Release 1.11

Timeline

This is only an approximate timeline. Dates are subject to change.

• Oct. 2012 -- make release branch
• Dec. 2012 -- final release

Code quality

• Improve ASN.1 support code, making it table-driven for decoding as well as encoding (done)
• Refactor parts of KDC, to better support libKDC and Projects/Trust KDC-local name resolution

Developer experience

• Use default keytab for gss_init_sec_context when available (done)
• Importing and exporting of GSS creds (useful for async GSS proxy) (done)
• Documentation consolidation

End-user experience

• Documentation consolidation
• Store metadata in the ccache about how a credential was acquired, to improve the user's experience when reacquiring (expecting contribution)
• Support distinct client time offsets per realm (expecting contribution)

Administrator experience

• Projects/Trust KDC-local name resolution
• FAST OTP client in libkrb5 (maybe excluding second-level plugins hardware OTP tokens)
• Documentation consolidation

Performance

• Improve (or eliminate) KDC lookaside cache

Protocol evolution

• Authorization data -- conditional on IETF consensus
  • Authorization data container with multiple verifiers (CAMMAC)
  • POSIX directory info in authorization data (PAD)
  • Level of Assurance in authorization data
  • Site-defined string-keyed claims in authorization data
  • X.509 attributes in authorization data
• FAST preauth sets (e.g. OTP + long-term password)