Hello Everybody, We are pleased to announce the new version of Bacularis 5.4.0. This is a really big release with many new changes and features. These changes may be particularly useful for medium and large companies that want to adapt Bacularis to identity and access management (IAM) systems, but not only.
First of all, we have added support for single sign-on (SSO). Bacularis can be integrated with a wide range of identity providers (Keycloak, Okta ...etc.). Bacularis is able to work with identity providers compatible with the OpenID Connect protocol. There can be configured one or many identity providers from different domains. Second new feature is support for organizations. Using organizations allows to assign users to named groups. This can be useful e.g. in companies with multiple departments and wherever users are divided into groups. Each organization can have its own identity provider configured, meaning that users from each organization can authenticate to different IdP. Bacularis accounts can also be transferred between user federations from one organization to another. We have also added a new feature - user provisioning. This saves administrator time because, once provisioning is enabled, Bacularis accounts can be created dynamically the first time a user logs in. The administrator can define default account properties (permissions, roles, API hosts and organization). Next part of the new changes concerns logging in using social media credentials. We have added the ability to log in using Google and Facebook social media accounts. We also plan to add support for more social media services. Very soon on the Bacularis User Group should be available a poll, where you can vote and report what other services you would like to see on the supported social login list. For the rest, we prepared new API changes requested by the Community such as a new update volume endpoint, we slightly reworked the Bacularis login page to make it look better, and made other improvements and fixes. Finally, it is worth mentioning the new chapter of the Bacularis documentation dedicated to authentication, where you can find detailed information about these new features (SSO, identity providers...). You can also find the video guides there showing how to configure the new authentication functions. The official release announcement with all details you can find here: https://bacularis.app/news/120/36/New-release-Bacularis-5.4.0 We wish you easy installations and upgrades. Have good using Bacula with Bacularis. On behalf of the Bacularis Team, Marcin Haba (gani) _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
