Draft August Newsletter
Recent CAS Deployers
We'd like to welcome the latest CAS deployers to the CAS community!
- Princeton University
- Molecular
- Southville I.S., Philippines
- Arcadja s.r.l.
- Experian Interactive Media
- University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- University of Calgary
You can see the complete list here: http://www.ja-sig.org/products/cas/community/deployers/index.html
If you're not on the list and would like to be, contact ~battags
Governance Model Goes Before Board of Directors
The CAS community has been hard at work defining and refining their version of a steering committee. The steering committee is modeled after the uPortal Steering Committee (with some minor twists!). The governance model goes before the August board meeting.
Steering Committee Nominations
In parallel with getting approval from the JASIG Board for the JASIG CAS Steering Committee, we've put out a request for nominations (including self-nominations) for the JASIG CAS Steering Committee. Submit your bio, vision, goals, experience, etc. to Scott Battaglia. The JASIG membership will vote on the nominees to be included in the JASIG CAS Steering Committee. The goal is to have this in place before the October UnConference
CAS Roadmap and Planning
While the steering committee gets underway, a group of CAS developers, deployers, and other interested parties have started to have talks about the future of CAS. These conversations are open to everyone and the meeting notes are freely available. The last meeting notes are available here:
http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CAS/2008-07-25+Conference+Call
This group of people will be holding another another conference call on Friday, August 15th from 1 to 2 pm. If you're interested in joining, please contact ~battags or ~benno
We encourage you to contribute however you can to this process, whether its on-list, on the phone, or via the wiki!
CAS 3.3 Final
We're pleased to announce the final release of CAS Server 3.3. CAS Server 3.3 includes numerous bug fixes, enhancements, and new features including:
Bug Fixes
- LDAP - support "/" in DNs
- Move all files that require Spring LDAP to the LDAP module
- Data too long for column in Services Management tool
- Properly escaping all example JSP pages
- Language fixes for German
- Properly populate meta data on re-authentication
Enhancements
- Descriptions of all Spring configuration files
- Google Accounts Support upgrade to support latest Google Apps
- Requires Maven 2.0.9 to build
- Library upgrades including PersonDirectory 1.1.2, JBossCache 2, Spring Security 2.0 and Inspektr 0.7.0
- Transforming Principal names with SPNEGO
- Added Logging to JpaTicketRegistry
- Service Management Tool can ignore custom principals
New Features
- RESTful API
- Memcached-backed Ticket Registry
- Terracotta Support
- Trusted LDAP module for trusted network clients
- Slovenian language support
- Support for Services Management via LDAP
Thanks to everyone who reported bugs and helped test!
You can download the entire release from our web site: http://www.ja-sig.org/products/cas/downloads/
Some information on upgrading from CAS 3.2 to 3.3 can be found here: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CASUM/Upgrading
phpCAS Client 1.0 Final
The 1.0 release of the phpCAS client is now out with some new features including single sign out and being able to be PEAR-installable. Congrats to Pascal Aubry, Julien Marchal and Brett Bieber on the release! You can find out more info here: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CASC/phpCAS
Call for Development Team
While work continues on the 3.3 branch and discussions are still ongoing about the future CAS releases, we're pretty sure there will be one! Thus we're starting to gather developers, translators, UI experts, business analysts, etc. to start putting together design guidelines, rules, and documentation. Check out: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CAS/CAS4+Development If you're interested please contact ~battags
uPortal Update
Matt Peterson announced that uPortal 3 is now in production at the University of New England at Armidale, New South Wales, Australia. He reports that, "We successfully released uPortal 3.0.1 into production this morning at UNE, replacing uPortal 2.5.3. So far, so good! Our log files are far, far, far cleaner due to the improved code base of uP3. It is also snappier and more reliable. Thanks for everyone's input into issues we encountered on the way to this point." You can keep up to date on other uPortal 3 implementation efforts at http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/vQXP.
The uPortal Steering Committee is working with Erik Olsson of UC Irvine on making their Announcements Portlet an official JASIG sandbox project. Currently it is available at http://wiki.vcsa.uci.edu/bin/view/Portal/AnnouncementsPortlet. As more portlets become available through JASIG, we would like to bundle them with uPortal.
This month the uPortal steering committee responded to a request for fact-checking by CMS Watch of a draft of the uPortal chapter of their proprietary Enterprise Portals report. Thanks are due to Colin Clark, Jonathan Markow, and Andrew Petro for collaboration on that response. The Enterprise Portals Report is available from CMS Watch for a fee. The committee is presently working to refactor its responses to the CMS Watch draft into improvements to the uPortal documentation, primarily in the uPortal manual, alongside other documentation improvements. The uPortal documentation is free and publicly available.