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what

This publishes the release announcement for CRS v4.30.0 and v4.25.2 LTS, both released on 2026-10-02, and updates the homepage LTS banner from 4.25.1 to 4.25.2 so that it links to the new post. The post follows the structure of the 4.28.0 / 4.25.1 / 3.3.10 announcement. It covers the three security advisories published alongside the releases (GHSA-575j-qr6p-9763, GHSA-89h9-2j8h-9gp2 and GHSA-qmx4-jfcv-fgww) with their impact, workarounds and credits, plus the trailing-slash upload bypass fixed in #4815. It then lists the v4.30.0 changes and the v4.25.2 backports, and ends with upgrade notes. The banner text also now says that CRS 3.3.x has reached end of life, instead of "reaches end of life this month".

why

Both releases are published, signed and QA-tested, and the advisories went public today, so users need the announcement and the homepage should point at the current LTS release. The post calls out two changes operators may trip over: the removed per-file response compression rules (950010 and 951010–956010) that exclusions may reference, and the new default JSON content-type handling on the LTS line. Rule details were checked against the v4.30.0 and v4.25.2 tags, and the fix credits against the merge commits. hugo list all confirms the post's permalink is /20261002/crs-versions-4.30.0-and-4.25.2-lts-released/, which is the URL the banner links to. A full local render wasn't possible because Dart Sass isn't installed here, so the deploy preview is the first full render.

refs

coreruleset/coreruleset releases v4.30.0 and v4.25.2. Advisories GHSA-575j-qr6p-9763, GHSA-89h9-2j8h-9gp2, GHSA-qmx4-jfcv-fgww. Previous release post: #523. Previous banner update: #542.

ai disclosure

• tools used: Claude (Opus 5.5)
• assisted with: drafting the release post from the CHANGES.md entries, the advisory texts and the merged PRs, and updating the banner wording
• review performed: checked rule ids, targets and markers against the v4.30.0 tag, cross-checked fix authors against the merge commits, confirmed the post URL with hugo list all; the rendered page still needs a visual check in the deploy preview

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Published release notes for CRS 4.30.0 and 4.25.2 LTS, covering security fixes, detection updates, configuration changes, and upgrade guidance.
  • Updated the LTS announcement to highlight CRS 4.25.2 and its security fixes.
  • Clarified that CRS 3.3.x has reached end of life and recommends migrating to a supported release.

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Walkthrough

Adds a release announcement for CRS 4.30.0 and 4.25.2 LTS. Updates the English LTS banner and CRS 3.3.x end-of-life notice.

Changes

CRS release updates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Release announcement content/blog/2026-10-02-crs-versions-4-30-0-4-25-2-lts-released.md	Adds shared security fixes, release-specific changes, upgrade guidance, and release links for CRS 4.30.0 and 4.25.2 LTS.
Release and end-of-life banners i18n/en.yaml	Updates the LTS banner to CRS 4.25.2, describes its listed fixes, updates the announcement link, and states that CRS 3.3.x has reached end of life.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c9977

The “Get CRS 4.25.2 LTS” button leads to the 4.25.1 release page, which the announcement identifies as affected by a charset bypass. Correct the destination before merging.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to c9977

The change affects 2 systems.

Changed systems: content, i18n

Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Review details

Systems and components

• observed — content (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.
• observed — i18n (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in content/blog/2026-10-02-crs-versions-4-30-0-4-25-2-lts-released.md: Added a release announcement covering the two CRS releases, shared security fixes and workarounds, release-specific features and fixes, upgrade guidance, and download and support links.
• observed — Modified behavior in i18n/en.yaml: The LTS banner title changes from CRS 4.25.1 to CRS 4.25.2.
• observed — Modified behavior in i18n/en.yaml: The banner text updates the release version and describes three security vulnerabilities—a path-based command injection bypass, a charset allow-list bypass, and a multipart charset bypass—plus a file upload bypass and false-positive fixes. It replaces the prior XML attribute value bypass and Unix RCE ReDoS details and updates the announcement link. The CRS 3.3.x notice changes from advising migration planning before end of life to stating that end of life has been reached and directing current users to migrate now.
• observed — Modified behavior in i18n/en.yaml: The banner button label changes from “Get CRS 4.25.1 LTS” to “Get CRS 4.25.2 LTS.”

