Changelog

1.49.0 — 2026-03-31

Removed

Pre-receive hook on GitHub Enterprise Server v3.9 to v3.13 is no longer supported. v3.13 is EOL since 2025-06-19 and previous versions were discontinued earlier.

Added

Add @file support to secret scan path to load scan paths from a file.
Add ggshield secret scan ai-hook command to scan AI coding tool hook payloads for secrets in real time.
Add new types claude-code|cursor|copilot to the ggshield install command to install hooks into AI coding tool configurations.
Pre-receive hook can now be set up on GitHub Enterprise Server from v3.14 to higher.
api-status: display the scopes of the current authentication token.

Fixed

secret scan ci: fetch the target branch before computing the MR/PR commit range. In CI environments with cached repos or shallow clones, a stale target branch ref could cause ggshield to scan unrelated commits, leading to excessive API calls and secrets reported in files not modified by the MR.
hmsl vault-scan: fixed a hang when the HashiCorp Vault server is unresponsive; requests now time out after 30 seconds and network errors are reported with a clear message.
Fixed a path traversal security issue in tar archives used for git-based scans; member names with absolute paths or .. components are now sanitized.
Fixed an issue where an invalid option for a secret scan subcommand could be silently treated as a request to run the default command, producing a confusing error instead of the expected usage error.

1.48.0 — 2026-02-17

Added

Add enterprise plugin system for ggshield, allowing organizations to install and manage plugins from GitGuardian.
hmsl: Secrets shorter than 6 characters are now filtered out before being sent to the HMSL API, reducing false positives from obvious non-secrets.

Changed

hmsl: Expand the list of excluded placeholder values (e.g., changeme, placeholder, redacted) that are not sent to the HMSL API.
Relax urllib3 dependency pin from ~=2.2.2 to >=2.2.2,<3, allowing compatibility with newer urllib3 versions (#1160).

Fixed

Prevent docker scan stdout from leaking into JSON output.

1.47.0 — 2026-01-27

Added

Display a warning if .cache_ggshield is not ignored in a git repository.

1.46.0 — 2025-12-29

Added

A HTTPAdapter with wider parameters has been setup to better address scanning multiple files at the same time.
Add GITGUARDIAN_GIT_REMOTE_FALLBACK_URL environment variable that allows setting a fallback value for the repository remote.
Tokens are obfuscated in ggshield config list output.

Changed

Clearer error message when token is missing: specify the command to run to generate a token (ggshield auth login).

Fixed

Install ggshield hooks inside .husky/ when the repository uses Husky-managed hooks so local installs work out of the box. (#1143).

1.45.0 — 2025-11-14

Fixed

ggshield no longer crashes when scanning invalid symlinks, it emits a warning instead.
Handle unmerged files in pre-commit scanning during an ongoing merge.
Fixed crash when ggshield received missing tags.

1.44.1 — 2025-10-28

Changed

Fixed Python version for PDM install in the build release workflow.

1.44.0 — 2025-10-27

Added

Added --insecure CLI option and insecure configuration setting as clearer alternatives to --allow-self-signed and allow_self_signed. The new option explicitly communicates that SSL verification is completely disabled, making the connection vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.
Added prominent warning messages when SSL verification is disabled (via either --insecure or --allow-self-signed), explaining the security risks and recommending the secure alternative of using the system certificate trust store (available with Python >= 3.10).

Changed

Removed Clear Linux from the OS package testing workflow as the project has been discontinued.

Deprecated

The --allow-self-signed CLI option and allow_self_signed configuration setting are now deprecated in favor of --insecure and insecure. Deprecation warnings are displayed when these options are used, guiding users to the clearer alternative. Both options remain functional for backward compatibility and will be maintained for an extended deprecation period before removal.

Fixed

Fixed crash when API returns scopes not yet recognized by py-gitguardian.
Skip non-seekable files instead of crashing.

Security

Improved clarity around SSL verification settings. The --allow-self-signed option name was misleading as it suggests certificate validation is still performed, when in reality all SSL verification is disabled. The new --insecure option makes this behavior explicit. Both options remain functional for backward compatibility.

