Difference between revisions of "Release 1.8"

Revision as of 15:00, 21 June 2009

This is the preliminary proposed goal set for the krb5-1.8 release. Please provide comments on the krbdev list. This page organizes goals by the Guiding principles from the roadmap.

Code quality

• Move toward test-driven development
• Increase conformance to coding style
  • "The great reindent"?
  • Selective refactoring

Modularity

• Projects/Crypto_modularity
• Move toward improved KDB interface

Performance

• Investigate and remedy repeatedly-reported performance bottlenecks.

End-user experience

• Reduce DNS dependence
  • Love's ccache auxiliary data proposal allows client library to track whether a KDC supports service principal referrals.

Administrator experience

• More versatile crypto configuration, to simplify migration away from DES

Protocol evolution

• FAST enhancements
• Anonymous PKINIT