Release Date: November 18, 2025

New Detectors and Checkers​

• Google Cloud Access Token: Added a new detector and checker for Google Cloud Access Tokens.

Detector Improvements​

• Hashicorp Vault Token: Updated Hashicorp Vault Token detector to catch more types of patterns.
• Google Cloud Access Token: Updated documentation and metadata for Google Cloud Access Tokens detector.
• PagerDuty Authorization Token: Updated regex with token prefix for PagerDuty authorization token detector.

Analyzer Upgrades​

• Docker Credentials: Updated docker_credentials checker endpoint.
• FullStory API Key: Updated fullstory_api_key checker endpoint.

  Release Date: November 10, 2025

New Detectors and Checkers​

• Hume AI API Key: Added a new detector and checker for Hume AI API keys.
• Hume AI Secret Key: Added a new detector and checker for Hume AI Secret keys.
• Azure AI Face Authentication: Added a new detector and checker for Azure AI Face Authentication.
• Neon API Key: Added a new detector and checker for Neon API keys.
• E2B API Key: Added a new detector and checker for E2B API keys.
• MailerSend API Key: Added a new detector and checker for MailerSend API keys.
• Scraper API Key: Added a new detector and checker for Scraper API keys.
• AIProxy API Key: Added a new detector for AIProxy API keys.
• Cloudsmith Entitlement Token: Added a new detector and checker for Cloudsmith Entitlement Tokens.
• AWS Bedrock Long-term API Key: Added a new detector and checker for AWS Bedrock Long-term API keys.
• Harness API Key: Added a new detector and checker for Harness API keys.
• Grafbase Access Token: Added a new detector and checker for Grafbase Access Tokens.
• AssemblyAI Access Token: Added a new detector and checker for AssemblyAI Access Tokens.

Detector Improvements​

• Generic Password: Removed keyword timeout to increase recall.
• Pinecone API Key: Added new detector pinecone_api_key_v2 following the new API key format, with checkers for both v2 and the original format.
• Pinecone API Keys: Deprecated detector, to be replaced by pinecone_api_key detector.
• Keycloak API Keys: Updated provider and company name to Keycloak.
• Discord Bot Token: Updated to match new pattern.
• Kubernetes JWT: Improved performance of Kubernetes JWT detector.
• Tableau Personal Access Token: Improved regex pattern for matching Tableau personal access tokens.
• Sendinblue Key: Updated provider name to Brevo (new company name).

Analyzer Upgrades​

• Snowflake Credentials: The checker for snowpark_api_credentials secrets can now recognize more valid or invalid secrets.
• Kubernetes Cluster Certificate: Changed Kubernetes API endpoint and validated the JSON answer.
• Kubernetes JWT: Changed Kubernetes API endpoint and validated the JSON answer.

  Release Date: October 21, 2025

New Detectors and Checkers​

• Coveo API Key: Added a detector and checker for Coveo API keys.

Detector Improvements​

• Resend API Key: Detector upgrade to remove false positives.

Analyzer Upgrades​

• DigitalOcean Spaces Token: The analyzer now checks for permissions to list buckets.

Engine Enhancements​

• Fixed proxy support for HTTP checkers.

  Release Date: October 10, 2025

New Detectors and Checkers​

• Comet API Key: Added a detector and checker for Comet API keys.
• Langfuse Credentials: Added a detector and checker for Langfuse credentials.
• Okta OAuth Credentials with Host: Added a detector and checker for Okta OAuth credentials with host.
• Okta API Token with Host: Added a detector and checker for Okta API tokens with host.

Detector Improvements​

• Generic Password: Detector upgrade to remove false positives in lock files.

Analyzer Upgrades​

• MySQL Credentials: The secret-analyzer now uses pymysql instead of mysql-connector-python for lighter weight implementation.
• PostgreSQL Credentials: Fixed failure in the analyzer when roles have quotes around them.

Miscellaneous​

• Improved GitHub classic analyzer for GitHub Enterprise that was using an old logic.