1.43.0 — 2025-08-27

Fixed

Fixed PyInstaller deprecation warning when running PyInstaller-based ggshield.
Scanning git repositories can no longer fail with git "dubious ownership" errors.
Extended the range of API error status codes supported by ggshield so the UI correctly displays them.

1.42.0 — 2025-07-29

Added

Added an additional section in ggshield outputs to return vault related fields if the account setting is enabled.
ggshield Docker image now supports both linux/amd64 and linux/arm64 architectures (#952).
ggshield secret scan docker now scans more files.

Changed

ggshield secret scan now provides an --source-uuid option. When this option is set, it will create the incidents on the GIM dashboard on the corresponding source. Note that the token should have the scope scan:create-incidents.

1.41.0 — 2025-06-24

Changed

When scanning a docker image, if no image is found matching the client platform, try to pull the linux/amd64 image.

1.40.0 — 2025-05-27

Added

The release assets now contain a NuGet package.
Added a new section in ggshield outputs (text and JSON) to notify if a secret is in one of the accounts' secrets managers.

Changed

ggshield secret scan docker now scans files in /usr/src/app.

Fixed

Fixed a bug in the way ggshield obfuscated secrets that caused a crash for short secrets (#1086).
ggshield no longer crashes when it can't find git.

1.39.0 — 2025-04-29

Added

ggshield is now available on Chocolatey (#934).
ggshield secret scan output now contains a link to the detector documentation for each secret found.

Fixed

Fixed error when scanning .tar.gz compressed files inside docker layers.

1.38.1 — 2025-04-02

Added

ggshield can now scan .jar files using ggshield secret scan archive.

1.38.0 — 2025-03-27

Removed

Removed support for python 3.8.

Added

ggshield now uses the system certificates instead of the bundled ones. Note that this only works with Python >= 3.10 (#1067).

Changed

Pre-receive hook isn't blocking anymore when GitGuardian server is temporarily unavailable (return 5xx status code).

Fixed

Files with emojis in their name are now handled properly.
Fix ggshield crashing on Windows when doing big merges (#1032).

1.37.0 — 2025-03-03

Fixed

ggshield secret scan docker now correctly handles ignored paths (#548).

1.36.0 — 2025-01-27

Removed

ggshield sca and ggshield iac commands have been removed.

Fixed

The --instance option now accepts both https://api.eu1.gitguardian.com/v1 or https://api.gitguardian.com/v1.
Fix ggshield secret scan pre-commit crashing on big merges (#1032).

1.35.0 — 2025-01-08

Added

ggshield secret scan now provides an --all-secrets option. When this option is set, it lists all found secrets and their possible ignore reason.

Changed

Files contained in the .git/ directory are now scanned. Files in subdirectories such as .git/hooks are still excluded.
When scanning commits, ggshield now ignores by default secrets that are removed or contextual to the patch.

Fixed

Handle trailing content in multi-parent hunk header.
Installing ggshield from the release RPM on EL9 failed because of a missing library. This is now fixed (#1036).
Fix Visual Studio not being able to show error messages from ggshield pre-commit (#170).

1.34.0 — 2024-11-27

Added

ggshield config list command now supports the --json option, allowing output in JSON format.
All secret scan commands as well as the api-status and quota commands now supports the --instance option to allow using a different instance.
The api-status command now prints where the API key and instance used come from.

Changed

ggshield api-status --json output now includes the instance URL.
ggshield secret scan repo now uses git clone --mirror to retrieve more git objects.
ggshield secret scan ci now scans all commits of a Pull Request in the following CI environments: Jenkins, Azure, Bitbucket and Drone.

Deprecated

ggshield now prints a warning message when it is being run executed by Python 3.8.

Fixed

When running ggshield secret scan ci in a GitLab CI, new commits from the target branch that are not on the feature branch will no longer be scanned.
Take into account the --allow-self-signed option at all levels in ggshield secret scan commands.
When ggshield secret scan is called with --with-incident-details and the token does not have the required scopes, the command now fails and an error message is printed.
ggshield no longer fails to report secrets for patches with content in hunk header lines.

1.33.0 — 2024-10-29

Changed

The --debug option now automatically turns on verbose mode.
The --use-gitignore option now also applies to single files passed as argument.
RPM packages now depend on git-core instead of git, reducing the number of dependencies to install (#983).

