pillar option to set content for
/etc/issue
login banner
- Adds pillar option to set content for
- join-domain-formula
- (Linux) Adds pillar option to pass a list of domains to add to the trust list
Commit Delta: Change from 0.14.1 release
Released: 2019.03.26
Summary:
- join-domain-formula
- Corrects regression on Windows to support adding admin groups that have spaces in the name
Commit Delta: Change from 0.14.0 release
Released: 2019.03.18
Summary:
- Fixes Python 2.6 incompatibility introduced by new version of PyYAML
- join-domain-formula
- Fixes issue adding admin groups/users to Windows systems with recent versions of Salt
Commit Delta: Change from 0.13.0 release
Released: 2019.03.06
Summary:
- Adds additional documentation to answer common EL7 security scan findings
- ash-linux-formula
- Implements additional Salt states to address security scan issues
- Capability to manage GRUB password configuration
- IgnoreRhosts setting in SSH daemon configuration
- CIS remediation handlers ( CIS 5.2.3, CIS 5.2.5)
- Adds Salt state to update audit-rule changes without a system reboot
- Implements additional Salt states to address security scan issues
- scap-formula
- Updates SCAP Security Guide content to v0.1.41
Commit Delta: Change from 0.12.1 release
Released: 2019.01.29
Summary:
- amazon-inspector-formula
- New salt formula distributed with watchmaker
- Installs amazon-inspector agent
- Refactor watchmaker
- Change naming mechanism from LinuxManager to LinuxPlatformManager
- Change naming mechanism from WindowsManager to WindowsPlatformManager
- Change naming mechanism from Manager to PlatformManager
- Added abstract class WorkerBase for Workers to inherit from
- ash-linux-formula
- Change ipv6 check to use if_inet6 file
- Import correct source of fopen function
- Configure Postfix to only use ipv4 when ipv6 is disabled
Commit Delta: Change from 0.12.0 release
Released: 2018.12.17
Summary:
- ash-windows-formula
- Corrects yaml syntax error in win2016 DC baseline
Commit Delta: Change from 0.11.0 release
Released: 2018.12.13
Summary:
- Adds
valid_environments
option to config to allow for the restriction of environment selection
Commit Delta: Change from 0.10.3 release
Released: 2018.11.08
Summary:
- Adds enhancement to ensure
--admin-groups
parameters are lowercase on Linux systems - Adds additional information to the
--version
flag - Default values are now shown in help output
- scap-formula
- Incorporates content from latest DISA SCAP benchmarks
- Microsoft .Net Framework 4 STIG Benchmark - Ver 1, Rel 5
- Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 DC STIG Benchmark - Ver 1, Rel 5
- Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 MS STIG Benchmark - Ver 1, Rel 30
- Microsoft Windows Server 2016 STIG Benchmark - Ver 1, Rel 31
- Red Hat 6 STIG Benchmark - Ver 1, Rel 21
- Red Hat 7 STIG Benchmark - Ver 2, Rel 1
- Incorporates content from latest DISA SCAP benchmarks
Commit Delta: Change from 0.10.2 release
Released: 2018.10.18
Summary:
- ash-windows-formula
- Updates Formula to Support Salt 2017.7.x and 2018.3.x
- Removed admin account rename from delta state
Commit Delta: Change from 0.10.1 release
Released: 2018.09.27
Summary:
- Adds a gitlab-ci pages config to build Watchmaker docs
- Uses new hosting location to retrieve Salt packages
- Restricts click version on py2.6
- ash-windows-forumula
- New hosting location being used for all packages
- pshelp-formula
- Removed byte-order-mark unicode character at beginning of init.sls file
Commit Delta: Change from 0.10.0 release
Released: 2018.08.09
Summary:
- No functional changes; just patches the CI/release configuration
Commit Delta: Change from 0.9.6 release
Released: 2018.08.08
Summary:
- Provides standalone packages that bundle the Python runtime together with Watchmaker and its dependencies
- ash-linux-formula
- (el7) Ensures packages are up-to-date
- (el7) Ensures firewalld is installed and running
- splunk-forwarder-formula
- (linux) Uses a symlink to ensure logs are in the /var/log partition
- dotnet4-formula
- Adds support for .NET 4.7.2
- nessus-agent-formula
- New salt formula distributed with Watchmaker
Commit Delta: Change from 0.9.5 release
Released: 2018.05.16
Summary:
- windows-update-agent-formula
- Supports new windows update settings,
AlwaysAutoRebootAtScheduledTime
andAlwaysAutoRebootAtScheduledTimeMinutes
- Supports new windows update settings,
- scap-formula
- Incorporates content from OpenSCAP Security Guide v0.1.39-1
Commit Delta: Change from 0.9.4 release
Released: 2018.04.11
Summary:
- [PR #574] Updates Windows userdata example to execute pip using
python -m
when upgrading pip - windows-update-agent-formula
- Uses newer arguments for reg state,
