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From: "Cantor, Scott via announce" <announce(a)shibboleth.net>
Subject: Shibboleth Identity Provider V5.0.0 (and plugins) now available
Date: 14 September 2023 at 19:15:37 CEST
To: "announce(a)shibboleth.net" <announce(a)shibboleth.net>
Cc: "Cantor, Scott" <cantor.2(a)osu.edu>
Reply-To: users(a)shibboleth.net
The Shibboeth Project is pleased and exhausted to announce that V5.0.0 of the Identity
Provider software is now available. [1]
The release notes are in large part complete [2] but will be supplemented as usual over
time as needed. The system requirements, installation, and upgrade documentation is in the
new wiki space per usual and linked from there.
As a major upgrade, there are substantial system requirement changes and compatibility
considerations, so please read the notes and the relevant topics before proceeding to
minimize problems.
*All* official plugins provided by the project (that's Duo support, OIDC OP and RP,
JDBC storage, and so on) require updates for this release and we have published major
upgrades to all of them for this release and they are in place.
The main installer, and plugin installation and upgrade tools are able to recognize and
warn about compatibility issues, and should support upgrading to the supported versions
after the IdP upgrade is applied (but before attempting to use it).
As this is the first major upgrade since the plugin mechanism was introduced in 4.1, much
of the machinery for crossing that boundary has only been tested artifically to this
point, so the potential for issues exists. Notably, the Windows installation process
can't put the warnings about older plugins front and center, though they are logged.
-- Scott
[1]
https://shibboleth.net/downloads/identity-provider/latest/
[2]
https://shibboleth.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IDP5/pages/3199500367/ReleaseN…
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