Fixed

When using the --debug option, the log output no longer overlaps with the progress bars.
The ggshield pre-commit hook no longer crashes when merging files with spaces in their names (#991).
RPM packages now work correctly on RHEL 8.8 (#984).

1.32.2 — 2024-10-16

Fixed

Fixed a regression introduced in ggshield 1.32.1, which made ggshield install -m global crash (#972).

1.32.1 — 2024-10-01

Fixed

Fixed a case where ggshield commit parser could fail because of the local git configuration.

1.32.0 — 2024-09-24

Added

When scanning a merge commit, ggshield secret scan pre-commit now skips files that merged without conflicts. This makes merging the default branch into a topic branch much faster. You can use the --scan-all-merge-files option to go back to the previous behavior.
ggshield secret scan commands now provide the --with-incident-details option to output more information about known incidents (JSON and SARIF outputs only).
It is now possible to ignore a secret manually using ggshield secret ignore SECRET_SHA --name NAME.

Fixed

The git commit parser has been reworked, fixing cases where commands scanning commits would fail.

1.31.0 — 2024-08-27

Added

We now provide tar.gz archives for macOS, in addition to pkg files.

Fixed

JSON output: fixed incorrect values for line and index when scanning a file and not a patch.

1.30.2 — 2024-08-05

Security

Fixed a bug where ggshield secret scan archive could be passed a maliciously crafted tar archive to overwrite user files.

1.30.1 — 2024-07-30

Added

ggshield secret scan commands can now output results in SARIF format, using the new --format sarif option (#869).
ggshield sca scan ci and ggshield sca scan all now support the MALICIOUS value for --minimum-severity

Changed

ggshield now has the ability to display custom remediation messages on pre-commit, pre-push and pre-receive. These messages are defined in the platform and fetched from the /metadata endpoint of the API. If no messages are set up on the platform, default remediation messages will be displayed as before.

1.30.0 — 2024-07-30

Yanked: release process issue.

1.29.0 — 2024-06-25

Removed

The --all option of the ggshield sca scan ci and ggshield iac scan ci commands has been removed.

Added

ggshield secret scan path now provides a --use-gitignore option to honor .gitignore and related files (#801).
A new secret scan command, ggshield secret scan changes, has been added to scan changes between the current state of a repository checkout and its default branch.
GGShield is now available as a standalone executable on Windows.

Changed

The behavior of the ggshield sca scan ci and ggshield iac scan ci commands have changed. These commands are now expected to run in merge-request CI pipelines only, and will compute the diff exactly associated with the merge request.

Deprecated

Running ggshield sca scan ci or ggshield iac scan ci outside of a merge request CI pipeline is now deprecated.

Fixed

GGShield now consumes less memory when scanning large repositories.
Errors thrown during ggshield auth login flow with an invalid instance URL are handled and the stack trace is no longer displayed on the console.
Patch symbols at the start of lines are now always displayed, even for single line secrets.
The ggshield auth login command now respects the --allow-self-signed flag.
GGShield now exits with a proper error message instead of crashing when it receives an HTTP response without Content-Type header.

1.28.0 — 2024-05-29

Added

The SCA config ignored_vulnerabilities option now supports taking a CVE ID as identifier.

1.27.0 — 2024-04-30

Removed

The This feature is still in beta, its behavior may change in future versions warning is no longer displayed for sca commands.

Added

It is now possible to customize the remediation message printed by GGShield pre-receive hook. This can be done by setting the message in the secret.prereceive_remediation_message configuration key. Thanks a lot to @Renizmy for this feature.
We now provide signed .pkg files for macOS.
Add a This feature is still in beta, its behavior may change in future versions warning to ggshield iac scan all command.

Changed

Linux .deb and .rpm packages now use the binaries produced by pyinstaller. They no longer depend on Python.

Deprecated

Dash-separated configuration keys are now deprecated, they should be replaced with underscore-separated keys. For example show-secrets should become show_secrets. GGShield still supports reading from dash-separate configuration keys, but it prints a warning when it finds one.

Fixed

GGShield commands working with commits no longer fail when parsing a commit without any author.
Configuration keys defined in the global configuration file are no longer ignored if a local configuration file exists.
The option --exclude PATTERN is no longer ignored by the command ggshield secret scan repo.

