Bump header file dependencies in specfile

[shibboleth/cpp-sp.git] / doc / RELEASE.txt

diff --git a/doc/RELEASE.txt b/doc/RELEASE.txt
index 51a97cc..cac7a19 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/doc/RELEASE.txt
@@ -1,14 +1,19 @@
-Release Notes
+Shibboleth Native SP Release Notes
 
-Shibboleth Native SP
-2.3
+Fix/Enhancement Lists:
+https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/DEV/SPRoadmap
 
-NOTE: The shibboleth2.xml configuration format in this release
-is fully compatible with the 2.1 release, but there are some small
-changes required to eliminate various warnings about deprecated options.
+Important Changes:
+https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/NativeSPConfigurationChanges
+
+Feature Highlights:
+https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/NativeSPInterestingFeatures
 
-List of issues addressed by this release:
-https://bugs.internet2.edu/jira/browse/SSPCPP/fixforversion/10261
+NOTE: The shibboleth2.xml configuration format in this release
+is fully compatible with the 2.x releases, but there are significant
+new options available to simplify the majority of configurations.
+A stripped down default configuration and a "full" example file are
+included.
 
 Fully Supported
 
@@ -34,10 +39,11 @@ Fully Supported
     - experimental support for SAML 2.0 assertions
 
 - Shibboleth WAYF and SAML DS protocols for IdP Discovery
+    - Generates JSON feed of IdPs using UIInfo metadata extensions
 
 - Metadata Providers
        - Bulk resolution via local file, or URL with local file backup
-       - Dynamic resolution and caching based on entityID 
+       - Dynamic resolution and caching based on entityID or MDX 
        - Filtering based on whitelist, blacklist, or signature verification
        - Support for enhanced PKI processing in transport and signature verification
 
@@ -59,7 +65,7 @@ Fully Supported
        - XML signing
        - Simple "blob" signing
        - TLS X.509 certificate authentication
-       - SAML condition handling
+       - SAML condition handling, including delegation support
 
 - Client transport authentication to SOAP endpoints via libcurl
        - TLS X.509 client certificates
@@ -71,11 +77,18 @@ Fully Supported
        - All incoming SAML 2 encrypted element types (Assertion, NameID, Attribute)
        - Optional outgoing encryption of NameID in requests and responses
 
+- General Security
+    - Black/whitelisting of XML security algorithms (with xml-security 1.6+)
+    - RSA and ECDSA signatures (EC requires xml-security 1.6+ and support from openssl)
+    - AES-GCM encryption (requires xml-security 1.7+ and support from openssl)
+    - Metadata-based algorithm selection 
+
 - Attributes
        - Decoding and exporting SAML 1 and 2 attributes
                - Strings
                - Value/scope pairs (legacy and value@scope syntaxes supported)
                - NameIDs
+               - Base64 to string
         - XML to base64-encoded XML
                - DOM to internal data structure
                - KeyInfo-based data, including metadata-derived KeyDescriptors
@@ -112,13 +125,12 @@ Fully Supported
     - Support on Apache for preserving URL-encoded form data across SSO 
 
 - Apache module enhancements
-    - "OR" coexistence with other authorization modules
-    - htaccess-based override of any valid RequestMap property 
+    - Apache 2.4 support including authz 
+    - "OR" coexistence with other authz modules on older Apache
+    - htaccess-based override of any valid RequestMap property
+    - htaccess support for external access control plugins
 
 - Command line tools
     - samlsign for manual XML signing and verification
     - mdquery for interrogating via metadata configuration
     - resolvertest for exercising attribute extraction, filtering, and resolution
-
-- Migrating 1.3 core configuration file
-    - Stylesheet can handle some common options