  Release Date: September 22, 2025

New Detectors

• Virustotal API Key – New detector for VirusTotal API keys.
• Cloudflare Turnstile Secret Key – Added a new detector for Cloudflare Turnstile secret keys.
• Stability AI API Key – Add a detector for Stability AI API Key.
• Azure Cognito OAuth Credentials – Added a new detector for AWS Cognito OAuth credentials.
• Azure Cognito OAuth Credentials with Host – Added detector with host-specific checks and checker.
• Artifactory Access Token – Allow for dashes in JFrog Artifactory hostnames.
• Artifactory Basic Auth Credentials – Allow for dashes in JFrog Artifactory hostnames.
• Artifactory Reference Token with Host – Allow for dashes in JFrog Artifactory hostnames.
• Artifactory Token with Host – Allow for dashes in JFrog Artifactory hostnames.
• GitLab Feature Flags Client Token with Project ID – Detect Gitlab feature flags tokens and associated project id.
• Kubernetes JWT with Host – New detector for Kubernetes JWT with host.
• GitLab Trigger Token – Add detector for GitLab Trigger Tokens.
• Brave Search API Key – Brave Search API keys.
• GitLab Deploy Token – GitLab deploy tokens.
• Firecrawl API Key – Firecrawl API keys.
• Dify API Key – Dify API keys.
• GitLab Runner Authentication Token – GitLab runner authentication tokens.
• Ubidots API Key – Ubidots API keys.
• Vapi API Key – Vapi API keys.
• Llama Cloud API Key – Llama Cloud API keys.
• Azure Cosmos DB Credentials – Extend host pattern to improve recall.
• GitLab Token – Restrict detector pattern to reduce false positives.
• ODBC Connection String – Improve ODBC connection string precision.

New or Updated Checkers

• Various new and updated checkers accompany the new detectors, including host-specific and project-id aware checkers, improving verification and reducing false positives. See each detector for the exact checker entries.

  Release Date: July 25, 2025

This release introduces new detectors for Weights & Biases API keys and Mercado Pago access tokens, along with significant improvements to existing detectors including Azure subscription keys and Bitbucket access tokens.

New Detectors

• Weights & Biases API Key – Detects API keys for Weights & Biases services.
• Bitbucket App Password – New detector for Bitbucket app passwords to improve recall.
• Mercado Pago Access Token – Detects access tokens for Mercado Pago payment services.

New Checkers These checkers are implemented to verify the detected secrets, adding another layer of security and ensuring their validity and correct application:

• Mercado Pago Access Token

Detector Improvements

• Azure Subscription Key – Improved precision of Azure subscription key detector.
• X AI API Key – Properly report disabled API keys as invalid.
• Bitbucket Access Token – Restricted the detector to detect only Bitbucket repositories access tokens.
• CodeClimate Key – Deprecated CodeClimate key checker.

  Release Date: July 15, 2025

This release introduces new detectors for GitLab incoming mail tokens, Coze personal access tokens, Tavus API keys, and more. It also includes significant improvements to existing detectors and analyzers, such as those for Zendesk, Sendinblue, and Algolia, enhancing detection accuracy and performance.

New Detectors

• GitLab Incoming Mail Token – Detects tokens used for GitLab incoming mail.
• Coze Personal Access Token – Detects personal access tokens for Coze services.
• Tavus API Key – Recognizes API keys for Tavus services.
• Heroku Platform Key – Detects prefixed variants of Heroku Platform Keys.
• SSH Credentials – New detector ssh_password_with_port allows matching SSH passwords with ports.
• Tableau Cloud PAT – Detects personal access tokens for Tableau Cloud.
• Notion Integration Token v2 – Detects the new Notion token format.