1.26.0 — 2024-03-27

Added

ggshield auth login learned to create tokens with extra scopes using the --scopes option. Using ggshield auth login --scopes honeytokens:write would create a token suitable for the ggshield honeytokens commands.

1.25.0 — 2024-02-27

Added

It is now possible to create a honeytoken with context using the new honeytoken create-with-context command.

Changed

SCA incidents ignored on the GitGuardian app will no longer show up in the scan results, in text/JSON format.

1.24.0 — 2024-01-30

Added

Adds two new flags for ggshield sca scan commands, --ignore-fixable and --ignore-not-fixable so that the user can filter the returned incidents depending on if incidents can be fixed or not. Both flags cannot be used simultaneously.

Changed

Number of documents in a chunk is now adapted to the server payload.
Moved some property from Scannable children classes up to Scannbable itself.

Fixed

IAC/SCA scans will scan new commits as intended for CI jobs on newly pushed branches.
IAC/SCA scans will scan new commits as intended for CI jobs on the first push to a new repository
In CI jobs, IAC/SCA scans on forced pushs no longer trigger an error but perform a scan on all commits instead.
Fixes ggshield sca scan commands not taking some user parameters into account.

1.23.0 — 2024-01-09

Added

GGShield output now adapts when the grace period of an IaC incident ignored by a developer has been expired.
GGShield now shows a warning message if it hits a rate-limit.

Changed

IaC incidents ignored on the GitGuardian app no longer show up in the scan results.

Fixed

IaC/SCA scans now properly find the parent commit SHA on GitLab push pipelines for new branches.
Error messages now appear above progress bars instead of overlapping them.

IaC

File content are now displayed as intended when executing ggshield iac scan all on a subdirectory of a Git repository.
Pre-push scans are now diff scans when pushing a new branch, comparing to the last commit of the parent branch.
Pre-push scans on empty repositories no longer include staged files.

1.22.0 — 2023-11-28

Added

Secret: GGShield now prints the name of what is being scanned when called with --verbose (#212).
You can now use the SKIP=ggshield environment variable without the pre-commit framework to skip pre-commit and pre-push scans.

Changed

GGShield can now scan huge commits without running out of memory.

Fixed

IaC and SCA: scans in GitLab merge request pipelines should now be performed on the intended commit ranges, instead of an empty range.

1.21.0 — 2023-11-09

Added

Support for new options in GitGuardian config file. IaC ignored-paths and ignored_policies can now be defined as objects with comment and until properties. If an until date is provided, the path/policy is only ignored up until this date. The old format is still supported. Check .gitguardian.example.yaml for a sample.

Changed

ggshield iac scan diff --json output was changed. added_vulns, persisting_vulns and removed_vulns were renamed as new, unchanged and deleted. They also were moved into a entities_with_incidents similarly to the scan all JSON output.

