GitLab has announced the release of the core protocol fuzz testing engine of Peach as GitLab Protocol Fuzzer Community Edition, and it’s open source!

This edition comes with many capabilities previously only available with a commercial Peach license. It contains the engine to run and orchestrate fuzz tests as well as the pieces needed to define your own protocols.

GitLab has plans to add additional capabilities to the Community Edition in the future and integrate it into GitLab the product.

“We will keep our stewardship policy in mind as we determine which tiers of GitLab that specific features are added to. Some of the capabilities you can look forward to are industry-specific features, tighter integration with the CI process and vulnerability management, as well as pre-built support for many common network protocols,” explained a blog post.

In June 2020, GitLab announced the acquisition of Peach Tech, a security software firm specializing in protocol fuzz testing and dynamic application security testing (DAST) API testing, and Fuzzit, a continuous fuzz testing solution providing coverage-guided testing.