New Checkers These checkers are implemented to verify the detected secrets, adding another layer of security and ensuring their validity and correct application:

• Coze Personal Access Token
• Tavus API Key
• Heroku Platform Key
• Tableau Cloud PAT
• Notion Integration Token v2
• Salesforce OAuth2

Detector Improvements

• Google OAuth2 Keys – Improved precision for Google OAuth2 detector.
• Zendesk Token – ZendeskTokenAnalyzer has been rewritten in Rust for improved performance.
• Sendinblue Key – SendinblueSecretAnalyzer has been rewritten in Rust.
• Generic High Entropy Secret – No longer considers IDs in ServiceNow migration files as secrets.
• Algolia Keys – AlgoliaKeysSecretAnalyzer has been rewritten in Rust.
• Fastly Personal Token – FastlySecretAnalyzer has been rewritten in Rust.
• [Hugging Face User Access] – Migrated analyzer to Rust for improved performance.

Engine Enhancements

• All JWT detectors will now only catch signed JWTs, enhancing security.

  Release Date: June 16, 2025

This release introduces several new detectors for Kubernetes user certificates, NVIDIA API keys, and various other services such as Alchemy, OpenRouter, and Duffel. We've also made improvements to existing detectors for enhanced detection accuracy and reduced false positives.

New Detectors

• Kubernetes User Certificate with Port – Extracts port numbers for Kubernetes user certificates.
• NVIDIA API Key – Detects API keys for NVIDIA services.
• Alchemy API Key v2 – Identifies API keys for Alchemy services.
• OpenRouter API Key – Detects API keys for OpenRouter services.
• Duffel API Key – Recognizes API keys for Duffel services.
• Apify Token – Captures tokens for Apify services.
• Jina API Key – Detects API keys for Jina services.
• Deno Account Token – Identifies tokens for Deno accounts.
• Segment Workspace Key v2 – Detects workspace keys for Segment services.
• Resend API Key – Recognizes API keys for Resend services.
• VKontakte Access Token – Detects access tokens for VKontakte services.
• Fireworks AI API Key – Captures API keys for Fireworks AI services.

New Checkers These checkers are implemented to verify the detected secrets, adding another layer of security and ensuring their validity and correct application:

• Kubernetes User Certificate with Port
• Alchemy API Key v2
• OpenRouter API Key
• Duffel API Key
• Apify Token
• Jina API Key
• Deno Account Token
• Resend API Key
• VKontakte Access Token
• Fireworks AI API Key

Detector Improvements

• Generic High Entropy Secret – Removed AWS ECR images that were misclassified as secrets.
• Google OAuth2 Keys – Improved regex for better detection accuracy.
• Checkout Secret Key – Updated endpoint to avoid deprecated usage.
• Checkout Sandbox Secret Key – Enhanced pattern and updated endpoint for improved accuracy.
• Bunny.net API Key – Fixed checker for better validation.
• Dify API Key – Updated checker endpoint for enhanced detection.

  Release Date: May 29, 2025

In our latest release, we have focused on refining our detection capabilities and introducing new tools to enhance the security of your digital assets. This update includes a new detector for GitLab feature flags tokens, along with significant improvements to existing detectors for AMQP credentials, Confluent keys, and Azure services.

New Detectors

• GitLab Feature Flags Client Token – Detects tokens used for managing feature flags in GitLab projects, crucial for controlling feature rollouts and ensuring smooth deployment processes.

Detector Improvements

• AMQP Credentials – Detector Upgrade: Enhanced multimatch selection to reduce false positive combinations, vital for secure message queuing in distributed systems.
• Confluent Keys – Detector Upgrade: Improved multimatch selection for better accuracy and fewer false positives, essential for managing access to Kafka clusters.
• Generic High Entropy Secret – Detector Upgrade: Excludes secrets ending with '.certificate' from being reported, reducing noise by ignoring non-sensitive certificates.
• Artifactory Token – Analyzer Upgrade: Improved stability by preventing crashes when analyzing secrets with multiple scopes, key for managing and securing software artifacts.
• Microsoft Azure Storage Connection String – Checker Upgrade: Enhanced to accept additional fields, crucial for accessing and managing Azure storage resources securely.
• Microsoft Azure Storage Account Key – Detector Upgrade: Increased precision, reducing false positives, critical for safeguarding data in cloud storage.

Miscellaneous

• Established a priority rule favoring the confluent_api_keys detector over amqp_assignment and amqp_assignment_attached_port detectors.