Sample IaC diff JSON output

```json
{
    "id": "fb0e9a92-de34-43f9-b779-17d25e99ab35",
    "iac_engine_version": "1.15.0",
    "type": "diff_scan",
    "entities_with_incidents": {
        "unchanged": [
            {
                "filename": "s3.tf",
                "incidents": [
                    {
                        "policy": "Allowing public exposure of a S3 bucket can lead to data leakage",
                        "policy_id": "GG_IAC_0055",
                        "line_end": 118,
                        "line_start": 96,
                        "description": "AWS S3 Block Public Access is a feature that allows setting up centralized controls\\nto manage public access to S3 resources.\\n\\nEnforcing the BlockPublicAcls, BlockPublicPolicy and IgnorePublicAcls rule on a bucket\\nallows to make sure that no ACL (Access control list) or policy giving public access\\ncan be associated with the bucket, and that existing ACL giving public access to\\nthe bucket will not be taken into account.",
                        "documentation_url": "<https://docs.gitguardian.com/iac-scanning/policies/GG_IAC_0055>",
                        "component": "aws_s3_bucket.operations",
                        "severity": "HIGH"
                    }
                ],
                "total_incidents": 1
            }
        ],
        "deleted": [
        {
            "filename": "s3.tf",
                "incidents": [
                    {
                        "policy": "Allowing public exposure of a S3 bucket can lead to data leakage",
                        "policy_id": "GG_IAC_0055",
                        "line_end": 118,
                        "line_start": 96,
                        "description": "AWS S3 Block Public Access is a feature that allows setting up centralized controls\\nto manage public access to S3 resources.\\n\\nEnforcing the BlockPublicAcls, BlockPublicPolicy and IgnorePublicAcls rule on a bucket\\nallows to make sure that no ACL (Access control list) or policy giving public access\\ncan be associated with the bucket, and that existing ACL giving public access to\\nthe bucket will not be taken into account.",
                        "documentation_url": "<https://docs.gitguardian.com/iac-scanning/policies/GG_IAC_0055>",
                        "component": "aws_s3_bucket.operations",
                        "severity": "HIGH",
                    }
                ],
                "total_incidents": 1
            }
        ],
        "new": [
        {
            "filename": "s3.tf",
                "incidents": [
                    {
                        "policy": "Allowing public exposure of a S3 bucket can lead to data leakage",
                        "policy_id": "GG_IAC_0055",
                        "line_end": 118,
                        "line_start": 96,
                        "description": "AWS S3 Block Public Access is a feature that allows setting up centralized controls\\nto manage public access to S3 resources.\\n\\nEnforcing the BlockPublicAcls, BlockPublicPolicy and IgnorePublicAcls rule on a bucket\\nallows to make sure that no ACL (Access control list) or policy giving public access\\ncan be associated with the bucket, and that existing ACL giving public access to\\nthe bucket will not be taken into account.",
                        "documentation_url": "<https://docs.gitguardian.com/iac-scanning/policies/GG_IAC_0055>",
                        "component": "aws_s3_bucket.operations",
                        "severity": "HIGH"
                    }
                ],
                "total_incidents": 1
            }
        ]
    }
}
```

Fixed

When a git command fails, its output is now always correctly logged.

1.20.0 — 2023-10-17

Changed

HMSL

Adapt message in case we find tons of matches
command hmsl check-secret-manager hashicorp-vault with a "key" naming strategy will display the variable's full path instead of the variable name
Support no location URL in HMSL response.
Change wording for HMSL output: do not mention occurrences as it can be misleading.

1.19.1 - 2023-09-26

Internal fixes to unblock release process

1.19.0 — 2023-09-26

Removed

ggshield now refuses to install on python < 3.8.

Added

HMSL

Added new ggshield hmsl check-secret-manager hashicorp-vault command to scan secrets of an HashiCorp Vault instance.

Changed

Help messages have been improved and are now kept in sync with ggshield online reference documentation.

Fixed

Fixed a typo in the command suggested to tell git a directory is safe.
The bug on Gitlab CI for IaC and SCA, failing because git does not access the target branch in a merge request is fixed. Now fetches the target branch in the CI env before collecting commit shas.
Fix IaC and SCA scan commands in Windows

1.18.1 — 2023-08-22

Fixed

Fixed a bug which caused IaC and SCA scans to fail on GitLab CI because GitLab does not run git fetch on the target branch for merge requests. ggshield now runs git fetch itself to avoid this problem.
Fixed a typo in the command suggested to tell git a directory is safe.

1.18.0 — 2023-08-16

Added

HMSL

ggshield gained a new group of commands: hmsl, short for "Has My Secret Leaked". These commands make it possible to securely check if secrets have been leaked in a public repository.

IaC

ggshield iac scan now provides three new commands for use as Git hooks:
- ggshield iac scan pre-commit
- ggshield iac scan pre-push
- ggshield iac scan pre-receive
They use the same arguments and options as the other ggshield iac scan commands.
The new ggshield iac scan ci command can be used to perform IaC scans in CI environments. It supports the same arguments as hook subcommands (in particular, --all to scan the whole repository). Supported CIs are:
- Azure
- Bitbucket
- CircleCI
- Drone
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Jenkins
- Travis

SCA

Introduces new commands to perform SCA scans with ggshield:
- ggshield sca scan all <DIRECTORY> : scans a directory or a repository to find all existing SCA vulnerabilities.
- ggshield sca scan diff <DIRECTORY> --ref <GIT_REF>: runs differential scan compared to a given git ref.
- ggshield sca scan pre-commit
- ggshield sca scan pre-push
- ggshield sca scan pre-receive
- ggshield sca scan ci: Evaluates if a CI event introduces new vulnerabilities, only available on Github and Gitlab for now.