vname
andvdata
- Reduces duplication in windows update data model
- Nests the windows update pillar options under the standard
lookup
key
- Uses newer arguments for reg state,
Commit Delta: Change from 0.9.3 release
Released: 2018.04.09
Summary:
- ash-windows-formula
- Updates STIG baselines to address all findings in latest SCAP benchmarks
Commit Delta: Change from 0.9.2 release
Released: 2018.03.08
Summary:
- scap-formula
- Incorporates content from OpenSCAP Security Guide v0.1.38-1
- Incorporates content from latest DISA SCAP benchmarks
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 STIG Benchmark - Ver 1, Rel 11
- Microsoft Windows 10 STIG Benchmark - Ver 1, Rel 10
- Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 DC STIG Benchmark - Ver 1, Rel 27
- Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 MS STIG Benchmark - Ver 1, Rel 28
- Microsoft Windows 2012 and 2012 R2 DC STIG Benchmark - Ver 2, Rel 11
- Microsoft Windows 2012 and 2012 R2 MS STIG Benchmark - Ver 2, Rel 11
- Microsoft Windows 8/8.1 STIG Benchmark - Ver 1, Rel 21
- Microsoft Windows Server 2016 STIG Benchmark - Ver 1, Rel 4
- Red Hat 6 STIG Benchmark - Ver 1, Rel 18
- Red Hat 7 STIG Benchmark - Ver 1, Rel 2
- dotnet4-formula
- Skips dotnet4 hotfix install if a newer version is already installed
- Creates per-OS maps for hotfix updates, since the hotfix id varies per OS
Commit Delta: Change from 0.9.1 release
Released: 2018.02.20
Summary:
- dotnet4-formula
- Passes version correctly to module.run
Commit Delta: Change from 0.9.0 release
Released: 2018.02.17
Summary:
- This version was effectively a no-op, as the submodule was not updated as intended
dotnet4-formulaPasses version correctly to module.run
Commit Delta: Change from 0.8.0 release
Released: 2018.02.12
Summary:
- [Issue #499][PR #513] Includes additional details about the platform and python version in the watchmaker log
- [Issue #500][PR #512] Retries file retrieval up to 5 times
- [Issue #501][PR #507] Uses urllib handlers to retrieve all
files
- Deprecates the argument
--s3-source
; to retrieve a file from an S3 bucket use the syntax:s3://<bucket>/<key>
- Local files may be specified as absolute or relative paths, and may or
may not be prefixed with
file://
- Deprecates the argument
- [PR #496] Moves CloudFormation and Terraform templates to their own project, terraform-aws-watchmaker
- [PR #491] Improves compatibility of the watchmaker bootstrap.ps1 script when executed by an Azure custom script extension
- [Issue #430][PR #487] Writes watchmaker salt config to a
custom path:
- Windows:
C:\Watchmaker\Salt\conf
- Linux:
/opt/watchmaker/salt
- Windows:
- scap-formula
- Incorporates content from OpenSCAP Security Guide v0.1.37-1
Commit Delta: Change from 0.7.2 release
Released: 2018.01.02
Summary:
- [Issue #415][PR #458] Forwards watchmaker log entries from the Windows Event Log to the EC2 System Log (Windows-only)
- [PR #425] Adds a log handler that writes watchmaker log entries to the Windows Event Log (Windows-only)
- [Issue #434][PR #457] Updates doc build to replace
recommonmark
functionality entirely withm2r
- [PR #437] Modfies CloudFormation templates to use aws cli utility to retrieve the appscript rather than use the functionality built-in to the cfn bootstrap
- [PR #467] Sets environment variables for aws cli when executing the appscript option in the watchmaker CloudFormation templates
Commit Delta: Change from 0.7.1 release
Released: 2017.12.13
Summary:
- Installs
futures
only on Python 2 -- no functional changes
Commit Delta: Change from 0.7.0 release
Released: 2017.12.04
Summary:
- Fixes readthedocs build -- no functional changes
Commit Delta: Change from 0.6.6 release
Released: 2017.11.21
Summary:
- [PR #409] Provides terraform modules that deploy the watchmaker CloudFormation templates
- [Issue #418][PR #419] Adds an
exclude-states
argument to the SaltWorker; specified states will be excluded from the salt state execution - ash-windows-formula
- Incorporates security settings from the DISA October quarterly release
- join-domain-formula
- (Windows) Adds WMI method to set DNS search suffix
- (Windows) Tests for the EC2Config XML settings file before modifying it
- scap-formula
- (Linux) Distributes scap content from SCAP Security Guide v0.1.36-1
- Distributes scap content from the DISA October quarterly release
- splunkforwarder-formula
- Supports configuration of splunk log sources from pillar and grains inputs
Commit Delta: Change from 0.6.5 release
Released: 2017.10.18
Summary:
- ash-linux-formula
- (el7) Fixes typos in the firewalld "safety" scripts that resulted in a failure when firewalld was reloaded
- mcafee-agent-formula
