OSCAL is a community-driven, NIST-led project, with an open invitation to the community to participate in the framing and development of OSCAL. Feature requests can be created and submitted directly into the project's GitHub repository. Feedback in the form of bug reports are also encouraged and appreciated. If appropriate, we ask you add a comment to an existing relevant issue, and only create a new issue when no relevant issue exists. Before opening an issue, we ask that you review our contributing guidelines.

Development Epics

OSCAL is being designed and created over a series of development epics leveraging an incremental and agile approach. Each epic consists of a series of sprints focused on reaching a defined milestone. This approach allows the project team to provide increased value over time at an accelerated pace, by focusing on an 80% solution (Minimally Viable Product (MVP)) that can be implemented in 20% of the time.

Each milestone will result in an incremental release of OSCAL resources.

OSCAL v1

OSCAL version 1 is currently being maintained and enhanced over a series of releases, the latest of which can be found on Github.

We will continue to address any defects, improve documentation, and add features where possible over a series of minor and defect fix releases. Minor releases will be be indicated as 1.x.0, where x will be incremented for each minor release. This may include backporting features being worked on in the OSCAL 2.0.0 release epics. Defect fix releases will be indicated as 1.x.y, where x will be the current minor release and y will be incremented for each defect fix release. This will allow adopters to benefit from releases against a stable and supported OSCAL v1, while we work on significant new features in OSCAL v2.

OSCAL v2

Similar to OSCAL v1, the second major version of OSCAL, OSCAL v2, will be developed over a series of milestone releases. We have not yet planned a specific set of milestones in the OSCAL v2 epic. We will start planning OSCAL v2 as are near wrapping up OSCAL v1. An initial milestone has been established to organize issues for future work on OSCAL v2.