Changelog

Version 1.4.0

1.4.0 (Major)

🎉 PatchMon 1.4.0

A major release with security compliance scanning, OIDC SSO, an alerting engine, web SSH terminal, and AI-assisted terminal support.

🛡️ Security Compliance Scanning

  • OpenSCAP CIS Benchmark scanning directly from the agent (Level 1 / Level 2)
  • Docker Bench for Security when Docker integration is enabled
  • Compliance dashboard with fleet-wide scores, pass/fail breakdowns, and scan history
  • Optional auto-remediation of failed rules during scans

🔐 OIDC Single Sign-On

  • OpenID Connect authentication with Authentik, Keycloak, Okta, or any OIDC provider
  • Automatic user provisioning on first OIDC login
  • Group-based role mapping from your identity provider to PatchMon roles
  • Option to disable local auth and enforce SSO-only login

🔔 Alerting & Reporting

  • New Reporting page with filtering by severity, type, status, and assignment
  • Host Down alerts real time view of host uptime
  • Alert types including server update, agent update, and host down
  • Per-alert-type configuration for default severity, auto-assignment, escalation, and retention

💻 Web SSH Terminal

  • Browser-based SSH to any host from the PatchMon UI
  • Direct and proxy modes (proxy mode routes through the agent, no SSH port exposure needed)

🤖 AI Terminal Assistant

  • AI chat panel inside the SSH terminal for command suggestions and troubleshooting
  • Multiple providers supported: OpenRouter, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini
  • Context-aware using your recent terminal output

🖥️ UI Improvements

  • "Waiting for Connection" screen with real-time status when onboarding a new host
  • Swagger / OpenAPI docs served at /api-docs on the server

🔧 Other

  • Superuser management permission (can_manage_superusers) for finer-grained RBAC when used with OIDC
  • More API stats and details on hosts with added flags such as ?include=stats or ?updates_only=true

Plus Much Much More

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/PatchMon/PatchMon/compare/v1.3.7...v1.4.0