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As the uPortal community expands globally, it is important that the JA-SIG organization grows and evolves in order to best serve the community, our institutional members, and commercial affiliates. The success of our new membership program will allow us to provide the product development planning and organizational structure needed to maintain uPortal, and our other applications, as robust open source alternatives to proprietary software. And, our members will now be able to actively participate in the organization by nominating and voting on board members and by serving on project steering committees.
For the full press release see: http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/070124/0206562.html
Jonathan Markow
JA-SIG Board Chair
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Alex Vigdor
Hypercontent Architect & Lead Developer
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1m1, 3.0.
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7, Documentation Efforts
On January 24th, 2007, the JA-SIG CAS saw many new features and enhancements. The most recent release, JA-SIG CAS 3.0.6 includes better support for clustering CAS servers, performance improvements, and library upgrades. Previous recent releases include new features such as authentication handlers for JAAS, LDAP, and X.509 Certificates, HttpClient support, and more internationalization (eight languages).
The upcoming 3.1 release is looking to support standards such as SAML as well as provide more administrative features and service restriction options as well as migration to Maven 2.
Recently, the JA-SIG CAS Client for Java was released. This release is a major refactoring of the Yale CAS Client and includes a more plugable architecture and flexible configuration options. It includes support for the CAS 1 and CAS 2 protocol. Future releases of the CAS client will include support for SAML. Plans are underway to upgrade Acegi Security for Spring to the latest CAS clientproject released CAS Server 3.1 Milestone 1, a technology preview of its next major release. This preview includes a re-architected web tier to support multiple authentication protocols concurrently. Milestone 1 demonstrates this capability by being able to speak both the CAS protocol and the SAML 1.1 protocol. With support for SAML 1.1, comes the ability to send attributes about the user back to the client application. The newest CAS Client for Java 3.1 Milestone 1 demonstrates this with its ability to "speak" SAML 1.1. Note that as these releases are technology previews, and are thus "sneak peaks", they are not intended for production use. The upcoming Milestone 2 of the CAS Server 3.1 will include better support for managing Services that use CAS.
Within the next few weeks, the CAS project will also release a CAS 3.0.7 maintenance release which will update dependencies and fix any outstanding bugs. There are currently no planned maintenance releases for the CAS Client for Java.
The CAS team is currently looking for volunteers to collaborate on an effort to improve the existing CAS documentation, including CAS server configuration options, CAS client configuration, and tutorials on customizing CAS. If you are interested in helping, please contact Scott Battaglia <scott.battaglia@gmail.com>.
Scott Battaglia
CAS Server 3.0 Lead Developer
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