# osquery 5.21.0

- Product: osquery (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/osquery)
- Vendor: osquery
- Date: 2025-12-18
- Version: 5.21.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/osquery/osquery/releases/tag/5.21.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/osquery/releases/5.21.0

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- **changed** — Improve password_policy table
- **changed** — Improve file traversal performance and correctness
- **added** — Add support for Login Items and Background Services on modern macOS
- **added** — Add last_connected_automatic and last_connected_manual columns to wifi_networks table
- **changed** — Refresh resolver state on interval to pick up DNS changes
- **added** — Add new darwin certificate trust settings table
- **fixed** — Fix crash when querying carves table with carves larger than 2GB
- **added** — Add support for gzip content-encoding in HTTP client

##### What's Changed
* Improvements to password_policy table by @zwass in https://github.com/osquery/osquery/pull/8705
* Improve file traversal performance and correctness by @Krechals in https://github.com/osquery/osquery/pull/8704
* Add support for Login Items and Background Services on modern macOS by @zwass in https://github.com/osquery/osquery/pull/8726
* Add last_connected_automatic and last_connected_manual to wifi_networks table by @zwass in https://github.com/osquery/osquery/pull/8728
* Refresh resolver state on interval to pick up DNS changes  by @zwass in https://github.com/osquery/osquery/pull/8716
* Add new darwin certificate trust settings table by @Micah-Kolide in https://github.com/osquery/osquery/pull/8715
* Fix crash when querying carves table with carves larger than 2GB by @ksykulev in https://github.com/osquery/osquery/pull/8732
* Add support for gzip content-encoding in HTTP client  by @zwass in https://github.com/osquery/osquery/pull/8731

##### New Contributors
* @Krechals made their first contribution in https://github.com/osquery/osquery/pull/8704

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/osquery/osquery/compare/5.20.0...5.21.0