Version 5.3 (Archived)
This page provides information about the current official version of the OVAL Language. All information about the version is included in this centralized location.
Downloads
Includes downloads for the Version 5.3 Definition Schema, System Characteristics Schema, Results Schema, Variable Schema, and Documentation.
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Complete Schema - has all documentation embedded and the Schematron mark-up.
Minimal Schema - includes the raw xml schema only. Schematron - a schema that can provide additional validation of OVAL V5 documents. Documentation pdf - includes element dictionaries, etc., which users can elect to view in a browser or save. All files zip - all files zipped together to allow for one simple download. xsd - a user can either right click to download the file or left click to open the file in their default viewer. |
OVAL Definition Schema Downloads |
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| File Name | Complete Schema | Minimal Schema | Documentation | Schematron |
| All Files | zip | zip | zip | zip |
| Core | xsd | xsd | - | |
| Common | xsd | xsd | - | |
| Independent | xsd | xsd | - | |
| Cisco IOS | xsd | xsd | - | |
| HP-UX | xsd | xsd | - | |
| UNIX | xsd | xsd | - | |
| Linux | xsd | xsd | - | |
| Apple Macintosh | xsd | xsd | - | |
| Sun Solaris | xsd | xsd | - | |
| Microsoft Windows | xsd | xsd | - | |
| Apache | xsd | xsd | - | |
| FreeBSD | xsd | xsd | - | |
OVAL System Characteristics Schema Downloads |
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| File Name | Complete Schema | Minimal Schema | Documentation | Schematron |
| All Files | zip | zip | zip | zip |
| Core | xsd | xsd | - | |
| Common | xsd | xsd | - | |
| Independent | xsd | xsd | - | |
| Cisco IOS | xsd | xsd | - | |
| HP-UX | xsd | xsd | - | |
| UNIX | xsd | xsd | - | |
| Linux | xsd | xsd | - | |
| Apple Macintosh | xsd | xsd | - | |
| Sun Solaris | xsd | xsd | - | |
| Microsoft Windows | xsd | xsd | - | |
| Apache | xsd | xsd | - | |
| FreeBSD | xsd | xsd | - | |
OVAL Results Schema Downloads |
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| File Name | Complete Schema | Minimal Schema | Documentation | Schematron |
| All Files | zip | zip | zip | zip |
| Core | xsd | xsd | - | |
| Common | xsd | xsd | - | |
OVAL Variables Schema Downloads |
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| File Name | Complete Schema | Minimal Schema | Documentation | Schematron |
| All Files | zip | zip | zip | zip |
| Core | xsd | xsd | - | |
| Common | xsd | xsd | - | |
Example XML Stylesheets |
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| File Name | Description | |||
| results_to_html.xsl | The results_to_html stylesheet converts an OVAL Results document into a more readable html format. | |||
| minimal_schema.xsl | The minimal_schema stylesheet removes all annotation elements from the OVAL Schema leaving only the minimal schema. | |||
| element_dictionary.xsl | The element_dictionary stylesheet creates documentation files from the OVAL Schema. | |||
| reference_mapping.xsl | The reference_mapping stylesheet creates a map between each OVAL Definition in a document and a specified reference source. | |||
New in Version 5.3
Version 5.3 of the Official OVAL Language is a direct result of feedback from the OVAL Community. This will be a minor version change and may require some new development by tools that support earlier versions of the Language. The changes pending to the different schemas are outlined below.
Version 5.3 of the OVAL Schema will include the following:
- updated documentation
- added sql test to the independent schema
- changed the datatype of the comment attribute to not accept empty strings
- added include_group and resolve_group behaviors to the windows accesstoken_object
- modified the schematron of the rpminfo_state to allow 'version' as a valid datatype for the <release> and <version> entities
- added new privileges to the windows accesstoken_test
- added an optional mask attribute
- fixed a schema error that had a_time, c_time, and m_time defined as strings, changed to ints
- added the audit event policy subcategories test to the windows schema
- added a schematron rule in certain places to validate that an int value was supplied when a datatype of int was declared
- added a share permission test to the windows schema
- added a printer effective rights test
- changed the trustee_name entity to trustee_sid for existing effective rights and audit permission tests, deprecated the original tests
- added a check_existence attribute to and OVAL Test
- added the 'none satisfy' value to the existing check attribute of an OVAL Test
- added a ONE operator to the criterion element
- added a user access control test
- modified the hp-ux patch test
Timeline for Version 5.3
| PLANNING | DRAFT | RELEASE CANDIDATE | OFFICIAL |
| 16 March 2007 |
30 March 2007 |
14 May 2007 |
27 June 2007 |
Status Reports on Version 5.3
Status updates are included below. You may also review the Developer List Archives for discussions about Version 5.3, or enter "Version 5.3" as a keyword search for a list of forum discussions about the new version.
[2007-06-27]
Version 5.3 of the OVAL Language has officially been released.
[2007-06-01]
The current OVAL Repository content converted to version 5.3 of OVAL is available here. This data is provided for testing only. The OVAL Repository will be officially converted after version 5.3 becomes official.
[2007-05-30]
Some recent discussion by the community and within the OVAL Board has caused us to rethink the changes being included in Version 5.3. We were hoping to include two significant fixes (change of check attribute, change of trustee_name) in the minor version but our implementation of these fixes were going to cause exsting content to become invalid. This would have presented a big challenge to tool vendors and so we have had to modify how these changes are made. We have posted a second release candidate and pushed the final release back to June 27th.
[2007-05-14]
The first release candidate is now available. This includes all the of the modifications that the community has worked on over the past few months. Included in this is the speration of the existance check and state check for OVAL Tests. With the availability of the release candidate, developers should begin the process of updating their code. No new features will be added. The only changes will be in fixing errors that are discovered.
[2007-04-18]
A second draft of version 5.3 is now available.
[2007-03-30]
First draft of version 5.3 is now available. This draft adds the sql_test to the independent schema, as well as adding behaviors to the windows accesstoken_test. A second draft that adds some additional tests will be available shortly.
[2007-03-16]
Version 5.3 is currently in the planning stage. It will be a small update that updates some of the documentation, adds new community requested tests, and fixes some errors found in the the windows component schemas. As a minor version change Version 5.3 will not invalidate existing content that currently validates against Version 5.2, thus it should not require any major reworking of existing tools already compatible with version 5.2.
Page Last Updated: March 31, 2010
