CAS 3.0.5 RC1 Release Announcement

[Scott Battaglia]

Dear CAS Community,

We're pleased to announce the availability of the CAS 3.0.5 RC1 
release.  This release includes many new features, enhancements and bug 
fixes:

*New Features*

    * Support for obtaining user from request.getRemoteUser()
    *  Upgrade EhcacheTicketRegistry to support distributed ticket
      registries
    * JAAS AuthenticationHandler

*Improvements*

    *  LdapHandlers utilize LdapTemplate project
    * Support for Swedish, Italian, and Urdu
    * Ticket State updated for TicketGrantingTickets in order to
      facilitate better ExpirationPolicies
    * Use HttpClient to allow for better configuration/pooling of
      HttpConnections (still uses strict hostname checking for SSL)
    * Added hook method to ServiceValidate to obtain credentials for
      PGTs besides PGT URL
    * Upgrade to Spring Webflow 1.0 and Spring 2.0

*Bug Fixes*

    * Removed infinite redirect on 404 error
    * Avoid hard coding of /cas/ for cookie request paths
    * Disable LDAP connection pooling for binding (cannot pool
      connections where credentials change)
    * Assert.notNull checks did not include information to determine
      which parameter was null
    * Strip jsession id from service urls
    * JDBC AuthenticationHandler threw exception if username was not
      found in database

You can download this release from our downloads 
<http://www.ja-sig.org/products/cas/downloads/index.html> section. You 
can find the complete release notes here.  We're targeting a final CAS 
3.0.5 release to coincide with the releases of Spring 2.0 and Spring 
Webflow 1.0.  Please note that 3.0.5 RC1 should be considered stable 
APIs and its safe to start working with them in preparation for a 3.0.5 
release.  Of special concern, the Spring Webflow 1.0 API is different 
than the Spring Webflow PR5 API.  If you've customized the login flow 
please see the default has changed in order to upgrade yours (the 
changes are minimal).

Thanks
-Scott

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Scott Battaglia
Application Developer, Architecture & Engineering Team
Enterprise Systems and Services, Rutgers University
v: 732.445.0097 | f: 732.445.5493 | scott_battaglia at rutgers.edu