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| Name | Overall status | One-month plan | Three-month plan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add new code-flow UI to explain Advanced SAST results Tracking issue/epic |
Shipped in the vuln report, MR widget, and pipeline security report. Expected completion in 17.7. | Complete implementation in MR changes view; address UX issues. (Development work is being handled by the Security Platform Management group.) | |
| Real-time SAST scanning in the IDE: initial release Tracking issue/epic |
Expecting 17.6 (November 2024) for Experiment release on GitLab.com. | Deliver Experiment release | Move on to post-initial-release improvements, as listed below |
| Provide guidance on how to evaluate GitLab SAST Tracking issue/epic |
Initial guide shipped | Implement further edits to the evaluation guide | Publish benchmark/example project guide, based on analysis project listed below |
| Restructure and update Advanced SAST docs now that the feature is GA Tracking issue/epic |
In progress. (Primarily documentation.) | Complete most issues in this epic | Complete entire epic |
| Advanced SAST engine maintenance, testing, and stability improvements Tracking issue/epic |
High-priority items preparing for release | Implement improvements | |
| Analyze Advanced SAST performance against standard benchmarks Tracking issue/epic |
Analysis and rule updates in progress. (Handled primarily by Vulnerability Research.) | Continue analysis and rule updates | Complete work; use results to update documentation |
| Implement the next level of documentation for rule/CWE coverage Tracking issue/epic |
Assessing implementation options. (Handled primarily by Vulnerability Research.) | Interview internal users and develop technical plan | Ship documentation |
| Enable Advanced SAST for PHP Tracking issue/epic |
Ready to begin implementation after a pause. ETA TBD. | Finalize engine support, migrate/implement rules | |
| Implement Advanced SAST for C/C++ Tracking issue/epic |
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| Expand coverage for Vulnerability Resolution to more CWE types Tracking issue/epic |
Finalize technical plan. Complete prerequisite changes so that we can test new feature iterations. | Begin executing the technical plan. | |
| Expand real-time SAST in the IDE Tracking issue/epic |
Will beging after the initial Experiment release | Respond to feedback and next steps after the initial Experiment release | Work toward self-managed support; improve user-perceived latency |
| Incremental pipeline-based scans (skip unmodified code) Tracking issue/epic |
Currently blocked by database decomposition | ||
| Enable Advanced SAST for additional languages Tracking issue/epic |
Waiting for other languages, as listed above. See epic for language priority order. | ||
| Reshape SAST customization; allow org-specific Advanced SAST Tracking issue/epic |
Analyzing customer use cases to develop requirements | ||
| Enable Advanced SAST by default Tracking issue/epic |
Likely to occur in GitLab 18.0 due to breaking-change requirements. | ||
| Make SAST results easier to understand and triage Tracking issue/epic |
Coordinating with Security Risk Management stage for scheduling |
| Priority | Name | Target release |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | AST CI-templates improvements | TBD |
| 2 | Static Analysis 18.0 deprecations, removals and breaking changes | 18.0 |
| Name | Status/progress |
|---|---|
| Analyze onboarding and day-to-day workflows for real-time IDE scanning Tracking issue/epic |
Paused until further development is completed. Will include analyzing how IDE, monolith, and Cloud Connector interact for end-users. |
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| Stage | Application Security Testing |
| Content Last Reviewed | 2024-11-19 |