Other

It is now possible to manipulate the default instance using ggshield config:
- ggshield config set instance <THE_INSTANCE_URL> defines the default instance.
- ggshield config unset instance removes the previously defined instance.
- The default instance can be printed with ggshield config get instance and ggshield config list.

Changed

ggshield now requires Python 3.8.
The IaC Github Action now runs the new ggshield iac scan ci command. This means the action only fails if the changes introduce a new vulnerability. To fail if any vulnerability is detected, use the ggshield iac scan ci --all command.

Removed

The following options have been removed from ggshield iac scan diff: --pre-commit, --pre-push and --pre-receive. You can replace them with the new ggshield iac scan pre-* commands.

Fixed

ggshield secret scan docker now runs as many scans in parallel as the other scan commands.
ggshield now provides an easier-to-understand error message for "quota limit reached" errors (#309).
ggshield iac scan diff --minimum-severity and --ignore-policy options are now correctly processed.
ggshield secret scan no longer tries to scan files longer than the maximum document size (#561).

Security

ggshield now depends on cryptography 41.0.3, fixing https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jm77-qphf-c4w8.

1.17.3 — 2023-07-27

Fixed

Pin PyYAML>=6.0.1 to fix building (see yaml/pyyaml#702)

1.17.2 — 2023-06-28

Fixed

Fixed ggshield not installing properly when installing with Brew on macOS.

1.17.1 — 2023-06-28

Added

New command: ggshield iac scan all. This command replaces the now-deprecated ggshield iac scan. It scans a directory for IaC vulnerabilities.
New command: ggshield iac scan diff. This command scans a Git repository and inspects changes in IaC vulnerabilities between two points in the history.
- All options from ggshield iac scan all are supported: --ignore-policy, --minimum-severity, --ignore-path etc. Execute ggshield iac scan diff -h for more details.
- Two new options allow to choose which state to select for the difference: --ref <GIT-REFERENCE> and --staged.
- The command can be integrated in Git hooks using the --pre-commit, --pre-push, --pre-receive options.
- The command output list vulnerabilities as unchanged, new and deleted.
Added a --log-file FILE option to redirect all logging output to a file. The option can also be set using the $GITGUARDIAN_LOG_FILE environment variable.

Changed

Improved secret scan path speed by updating charset-normalizer to 3.1.
Errors are no longer reported twice: first using human-friendly message and then using log output. Log output is now off by default, unless --debug or --log-file is set (#213).
The help messages for the honeytoken commands have been updated.
ggshield honeytoken create now displays an easier-to-understand error message when the user does not have the necessary permissions to create an honeytoken.
ggshield auth login now displays a warning message if the token expiration date has been adjusted to comply with the personal access token maximum lifetime setting of the user's workspace.

Deprecated

ggshield iac scan is now replaced by the new ggshield iac scan all, which supports the same options and arguments.

1.16.0 — 2023-05-30

Added

Add a new ggshield honeytoken create command to let you create honeytokens if enabled in your workspace. Learn more about honeytokens at https://www.gitguardian.com/honeytoken

Changed

ggshield secret scan commands can now use server-side configuration for the maximum document size and maximum document count per scan.

Fixed

Accurately enforce the timeout of the pre-receive secret scan command (#417)
Correctly compute the secret ignore sha in the json output.
GitLab WebUI Output Handler now behaves correctly when using the ignore-known-secrets flag, it also no longer displays empty messages in the UI.

1.15.1 — 2023-05-17

Changed

ggshield secret scan JSON output has been improved:
- It now includes an incident_url key for incidents. If a matching incident was found in the user's dashboard it contains the URL to the incident. Otherwise, it defaults to an empty string.
- The known_secret key is now always present and defaults to false if the incident is unknown to the dashboard.

Fixed

Fixed a regression introduced in 1.15.0 which caused the --ignore-known-secrets option to be ignored.

