-Release Notes
+Shibboleth Native SP Release Notes
-Shibboleth Native SP
-2.2
+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/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&&pid=10011&fixfor=10151&status=5&status=6&sorter/field=issuekey&sorter/order=ASC
+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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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