- (el7) Adds required inbound ports to all firewalld zones, to support the event where the default zone is modified from "public"
- splunkforwarder-formula
- (el7) Adds required outbound ports to the OUTPUT chain; previously, they were mistakenly being added as inbound rules
Commit Delta: Change from 0.6.4 release
Released: 2017.09.29
Summary:
- [PR #391] Updates CloudFormation templates with a parameter that exposes the option to use the S3 API and the instance role to retrieve the Watchmaker content archive
- ash-linux-formula
- (el7) Updates firewalld "safety" state so that firewalld remains in the active state; the prior approach left firewalld dead/inactive, until the service was restarted or the system was rebooted
Commit Delta: Change from 0.6.3 release
Released: 2017.09.22
Summary:
- [PR #381] Restricts
wheel
version on Python 2.6 to be less than or equal to 0.29.0, aswheel
0.30.0 removed support for py26.
Commit Delta: Change from 0.6.2 release
Released: 2017.08.11
Summary:
- ash-linux-formula
- (el7) Includes a "safety" state for firewalld that ensures SSH inbound access will remain available, in the event the default zone is set to "drop"
Commit Delta: Change from 0.6.1 release
Released: 2017.08.07
Summary:
- ash-linux-formula
- (el6) Improve the method of disabling the sysctl option
ip_forward
, to account for the behavior of theaws-vpc-nat
rpm
- (el6) Improve the method of disabling the sysctl option
- scap-formula
- (elX) Updates openscap security guide content to version 0.1.34-1
Commit Delta: Change from 0.6.0 release
Released: 2017.08.01
Summary:
- ash-linux-formula
- Modified the FIPS custom execution module to discover the boot
partition and add the
boot=
line to the grub configuration
- Modified the FIPS custom execution module to discover the boot
partition and add the
Commit Delta: Change from 0.5.1 release
Released: 2017.07.25
Summary:
- ash-linux-formula
- Updates the EL7 stig baseline to manage the FIPS state. The state
defaults to
enabled
but can be overridden via a pillar or grain,ash-linux:lookup:fips-state
. The grain takes precedence over the pillar. Valid values areenabled
ordisabled
- Updates the EL7 stig baseline to manage the FIPS state. The state
defaults to
- ash-windows-formula
- Updates the STIG baselines for Windows Server 2016 member servers and domain controllers with SCAP content from the DISA v1r1 SCAP benchmark release
- join-domain-formula
- Fixes an issue when joining Windows 2016 servers to a domain, where the
Set-DnsSearchSuffix.ps1 helper would fail because the builtin
PowerShell version does not work when
$null
is used in a ValidateSet. The equivalent value must now be passed as the string,"null"
- Fixes an issue when joining Windows 2016 servers to a domain, where the
Set-DnsSearchSuffix.ps1 helper would fail because the builtin
PowerShell version does not work when
- scap-formula
- Adds SCAP content for the Window Server 2016 SCAP v1r1 Benchmark
Commit Delta: Change from 0.5.0 release
Released: 2017.07.08
Summary:
- [Issue #341][PR #342] Manages selinux around salt state execution. In some non-interactive execution scenarios, if selinux is enforcing it can interfere with the execution of privileged commands (that otherwise work fine when executed interactively). Watchmaker now detects if selinux is enforcing and temporarily sets it to permissive for the duration of the salt state execution
Commit Delta: Change from 0.4.4 release
Released: 2017.06.27
Summary:
- [Issue #331][PR #332] Writes the
role
grain to the key expected by the ash-windows formula. Fixes usage of the--ash-role
option in the salt worker - [Issue #329][PR #330] Outputs watchmaker version at the debug log level
- [Issue #322][PR #323][PR #324] Fixes py2/py3 compatibility bug in how the yum worker handles file opening to check the Linux distro
- [Issue #316][PR #320] Improves logging when salt state execution fails due to failed a state. The salt output is now returned to the salt worker, which processes the output, identifies the failed state, and raises an exception with the state failure
- join-domain-formula
- (Linux) Reworks the pbis config states to make the logged output more readable
Commit Delta: Change from 0.4.3 release
Released: 2017.05.30
Summary:
- join-domain-formula
- (Linux) Ignores a bad exit code from pbis config utility. The utility will return exit code 5 when modifying the NssEnumerationEnabled setting, but still sets the requested value. This exit code is now ignored
Commit Delta: Change from 0.4.2 release
Released: 2017.05.25
Summary:
- name-computer-formula
- (Linux) Uses an alternate method of working around a bad code-path in salt that does not handle quoted values in /etc/sysconfig/network.
