Fwd: Shibboleth v1.0 Now Available

[Robert Olson]

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>From: Steve Olshansky <steveo at luminagroup.com>
>Subject: Shibboleth v1.0 Now Available
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>FYI... Congratulations to the Shibboleth team on a significant milestone.
>         Steve
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>>Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 16:59:12 -0400
>>From: Steven_Carmody at brown.edu
>>
>>[We're sorry if you receive duplicates of this  message. We've sent it to 
>>multiple lists, in order to ensure that the entire Shibboleth community 
>>receives this announcement.]
>>
>>The Internet2 Shibboleth team is pleased to announce the availability of 
>>release 1.0 of its Shibboleth implementation. This new release contains 
>>many improvements and enhancements. A partial list is available by 
>>going  to the Shibboleth web site ( http://shibboleth.internet2.edu ) and 
>>clicking on "Shibboleth v1.0" in the left hand navigation bar. With this 
>>release, we feel that this implementation has reached a level of maturity 
>>making it suitable for production deployments.
>>
>>This release contains more complete support for federations. We've 
>>removed all Club and Federation references from the Deploy Guides, and 
>>have created a separate federation guide for the new InQueue Federation. 
>>This document describes the role of this federation, temporary policy 
>>guidelines, and includes instructions on applying for membership in this 
>>Federation, and configuring a Shibboleth origin and target for membership 
>>in the federation. The InQueue federation is the next phase of the 
>>"Shibboleth pilot" activity, and is a step towards establishment of the 
>>production InCommon federation later this summer.
>>
>>We had previously announced that this release would include support for a 
>>W2K/apache based Shibboleth target. That work is nearing completion, but 
>>is not finished. Rather than delay any longer, we are making the 
>>linux/solaris based versions available now; we expect to make the W2K 
>>version available shortly.
>>
>>The Shibboleth target implementation now offers more options for storing 
>>session information. Previous releases only supported an in-memory cache; 
>>this releases supports the use of a database.. This should offer target 
>>sites new options for improved robustness. This implementation uses a 
>>plugin architecture. A MySQL plugin will available very very soon, 
>>separate from the Shibboleth release.
>>
>>We attributed our most recent delay to problems with the apache xml 
>>signature library; we later discovered that we had misconfigured a file. 
>>I'd like to apologize to the author(s) of the apache library for my 
>>previous statements.
>>
>>With this release, there are separate distributions for origin and target 
>>components. Deploy documentation can be found, linked from the 
>>"Shibboleth v1.0 Available" entry in the Navigation Bar of the Shibboleth 
>>Home Page:
>>
>>        http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/
>>
>>This release has been tested on Red Hat Linux versions 7.2 and 7.3, and 
>>on Solaris 2.8. The origin implementation is entirely in java, so there 
>>is one package for all platforms. There are separate target packages for 
>>RH and Solaris. The distribution packages are available from 
>>http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/release/shib-download.html
>>
>>Shibboleth is an Open Source project, and we don't guarantee support. 
>>However, if you encounter problems, join the mace-shib-users list @ 
>>Internet2 
>>(http://middleware.internet2.edu/shibboleth/shib-misc.shtml#mailinglist), 
>>and post a description of your problem; its very likely someone will answer.
>>
>>If you discover a bug, please post it to our Bugzilla based repository ( 
>>http://bugzilla.internet2.edu/shibboleth/). Bugs can be posted against a 
>>1.0 product version.
>>
>>For those who are so inclined, the source is available from our cvs 
>>repository ( http://middleware.internet2.edu/opensaml/cvs.html ). 
>>Tarballs containing snapshots of the 1.0 source are also available from 
>>http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/release/shib-download.html . These 
>>contain documents describing how to compile the new version.
>>
>>Lastly, a BIG thank you to the people who helped us test this version, 
>>and improve the quality of the overall package, the install process, and 
>>the documentation.
>
>---
>Steve Olshansky
>Internet2 Middleware Flywheel
>http://middleware.internet2.edu/
><steveo at luminagroup.com>
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