Grenoble, France - February 15th, 2025
## pgdsat - PostgreSQL Database Security Assessment Tool
pgdsat is a security assessment tool that checks around 80 PostgreSQL security
controls of your PostgreSQL clusters including all recommendations from the
CIS compliance benchmark but not only.
This PostgreSQL Security Assessment Tool allow assessments to be carried out
in an automated manner to verify the security policies established inside the
company. It also gives understanding of the security issued that your cluster
can be faced.
This release fixes several issues reported by users since last release and adds
a new feature:
* Add option `-r | --remove` to specify checks to remove from the report,
it can be used multiple time. The value must be the number of a check
or a regexp.
* Add requirement information for package perl-bignum and perl-Math-BigRat
on some RPM based distribution.
* Add support to Chinese (zh_CN) language.
For the complete list of changes, please checkout the release note
on
[https://github.com/hexacluster/pgdsat/blob/master/ChangeLog](https://github.com/hexacluster/pgdsat/blob/master/ChangeLog)
## Links & Credits
pgdsat is an open project. Any contribution to build a better
tool is welcome. You just have to send your ideas, features requests
or patches using the GitHub tools.
Thank to the developers who submitted patches and users who reported
bugs and feature requests, they are all cited in the ChangeLog file.
Links:
* Sample report:
[http://www.darold.net/sample_pgdsat/report.html](http://www.darold.net/sample_pgdsat/report.html)
* Download:
[https://github.com/hexacluster/pgdsat/releases](https://github.com/hexacluster/pgdsat/releases)
* Development:
[https://github.com/hexacluster/pgdsat](https://github.com/hexacluster/pgdsat)
* Changelog:
[https://github.com/hexacluster/pgdsat/blob/master/ChangeLog]([https://github.com/hexacluster/pgdsat/blob/master/ChangeLog)
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**About pgdsat**
The objective of pgdsat is to have an Open Source and free tool to help
PostgreSQL
users to enforce the security of their PostgreSQL clusters. Not all checks might
correspond to your security policies but pgdsat aims to be a reference on which
you can rely to check the compliance of security points with your policy.
Tool created at HexaCluster Corp and maintained by Gilles Darold.
pgdsat works on Linux platform and is available under the GPLv3 license.
