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Hi,

This message is one part informational, one part request for feedback.

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It was recently announced that the MITRE OVAL Repository will no longer take submissions after July 31, 2015, but will likely stay active in a read-only mode for several months after that date. A new community-driven OVAL repo is being stood up on GitHub. The long form version of the above can be found here:

- http://making-security-measurable.1364806.n2.nabble.com/OVAL-Repository-Transition-tt7587542.html
http://making-security-measurable.1364806.n2.nabble.com/OVAL-Transition-Plan-Announcement-td7587501.html

The new repo can be found here https://github.com/CISecurity/OVALRepo and contains OVAL definitions along with a set of tooling and docs for QA'ing, searching, and bundling OVAL definitions.

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We're looking for folks to clone the repo, run through the tooling setup, submit changes to repos, and open issues for tasks/bugs/scripts/workflows/docs that need some love. 

Thanks for your time and happy SCAP'ing.

Blake