Policy Audit Release 1.6 API

A new release of Qualys Policy Audit (PA Release 1.6), which is released in December 2025, includes new and updates to an existing API. This API notification highlights recently released changes, enabling you to identify use cases that can benefit from the updated APIs.

What’s New?

Get Posture Info API: Extended Support to exclude Extended Evidence

POST /pcrs/5.0/posture/postureInfo/

DTD or XSD changes: No

With this release, we have added support for extended evidence as a dedicated request parameter, giving users explicit control over whether to retrieve extended evidence.

Previously, extended evidence was always bundled with the evidence object when we set evidenceRequired=1.

Get Host ID API: Resolve Host IDs for Compliance Policies

GET /pcrs/5.0/posture/hostids/

DTD or XSD changes: No

With this release, we have included two new input parameters – assetDeploymentType and assetState. When selected, these parameters enable you to filter cloud-based hosts from compliance policies.

For more details, please refer to the release notes here: https://docs.qualys.com/en/vm/release-notes/mergedProjects/qualys_pa/pa/release_1_6_api.htm