--- title: "FOSSA August 2019 Product Release Notes" description: "Highlighting FOSSA's August 2019 product updates, including streamlined issue management, new language support, and enhanced reporting features." canonical_url: "https://fossa.com/blog/august-product-release-notes/" markdown_url: "https://fossa.com/blog/august-product-release-notes.md" content_type: "blog" language: "en" date_published: "2019-09-02" date_modified: "2019-09-02" author: "Taylor Udell" organization: "FOSSA" --- # FOSSA August 2019 Product Release Notes > Highlighting FOSSA's August 2019 product updates, including streamlined issue management, new language support, and enhanced reporting features. ### Save time with Streamlined Issue Management The most time-consuming part of open source management is usually determining what to do with flagged components. Legal teams have to go back and forth with their dev teams to understand how a component is being used, dev teams have to track down how the flagged open source component is being pulled into their components, and DevOps has to block builds until issues are resolved. It can be a frustrating mess, making everyone feel a little like this... ![Frustrations Open Source Compliance Issues](https://fossa.com/dead.gif) Which is why, this month we’re happy to announce several additions to our [issues management](https://docs.fossa.com/docs/triaging-issues#section-understanding-issue-reports). In addition to enabling manual resolution and dependency enrichment, highlighting the flagged text, the file paths, and dependency tree, you can now: **Keep your dependency information up to date.** FOSSA automatically remembers all dependency enrichment to reduce false positives in future scans. Enrich your dependency metadata: add license, contributor, copyright information and more. ![FOSSA updating open source dependency information](https://fossa.com/image-2.png) **Consolidate your process by resolving many issues at once.** Explain your resolution one time per issue type or file all open source component updates in the same JIRA ticket with bulk issue editing. To select multiple issues, hold the command key and select your issues. ![FOSSA Open Source Issue Resolution](https://fossa.com/image-3.png) **Save time resolving issues by sorting by newly flagged components to prioritize your workflow.** You can also filter alphabetically, by time created, or by time updated. ![FOSSA open source management workflow](https://fossa.com/image-4.png) [Check it out!](https://app.fossa.com/issues/licensing) ## FOSSA CLI 1.0 We’ve added a bunch of new languages over the past few months, bolstered support for many others, added clarity to installation steps and documentation, enhanced error messages, and improved all-around stability. ![FOSSA CLI UPDATES](https://fossa.com/image-6.png) ### New Language Added: Introducing Clojure Support We’re excited to continue increasing FOSSA’s compatibility with your stack. Over the past 3 months, we’ve added 5 new languages to FOSSA CLI! This month, we’re excited to announce our support for [Clojure](https://clojure.org/)! Unsure why it’s a cool language? Checkout [this thread](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19727551) on Hacker News. TLDR? It’s productive, easy to debug, easy to scale, and it’s fun! Some really cool open source projects built in Clojure include [Metabase](https://github.com/metabase/metabase), [FiraCode](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode), and [Reframe](https://github.com/Day8/re-frame). To get FOSSA set up on your Clojure project, checkout our [installation guide](https://github.com/fossas/fossa-cli/blob/master/docs/integrations/clojure.md#clojure). To see a full list of supported environments, look [here](https://github.com/fossas/fossa-cli/blob/master/docs/README.md#environment-integrations). ## New Reporting Features ### Automatically Include License Headers in Your Attribution Reports [Enterprise Only] FOSSA now supports including license headers, including copyright information, in your automatically generated reports. This functionality is currently supported by plain text reports. To get access for your account, please contact [support@fossa.com](mailto:support@fossa.com). ![FOSSA Open Source License Headers](https://fossa.com/licenseheaders-1.png) You must be on an enterprise plan to gain access to advanced reporting ### Generate Industry-Standard SPDX Reports SPDX is an open standard for reporting and communicating [software bill of materials](https://fossa.com/blog/software-bill-of-materials-formats-use-cases-tools/) information including component information, licensing, and security references. We’re excited to support this standard of communication in open source compliance. For more information on [SPDX](https://spdx.org/) and its requirements, look [here](https://spdx.dev/faq/). To get access to SPDX generated reports, please contact [support@fossa.com](mailto:support@fossa.com). ## Related resources - [Summer 2026 Product Updates: Enhanced Reports](https://fossa.com/blog/summer-2026-product-updates-enhanced-reports.md): See what's new with FOSSA's reporting capabilities, including saved report settings and cleaner attribution formatting. - [Project Glasswing and the AI Vulnerability Math Problem](https://fossa.com/blog/project-glasswing-ai-vulnerability-math-problem.md): See analysis of one of the overlooked impacts of recent developments in AI vulnerability discovery and exploitation. - [fossabot expands to all GitHub and GitLab tiers](https://fossa.com/blog/fossabot-expands-github-gitlab.md): fossabot now supports all tiers of GitHub and GitLab for strategic dependency upgrades. - [Spring 2026 FOSSA Product Updates](https://fossa.com/blog/spring-2026-fossa-product-updates.md): Check out new features available to FOSSA customers, including malware detection, custom risk scores, and more. - [Introducing Automated Malware Detection in FOSSA](https://fossa.com/blog/introducing-automated-malware-detection-fossa.md): Learn about FOSSA's new malware detection feature, including its benefits and how to use it. ## Source Canonical page: https://fossa.com/blog/august-product-release-notes/