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pgdsat version 2.0 has been released

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    HexaCluster via PostgreSQL Announce<announce-noreply@postgresql.org>
    Mar 1, 2026, 2:24 PM UTC
    Bangkok, Thailand - March 1st, 2026
    ## pgdsat - PostgreSQL Database Security Assessment Tool
    pgdsat is a security assessment tool that checks around 90 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.
    Release 2.0 adds last changes from CIS Benchmark for PostgreSQL 17 with 13 more security checks and fixes some issues.
    For the complete list of changes, please checkout the release note
    on 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
    * Download: https://github.com/hexacluster/pgdsat/releases
    * Development: 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.
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