Commit Delta: Change from 0.4.1 release
Released: 2017.05.19
Summary:
- [PR #301] Sets the grains for admin_groups and admin_users so the keys are named as expected by the join-domain formula
- ash-linux-formula
- Adds a custom module that lists users from the shadow file
- Gets local users from the shadow file rather than
user.list_users
. Prevents a domain-joined system from attempting to iterate over all domain users (and potentially deadlocking on especially large domains)
- join-domain-formula
- Modifies PBIS install method to use RPMs directly, rather than the SHAR installer
- Updates approaches to checking for collisions and current join status to better handle various scenarios: not joined, no collision; not joined, collision; joined, computer object present; joined, computer object missing
- Disables NSS enumeration to prevent PBIS from querying user info from the domain for every call to getent (or equivalents); domain-based user authentication still works fine
- name-computer-formula
- (Linux) Does not attempt to retain network settings, to avoid a bug in salt; will be revisited when a patched salt version has been released
Commit Delta: Change from 0.4.0 release
Released: 2017.05.09
Summary:
- (EL7) Running watchmaker against EL7 systems will now pin the resulting
configuration to the watchmaker version. See the updates to the two
formulas in this version. Previously, ash-linux always used the content
from the
scap-security-guide
rpm, which was updated out-of-sync with watchmaker, and so the resulting configuration could not be pinned by pinning the watchmaker version. With this version, ash-linux uses content distributed by watchmaker, via scap-formula, and so the resulting configuration will always be same on EL7 for a given version of watchmaker (as has always been the case for the other supported operating systems). - ash-linux-formula
- Supports getting scap content locations from pillar
- scap-formula
- Updates stig content with latest benchmark versions
- Adds openscap ds.xml content, used to support remediate actions
Commit Delta: Change from 0.3.1 release
Released: 2017.05.06
Summary:
- [PR #286 ] Sets the computername grain with the correct key expected by the formula
- [PR #284 ] Converts cli argument parsing from
argparse
toclick
. This modifies thewatchmaker
depedencies, which warranted a 0.x.0 version bump. Cli and API arguments remain the same, so the change should be backwards-compatible. - name-computer-formula
- Adds support for getting the computername from pillar
- Adds support for validating the specified computername against a pattern
- pshelp-formula
- Attempts to address occasional stack overflow exception when updating powershell help
Commit Delta: Change from 0.3.0 release
Released: 2017.05.01
Summary:
- [PR #280] Modifies the dynamic import of boto3 to use only absolute imports, as the previous approach (attempt absolute and relative import) was deprecated in Python 3.3
- ntp-client-windows-formula:
- Stops using deprecated arguments on reg.present states, which cleans up extraneous log messages in watchmaker runs under some configurations
- join-domain-formula:
- (Windows) Sets the DNS search suffix when joining the domain, including
a new pillar config option,
ec2config
to enable/disable the EC2Config option that also modifies the DNS suffix list.
