All, Based on the discussion in today's Developers Meeting <https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSPACE/2025-10-02+DSpace+Developers+Meeting>, we plan to* remove X.509 Certificate Authentication in DSpace 7.6.6, 8.3 and 9.2*.
After outreach via mailing lists, Slack and developer meetings, we've not heard of a single institution that uses this old authentication feature. Additionally, I've attempted to run it locally, and it appears to be non-functional (it seems it may not even be compatible with DSpace 7 and later). If there are any last minute concerns, please add your feedback in the ticket at https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/11334 Thanks! Tim On Monday, September 22, 2025 at 2:44:02 PM UTC-5 DSpace Technical Support wrote: > All, > > The DSpace Committers have been made aware that DSpace's X.509 Certificate > Authentication plugin has been unmaintained for many years and appears to > be unused. Therefore, we are considering its removal. > > GitHub Ticket: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/11334 > > *Do you use X.509 Certificate Authentication in your DSpace 7.x - 9.x > site? * If so, please reach out via this email, or via the GitHub ticket > linked above. > > If we discover that X.509 Certificate Authentication is still in use by > several institutions, we'll do our best to find volunteers to help > modernize its code and continue maintain it. However, if we receive no > response, we'll instead work towards a plan to remove it. > > Let us know if you have any questions or concerns. > > Sincerely, > Tim Donohue, on behalf of the DSpace Committers > -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the Code of Conduct: https://www.lyrasis.org/about/Pages/Code-of-Conduct.aspx --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-tech/b2fec178-9a04-4a50-bffd-f3d51d4f9746n%40googlegroups.com.
