The Apache Directory team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Kerby™ 2.0.0.
Apache Kerby™ is a Java Kerberos binding. It aims to provide a rich, intuitive and interoperable implementation, library, KDC and various facilities that integrates PKI, OTP and token(OAuth2) as desired in modern environments such as cloud, Hadoop and mobile. This release has 43 resolved issues since the 1.1.1 (May 2018) release. The main new function is HAS (Hadoop Authentication Service). HAS is a solution to support authentication in the open source big data ecosystem in cloud computing platforms with the following features: 1. It provides a new authentication mechanism to customize and integrate with existing user authentication and authorization systems. 2. It provides REST APIs and facility tools to simplify Kerberos support 3. It provides a MySQL backend for High Availability. 4. The new authentication mechanism now supports most of the components of the open source big data ecosystem with little or no changes to the components themselves, including HDFS, HBase, Zookeeper, Hive, Spark... You can download the latest sources package at : http://directory.apache.org/kerby/downloads.html You can read more about Apache Kerby™ at: http://directory.apache.org/kerby Anyone willing to contribute to Kerby is very welcome! Github site: https://github.com/apache/directory-kerby Umbrella JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRKRB-102 Thanks to everyone who contributed to the release! Best Regards, The Apache Directory Team -- Colm O hEigeartaigh Talend Community Coder http://coders.talend.com