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ForgeRock Directory Services 7.2 has been released

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ForgeRock Directory Services 7.2 was and will be the last release of ForgeRock products that I’ve managed. It was finished when I left the company and was released to the public a few days after. Before I dive into the changes available in this release, I’d like to thank the amazing team that produced this version, from the whole Engineering team led by Matt Swift, to the Quality engineering led by Carole Forel, the best and only technical writer Mark Craig, and also our sustaining engineer Chris Ridd who contributed some important fixes to existing customers. You all rock and I’ve really appreciated working with you all these years.

So what’s new and exciting in DS 7.2?

First, this version introduces a new type of index: Big Index. This type of index is to be used to optimize search queries that are expecting to return a large number of results among an even much larger number of entries. For example, if you have an application that searches for all users in the USA that live in a specific state. In a population of hundreds of millions users, you may have millions that live in one particular state (let’s say Ohio). With previous versions, searching for all users in Ohio would be unindexed and the search if allowed would scan the whole directory data to identify the ones in Ohio. With 7.2, the state attribute can be indexed as a Big Index, and the same search query would be considered as indexed, only going through the reduced set of users with that have Ohio as the value for the state attribute.

Big Indexes can have a lesser impact on write performances than regular indexes, but they tend to have a higher on disk footprint. As usual, choosing to use a Big Index type is a matter of trade-of between read and write performances, but also disk space occupation which may also have some impact on performances. It is recommended to test and run benchmarks in development or pre-production environments before using them in production.

The second significant new feature in 7.2 is the support of the HAProxy Protocol for LDAP and LDAPS. When ForgeRock Directory Services is deployed behind a software load-balancer such as HAProxy, NGINX or Kubernetes Ingress, it’s not possible for DS to know the IP address of the Client application (the only IP address known is the one of the load-balancer), therefore, it is not possible to enforce specific access controls or limits based on the applications. By supporting the HAProxy Protocol, DS can decode a specific header sent by the load-balancer and retrieve some information about the client application such as IP address but also some TLS related information if the connection between the client and the load-balancer is secured by TLS, and DS can use this information in access controls, logging, limits… You can find more details about DS support of the Proxy Protocol in DS documentation.

In DS 7.2, we have added a new option for securing and hashing passwords: Argon2. When enabled (which is the default), this allows importing users with Argon2 hashed passwords, and letting them authenticating immediately. Argon2 may be selected as well as the default scheme for hashing new passwords, by associating it with a password policy (such as the default password policy). The Argon2 password scheme has several parameters that control the cost of the hash: version, number of iterations, amount of memory to use and parallelism (aka number of threads used). While Argon2 is probably today the best algorithm to secure passwords, it can have a very big impact on the server’s performance, depending on the Argon2 parameters selected. Remember that DS encrypts the entries on disk by default, and therefore the risk of exposing hashed passwords at rest is extremely low (if not null).

Also new is the ability to search for attributes with a DistinguishedName syntax using pattern matching. DS 7.2 introduces a new matching rule named distinguishedNamePatternMatch (defined with the OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.36733.2.1.4.13). It can be used to search for users with a specific manager for example with the following filter “(manager:1.3.6.1.4.1.36733.2.1.4.13:=uid=trigden,**)” or a more human readable form “(manager:distinguishedNamePatternMatch:=uid=trigden,**)”, or to search for users whose manager is part of the Admins organisational unit with the following filter “(manager:1.3.6.1.4.1.36733.2.1.4.13:=*,ou=Admins,dc=example,dc=com)”.

ForgeRock Directory Services 7.2 includes several minor improvements:

As with every release, there has been several performances optimizations and improvements, many minor issues corrected.

You can find the full details of the changes in the Release Notes.

I hope you will enjoy this latest release of ForgeRock Directory Services. If not, don’t reach out to me, I’m no longer in charge. 😀

ForgeRock Directory Services 7

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In August 2020, we’ve rolled out a new release of the ForgeRock Identity Platform which included updated versions of all of the products, including Directory Services 7.0. I didn’t write a post about the new release, mostly due to our focus to deliver the ForgeRock Identity Cloud and family vacation.