  Release Date: May 20, 2025

In this release, we've focused on improving detection capabilities for Azure services, given their importance in cloud infrastructure. By introducing new detectors for Azure Entra ID tokens, Communication Services, and App Configuration connection strings, we aim to strengthen the protection of sensitive Azure credentials. These enhancements are essential for maintaining robust security, enabling organizations to use Azure's features safely.

New Detectors

• Azure Entra ID Tokens – Detects tokens used for authentication within Azure's identity management service, Entra ID.
• Azure Communication Services Connection Strings – Identifies connection strings for Azure's comprehensive communication platform.
• Azure DevOps Personal Access Token – Recognizes personal access tokens used to authenticate with Azure DevOps.
• Laravel Encryption Key – Detects encryption keys used in Laravel applications for data security.
• Azure App Configuration Connection String – Identifies connection strings for managing application settings in Azure.
• X AI API Keys – Detects API keys for accessing X AI's artificial intelligence services.

Detector Improvements

• Microsoft Azure Storage Connection String – Detector Upgrade: Improved regex precision for more accurate detection.
• ODBC Connection String – Detector Upgrade: Enhanced regex precision to better identify ODBC connection strings.
• Jira Token – Detector Upgrade: Corrected host regex to accurately match ports.
• SMB Credentials – Detector Upgrade: Now allows percent sign as a separator between username and password in host matches.
• Octopus API Key – Checker Upgrade: Updated to use the correct API endpoint, resolving issues with secret validity checks.

  Release Date: April 29, 2025

As AI adoption accelerates across organizations, securing API keys for platforms like Perplexity AI and Anthropic becomes increasingly critical. This update introduces specialized detectors for these emerging AI services alongside improvements to existing detectors and Azure cloud components.

New Detectors

• Perplexity AI API Keys – Added a new detector for Perplexity AI API keys.
• Azure SignalR Connection String – Introduced a new detector for Azure SignalR Connection Strings.
• Azure Event Grid Access Key – Added new detectors for Azure Event Grid Access Keys and a New Checker for the azure_event_grid_access_key_with_host detector.
• Anthropic Admin Keys – Introduced a new detector and New Checker for Anthropic admin keys.
• GitGuardian Platform Magic Link – Added a new detector for GitGuardian Platform Magic Links.

Detector Improvements

• LDAP Credentials – Checker Upgrade: Improved the LDAP checker to better distinguish between connection errors and invalid credentials. Updated ldap_credentials_assignment_with_dn to remove false positives.
• JSON Web Token – Detector Upgrade: The detector will now detect all JWTs regardless of their contents.
• Cloudinary API Keys – Detector Upgrade: Extended charset of cloudinary_api_key_config to improve recall.
• Auth0 Keys – Detector Upgrade: Improved recall of the detector to detect more domains.
• Claude API Key – Detector Upgrade: Refined regex for Claude API keys.
• Riot Games API Key – Checker Updated: Banlist checker will be deleted.
• LINE Notify Token – Checker Updated: Banlist checker as the service has been discontinued.

Browse all past GitGuardian detection engine releases below, including new and modified detectors.

December 23, 2024​

Secrets Detection​

• Secrets detection engine upgrade to version 2.129:
  • Added 1 detector:
    • GitLab OAuth Application Token
  • Modified 4 detectors:
    • Base64 Generic High Entropy Secret
    • GitGuardian Test Token Checked
    • MSSQL Credentials
    • Zendesk Token

December 12, 2024​

Secrets Detection​

• Secrets detection engine upgrade to version 2.128:
  • Added 4 detectors:
    • Jenkins API token
    • chpasswd Username Password
    • Nessus Agent Key
    • Statsig Server Secret Key
  • Modified 1 detector:
    • FTP credentials assignment

November 18, 2024​

Secrets Detection​

• Secrets detection engine upgrade to version 2.126:
  • Added 4 detectors:
    • X-API-Key Secret
    • Azure Functions App Key Header
    • Azure Functions App Key Query Parameter

