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v0.17.0

Repository: NVIDIA/garak

Tag: v0.17.0

Published: 2026-09-09T18:56:03Z

Prerelease: no

Release notes:

What's Changed

New features

  • EU AI Act Mapping by @erickgalinkin in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2094

This new mapping provides reference tags to surface and group probes results that relate to various categories of risk called out in the EU AI Act.

Improved plugins

  • Forward generation parameters to Ollama via options dict by @Panchal-Sahil in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/1993
  • Add ollama auth and custom client kwargs by @TheRisenPhoenix in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2025
  • fix(detectors): guard MarkdownExfilContent against missing terms note by @anxkhn in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/1935
  • fix(detectors): default a detector's name to its class name string by @EastZeus in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2054
  • fix(detectors): avoid ZeroDivisionError in MarkdownExfilContent by @EastZeus in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2055
  • fix(probes): guard badchars ASCII selection against max_ascii_variants=1 by @manunicholasjacob in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2012
  • detectors: ground AgentBreaker judge in the victim's tool contract by @koralchapnik in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/1970
  • fix(detectors): _extract_json always returns a dict for agent_breaker verdicts by @feiiiiii5 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2044
  • fix: degrade gracefully on malformed agent_breaker analysis shapes by @feiiiiii5 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2069
  • fix(nim): retry transient HTTP errors and report actual status code by @Aftabbs in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2019
  • fix(detectors): load the right category for SurgeProfanityRacialEthnic by @Yeagerist0 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2146
  • detectors: type-validate agent_breaker judge verdicts by @VaggelisGian in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2121
  • generators: make the ollama empty-response retry actually retry by @VaggelisGian in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2122
  • Fix: indefinite hang on OpenAICompatible unreachable targets by @ABeltramo in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2153
  • detectors: packagehallucination misses packages after the first in import a, b by @WatchTree-19 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/1991
  • fix(detectors): packagehallucination misses dotted and indented imports by @BarneyChambers in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2108
  • fix(detectors): preserve TriggerListDetector result alignment by @SarveshaKumarKS in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2000
  • fix(probes): correct Markdown exfiltration link templates by @Entity0-1 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2142

Documentation

  • Prefer IntentProbe for intent-agnostic probe contributions by @patriciapampanelli in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2023
  • docs: update deprecated CLI flag references by @motodriver in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2135
  • docs: fix typos in Sphinx documentation and probe/report strings by @xieyanran in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2130

Tuning & fixes

  • Fix: unreachable Conversation branch in Probe.probe() pre-translation notes by @adityasingh2400 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2022
  • fix: restore unreachable no-default-class error in load_plugin by @manunicholasjacob in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2011
  • housekeeping - implement and describe 'needs-triage' process by @leondz in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2060
  • housekeeping - reinforce new issues getting needs-triage by @leondz in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2064
  • analyze: load the bundled detector metrics file by @immu4989 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2004
  • fix: stop FileDetector format mismatch from aborting the run by @patriciapampanelli in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2029
  • fix(analyze): rebuild confidence intervals from attack hits by @nightcityblade in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2050
  • Task: drop support for python 3.10, add support for python 3.13 by @jmartin-tech in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2084
  • pin anthropic python client until compatible by @jmartin-tech in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2098
  • Additional intent detector mappings by @aishwaryap in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/1952
  • fix(cli): set UTF-8 stdout in the console entry point by @MohammedAlkindi in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2096
  • always import nltk wrapper for cache location consistency by @jmartin-tech in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2150
  • fix(analyze): preserve attempt uuids when aggregating reports by @sushantlokhande14 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2158
  • fix: correct typos in comments, docstrings, and log messages by @xieyanran in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2166

New Contributors

  • @Panchal-Sahil made their first contribution in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/1993
  • @TheRisenPhoenix made their first contribution in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2025
  • @immu4989 made their first contribution in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2004
  • @nightcityblade made their first contribution in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2050
  • @EastZeus made their first contribution in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2054
  • @koralchapnik made their first contribution in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/1970
  • @Aftabbs made their first contribution in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2019
  • @Yeagerist0 made their first contribution in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2146
  • @motodriver made their first contribution in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2135
  • @MohammedAlkindi made their first contribution in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2096
  • @VaggelisGian made their first contribution in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2121
  • @xieyanran made their first contribution in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2130
  • @BarneyChambers made their first contribution in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2108
  • @sushantlokhande14 made their first contribution in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2158
  • @SarveshaKumarKS made their first contribution in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2000
  • @Entity0-1 made their first contribution in https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/pull/2142

Full Changelog: https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/compare/v0.16.0...v0.17.0