---
title: "FOSSA January 2020 Product Release Notes"
description: "Explore the January 2020 FOSSA product release, featuring Release Groups for better project management and new dependency editing workflows, alongside various CLI improvements."
canonical_url: "https://fossa.com/blog/january-product-release-notes/"
markdown_url: "https://fossa.com/blog/january-product-release-notes.md"
content_type: "blog"
language: "en"
date_published: "2020-02-14"
date_modified: "2020-02-14"
author: "Taylor Udell"
organization: "FOSSA"
---

# FOSSA January 2020 Product Release Notes

> Explore the January 2020 FOSSA product release, featuring Release Groups for better project management and new dependency editing workflows, alongside various CLI improvements.

### Introducing Release Groups

Combine a collection FOSSA projects to create a release group to correlate one-to-one with your software releases. For access to **Release Groups** please contact [support@fossa.com](mailto:support@fossa.com).

![FOSSA January 2020 Release Notes Image - Release Groups](https://fossa.com/Create-Group.gif)

Review projects, issues, dependencies, and licenses across your entire release group.

![FOSSA January 2020 Release Notes Image - Release Groups](https://fossa.com/reviewgroup.gif)

Generate Attribution Notices combining dependency information from all included projects.

![FOSSA January 2020 Release Notes Image - Release Groups](https://fossa.com/Screen-Shot-2020-02-14-at-11.48.41-AM.png)

Version releases to monitor your software over time. Create an audit log and software bill of materials tied to an explicit release.

![FOSSA January 2020 Release Notes Image - Release Groups](https://fossa.com/manage-releases-1.gif)

## Other Improvements

#### New Dependency Edits

FOSSA released a new workflow allowing you to update “OR” (e.g. MIT-OR-GPL) license clauses to individual licenses (e.g. MIT, GPL), all while maintaining complete match data. In addition to highlighting the specific files that triggered an “OR” clause, you can now split licenses. This data will appear in a report as comma delimited list of licenses (e.g. MIT-OR-GPL 2.0 will now show as MIT, GPL 2.o).

To modify a an "OR" clause within the dependencies or issues tab simply:

1. Click Edit Package (or View/Edit)
2. Click View next to the License Group (e.g. MIT-OR-GPL 2.0)
3. Click Split from Group
4. Click Save

![FOSSA January 2020 Release Notes - Dependency Edits](https://fossa.com/andor.gif)

#### FOSSA CLI Updates

We have added additional support and improvements for CLI integrations with both Maven and Ant. For documentation please checkout our [GitHub repo](https://github.com/fossas/fossa-cli#supported-environments).

## 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/january-product-release-notes/