1.8.0

What's Changed

• Redaction (@panyamkeerthana, @owtaylor, #667, #671, #676, #677)
  • Add a simple based pattern redaction engine for tool output
  • Builtin rules cover a limited set of common credentials
  • Custom rules can be added via a YAML file
  • See: https://rhel-lightspeed.github.io/linux-mcp-server/redaction/
• Improved logging (@owtaylor)
  • Make logging from linux-mcp-server more consistent and informative (#623)
  • Suppress INFO level messages from Python dependencies by default (#622)
  • Allow configuring the logging destination (#621)
• Raise minimum Python version to 3.11 (3.10 is EOL as of 2026-10-01) (#685)
• Request email claims from the Google auth provider, and treat
  email_verified as a boolean, not a string (#666, @alexsmac)
• Fix using OpenAI models as the Guarded Command Execution Gatekeeper (@Jazzcort, #647 )
• Fix Guarded Command Execution checks when the target user can run some commands
  without a password but not others in /etc/sudoers (#659, @alexsmac)
• Replace deprecated responseSchema with responseFormat for Gemini api (@Jazzcort, #649)

New Contributors

• @alexsmac made their first contribution in #659

Full Changelog: 1.7.0...1.8.0