1.15.0 — 2023-04-25

Changed

ggshield secret scan output now includes a link to the incident if the secret is already known on the user's GitGuardian dashboard.
ggshield secret scan docker no longer rescans known-clean layers, speeding up subsequent scans. This cache is tied to GitGuardian secrets engine version, so all layers are rescanned when a new version of the secrets engine is deployed.

Fixed

Fixed an issue where the progress bar for ggshield secret scan commands would sometimes reach 100% too early and then stayed stuck until the end of the scan.

Removed

The deprecated commands ggshield scan and ggshield ignore have been removed. Use ggshield secret scan and ggshield secret ignore instead.

1.14.5 — 2023-03-29

Changed

ggshield iac scan can now be called without arguments. In this case it scans the current directory.
GGShield now displays an easier-to-understand error message when no API key has been set.

Fixed

Fixed GGShield not correctly reporting misspelled configuration keys if the key name contained - characters (#480).
When called without an image tag, ggshield secret scan docker now automatically uses the :latest tag instead of scanning all versions of the image (#468).
ggshield secret scan now properly stops with an error message when the GitGuardian API key is not set or invalid (#456).

1.14.4 — 2023-02-23

Fixed

GGShield Docker image can now be used to scan git repositories even if the repository is mounted outside of the /data directory.
GGShield commit hook now runs correctly when triggered from Visual Studio (#467).

1.14.3 — 2023-02-03

Fixed

ggshield secret scan pre-receive no longer scans deleted commits when a branch is force-pushed (#437).
If many GGShield users are behind the same IP address, the daily update check could cause GitHub to rate-limit the IP. If this happens, GGShield honors GitHub rate-limit headers and no longer checks for a new update until the rate-limit is lifted (#449).
GGShield once again prints a "No secrets have been found" message when a scan does not find any secret (#448).
Installing GGShield no longer creates a "tests" directory in "site-packages" (#383).
GGShield now shows a clear error message when it cannot use git in a repository because of dubious ownership issues.

Deprecated

The deprecation message when using ggshield scan instead of ggshield secret scan now states the ggshield scan commands are going to be removed in GGShield 1.15.0.

1.14.2 — 2022-12-15

Changed

It is now possible to use generic command-line options like --verbose anywhere on the command line and scan options anywhere after the scan word (#197).
ggshield iac scan now shows the severity of the detected vulnerabilities.

Fixed

If a file containing secrets has been committed in two different branches, then ggshield secret scan repo would show 4 secrets instead of 2. This has been fixed (#428).
ggshield now uses different error codes when a scan succeeds but finds problems and when a scan does not finish (#404).
ggshield now correctly handles the case where git is not installed (#329).

1.14.1 — 2022-11-16

Fixed

Fixed dependency on pygitguardian, which blocked the release on pypi.

1.14.0 — 2022-11-15

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ggshield scan commands now accept the --ignore-known-secrets option. This option is useful when working on an existing code-base while secrets are being remediated.
ggshield learned a new secret scan command: docset. This command can scan any content as long as it has been converted into our new docset file format.

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ggshield auth login --method=token can now read its token from the standard input.

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ggshield now prints clearer error messages if the .gitguardian.yaml file is invalid (#377).
When used with the pre-commit framework, ggshield would sometimes scan commits with many files more than once. This has been fixed.

1.13.6 — 2022-10-19

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ggshield auth login no longer fails when called with --lifetime.
pre-receive and pre-push hooks now correctly handle the case where a branch with no new commits is pushed.
ggshield no longer fails when scanning paths longer than 256 characters (#391).

1.13.5 — 2022-10-12

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Fix crash at startup if the home directory is not writable.

1.13.4 — 2022-10-12

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ggshield now checks for update once a day and notifies the user if a new version is available. This check can be disabled with the --no-check-for-updates command-line option (#299).

Changed

Scanning Git repositories is now faster.
ggshield secret scan path now shows a progress bar.
When used as a pre-push or pre-receive hook, ggshield no longer scans more commits than necessary when a new branch is pushed (#303, #369).

Fixed

ggshield no longer declares two separate instances if the instance URL is set with and without a trailing slash (#357).
Fixed a regression where ggshield would not load the .env from the current working directory.
ggshield no longer silently ignores network issues.

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