[7404] in Kerberos
Kerberos V5 BETA 6 is released
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Y. Ts'o)
Thu Jun 6 21:23:59 1996
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 21:17:24 -0400
From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU, kerberos-announce@MIT.EDU
I am proud to announce the release of Kerberos V5 Beta 6. This
release contains several new features and enhancements over previous
versions. In particular this release provides a much more stable base
for Kerberos V5 application client and server programs:
* Kerberos V5B6 is much more portable. Notable new platforms include
Windows-16, OSF/1, NetBSD, SGI and HPUX. (Note: the Macintosh port is
not yet fully complete, especially in regards to the user interface
for managing the user's tickets.)
* In addition, the Beta 6 release is the first release where shared
libraries are supported. This should significantly decrease the
executable size for Kerberos V5 application clients and servers.
* The Kerberos V5 API has changed some over Beta 5, but the API should
be considered stable at this point. No major changes are planned
before the 1.0 release of Kerberos.
Beta 7, which is currently targeted for September 1, will have as its
major emphasis a new and stable administration server (donated by
OpenVision), and in general, a full and stable set of programs for the
Kerberos KDC server. Beta 7 will also include support for the
triple-DES and SHA algorithms.
Beta 7 will represent the final shakedown release before the final
Release 1.0 of Kerberos, which we are targeting for November 1.
Early in the Beta 6 development cycle, it had been our intention to
continue development on the new administration server which had first
made its appearance in Beta 5. However, it became clear that it was
taking too long to finish creating a solid, reliable administration
server. So, when OpenVision offered to donate their administration
server, we gratefully jumped at this opportunity.
This integration work is ongoing; Barry Jaspan, whose time has been
generously donated by the Internet Software Consortium, is currently
at work integrating the OpenVision administration system into the MIT
Kerberos sources. This work should be complete by the end of the
summer, at which point we will release Beta 7, which will be the last
stability shakedown release before 1.0 comes out. (The release time
between Beta 7 and 1.0 will be extremely short; a month at most.)
In the meantime, the Beta 6 release contains our current
administration server, with substantial fixes donated to us by Cygnus
Support so that it is minimally functional. If you have not installed
previous versions of Kerberos, the administration system in Beta 6
allows you to remotely administer the Kerberos server, and allow users
to change their passwords. (Or, if you have an installed base of
Kerberos V4, you will want to use the V4 compatibility server, which
will allow users with Kerberos V4 administration clients and V4
kpasswd clients to administer your V5 database.)
However, if you have an previous Beta 4 or Beta 5 Kerberos KDC already
installed, you may want to defer upgrading your KDC software until the
new administration server is available. Kerberos applications linked
against the Beta 6 application library will work just fine against an
older KDC server.
- Ted
FTP Instructions: FTP to athena-dist.mit.edu, in /pub/kerberos. Get
the file README.KRB5_BETA6. It will contain instructions on how to
obtain the Beta 6 release.
>> <<
>> Please report any problems/bugs/comments to 'krb5-bugs@athena.mit.edu' <<
>> <<
Appreciation Time!!!! There are far too many people to try to thank
them all; many people have contributed to the development of Kerberos
V5. This is only a partial listing....
Thanks to John Linn, Scott Foote, and all of the folks at OpenVision
Technologies, Inc., who donated their administration server for use in
the MIT release of Kerberos.
Thanks to Paul Vixie and the Internet Software Consortium for
supporting the OV administration server integration work.
Thanks to Mark Eichin, Ken Raeburn, Nancy Gilman, and all of the
folks at Cygnus Support, who provided innumerable bug fixes and
portability enhancements to the Kerberos V5 tree.
Thanks to Doug Engert from ANL for providing many bug fixes, as well
as testing to ensure DCE interoperability.
Thanks to Sean Mullan and Bill Sommerfeld from Hewlett Packard for
their many suggestions and bug fixes.
Thanks to the members of the Kerberos V5 development team at MIT, both
past and present: Jay Berkenbilt, John Carr, Don Davis, Nancy Gilman,
Sam Hartman, Marc Horowitz, Barry Jaspan, John Kohl, Cliff Neuman,
Paul Park, Chris Provenzano, Jon Rochlis, Jeff Schiller, Harry Tsai,
Ted Ts'o, Tom Yu.
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