2008-08 Newsletter Blurb

Recent CAS Deployers

We'd like to welcome the latest CAS deployers to the CAS community!

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 ScottS

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 ScottS or Benn Oshrin

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 ScottS