Congratulations to the JASIG CAS Project on Release of Version 3.3
I write to congratulate Scott Battaglia of Rutgers University and the other CAS developers on the successful release of JASIG CAS Server 3.3.
Here's Scott's announcement on the email list, some formatting and hyperlinks mine:
Dear CAS Community,
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.
Some information on upgrading from CAS 3.2 to 3.3 can be found here.
Thanks
-Scott
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Andrew Petro
After graduating with a B.S. in Computer Science from Yale University in 2004, Andrew stayed on to serve his alma mater as a casual systems programmer with the Technology & Planning group. His interests include automated software testing, application frameworks, and electronic security. Projects in which Andrew has been involved include the Central Authentication Service, YaleInfo Portal (Yale's uPortal implementation). and the Jasig uPortal project. Andrew currently serves on the Jasig CAS steering committee, has been the release engineer for uPortal, and has been published in the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery on the topic of electronic voting. In spring 2006 Andrew joined Unicon full time, serving roles since then including technical lead and Cooperative Support developer.
