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@MooseQuest MooseQuest released this 24 Jul 19:36
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📝 Release Notes:

🎉 Release v1.1.0 - July 24th, 2025

This release focuses on improving documentation clarity, establishing professional contact channels, and refining the project's positioning as a development tool.

✨ What's New

📋 Development Focus Clarification
  • Enhanced positioning as a local development and testing tool
  • Clear warnings about production deployment recommendations
  • Comprehensive CI/CD guidance for production environments
  • Restructured use cases to emphasize development-first design
📧 Professional Contact System
  • Dedicated security email: security@moosequest.net for vulnerability reports
  • General contact email: opensource-kris@moosequest.net for project inquiries
  • Separated contact purposes for better support organization
🔒 Enhanced Security Documentation
  • Comprehensive security policy with responsible disclosure guidelines
  • Clear vulnerability reporting process with response timelines
  • Security best practices for users and deployment environments
  • Recognition program for security researchers
🔗 Repository Consistency
  • Fixed all GitHub URLs to use correct MooseQuest account
  • Consistent repository naming with underscores throughout
  • Updated installation instructions with correct repository references

🛠️ Improvements

📚 Documentation Enhancements
  • Production deployment warnings in README and documentation
  • CI/CD recommendations with specific tooling suggestions
  • Enhanced support section with multiple contact methods
  • Clear security contact separation from general inquiries
🎯 Use Case Refinement
  • Primary: Local Development & Testing (emphasized)
  • Secondary: Testing & Validation in controlled environments
  • Not Recommended: Production deployments (with alternatives provided)
🌐 Cross-Platform Polish
  • Updated platform support documentation
  • Consistent installation examples across all platforms
  • Professional README badges linking to correct repository

🔧 Technical Details

Core Functionality (Unchanged)
  • ✅ Interactive app selection and deployment
  • ✅ Cross-platform support (Linux, macOS, Windows)
  • ✅ Comprehensive restart guidance
  • ✅ Automatic backups and validation
  • ✅ Git integration with commit generation
Dependencies (Still Zero!)
  • ✅ Python 3.6+ standard library only
  • ✅ No external dependencies required
  • ✅ Secure by design with minimal attack surface

📞 New Contact Information

Purpose Email Usage
Security Issues security@moosequest.net Vulnerability reports, security questions
General Support opensource-kris@moosequest.net Project questions, contributions, help

🚀 Production Deployment Recommendations

For production environments, we now clearly recommend implementing proper CI/CD pipelines instead of using this tool directly:

Recommended Production Tools:

  • GitLab CI/CD or GitHub Actions for automation
  • Splunk REST API for programmatic deployments
  • Ansible or Terraform for infrastructure-as-code
  • Splunk Deployment Server for large-scale app distribution

📦 Installation

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/MooseQuest/splunk_app_deployer.git
cd splunk_app_deployer

# Make executable and test
chmod +x splunk_app_deployer.py
python3 splunk_app_deployer.py --help

🔍 Full Changelog

Since v1.0.0:

  • Add comprehensive security policy with responsible disclosure
  • Clarify development vs production usage throughout documentation
  • Update contact emails to specialized addresses
  • Fix repository URL consistency across all documentation
  • Enhance use cases section with CI/CD guidance
  • Add production deployment warnings and alternatives
  • Improve support documentation with multiple contact methods

🙏 Acknowledgments

  • Security best practices based on industry standards
  • Documentation improvements following open source conventions
  • Community feedback incorporated for better clarity

📈 What's Next

  • Unit testing framework
  • Docker container support
  • Enhanced configuration validation
  • Performance metrics and timing
  • Search head cluster deployment support

Full Documentation: https://github.com/MooseQuest/splunk_app_deployer
Security Policy: https://github.com/MooseQuest/splunk_app_deployer/security/policy
Issues & Support: https://github.com/MooseQuest/splunk_app_deployer/issues

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