The Apache Directory Project announces the seventh release of Fortress - 2.0.0 GA.
FORTRESS provides Role-Based Access Control components that are fully ANSI INCITS 359 compliant and production ready. These may be embedded as a runtime Java library (fortress-core), secure Apache Tomcat web deployments (fortress-realm), HTML pages for policy administration (fortress-web), and RESTful service wrappers of the core apis (fortress-rest). This major release requires Java version 8. It adds formal support of ApacheDS giving full IETF password policy coverage for both it and OpenLDAP. There are Docker images preconfigured with Apache DS & OpenLDAP for rapid deployment and testing: * https://github.com/apache/directory-fortress-core/blob/master/README-QUICKSTART-DOCKER-APACHEDS.md * https://github.com/apache/directory-fortress-core/blob/master/README-QUICKSTART-DOCKER-SLAPD.md To download source or binary packages of this release: * http://directory.apache.org/fortress/downloads.html To learn how to install an LDAP server so that you can use Fortress inside your deployments: * http://directory.apache.org/fortress/installation.html The components are downloadable via Maven under group name org.apache.directory.fortress: * https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.directory.fortress Apache Fortress 2.0.0 improvements include: * Java 8 requirement * Usage of Apache LDAP API v1.0.0 * FC-209 Missing object classes when create permission attribute and sets * FC-210 Programatically determine which methods have ARBAC checks * FC-211 Support ApacheDS password policies * FC-212 ApacheDS in Docker The report pulled from JIRA: * https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FC-210?jql=project%20%3D%20FC%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%202.0.0%20ORDER%20BY%20updated%20DESC%2C%20priority%20DESC%2C%20created%20ASC For more information, visit the project's website: http://directory.apache.org/fortress/
