Hipcheck 3.14.0 Release
Hipcheck 3.14.0 is out! This is a relatively minor release, with one new feature, two bugfixes, and an assortment of dependency updates.

Written by Andrew Lilley Brinker
Posted on May 2, 2025
Hipcheck 3.14.0 is out! This is a relatively minor release, with one new feature, two bugfixes, and an assortment of dependency updates.
Written by Andrew Lilley Brinker
Posted on May 2, 2025
Hipcheck 3.13.0 is out! This is a lighter release as far as user-facing changes go, but internally we have been doing a lot of refactoring and development to prepare for exciting new changes that will be ready in upcoming releases.
Written by Julian Lanson
Posted on April 11, 2025
The Hipcheck team is pleased to announce the initial release of our Python plugin SDK, version 0.2.1!
Written by Julian Lanson
Posted on April 2, 2025
Hipcheck 3.12.0 is out! Featuring support for SemVer constraints for plugins,
a new --arch
flag for hc ready
, support for managing the plugin cache with
hc cache plugin
, and more. With 3.12.0, Hipcheck now requires glibc
2.35
or newer on x86 Linux hosts.
Written by Andrew Lilley Brinker
Posted on March 14, 2025
The Hipcheck 3.11.0 release features a variety of quality-of-life improvements
for users, especially around reporting and diagnosing configuration errors. This
includes an overhauled hc ready
command, better configuration error types and
printed error messages, updates to english-language analysis explanations, a
more informative JSON output format, and more. This release also features
multiple internal refactors and CI updates described in a separate subsection
for those interested.
Written by Julian Lanson
Posted on February 21, 2025
Hipcheck offers different levels of configurability, to provide you with an easy and useful Day 0 experience while also empowering full control over what analyses run and how they're scored.
Written by Andrew Lilley Brinker
Posted on February 11, 2025
The Hipcheck team has released version 3.10.0. This release features two
improvements to the "query protocol" that defines how plugins in Hipcheck
communicate, a new env
macro for policy files, and a start on human-readable
explanations when a package doesn't pass policy.
Written by Andrew Lilley Brinker
Posted on January 31, 2025
Hipcheck 3.9.1 introduces some bugfixes related to the auto-installer and binary releases, as well as some improvements to target resolution.
Written by Julian Lanson
Posted on January 8, 2025
Introducing Hipcheck 3.9.0, with bugfixes for plugin downloading and a new Git commit and diff parser.
Written by Andrew Lilley Brinker
Posted on December 20, 2024
Introducing Hipcheck 3.8.0, with stable support for third-party plugins, a suite of initial plugins, and a lot of polish for the plugin user experience.
Written by Andrew Lilley Brinker
Posted on December 11, 2024