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Security Profiles Operator release notes

The Security Profiles Operator provides a way to define secure computing (seccomp) and SELinux profiles as custom resources, synchronizing profiles to every node in a given namespace.

These release notes track the development of the Security Profiles Operator in OpenShift Container Platform.

For an overview of the Security Profiles Operator, see Security Profiles Operator Overview.

Security Profiles Operator 0.9.0

The following advisory is available for the Security Profiles Operator 0.9.0: RHBA-2025:15655 - OpenShift Security Profiles Operator update

This update manages security profiles as cluster-wide resources rather than namespace resources. To update Security Profiles Operator to a version later than 0.8.6 requires manual migration. For migration instructions, see Security Profiles Operator 0.9.0 Update Migration Guide.

Bug fixes

  • Before this update, the spod pods could fail to start and enter into a CrashLoopBackOff state due to an error in parsing the semanage configuration file. This issue is caused by a change to the RHEL 9 image naming convention beginning in OpenShift Container Platform 4.19. (OCPBUGS-55829)

  • Before this update, the Security Profiles Operator would fail to apply a RawSelinuxProfile to newly added nodes due to a reconciler type mismatch error. With this update, the operator now correctly handles RawSelinuxProfile objects and policies are applied to all nodes as expected. (OCPBUGS-33718)

Security Profiles Operator 0.8.6

The following advisory is available for the Security Profiles Operator 0.8.6:

This update includes upgraded dependencies in underlying base images.

Security Profiles Operator 0.8.5

The following advisory is available for the Security Profiles Operator 0.8.5:

Bug fixes

  • When attempting to install the Security Profile Operator from the web console, the option to enable Operator-recommended cluster monitoring was unavailable for the namespace. With this update, you can now enabled Operator-recommend cluster monitoring in the namespace. (OCPBUGS-37794)

  • Previously, the Security Profiles Operator would intermittently be not visible in the OperatorHub, which caused limited access to install the Operator via the web console. With this update, the Security Profiles Operator is present in the OperatorHub.

Security Profiles Operator 0.8.4

The following advisory is available for the Security Profiles Operator 0.8.4:

This update addresses CVEs in underlying dependencies.

New features and enhancements

Security Profiles Operator 0.8.2

The following advisory is available for the Security Profiles Operator 0.8.2:

Bug fixes

  • Previously, SELinuxProfile objects did not inherit custom attributes from the same namespace. With this update, the issue has now been resolved and SELinuxProfile object attributes are inherited from the same namespace as expected. (OCPBUGS-17164)

  • Previously, RawSELinuxProfiles would hang during the creation process and would not reach an Installed state. With this update, the issue has been resolved and RawSELinuxProfiles are created successfully. (OCPBUGS-19744)

  • Previously, patching the enableLogEnricher to true would cause the seccompProfile log-enricher-trace pods to be stuck in a Pending state. With this update, log-enricher-trace pods reach an Installed state as expected. (OCPBUGS-22182)

  • Previously, the Security Profiles Operator generated high cardinality metrics, causing Prometheus pods using high amounts of memory. With this update, the following metrics will no longer apply in the Security Profiles Operator namespace:

    • rest_client_request_duration_seconds

    • rest_client_request_size_bytes

    • rest_client_response_size_bytes

      (OCPBUGS-22406)

Security Profiles Operator 0.8.0

The following advisory is available for the Security Profiles Operator 0.8.0:

Bug fixes

  • Previously, while trying to install Security Profiles Operator in a disconnected cluster, the secure hashes provided were incorrect due to a SHA relabeling issue. With this update, the SHAs provided work consistently with disconnected environments. (OCPBUGS-14404)

Security Profiles Operator 0.7.1

The following advisory is available for the Security Profiles Operator 0.7.1:

New features and enhancements

  • Security Profiles Operator (SPO) now automatically selects the appropriate selinuxd image for RHEL 8- and 9-based RHCOS systems.

    Important

    Users that mirror images for disconnected environments must mirror both selinuxd images provided by the Security Profiles Operator.

  • You can now enable memory optimization inside of an spod daemon. For more information, see Enabling memory optimization in the spod daemon.

    Note

    SPO memory optimization is not enabled by default.

  • The daemon resource requirements are now configurable. For more information, see Customizing daemon resource requirements.

  • The priority class name is now configurable in the spod configuration. For more information, see Setting a custom priority class name for the spod daemon pod.

Deprecated and removed features

  • The default nginx-1.19.1 seccomp profile is now removed from the Security Profiles Operator deployment.

Bug fixes

  • Previously, a Security Profiles Operator (SPO) SELinux policy did not inherit low-level policy definitions from the container template. If you selected another template, such as net_container, the policy would not work because it required low-level policy definitions that only existed in the container template. This issue occurred when the SPO SELinux policy attempted to translate SELinux policies from the SPO custom format to the Common Intermediate Language (CIL) format. With this update, the container template appends to any SELinux policies that require translation from SPO to CIL. Additionally, the SPO SELinux policy can inherit low-level policy definitions from any supported policy template. (OCPBUGS-12879)

Known issue

  • When uninstalling the Security Profiles Operator, the MutatingWebhookConfiguration object is not deleted and must be manually removed. As a workaround, delete the MutatingWebhookConfiguration object after uninstalling the Security Profiles Operator. These steps are defined in Uninstalling the Security Profiles Operator. (OCPBUGS-4687)

Security Profiles Operator 0.5.2

The following advisory is available for the Security Profiles Operator 0.5.2:

This update addresses a CVE in an underlying dependency.

Known issue

  • When uninstalling the Security Profiles Operator, the MutatingWebhookConfiguration object is not deleted and must be manually removed. As a workaround, delete the MutatingWebhookConfiguration object after uninstalling the Security Profiles Operator. These steps are defined in Uninstalling the Security Profiles Operator. (OCPBUGS-4687)

Security Profiles Operator 0.5.0

The following advisory is available for the Security Profiles Operator 0.5.0:

Known issue

  • When uninstalling the Security Profiles Operator, the MutatingWebhookConfiguration object is not deleted and must be manually removed. As a workaround, delete the MutatingWebhookConfiguration object after uninstalling the Security Profiles Operator. These steps are defined in Uninstalling the Security Profiles Operator. (OCPBUGS-4687)