But ForgeRock Directory Services 7.0 is a major release in many ways. It is the first to be released with a sample docker file and full support to run in Kubernetes environments in the Cloud. To achieve that, we’ve made a number of significant changes especially in how security is managed, and how replication is configured and enabled. The rest of the server remains quite the same, delivering consistent performance and reliability. You should read the release notes for all the details.

Since, DS 7 was successfully deployed in production, in VMs or in Docker/Kubernetes, and our customers have praised the simplicity and efficiency of the new version. However, some customers have experienced some difficulties with upgrading their current deployment to the 7.0 release, mostly due to the changes I’ve mentioned above. So we have been improving our Upgrade Guide, with greater details, and my colleague Mark Craig, has posted a series of 3 articles on Upgrading to Directory Services 7:

If you’re planning to upgrade an OpenDJ or a ForgeRock Directory Services to the latest release, I would high recommend to read the Directory Services Upgrade Guide, and then Mark’s posts.

ForgeRock Directory Services 6.5 is Available

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The ForgeRock Identity Platform was released and publicly announced early December this year (also here).

As you may guess from the announcement, an important part of the new features has to do with DevOps, running in Docker, automated with Kubernetes.

The underlying datastore for the ForgeRock Identity Platform is ForgeRock Directory Services, and the new 6.5 release comes with a set of new features and improvements, that are detailed in the Release Notes, but here’s some highlights:

Ease of use has always been important for us, and DS 6.5 brings it to a new level for the customers that are deploying other ForgeRock products. Starting with this version, you can now select, at the time of installation, one or more profiles. A profile contains the complete configuration for a specific use, from base DN, backend, indexes, schema, specific configuration parameters, administrative users, ACI and privileges.. Out of the box, we are delivering 3 profiles for ForgeRock Access Management: Identity Store, Configuration Store and the Core Token Service Store; 1 profile for ForgeRock Identity Management: Managed Object Store; and 1 profile for Directory Services evaluation, that contains the data and configuration that is used through our documentation, and allows you to copy and paste the command examples of the guides and replay them against a running server.

To learn more about profiles, get DS 6.5, and run

setup –help-profiles

. To learn about a specific profile, you can run

setup –help-profile am-cts:6.5.0

With regards to DevOps, containers and automation in the cloud, we’ve continued the efforts that we had started with previous releases.

  • DS 6.5 now supports a method to run post upgrade tasks to the data, such as rebuilding indexes.
  • The server has 2 new HTTP endpoints to poke about its status. /isReady indicates that the server is up and running. /isHealty indicates if its current state is optimal, or if there are some temporary limitations, such as a database backend is offline for maintenance, or the replication is lagging too much (with too much being fully configurable).
  • The Grafana sample dashboard has been updated
  • Like all ForgeRock Identity Platform’s products, DS comes with a Common Audit handler that published log messages to stdout, a common practice when working with Docker containers.

Directory Proxy Server 6.5 now supports “sharding”, i.e. distributing data into multiple discrete replicated directory services. Such deployments make very large amount of data easier to manage and give better write scalability. In this version, the number of “shards” is fixed, but we are working on making the service dynamically scaling as the data grows, in future versions.

Directory Services 6.5 now supports limiting the number of connections that can be opened from a single client application. By IP address, a client may be denied, fully allowed or restricted in its number of opened connections, offering a greater protection against misbehaving applications.

The product also now supports the LDAP Relax Rules Control, that allow an administrator to add or modify attributes that are normally read-only. This feature can be used when having to synchronise data between different LDAP products, so they have the same timestamps for their creation or modification dates.

We’ve made the “cn=Changelog” suffix and data available on servers that are only acting as Replication hubs (RS), since they are persisting all the changes to replicate them.

We’ve added a couple of troubleshooting tools with the release. One tool, changelogstat) allows to list and dump the content of the replication changelog databases. The supportextract tool allows an administrator to capture the state and logs of a Directory Services instance and make the file available to ForgeRock support quickly.

Java 11 is now fully supported, both Oracle JVM and OpenJDK builds (from Oracle, Red-Hat or Azul Systems).

