Difference between revisions of "Release 1.10"

Revision as of 15:06, 24 January 2012

Timeline

This is only an approximate timeline.

• Oct. 2011 -- make release branch
• Dec. 2011 -- final release

Code quality

• Update the Fortuna implementation to more accurately implement the description in Cryptography Engineering, and make it the default PRNG.
• Add an alternative PRNG that relies on the OS native PRNG.

Developer experience

• Add the ability for GSSAPI servers to use any keytab key for a specified service, if the server specifies a host-based name with no hostname component.
• Kernel / user split (for NFS, etc.): Add build infrastructure demonstrating and testing a message-processing subset of the gss-krb5 mechanism suitable for kernel filesystems.
• Allow rd_safe and rd_priv to ignore the remote address.
• Rework KDC and kadmind networking code to use an event loop architecture.
• Improve API documentation: Create documentation for the libkrb5 API.
• Pluggable configuration back-end: Allow applications and integrators to override krb5.conf as the source of krb5 configuration data.

Performance

End-user experience

• Localization: Create infrastructure for localization of client user interface messages using gettext.
• Credential selection: Add a facility to select between credentials for different Kerberos identities based on the service being contacted. (This will be confirmed).

Administrator experience

Protocol evolution

• Referrals: Finish implementation following IETF updates.
• PKINIT hash agility: Allow PKINIT to use newer hash algorithms than SHA-1.

• Selective refactoring of KDC (to support libKDC etc.): Reorganize parts of the KDC code for improved modularity and maintainability.