November 4, 2024​

Secrets Detection​

• Secrets detection engine upgrade to version 2.125:
  • Added 4 detectors:
    • Cloudflare Tunnel Credentials
    • InfluxDB Token
    • InfluxDB Token with Host
    • Rails Master Key Assignment

October 21, 2024​

Secrets Detection​

• Secrets detection engine upgrade to version 2.124:
  • Added 1 detector:
    • BitBucket App Password
  • Modified 5 detectors:
    • Generic CLI Option Secret
    • MongoDB CLI Credentials
    • MySQL CLI Credentials
    • PostgreSQL CLI Credentials
    • Redis CLI Password

October 7, 2024​

Secrets Detection​

• Secrets detection engine upgrade to version 2.122: Enhance recall and coverage while expanding the range of detectable secrets with new and updated detectors.
  • Added 3 detectors:
    • Atlassian Access Token
    • Bitbucket Access Token
    • Mistral AI API Key
  • Modified 1 detector:
    • Base64 Generic High Entropy Secret

August 26, 2024​

Secrets Detection​

Secrets detection engine upgrade to v2.120: Enhance recall and coverage while expanding the range of detectable secrets with updated detectors.

• Added 2 detectors:
  • Generic Password YAML
  • Buildkite API Token V2
• Modified 6 detectors:
  • Generic Database Assignment
  • Base64 Generic High Entropy Secret
  • Generic Password
  • Username Password
  • DigitalOcean Spaces Keys
  • reCAPTCHA Key

Note concerning the reCAPTCHA Key detector: Due to changes in the behavior of some Google APIs, we are no longer able to ensure the validity of reCaptcha keys. As this detector could be quite "noisy" the validity of the keys was a mandatory prerequisite in the detection flow and this can no longer be the case. We have however improved this detector to be as efficient as possible.

August 14, 2024​

Secrets Detection​

• Secrets detection engine upgrade to version 2.117: Enhance recall and coverage while expanding the range of detectable secrets with new and updated detectors.
  • Added 2 detectors: Serpapi Token and Tavily API Key
  • Modified 1 detector: GitLab Token

July 15, 2024​

Secrets Detection​

• Secrets detection engine upgrade to version 2.116: Enhance recall and coverage while expanding the range of detectable secrets with new and updated detectors.

  Added 1 detector

  • JetBrains TeamCity config value
  Modified 3 generic detectors

  • Base64 Generic High Entropy Secret
  • Base64 Generic High Entropy Secret
  • Generic Password
  Modified 78 specific detectors

  We have enhanced our approach to searching for the prefix linked to the secret, considering more complex scenarios. This allows us to improve recall.

  
  

  • Adafruit IO API Key
  • Airtable API Key v2
  • Alchemy API Key
  • Amazon MWS Token
  • Checkout.com Sandbox API Secret Key
  • CircleCI Personal Token
  • Claude API Key
  • Clojars Deploy Token
  • Cloudinary API key URL
  • Contentful Content Management API Key
  • DigitalOcean OAuth Application Token V1
  • DigitalOcean Personal Access Token V1
  • DigitalOcean Refresh Token V1
  • Discord Webhook URL
  • Docker Swarm Join Token
  • Docker Swarm Unlock Key
  • EasyPost API Key
  • Firebase Cloud Messaging API Key
  • Figma Personal Access Token
  • Flutterwave API Key
  • Frame IO Token
  • GitHub fine-grained personal access token
  • GitHub Oauth Access Token
  • GitHub Personal Access Token
  • GitHub Server-to-server Token
  • GitHub User-to-server Token
  • GitLab Token
  • Grafana Cloud API Key
  • Grafana Service Account Token
  • Groq API Key
  • Heartland API key
  • Langchain API Key
  • Linear API Key
  • Base64 Midtrans API Key
  • Notion Integration Token
  • npm Token Prefixed
  • Nylas API Key
  • OpenAI Project API Key
  • Paystack Key
  • Plaid Access Token
  • PlanetScale OAuth Token
  • Postman API Key
  • PubNub Publish Key
  • Readme API Key
  • Riot Games API Key
  • RubyGems.org API Key
  • Samsara API Key
  • SendinBlue Key v3
  • Sentry Org Auth Token
  • Sentry User Auth Token v2
  • Shippo API token
  • Shopify Generic App Token
  • Shopify Private App Token
  • Slack App Token
  • Slack Configuration Refresh Token
  • Slack Configuration Token
  • Slack User Token
  • Sourcegraph Access Token v3
  • Sourcegraph Enterprise subscription Token
  • Sourcegraph License Key Token
  • Sourcegraph Access Token v2
  • Sourcegraph User Gateway Access Token
  • Sqreen Token
  • Square Access Token
  • Stripe Webhook Secret
  • Tailscale API Key
  • Tailscale OAuth Key
  • Tailscale Pre-Authentication Key
  • Tailscale SCIM Key
  • Tailscale Webhook Key
  • Typeform API Token
  • Ubidots Token
  • Vercel Blob Token
  • WakaTime API Key
  • WePay token
  • Yandex Predictor API Key
  • Zillow Key
  • Zuplo API Key

