Author: prabath
Date: Tue Apr 8 01:30:20 2008
New Revision: 15620
Log:
updated with Hasmin's feedback
Modified:
branches/solutions/identity/1.5/solutions/identity/modules/documentation/src/site/xdoc/release-notes.xml
Modified:
branches/solutions/identity/1.5/solutions/identity/modules/documentation/src/site/xdoc/release-notes.xml
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branches/solutions/identity/1.5/solutions/identity/modules/documentation/src/site/xdoc/release-notes.xml
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branches/solutions/identity/1.5/solutions/identity/modules/documentation/src/site/xdoc/release-notes.xml
Tue Apr 8 01:30:20 2008
@@ -27,28 +27,36 @@
</head>
<body>
-<h1>WSO2 Identity Solution @wso2is_version@ Release Notes</h1>
+<h1>New WSO2 Identity Solution feature-rich with OpenID</h1>
-<h3>08 April, 2008</h3>
+<h3>WSO2 Identity Solution @wso2is_version@ Release Note</h3>
-<p>The WSO2 Identity Solution enables LAMP and Java websites to provide strong
authentication
-based on the new interoperable Microsoft CardSpace technology, which is built
-on the open standards Security Assertion Mark-up Language (SAML) and WS-Trust.
-WSO2's new open source security offering features an easy-to-use Identity
-Provider that is controlled by a simple Web-based management console and
-supports interoperability with multiple vendors' CardSpace components,
including
-those provided by Microsoft .NET. The WSO2 Identity Solution also works with
-enterprises' current identity directories, such as those based on the
Lightweight
-Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and Microsoft Active Directory, allowing them
-to leverage their existing infrastructure. In addition to the Identity Provider
-WSO2 Identity Solution provides a Relying Party Component Set which plugs into
-the most common web servers to add support for CardSpace authentication.</p>
+<h3>08 April, 2008</h3>
-<p>With the WSO2 Identity Solution 1.5 release, it adds the support for
OpenID, with an OpenID Provider
-and OpenID relying party components.</p>
+<p>The WSO2 Identity Solution, which enables LAMP and Java websites to provide
strong authentication based on the new interoperable Microsoft
+CardSpace technology, released version 1.5 today. This new release includes
OpenID and OpenID Information Cards, further enhancing the WSO2
+Identity Solution to cater to a wider audience for web based authentication.
OpenID is a key feature in decentralizing single sign-on, much
+favored by many users.</p>
+
+<p>The WSO2 Identity Solution is built on the open standards Security
Assertion Mark-up Language (SAML) and WS-Trust.
+This version supports SAML version 2.0 in addition to 1.1 which was available
in the previous version of the WSO2 Identity Solution.</p>
+
+<p>WSO2's open source security offering features an easy-to-use Identity
Provider that is controlled by a simple Web-based management console
+and supports interoperability with multiple vendors' CardSpace components.
This includes those provided by Microsoft .NET.</p>
+
+<p>The WSO2 Identity Solution also works with current enterprise identity
directories, such as those based on the Lightweight Directory Access
+Protocol (LDAP) and Microsoft Active Directory, allowing them to leverage
their existing infrastructure. In addition to the Identity Provider
+the WSO2 Identity Solution provides a Relying Party Component Set which plugs
into the most common Web servers to add support for CardSpace
+authentication and now OpenID.</p>
+<h2>New features in version 1.5</h2>
+ <ul>
+ <li>OpenID Provider and relying party component support</li>
+ <li>OpenID information cards based on user name-token credential
and self issued credential</li>
+ <li>SAML 2.0 support</li>
+ </ul>
-<h2>Key Features in this Release</h2>
+<h2>Other Key Features</h2>
<ul>
<li>Identity provider
@@ -60,11 +68,7 @@
<li>Support for custom claim dialects and claims
types</li>
<li>Statistics/reporting/audit trail</li>
<li>Ability to revoke information cards</li>
- <li>Issues information cards based on username-token
credential and
- self issued credential</li>
- <li>Issues OpenID information cards based on username-token
credential and
- self issued credential</li>
- <li>Issues OpenID</li>
+ <li>Issues information cards based on username-token
credential and self issued credential</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Apache HTTPD relying party module - mod_cspace</li>
@@ -81,14 +85,9 @@
enable CardSpace authentication</li>
<li>Supports multi-valued claims</li>
<li>Supports a set of simple operation modes</li>
- <li>Supports for OpenID</li>
- <li>Supports for OpenID Information Cards</li>
- </ul>
-
+ </ul>
</ul>
-<br/>
-
<h2>Reporting Problems</h2>
Issues can be reported using the public JIRA available at <a
href="https://wso2.org/jira/browse/IDENTITY";>https://wso2.org/jira/browse/IDENTITY</a>
@@ -117,4 +116,4 @@
<p>Copyright 2008 WSO2 Inc.</p>
</body>
-</html>
+</html>
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