WSO2 Identity Server 5.0.0 Beta Released!
Date: 6th May 2014 WSO2 Identity Server team is pleased to announce the release of 5.0.0 Beta version of WSO2 Identity Server. It can be downloaded from *https://svn.wso2.org/repos/wso2/scratch/IS-5.0.0/beta/ <https://svn.wso2.org/repos/wso2/scratch/IS-5.0.0/beta/>* which is built upon r201958. How to Run 1. Extract the downloaded zip 2. Go to the bin directory in the extracted folder 3. Run the wso2server.sh or wso2server.bat as appropriate 4. To access management console, point your browser to the URL https://localhost:9443/carbon 5. To access user-portal, point your browser to the URL https://localhost:9443/dashboard/ 6. Use "admin", "admin" as the username and password to login as an admin The following is a list of new features, improvements and bug fixes available with this release. New Features 1. Identity Token transformation and mediation. WSO2 Identity Server 5.0.0 is capable of transforming and mediating any identity token - between SAML 2.0, OAuth 1.0/2.0, OpenID, OpenID Connect, IWA (Integrated Windows Authentication), OTP based on XMPP & Email and WS-Federation(Passive). This leads to seamless integration between internal applications and cloud applications such as Salesforce, Google Apps and Office 365. Few example use cases. - Login to your corporate Salesforce or Google Apps accounts from your Facebook credentials. - Login to your laptop connected to your corporate Windows domain - you will be automatically logged into your corporate Salesforce and Google Apps accounts. - Login to corporate Office 365 account - you will be automatically logged into you Google Apps and Salesforce accounts. - Login to Identity Server user portal - you will be automatically logged into your internal Liferay portals. 2. Multi-option and multi-step authentication. With WSO2 Identity Server 5.0.0, a given service provider (irrespective of the protocol it supports) can select the login options it wants to present to it users. It can be multi-option as well and multi-step. With multi-option - the user will be presented with a login screen to pick whatever the authentication mechanism it wants (e.g.: Username/password, Facebook, SAML, OpenID Connect). With multi-step - you can enforce multi-factor authentication by picking right authenticators at the right step. 3. Request Path Authenticators. Enables federated login with credentials attached to the request itself. 4. Ability plugin in custom developed authenticators. The WSO2 Identity Server 5.0.0 runtime is capable of working with custom developed authenticators. 5. Provisioning Bridge and Just-in-time Provisioning. WSO2 Identity Server 5.0.0 is capable of transforming inbound provisioning requests based on SOAP and SCIM to SCIM, SPML 2.0, Salesforce, Google Apps, LDAP, Active Directory, JDBC - provisioning APIs. Just-in-time provisioning is integrated with Identity Federation. Login from a Federated Identity provider - WSO2 Identity Server is capable of provisioning the corresponding subject to its internal user store and any other provisioning system. 6. Rule based provisioning. This is an integrated use case with WSO2 ESB. From WSO2 Identity Server, it can provision users to the WSO2 ESB. Using the ESB configuration language (Synapse) you can define rules for outbound provisioning based on the message content on any other parameter. 7. Ability plugin in custom developed provisioning connectors. The WSO2 Identity Server 5.0.0 runtime is capable of working with custom developed provisioning connectors. 8. User Dashboard A Jaggery based Dashboard for end users. 9. Remote User Store Management Manage heterogeneous user stores distributed across different data centers from a single Identity Server node. 10. Custom permissions. Each external application can define its own set of custom permissions and use it for authorization. Bug Fixes Following bug fixes and improvements are available in the current release. IS-5.0.0 Fixed Issues <https://wso2.org/jira/issues/?filter=11808>. Your feedback is mostly welcome. Please report issues at [1] and specify the affected version as 5.0.0 Beta. [1] https://wso2.org/jira/browse/IDENTITY Thanks and Regards, ~WSO2 Identity Server Team~ -- Regards, *Darshana Gunawardana *Software Engineer WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.com * E-mail: [email protected] <[email protected]>* *Mobile: +94718566859*Lean . Enterprise . Middleware
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