Finally, like with all releases of Directory Services, we have enhanced the performance and the reliability of the server in many areas. But most importantly, we have fully tested that you can upgrade to 6.5 without any service interruption: from 2.6 to 6.0, you can upgrade an instance and let it replicate with the other instances, then start upgrading the next one, until all instances are on the latest and greatest version. If you use VMs or containers, you can stop an existing instance and replace it with a new one. Or add a new one and then stop an old one… Your choice, but both scenarios are supported.

For further details, read the complete Release Notes. I’m looking forward to your feedback on the features and improvements of the Directory Services 6.5 release!

What’s new in OpenDJ 3.0, Part III

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FR_plogo_org_FC_openDJ-300x86In the previous posts, I talked about the new PDB Backend in OpenDJ 3.0, and the other changes with backends, replication and the changelog.

In this last article about OpenDJ 3.0, I’m presenting the most important new features and enhancements in this major release:

Certificate Matching Rules.

OpenDJ now implements the CertificateExactMatch matching rule in compliance with “Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Schema Definitions for X.509 Certificates” (RFC 4523) and implements the schema and the syntax for certificates, certificate lists  and certificate pairs.

It’s now possible to search a directory to find an entry with a specific certificate, using a filter such as below:

(userCertificate={ serialNumber 13233831500277100508, issuer rdnSequence:"CN=Babs Jensen,OU=Product Development,L=Cupertino,C=US" })

Password Storage Schemes

The PKCS5S2 Password Storage Scheme has been added to the list of supported storage schemes. While this one is less secure and flexible than PBKDF2, it allows some of our customers to migrate from systems that use the PKCS5S2 algorithm. Other password storage schemes have been enhanced to support arbitrary salt length and thus helping with other migrations (without requiring all users to have a new password).

Disk Space Monitoring.

In previous releases, each backend had a disk space monitoring function, regardless of the filesystems or disks used. In OpenDJ 3.0, we’ve created a disk space monitoring service, and backends, replication, log services register to it. This allows the server to optimise its resource consumption to monitor, as well as ensuring that all disks that contain writable data are monitored, and alerts raised when reaching some low threshold.

Improvements

There are many improvements in many areas of the server: in the REST to LDAP services and gateway, optimisations on indexes, dsconfig batch mode, DSML Gateway supporting SOAP 1.2, native packages… For the complete details, please read the Release Notes.

As always, the best way to really see and feel the difference is by downloading and installing the OpenDJ server, and playing with it. We’re providing a Zip installation, an RPM and a Debian Package, the DSML Gateway and the REST to LDAP Gateway as war files.

Over the course of the development of OpenDJ 3.0, we’ve received many contributions, in form of code, issues raised in our JIRA, documentation… We address our deepest thanks to all the contributors and developers :

Andrea Stani, Auke Schrijnen, Ayami Tyndal, Brad Tumy, Bruno Lavit, Bernhard Thalmayr, Carole Forel, Chris Clifton, Chris Drake, Chris Ridd, Christian Ohr, Christophe Sovant, Cyril Grosjean, Darin Perusich, David Goldsmith, Dennis Demarco, Edan Idzerda, Emidio Stani, Fabio Pistolesi, Gaétan Boismal, Gary Williams, Gene Hirayama, Hakon Steinø, Ian Packer, Jaak Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, James Phillpotts, Jeff Blaine, Jean-Noël Rouvignac, Jens Elkner, Jonathan Thomas, Kevin Fahy, Lana Frost, Lee Trujillo, Li Run, Ludovic Poitou, Manuel Gaupp, Mark Craig, Mark De Reeper, Markus Schulz, Matthew Swift, Matt Miller, Muzzol Oliba, Nicolas Capponi, Nicolas Labrot, Ondrej Fuchsik, Patrick Diligent, Peter Major, Quentin Cassel, Richard Kolb, Robert Wapshott, Sébastien Bertholet, Shariq Faruqi, Stein Myrseth, Sunil Raju, Tomasz JÄ™drzejewski, Travis Papp, Tsoi Hong, Violette Roche-Montané, Wajih Ahmed, Warren Strange, Yannick Lecaillez. (I’m sorry if I missed anyone…)

What’s new in OpenDJ 3.0 – Part II

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FR_plogo_org_FC_openDJ-300x86Yesterday, I’ve talked about the most important change in OpenDJ 3.0, that is the new PDB Backend. Let me detail other new and improved features of OpenDJ 3.0, still related to backends and replication.

