Release and Update History

Includes:

  • template releases
  • tools updates
  • documentation revisions

9.1 Template Release History

Template content updates are high level. Details can be found in the template guides.

0.0.1

Released January 22, 2020

  • first release based on v9.0
  • no release specific additions

9.0 Template Release History

Template content updates are high level. Details can be found in the template guides.

0.0.4

Released January 22, 2020

  • added grayware and cryptcurrency url categories
  • added missing User tag log settings
  • inclusion of validation skillets

0.0.3

Released c September, 2019

  • minor updates

0.0.2

Released July 30, 2019

  • Added password complexity and admin lockout elements
  • Dynamic updates for GlobalProtect
  • Opt-out default for the Palo Alto Networks EDL associated security rules
  • Removed the IPv4 and IPv6 Bogon EDLs and associated security rules
  • Updated the IPv4 sinkhole to use FQDN instead of an IP address
  • Clean up for the baseline configuration to remove IPSEC, IKE, QoS defaults
  • Clean up for URL Black-List and White-List category usage in profiles

0.0.1

Released March 15, 2019

  • migrated initial template from 8.1
  • inclusion of new features per the 9.0 new features documentation

8.x Template Release History

Template content updates are high level. Details can be found in the template guides.

1.0.6

Released July 30, 2019

  • Added password complexity and admin lockout elements
  • Dynamic updates for GlobalProtect
  • Opt-out default for the Palo Alto Networks EDL associated security rules
  • Removed the IPv4 and IPv6 Bogon EDLs and associated security rules
  • Updated the IPv4 sinkhole to use FQDN instead of an IP address
  • Clean up for the baseline configuration to remove IPSEC, IKE, QoS defaults
  • Clean up for URL Black-List and White-List category usage in profiles

1.0.5

Released March 18, 2019

Template Content

  • added max lines for log csv output

1.0.4

Released January 8, 2019

Template Content

  • updated virus profiles from ‘default’ to ‘reset-both’ so explicit blocking
  • added set commands template as text file and Excel spreadsheet
  • loadable default configurations include full xml and set commands
  • update to the template stack snippet including <config> tree elements
  • removed GTP logging elements since not supported on all hardware platforms

1.0.3

Released Oct 3, 2018

Template Content

  • added a default security profile group based on the Outbound group

Documentation

  • fixed errors in the tools installation instructions

1.0.2

Released August 30, 2018

Template Content

  • modified device_system type=dhcp configuration elements to fix dhcp-client commit error

1.0.1

Released: August 7, 2018

Template Content

  • Device settings updates to increase security hardening

    • Prevent TCP and UDP buffer overflow and multi-part HTTP download evasions
    • Enable high DP load logging
    • Prevent App-ID buffer overflow evasion
    • set bypass-exceed-queue to ‘no’
    • Prevent TCP and MPTCP evasions
  • Include default login banner

  • Correct url-filtering Alert-All profile to include command-and-control

  • Set default interzone action to a drop instead of deny

  • include firewall management interface options for dhcp-client, standard or cloud models

  • include Panorama options for standard or cloud deployments

  • using a tag attribute for the template version numbering

Documentation

  • moved docs to readthedocs.io
  • move to release-specific documentation

Template Archive

  • moved to release branch per software release in github

1.0.0

Released: May 10, 2018

  • first release on github
  • xml snippets and full config
  • static pdf documentation

Tools Release Updates

Jan 22, 2020

  • updated the build_full_config.py with the ability to merge snippets using same xpath

Jul 30, 2019

  • added build_all.py to create all full configs and spreadsheets
  • test_set_commands.py and test_full_config.py to load and test configuration changes

Jan 8, 2019

  • moved config variables from a python dictionary to a yaml format
  • updated existing tools to support the yaml variables file
  • added a utility to create the Excel spreadsheet from the set conf file
  • removed the creation of default snippets output to loadable configs
  • renamed the output from ‘my configs’ to ‘loadable configs’ for clarity

Oct 3, 2018

  • modified variable model to support python 3.5 instead of 3.6 and later

August 7, 2018

  • added the build_full_config utility to create a full template from the config snippets

  • added the build_my_config utility

    • provide simple variable substituions using the my_variable inputs
    • store output into the my_config folder with unique naming

May 3, 2019

  • fixed tools issue so will load the panw edl based security rules

Documentation Revisions

Documentation revisions outside of template-tooling updates. These are documented by date, not verison.

Janurary 22, 2020

  • addition of visual guide for panos
  • validation skillet section added
  • add 9.1 related content links

July 30, 2019

  • Move docs to their own doc branch and merge as a single doc set
  • Add in associated template changes and new xml links (mgt user config and password complexity)
  • Add a release variance doc to show deltas for new releases
  • Addition of requirements and caveats to use IronSkillet
  • Pointers to PanHandler and SkilletCLI as new tools to load configurations

March 18, 2019

  • added instructions to remove security profiles for reduced capacity VM-50
  • updated with inclusion of max csv lines for log output

Jan 8, 2019

  • simplified repo main README for non-python users
  • added documentation for the SET command spreadsheet
  • added next-level directory README files for added context
  • general edits for using tools based on tools changes
  • added description for Panorama template variations in Panorama template docs

Nov 2, 2018

  • added instructions for editing the full configuration template variables in the GUI
  • added instructions for editing the full configuration template variables using the console

Oct 3, 2018

  • fixed errors in the tools installation instructions

August 7, 2018

  • moved docs to readthedocs.io
  • move to release-specific documentation

May 10, 2018

  • first release on github
  • static pdf documentation