---
id: 1970
title: "Announcing the community-oriented osquery fork, osql"
source_domain: blog.trailofbits.com
source_url: "https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/04/18/announcing-the-community-oriented-osquery-fork-osql/"
published_at: "2019-04-18T16:24:51Z"
tags: ["open-source", "endpoint-security", "community", "governance", "osquery", "osql"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/1970"
lang: en
---

# Announcing the community-oriented osquery fork, osql

## Summary

After Facebook's osquery refactor broke community tooling and stalled contribution reviews, Trail of Bits announces osql, a community soft fork tracking upstream while shipping ignored pull requests.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.trailofbits.com
- **Published:** 2019-04-18T16:24:51Z
- **Original:** https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/04/18/announcing-the-community-oriented-osquery-fork-osql/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/1970