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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Fira Mono',monospace;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Major new features of Rudder 6.0 will include:</span></p>
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<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Arial;color:#434343;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Fira Mono',monospace;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Security:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Fira Mono',monospace;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> consistent node certificates, reporting through https among other changes</span></h3></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Fira Mono',monospace;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.56;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Fira Mono',monospace;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Technique editor:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Fira Mono',monospace;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> Completely revamped technique editor UX and added the ability to attach files (like configuration file templates) to techniques, inventory variable available </span></h3></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Fira Mono',monospace;color:#434343;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Fira Mono',monospace;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Polishing the web interface: </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Fira Mono',monospace;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Notifications, new Node details, description displayed as markdown, improved tables (technical logs), server side table pagination (event logs, for now)</span></h3></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Fira Mono',monospace;color:#434343;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Fira Mono',monospace;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Other UX improvements:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Fira Mono',monospace;color:#434343;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> rework Rudder server packaging server to have fewer package, ‘rudder package’ command for plugins, trigger agent run directly in UI, ...</span></h3></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Fira Mono',monospace;color:#434343;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Fira Mono',monospace;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Internals:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Fira Mono',monospace;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> New internal component (relayd), rewrote backend with a new framework (ZIO), Download initial policies from Rudder server</span></h3></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Fira Mono',monospace;color:#434343;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Fira Mono',monospace;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Plugins:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Fira Mono',monospace;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> New security oriented plugins (available on-demand until stable release):</span></h3></li>
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<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Fira Mono',monospace;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Vulnerability (CVE) Management: </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Fira Mono',monospace;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Allow to check and list vulnerabilities against CVEs</span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Fira Mono',monospace;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">CIS rules package: </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Fira Mono',monospace;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> Security rules and audit based on CIS recommandations</span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Fira Mono',monospace;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">OpenSCAP: </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Fira Mono',monospace;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Run OpenSCAP and gather result in Rudder UI</span></p></li>
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