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SkillSpector v2.5.0

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SkillSpector v2.5.0

Released: 2026-07-24

Summary

SkillSpector 2.5.0 adds canonical inspection-ledger reporting so every scan can show what was inspected, skipped, failed, or excluded. JSON-consuming security automation can now distinguish normal policy findings from scans that did not execute reliably.

Highlights

  • JSON and SARIF reports now include execution-completeness information, analyzer status, and safe explanations for skipped or failed work.
  • JSON consumers can block incomplete or failed scans instead of treating a zero-finding report as a successful validation.

Added

  • Canonical inspection-ledger accounting across static and LLM analysis stages, including per-component coverage and explicit out-of-scope records.
  • Execution-completeness fields in JSON and SARIF output so automation can distinguish a complete scan from a partial or failed one.
  • The top-level execution_successful status and analysis_completeness.ledger_exceptions diagnostics in JSON output.

Changed

  • Recursive scans now return a failure when any child scan fails, and include the child status in the combined report.
  • The CLI exits with code 2 for a fatal execution or accounting failure, even when a JSON report was produced.
  • Baseline fingerprints use the version 2 format, binding accepted findings to the scanner version, source content, and full finding evidence.

Fixed

  • Tightened static-analysis filtering so documentation or code-example context cannot broadly suppress credential-access findings.
  • Improved binary and large-file handling during analysis.
  • CI validators can report the public completeness exceptions that explain a blocked execution failure.

Security

  • Version 1 baselines containing fingerprints are rejected instead of allowing stale or insufficiently specific suppressions. Regenerate and review a version 2 baseline after upgrading.
  • Hardened analyzer and build-context processing against unsafe input handling while preserving auditable suppression records in SARIF output.

Breaking Changes and Migration

  • Baseline files with version 1 fingerprints are no longer accepted. Run skillspector baseline <path>, review the generated version 2 entries, and commit the replacement baseline; rules-only version 1 baselines remain supported with a warning.
  • JSON integrations must treat invalid or missing output, a nonzero process failure, or execution_successful: false as a blocking validation error and surface analysis_completeness.ledger_exceptions for diagnosis. Continue to use HIGH or CRITICAL findings for ordinary security-policy failures.

Deprecations

  • None.

Validation

  • Required CI jobs: lint, test-unit, test-integration, docker-smoke, and sonar-scan — passed.

Known Limitations

  • None.

References

  • CHANGELOG.md
  • docs/SUPPRESSION.md

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