# CrowdSec v1.7.8-rc1

- Product: CrowdSec (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/crowdsec)
- Vendor: CrowdSec
- Date: 2026-05-05
- Version: v1.7.8-rc1
- Original notes: https://github.com/crowdsecurity/crowdsec/releases/tag/v1.7.8-rc1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/crowdsec/releases/v1.7.8-rc1
- Labels: Pre-release; Platforms: Windows, Linux

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- **added** — WAF: OpenAPI schema validation
- **changed** — WAF: enforce body size limitation
- **changed** — Decision stream: move to chunked transfer by default
- **added** — cscli: add `--quick` flag to enroll command
- **changed** — Propose an alternative, cleaner configuration for appsec-config
- **fixed** — cscli metrics: don't attempt to create a DB client if there's no DB config
- **fixed** — papi: don't spam logs if chan is closed
- **fixed** — alerts: use single transaction when creating alert and all related items
- **changed** — db: add some missing indexes

##### New Features

* WAF: OpenAPI schema validation (#4097) @blotus

##### Improvements

* WAF: enforce body size limitation (#4355) @blotus
* Decision stream: move to chunked transfer by default (#4413) @blotus
* cscli: add `--quick` flag to enroll command (#4350) @blotus
* propose an alternative, cleaner configuration for appsec-config (#4397) @buixor

##### Bug Fixes

* cscli metrics: don't attempt to create a DB client if there's no DB config (#4451) @blotus
* papi: don't spam logs if chan is closed (#4439) @blotus
* alerts: use single transaction when creating alert and all related items (#4438) @blotus

##### Chore / Deps

* build(deps): bump the gomod group across 1 directory with 34 updates (#4453) @[dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot)
* build(deps): bump the github-actions group with 2 updates (#4447) @[dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot)
* build(deps): bump alpine from 3.21 to 3.23 in /build/docker in the docker group across 1 directory (#4441) @[dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot)
* build(deps): bump the github-actions group with 7 updates (#4443) @[dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot)
* build(deps): bump the uv group in /build/docker/test with 3 updates (#4442) @[dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot)
* db: add some missing indexes (#4435) @blotus
* Dependencies update (#4412) @blotus
* add PAPI metrics (#4411) @blotus
* build(deps): bump github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go from 1.47.0 to 1.54.0 (#4402) @[dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot)
* build(deps): bump docker/login-action from 4.0.0 to 4.1.0 (#4403) @[dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot)
* build(deps): bump github.com/google/go-querystring from 1.1.0 to 1.2.0 (#4400) @[dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot)
* build(deps): bump actions/setup-go from 6.3.0 to 6.4.0 (#4404) @[dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot)
* build(deps): bump github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/sqs from 1.42.3 to 1.42.25 (#4405) @[dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot)
* build(deps): bump release-drafter/release-drafter from 6.4.0 to 7.1.1 (#4381) @[dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot)
* build(deps): bump codecov/codecov-action from 5.5.2 to 6.0.0 (#4388) @[dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot)
* build(deps): bump schneegans/dynamic-badges-action from 1.7.0 to 1.8.0 (#4393) @[dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot)
* build(deps): bump astral-sh/setup-uv from 7.6.0 to 8.0.0 (#4394) @[dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot)
* build(deps): bump github/codeql-action from 4.33.0 to 4.35.1 (#4395) @[dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot)
* update dependabot config (#4440) @blotus
* build(deps): bump requests from 2.32.5 to 2.33.0 in /build/docker/test (#4389) @[dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot)
* build(deps): bump cryptography from 46.0.5 to 46.0.6 in /build/docker/test (#4391) @[dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot)
* build(deps): bump pygments from 2.19.2 to 2.20.0 in /build/docker/test (#4396) @[dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot)

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##### Installation

Take a look at the [installation instructions](https://doc.crowdsec.net/docs/getting_started/install_crowdsec).