# SSSD 2.6.0
The SSSD team is proud to announce the release of version 2.6.0 of the
System Security Services Daemon. The tarball can be downloaded from:
https://github.com/SSSD/sssd/releases/tag/2.6.0
See the full release notes at:
https://sssd.io/release-notes/sssd-2.6.0.html
RPM packages will be made available for Fedora shortly.
## Feedback
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or sssd-users mailing lists:
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## Highlights
### General information
* Support of legacy json format for ccaches was dropped
* Support of long time deprecated `secrets` responder was dropped.
* Support of long time deprecated `local` provider was dropped.
* This release drops support of `--with-unicode-lib` configure option.
`libunistring` will be used unconditionally for Unicode processing.
* This release removes pcre1 support. pcre2 is used unconditionally.
* p11_child does not stop at the first empty slot when searching for tokens
* A flaw was found in SSSD, where the sssctl command was vulnerable to
shell command injection via the logs-fetch and cache-expire subcommands.
This flaw allows an attacker to trick the root user into running a
specially crafted sssctl command, such as via sudo, to gain root access.
The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality,
integrity, as well as system availability. This patch fixes a flaw by
replacing `system()` with `execvp()`.
### New features
* Basic support of user's 'subuid and subgid ranges' for IPA provider
and corresponding plugin for shadow-utils were introduced. Limitations:
- single subid interval pair (subuid+subgid) per user - idviews aren't
supported - only forward lookup (user -> subid ranges) Take a note, this
is MVP of experimental feature. Significant changes might be required
later, after initial feedback. Corresponding support in shadow-utils was
merged upstream, but since there is no upstream release available yet,
SSSD feature isn't built by default. Build can be enabled with
`--with-subid` configure option. Plugin's install path can be configured
with `--with-subid-lib-path=` (`${libdir}` by default)
### Important fixes
* KCM now replace the old credential with new one when storing an
updated credential that is however already present in the ccache to
avoid unnecessary growth of the ccache.
* Improve mpg search filter to be more reliable with id-overrides and
the new auto_private_groups options.
* Even if the forest root is disabled for lookups all required internal
data is initialized to be able to refresh the list of trusted domains in
the forest from a DC of the forest root.
* ccache files are created with the right ownership during offline
Smartcard authentication
* AD ping is now sent over `ldap` if `cldap` support is not available
during build. This helps to build SSSD on distributions without `cldap`
support in `libldap`.
* CVE-2021-3621
### Configuration changes
* New IPA provider's option `ipa_subid_ranges_search_base` allows
configuration of search base for user's subid ranges. Default:
`cn=subids,%basedn`
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