On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 9:32 AM, William G. Thompson, Jr.
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Team,
>
> Unicon has already implemented MFA in CAS for a few clients and we
> were just awarded a contract to build a modular extension to the CAS
> Server to support multi-factor, and levels of assurance along the
> lines of the vision articulated in
> https://wiki.jasig.org/display/CAS/Level+Of+Assurance+-+Head+document
>
> This project requires that the resulting CAS server customizations be
> released as free and open source software for adoption with and in CAS
> (i.e. as cas-addons or the Jasig distribution).  We intend to engage
> with the community throughout the implementation.
>
> This project provides a real world deployment scenario to build upon
> the authN API work that Marvin has completed thus far.  So I think
> this is good news for CAS 4.1/5.0 in that we can be assured that the
> work to date on authN API, MFA, and LOA will yield deployable code
> even though it didn't ship with 4.0.
>
> In terms of "big features" for 4.0, I think we've made substantial
> progress along a number of paths that lead to a more supple,
> extensible and elegant CAS server that is a joy to install, configure
> and run[1].
>
> * Externalizing SAML as an optional support
> * Upgrades to all dependancies
> * OAuth support improvements
> * Externalized Services Management Webapp
> * A bunch of security related improvements including encrypting
> clearpass cache by default
> * Many other improvements.
>

I don't see anything here that merits a major release. What's the problem
with pushing the release date so the authN API features can be included in
4.0?

--Daniel Fisher

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