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Faction 1.6 Released

🎉 Faction 1.6 is Here — Powerful New Features for Open Source and Enterprise Users

We’re excited to announce the release of Faction 1.6 — a feature-packed update that brings major improvements across both the Open Source and Enterprise editions. From UI polish to deep customization enhancements, this release makes Faction more flexible, powerful, and easier to use.

🔓 Open Source Improvements

Faction’s community edition just got even better with these quality-of-life upgrades:

  • Custom SSO Links for SAML and OIDC

    You can now configure direct login links that send users straight to your SSO platform for a faster, cleaner login experience.

  • Improved Display of Custom Variables in Assessments

    We’ve cleaned up how Custom Variables appear inside assessments, making reports easier to read and maintain.

  • Underline Support in Text Editors and Markdown

    You can now underline text in the Rich Text Editor, and we’ve added custom markdown syntax to support underlining too.

  • Dynamic Saving of Custom Fields on Summary Pages

    No more clicking “Save” after every edit — summary page fields now save automatically as you go.

  • Clear All Notifications in One Click

    Your dashboard just got tidier with a new option to dismiss all notifications at once.

  • New REST API Endpoint for Assessment Stats

    Programmatically access high-level assessment data with our new stats endpoint — perfect for dashboards and external reporting.

🏢 Enterprise Enhancements

Faction 1.6 also delivers powerful features for enterprise users:

  • Rich Text Custom Variables (Assessment & Vulnerabilities)

    You can now insert richly formatted text anywhere in your assessments or vulnerabilities using Custom Variables — unlocking dynamic, styled content across your reporting process.

  • Searchable Boilerplate Templates in Rich Text

    Reuse standardized content with ease. Just search and insert predefined boilerplate text blocks into your reports with a click — perfect for compliance, recurring language, or team-wide standardization.

Faction 1.6 is a big step forward for teams who value precision, repeatability, and customization in their security assessments. As always, we’re grateful to the community and our customers for the feedback that helped shape this release.

👉 Update your instance now or check the changelog for full technical details.

🎁 Enterprise customers are automatically upgraded!

Questions or feedback? We’d love to hear from you.

— The Faction Team

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Writing an Automated PenTest Report

This post will explore all the features in Faction that you can use to convert your report templates to Faction automated report templates and create boilerplate text that is easy to integrate into your reports. This will save you hours of time so you can spend more time hacking apps! This will also briefly touch on how to use Faction as an ASPM solution to track your findings to remediation.

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Faction App Store

✨ We are excited to release the first iteration of the Faction App Store! ✨

The App Store is where developers can build custom integrations with Faction. These can be anything from sending vulnerabilities to external bug trackers to adding custom graphics to your automated pentest reports!

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Faction Boilerplates

If you have been doing penetration testing for any length of time you probably have a personal database of vulnerability descriptions, recommendations as well as other text snippets you will inject into various places of your reports. What if, Instead of keeping these in separate files on various computers, they were all included in your reporting software?!@! 🤯

Faction IS your database for global boilerplate, default vulnerability templates, personal flare, and just about anything else you can imagine (well...sorta 🤔). Let's walk through how this is done.

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Hello World

Hey! Just starting the FACTION blog. Stay tuned here for new updates, tips, and tricks on getting the most out of FACTION. 🎉

FACTION 1.2 will be released this month (March'24) with loads of new features. The most notable features are the inclusion of the Faction App Store which will make it simple for developers to write extensions and integrations.