2009-09

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Last updated: Sept 23, 2009 by Jonathan MarkowVersion comment
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Community Volunteer Positions

The CAS Steering Committee is looking for ways to offer non-technical and technical community members additional opportunities to help out. We've identified a number of key positions and we're posting the first two here:

If you're interested in either of these positions, please contact ScottS

CAS Server

Jasig Central Authentication Service (CAS) 3.3.4 has been released. This release includes a number of minor fixes and updates:

  • Fix: JavaScript files were not being included in distribution
  • Fix: Restlet Dependency missing from Restlet Integration
  • Update: Upgrade to latest Memcached Client
  • Update: Documentation on Reloading Services in a Cluster
  • Update: Latest Person Directory 1.5 RC to support LDAPv3 Referrals Properly

The release can be downloaded from the Jasig Download Center and is available from the Jasig Maven2 Repository.

Documentation on CAS can be found in the Jasig Wiki.

A complete changelog can be found in the Jasig Issue Tracker

CAS Clients

Java

The Jasig CAS Client for Java 3.1.8 has been released. This small update includes a number of changes:

  • Logout support in the Atlassian Authenticators
  • Regression Fix: SingleSingOutFilter failure to get logoutRequest POST param results in redirect loops
  • Improve logging for property configuration to say where the property came from

The release can be downloaded from the Jasig Download Center or using Maven2 with the following dependency:

<dependency>
   <groupId>org.jasig.cas</groupId>
   <artifactId>cas-client-core</artifactId>
   <version>3.1.7</version>
   <type>jar</type>
   <scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>

Note, the scope should be "compile" if you're using the CAS Client APIs.

mod_auth_cas

Mod_auth_cas has seen significant adoption and development in the past
several months. 1.0.8 is now included in Debian (lenny-backports and
squeeze) and Ubuntu (karmic), so installation is as simple as 'apt-get
install libapache2-mod-auth-cas'.

Work progresses toward an eventual 1.0.9 release of mod_auth_cas. Trunk
now includes support for SAML validation and logout, and includes
various performance and bug fixes. The mod_auth_cas developers are
seeking testers to validate the new functionality before tagging a 1.0.9
release, and as always, are looking for other developers interested in
working on this Apache module.

ClearPass Extension

Development continues towards a 1.0.0.GA release of ClearPass. The trunk of ClearPass has been updated to support CAS 3.3.3 and CAS 3.3.4. Work is ongoing to integrate ClearPass with the latest uPortal releases via a patch (to add support for the Jasig CAS Client).

OpenRegistry

We're pleased to announce the 0.1-M1 release of OpenRegistry! OpenRegistry 0.1-M1 supports the following use cases:

  • Generate Activation Keys (RESTful API)
  • Invalidate Activation Keys (RESTful API)
  • Verify Activation Keys (RESTful API)
  • Add Person (RESTful API)

This is an important first step towards the development of a collaborative open-source identity management registry. We encourage you to read our use cases to understand more about the project and to try it out!

The release can be downloaded from:

The artifacts are also available via the Jasig Maven2 Repository for those who wish to use a Maven2 WAR Overlay.

We have instructions available:

We're continually improving our documentation so consider it to be a state of "flux." We instead encourage you to join our lists:

We look forward towards quickly marching towards a 0.1-M2 release! Subscribe to our dev list to follow the details!