As part of the work for the new backend, we’ve worked on the import process, in order to make it more I/O efficient and thus faster.

Here’s some numbers, importing 1 000 000 users in OpenDJ.

In OpenDJ 2.6.3:

$ import-ldif -l ../1M.ldif -n userRoot
[03/Feb/2016:15:41:42 +0100] category=RUNTIME_INFORMATION severity=NOTICE msgID=20381717 msg=Installation Directory: /Space/Tests/Blog/2.6/opendj
...
[03/Feb/2016:15:42:54 +0100] category=JEB severity=NOTICE msgID=8847454 msg=Processed 1000002 entries, imported 1000002, skipped 0, rejected 0 and migrated 0 in 71 seconds (average rate 13952.5/sec)

In OpenDJ 3.0, with the JE Backend:

$ import-ldif -l ../../1M.ldif -n userRoot
[03/02/2016:15:45:19 +0100] category=UTIL seq=0 severity=INFO msg=Installation Directory: /Space/Tests/Blog/3.0/opendj
...
[03/02/2016:15:46:22 +0100] category=PLUGGABLE seq=74 severity=INFO msg=Processed 1000002 entries, imported 1000002, skipped 0, rejected 0 and migrated 0 in 62 seconds (average rate 15961.2/sec)

In OpenDJ 3.0, with the PDB Backend

$ import-ldif -l ../../1M.ldif -n userRoot
[03/02/2016:15:59:38 +0100] category=UTIL seq=0 severity=INFO msg=Installation Directory: /Space/Tests/Blog/3.0/opendj
...
[03/02/2016:16:00:38 +0100] category=PLUGGABLE seq=48 severity=INFO msg=Processed 1000002 entries, imported 1000002, skipped 0, rejected 0 and migrated 0 in 58 seconds (average rate 17038.7/sec)

We’ve also completely reworked the storage layer for the replication changes, moving away from the BDB JE database. Instead, we’re using direct files, again providing much smaller disk occupancy (and thus optimising I/Os) but also allowing much more efficient purging of old data.

As part of these changes, we’ve made serious improvements to the way the replication changes can be read and searched using LDAP under the “cn=Changelog” suffix. More importantly, we’ve now have a way to ensure a complete ordering of the changes published, and thus consistency of their “changeNumbers”. That is to say that now, when reading “cn=Changelog” on different replicated servers, the change with “ChangeNumber=N” will be the same on all servers, allowing applications that read these changes to failover from one server to another. We’ve added a way to resynchronise these ChangeNumbers when adding a new replica to an existing topology, or when restoring one after a maintenance period.

Still on the subject of the ChangeLog, we’ve added another level of security to it, by introducing a “changelog-read” privilege that provides a better control on which applications and users are allowed to read the data from the “cn=Changelog” suffix.

That’s all for today. Tomorrow, I will continue with all the other new features and enhancements in OpenDJ 3.0.

If you have done it yet, you can download OpenDJ 3.0 from ForgeRock’s BackStage and start playing with it. And check the Release Notes for more information.

OpenDJ 3.0.0 has been released…

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FR_plogo_org_FC_openDJ-300x86As part of the release of the ForgeRock Identity Platform that we did last week, we’ve released a major version of our Directory Services product : OpenDJ 3.0.0.

The main and most important change in OpenDJ 3.0 is the work on the backend layer, with the introduction of a new backend database, supported by a new low level key-value store. When installing a new instance of OpenDJ, administrators now have the choice of creating a JE Backend (which is based on Berkeley DB Java Edition, as with previous releases of OpenDJ), or a PDB Backend (which is based on the new PersistIt library). When upgrading, the existing local backends will be transparently upgraded in JE Backends, but indexes will need to be rebuilt (and can be rebuilt automatically during the upgrade process).

