1 Shibboleth 2.0 Beta 2 (19-Nov-2007)
2 The following functionality is available in this release:
4 - Remote User based authentication
5 - Username/Password based authentication using JAAS modules
8 - Shibboleth SSO, SAML 1 Attribute Query, SAML 1 Artifact Resolution, SAML 2 SSO,
9 SAML 2 Attribute Query and SAML 2 Artifact Resolution
12 - Security policy code for:
13 * message issue instant checking
14 * message replay detection
15 * SAML protocol messages with digital signatures
16 * SSL/TLS client cert authentication
17 * SAML SimpleSign messages
18 - Digital signing of assertions
19 - Encrypted NameID and Assertions
20 - Reading of inline and filesystem-resident cryptographic credentials
23 - Static, LDAP, and relational database data connectors
24 - Simple, principal name, authentication method, scoped, scriptlet, mapped, template,
25 and transient ID attribute definitions
26 - Direct and transient principal connectors
27 - SAML 1 Attribute and NameIdentifier and SAML 2 Attribute and NameID attribute encoders
28 - Attribute filter policy functions of: AND, OR, NOT, ANY, Attribute requester, issuer,
29 value, principal name, authentication method string and regular expression matching,
30 sciptlet, number of values, and attribute request and issuer in SAML metadata group
33 - A new logging framework based on Logback (logback.org) with a new logging configuration
34 file, $IDP_HOME/conf/logging.xml
35 - File, HTTP, file-backed HTTP, and chaining metadata providers
37 The following functionality is not available in this release but is scheduled
38 for the final release:
40 - Attribute encryption and decryption
41 - Persistent Identifiers
42 - Data connector failover
43 - IP based authentication (available but untested)