June 17, 2024​

Secrets Detection​

• Secrets detection engine upgrade to version 2.115: Enhance recall and coverage while expanding the range of detectable secrets with new and updated detectors.
  • 4 detectors added: Sentry Org Auth Token, Sentry User Auth Token v2, Slack Configuration Refresh Token, Slack Configuration Token
  • 5 detectors updated: Equinix Authentication Token, Sentry User Auth Token v1, Signifyd API Key, Slack Bot Token, Slack User Token

June 4, 2024​

Secrets Detection​

• Secrets detection engine upgrade to version 2.114: Enhance recall and coverage while expanding the range of detectable secrets with new and updated detectors.
  • 9 detectors added: ASP.NET Decryption Key, ASP.NET Validation Key, Langchain API Key, OpenAI Project API Key, OpenAI Service Account, Sourcegraph Enterprise Subscription Token, Sourcegraph License Key Token, Sourcegraph User Gateway Access Token, WakaTime API Key
  • 4 detectors updated: Sentry Token, Generic Database assignment, Generic FTP Assignment, Generic Username Password

May 20, 2024​

Secrets Detection​

• Secrets detection engine: upgrade to version 2.113 with the addition of 5 new detectors (Nylas API Key,Sourcegraph Access Token v3, Duplo Cloud API Key,Fernet Key, Vercel Blob Token) and the improvement of 10 detectors (Base64 Generic High Entropy Secret, Generic Database Assignment, Generic High Entropy Secret, PostgreSQL CLI Credentials, Postgres assignment attached port, PostgreSQL Pgpass Credentials, PostgreSQL URI, Sourcegraph Access Token v2, Yelp API Key, Google Gemini API Key).

April 23, 2024​

Secrets Detection​

• Secrets detection engine: upgrade to version 2.111 with the addition of 3 new detectors (Grafana Cloud API Key, Groq API Key, Nx Cloud Token) and the improvement of 1 detector (Generic High Entropy Secret)

April 15, 2024​

Secrets Detection​

• Secrets detection engine: Generic CLI Secret and Generic Database Assignment detectors are now supported and active by default for data sources other than VCS.
• Secrets detection engine: upgrade to version 2.110 with the addition of 4 new detectors (Dropbox Key, Midtrans API Key, Sanity Token, Zuplo API Key) and the improvements of 3 detectors (Artifactory Token, GoCardless API Key, Plivo Auth Tokens).

April 8, 2024​

Secrets Detection​

• Secrets detection engine: upgrade to version 2.109 with the addition of 2 new detectors (Azure Open AI API key, Kubernetes Docker Secret) and the improvement of 4 detectors (GitLab Token, Google API Key, Okta Keys, Slack Bot Token)

March 18, 2024​

Secrets Detection​

• Secrets detection engine: upgrade to version 2.108 with the addition of 3 new detectors (Snowflake API credentials, Replicate User Access Token, Workato API Key) and the improvement of 3 detectors (Rails Master Key, Generic password, Generic High Entropy secret)