- (Windows) Sets the DNS search suffix when joining the domain, including
a new pillar config option,
Commit Delta: Change from 0.2.4 release
Released: 2017.04.24
Summary:
- [Issue #270] Defaults to a platform-specific log directory when
call from the CLI:
- Windows:
${Env:SystemDrive}\Watchmaker\Logs
- Linux:
/var/log/watchmaker
- Windows:
- [PR #271] Modifies CLI arguments to use explicit log-levels rather
than a verbosity count. Arguments have been adjusted to better accommodate
the semantics of this approach:
- Uses
-l|--log-level
instead of-v|--verbose
-v
and-V
are now both used for--version
-d
is now used for--log-dir
- Uses
Commit Delta: Change from 0.2.3 release
Released: 2017.04.20
Summary:
- Fixes a bad version string
Commit Delta: Change from 0.2.2 release
Released: 2017.04.20
Summary:
- [Issue #262] Merges lists in pillar files, rather than overwriting them
- [Issue #261] Manages the enabled/disabled state of the salt-minion service, before and after the install
- splunkforwarder-formula
- (Windows) Ignores false bad exits from Splunk clone-prep-clear-config
Commit Delta: Change from 0.2.1 release
Released: 2017.04.15
Summary:
- [PR #251] Adds CloudFormation templates that integrate Watchmaker with an EC2 instance or Autoscale Group
- join-domain-formula
- (Linux) Corrects tests that determine whether the instance is already joined to the domain
Commit Delta: Change from 0.2.0 release
Released: 2017.04.10
Summary:
- ash-linux-formula
- Reduces spurious stderr output
- Removes notify script flagged by McAfee scans
- splunkforwarder-formula
- (Windows) Clears system name entries from local Splunk config files
Commit Delta: Change from 0.1.7 release
Released: 2017.04.06
Summary:
- [Issue #238] Captures all unhandled exceptions and logs them
- [Issue #234] Stops the salt service prior to managing salt formulas, to ensure that the filesystem does not throw any errors about the files being locked
- [Issue #72] Manages salt service so the service state after watchmaker completes is the same as it was prior to running watchmaker. If the service was running beforehand, it remains running afterwards. If the service was stopped (or non-existent) beforehad, the service remains stopped afterwards
- [Issue #163] Modifies the
user_formulas
config option to support a map of<formula_name>:<formula_url>
- [PR #235] Extracts salt content to the same target
srv
location for both Window and Linux. Previously, the salt content was extracted to different points in the filesystem hierarchy, which required different content for Windows and Linux. Now the same salt content archive can be used for both - [PR #242] Renames salt worker param
content_source
tosalt_content
- systemprep-formula
- Deprecated and removed. Replaced by new salt content structure that uses native salt capabilities to map states to a system
- scc-formula
- Deprecated and removed. Replaced by scap-formula
- scap-formula
- New bundled salt formula. Provides SCAP scans using either
openscap
orscc
- New bundled salt formula. Provides SCAP scans using either
- pshelp-formula
- New bundled salt formula. Installs updated PowerShell help content to Windows systems
Commit Delta: Change from 0.1.6 release
Released: 2017.03.23
Summary:
- Uses threads to stream stdout and stderr to the watchmaker log when executing a command via subproces
- [Issue #226] Minimizes salt output of successful states, to make it easier to identify failed states
- join-domain-formula
- (Linux) Exits with stateful failure on a bad decryption error
- mcafee-agent-formula
- (Linux) Avoids attempting to diff a binary file
- (Linux) Installs
ed
as a dependency of the McAfee VSEL agent
- scc-formula
- Retries scan up to 5 times if scc exits with an error
Commit Delta: Change from 0.1.5 release
Released: 2017.03.16
Summary:
- ash-linux-formula
- Provides same baseline states for both EL6 and EL7
Commit Delta: Change from 0.1.4 release
Released: 2017.03.15
Summary:
- ash-linux-formula
- Adds policies to disable insecure Ciphers and MACs in sshd_config
- ash-windows-formula
- Adds
scm
andstig
baselines for Windows 10 - Adds
scm
baseline for Windows Server 2016 (Alpha) - Updates all
scm
andstig
baselines with latest content
- Adds
- mcafee-agent-formula
- Uses firewalld on EL7 rather than iptables
- scc-formula
- Skips verification of GPG key when install SCC RPM
- splunkforwarder-formula
- Uses firewalld on EL7 rather than iptables
Commit Delta: Change from 0.1.3 release
Released: 2017.03.09
Summary:
- [Issue #180] Fixes bug where file_roots did not contain formula paths
Commit Delta: Change from 0.1.2 release
Released: 2017.03.08
Summary:
- [Issue #164] Aligns cli syntax for extra_arguments with other cli opts
- [Issue #165] Removes ash_role from default config file
- [Issue #173] Fixes exception when re-running watchmaker
Commit Delta: Change from 0.1.1 release
Released: 2017.03.07
Summary:
- Adds a FAQ page to the docs
- Moves salt formulas to the correct location on the local filesystem
- join-domain-formula:
- (Linux) Modifies decryption routine for FIPS compliance
- ash-linux-formula:
- Removes several error exits in favor of warnings
- (EL7-alpha) Various patches to improve support for EL7
- dotnet4-formula:
- Adds support for .NET 4.6.2
- Adds support for Windows Server 2016
- emet-formula:
- Adds support for EMET 5.52
Commit Delta: Change from 0.1.0 release
Released: 2017.02.28
Summary:
- Adds more logging messages when downloading files
Commit Delta: N/A
Released: 2017.02.22
Summary:
- Initial release!