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The official CAS 6.0.0 GA was released on December 28th, 2018. Since then, the project has been moving forward with the development of the next feature release that is tagged as 6.1.0. Please review the release policy to learn more about the scope of the release. This post intends to highlight some of the improvements and enhancements packed into the sixth release candidate in the 6.1.0 series.
You can read about the previous release candidate here.
Get Involved
- Start your CAS deployment today. Try out features and share feedback.
- Better yet, contribute patches.
- Suggest and apply documentation improvements.
Shake Well Before Use
We strongly recommend that you take advantage of the release candidates as they come out. Waiting for a GA release is only going to set you up for unpleasant surprises. A GA is simply a tag and nothing more. Note that CAS releases are strictly time-based releases; they are not scheduled or based on specific benchmarks, statistics or completion of features. To gain confidence in a particular release, it is strongly recommended that you start early by experimenting with release candidates and/or follow-up snapshots.
In order to start experimenting with release candidates, at any given time, you should be able to append -SNAPSHOT to the CAS version specified in order to take advantage of snapshot builds as changes are made and published.
Resources
Overlay
In the gradle.properties of the overlay, adjust the following setting:
casVersion=6.1.0-RC6
There are no changes to the minimum system/platform requirements for this release.
New & Noteworthy
Registered Service Expiration Policy
Services in the registry that are deemed expired can now send a notification out to contacts separately from removal notifications.
Password Reset Notification via REST
Password reset URLs can now be sent via SMS text messages as well as email.
Groovy WS-Federation Claims
Claims released to WS-Federation relying parties can now be mapped using inline and external Groovy scripts.
Oracle JDBC Driver
The Oracle JDBC Driver is now available as part of Maven Central and is available to CAS automatically when configured.
Other Stuff
- Added Travis CI smoke tests for embedded application servers (tomcat, jetty, undertow) that run CAS.
- Added script to semi-automate the CAS release process.
- Additional test categories to for JDBC and ActiveMQ are now included in Travis CI.
- Added additional settings to control SAML2 assertion conditions produced by WS-FED.
- Small number of improvements to OAuth and OIDC functionality around scope management and attribute release.
- Bug fixes to properly execute the single logout sequence for WS-FED relying parties.
- Small number of improvements to the CAS command-line shell.
- Groovy scripts can now be loaded from the classpath.
- When using the OAUTH PKCE flow,
client_secretparameters are forcibly validated. - YAML file name formats are corrected when using the YAML service registry.
- A few small bug fixes to the authentication engine regarding construction and behavior of authentication policies.
Library Upgrades
- Spring
- Spring Boot
- Eureka
- Twilio
- Lombok
- Apache Tomcat
- SemVer
- Apache Syncope
- JavaParser
- OpenSAML
- Amazon SDK
- Google Maps
- TextMagic
- BouncyCastle
- Hibernate
- Insepktr
- HikariCP
- MariaDb Driver
- Gradle
- PostgreSQL Driver
- Spring Data
- Spring Security
- Jackson
Credits
Big thanks to all who participate in the development of this release to submit patches and contribute improvements. Keep’em coming!