Shannon: The 3.0 Major Release Lands
Shannon 3.0 shipped through PR 433, introducing an agentic static analysis pipeline that reconciles with pentest findings, alongside two breaking changes to configuration and CLI output. Documentation followed in three separate passes to keep pace with the release.
Duration: PT2M30S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from Shannon.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Shannon
- Published: 2026-09-03T06:07:08Z
- Audio duration: PT2M30S
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It's September 3rd, 2026, and this is Shannon.
The headline today is a single major release: Shannon 3.0, merged in PR 433, and it's the biggest change this feed has carried.
The core of it is a new agentic static analysis pipeline — ten stages that run alongside the existing pentest workflow rather than after it. Findings from static analysis and runtime exploitation now get deduplicated and reconciled before exploitation begins, which means fewer duplicate reports and more trustworthy…
Two breaking changes matter most for anyone running Shannon already. First, the "vuln classes" config option is gone — all five core pentest classes now run on every scan, and old configs referencing it will fail validation. Second, the scan status JSON output changed shape: the "parallel" phase is replaced with…
Beyond the breaking changes, this release tightened a lot of edge cases: reconciliation failures are now correctly attributed to exploitation rather than incorrectly failing the analysis step, PDF reports got several formatting fixes, and scan shutdown is now verified against Temporal instead of assumed.
The second theme is documentation catching up to the release. PR 441 and the standalone…
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