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 18

✅ Passed checks (18 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: publishing the CRS v4.30.0 and v4.25.2 LTS release post.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Regex Assembly Is The Source Of Truth	✅ Passed	Passed — not applicable. The pull request changes only the release blog post and i18n/en.yaml; it does not modify an @rx pattern in rules/*.conf or any path under regex-assembly/.
Rule Change Requires Go-Ftw Test Coverage	✅ Passed	Not applicable. The pull request changes only a blog post and i18n/en.yaml. It does not add or modify SecRule directives in rules/.conf or plugins/.conf, and it does not change regex-assembly patter…
Redos Risk & Re2 Compatibility	✅ Passed	Not applicable. The pull request changes only a Markdown release post and i18n/en.yaml; it does not add or modify @rx patterns, regex-assembly/*.ra, regexp.MustCompile, or Python re.compile …
False Positive Risk & Existing Coverage	✅ Passed	Passed: not applicable. The pull request changes only content/blog/2026-10-02-crs-versions-4-30-0-4-25-2-lts-released.md and i18n/en.yaml. It does not change rules/*.conf, plugins/*.conf, or `…
Crs Rule Metadata & Id Conventions	✅ Passed	Passed: not applicable. The pull request changes only content/blog/2026-10-02-crs-versions-4-30-0-4-25-2-lts-released.md and i18n/en.yaml. It does not add or modify a SecRule in rules/*.conf, …
Rule & Config Breaking Changes	✅ Passed	PASS — The review-scoped diff contains only a new release blog post and i18n/en.yaml banner text. It does not change CRS rule files, rule IDs, paranoia levels, crs-setup.conf.example, tags/message…
Ai Contribution Disclosure	✅ Passed	The PR body includes the required lowercase ## what, ## why, and ## refs sections and a concrete ## ai disclosure section. It identifies Claude (Opus 5.5), describes the generated release-po…
Owasp Security (Web, Api & Llm)	✅ Passed	PASS — The pull request changes only a new Markdown release post and localized banner text. The diff introduces no application code, authentication or authorization logic, API endpoints, secrets, depe…
Unpinned Dependencies & Actions	✅ Passed	Passed: not applicable. The pull request changes only a blog post and i18n/en.yaml; it does not change a dependency manifest, lockfile, Dockerfile, workflow, or pipeline file covered by this check.
Secrets, Payloads & Pii In Logs	✅ Passed	PASS — The pull request changes only a Markdown release post and the English LTS banner YAML. The diff adds documentation and translation text; it adds no logging, telemetry, error handling, test log,…
New Dependency Scrutiny	✅ Passed	The PR changes only a new Markdown release post and text in i18n/en.yaml. The authoritative diff adds no supported package manifest entries, GitHub Actions uses: steps, or Buildkite plugin reference…
Install & Build-Time Code Execution	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only a Markdown release post and the English localization YAML. The diff adds no Dockerfile, CI workflow, shell script, package lifecycle script, Terraform provisioner, …
Renovate: Config Present And Valid	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR changes only content/blog/2026-10-02-crs-versions-4-30-0-4-25-2-lts-released.md and i18n/en.yaml. It does not touch renovate.json, renovate.json5, or .github/. The PR head also …

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[fzipi]

Added a commit that demotes CRS v3 on the homepage. The hero's second button, "Get previous major: 3.3.10", now points at the supported LTS release ("Get LTS: 4.25.2", from lts_v4_version), and v3 moves to a small line under the buttons that marks 3.3.10 as end of life and links to its release page. The hero buttons now carry a small bottom margin, and the new .hero-legacy line carries the 50px/100px gap to the next section that the buttons used to. The markup and the compiled SCSS were checked locally, but a full render wasn't possible here, so please check the hero spacing in the Cloudflare preview, on desktop and on mobile.