Both backends have the same capabilities, and very similar performances. Most importantly, both backends benefit from a number of improvements compared with previous releases : the size of databases and index records are smaller, some indexes have been reworked to deliver better performances both for updates and reads. Overall, we’ve been increasing the throughput of Adding/Deleting entries in OpenDJ by more than 15 %.

But the 2 backends are different, especially in the way they deal with database compression. Because of the way it’s dealing with journals and compression, the new PDB backend may deliver better overall throughput, but may increase its disk occupancy significantly under heavy load (it favours updates over compression). Once the throughput is reduced under a certain threshold, compression will be highly effective and the overall disk occupancy will be optimised.

A question I often get is “Which backend should I use? “. And I don’t have a definitive answer. If you have an OpenDJ instance and you’re upgrading to 3.0, keep the JE Backend. This is a simple and automated upgrade. If you’re installing a new instance of OpenDJ, then I would say it’s a matter of risks. We don’t have the same wide experience with the PDB backend than we have had with the JE backend over the last 10 years. So, if you want to be really safe, chose the JE Backend. If you have time to test, stage your directory service before putting it in production, you might want to go with the PDB Backend. As, moving forward, we will focus our performance testing and improvements on the PDB backend essentially.

That’s all for now. In a followup post, I will continue to review the changes in OpenDJ 3.0…

Meanwhile, you can download OpenDJ 3.0 from ForgeRock’s BackStage and start playing with it. And check the Release Notes for more information.

PS: The followup posts have been published:

New version of ForgeRock Identity Platformâ„¢

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This week, we have announced the release of the new version of the ForgeRock Identity Platform, which brings new services in the following areas :

  • Continuous Security at Scale
  • Security for Internet of Things (IoT)
  • Enhanced Data Privacy Controls

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This is also the first identity management solution to fully implement the User-Managed Access (UMA) standard, making it possible for organizations to address expanding privacy regulations and establish trusted digital relationships. See the article that Eve Maler, VP of Innovation at ForgeRock and Chief UMAnitarian posted to explain UMA and what it can do for you.

A more in depth description of the new features of the ForgeRock Identity Platform has also been posted.

The ForgeRock Identity Platform is available for download now at https://www.forgerock.com/downloads/

In future posts, I will detail what is new in the Directory Services part, built on the OpenDJ project.

Nouvelle version de la Plateforme Identité de ForgeRock

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Cette semaine nous venons d’annoncer la nouvelle version de la Plateforme d’Identité de ForgeRock (ForgeRock Identity Platformâ„¢).

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La Plateforme d’Identité de ForgeRock est maintenant capable d’évaluer dans son contexte et en continu, l’authenticité des utilisateurs, des appareils et des objets.

Cette nouvelle version est aussi la première solution qui offre le support de la norme “User Managed Access” (UMA) qui permet aux individus de partager, contrôler, autoriser et révoquer l’accès aux données de façon sélective, et donc offrent aux entreprises une solution ouverte et standardisée pour protéger et contrôler la confidentialité des données de leurs clients et employés. Ces besoins de confidentialité et de gestion du consentement deviennent importants dans le domaine de la santé, des objets connectés ou même dans le secteur des services financiers.

Pour mieux comprendre “UMA” et les services offerts par la Plateforme d’Identité de ForgeRock, je vous propose de regarder cette courte vidéo (en Anglais).

La plateforme ForgeRock Identity Platform est disponible en téléchargement dès à présent à l’adresse : https://www.forgerock.com/downloads/

Les détails des nouveautés de cette version sont sur le site de ForgeRock.

OpenIG 3.1 is now available…

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It’s my great pleasure to announce the general availability of OpenIG 3.1, a minor update of the ForgeRock Open Identity Gateway product, following the press release of early December.

The Open Identity Gateway is a simple standard-based solution to secure access to web applications and APIs. It supports SAMLv2, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect and can capture and replay credentials, enabling SSO and Federation.

With a four months release cycle since the previous release, OpenIG 3.1 doesn’t contain many major new features, but it does bring several new enhancements to the product, including :

  • The support for encrypted JSON Web Token (JWT) cookies to store session information on the user-agent. The administrator can decide to keep the default container managed sessions, or use JWT cookies globally or for a specific route.
  • A simplification of OpenIG configuration, with the ability to inline objects, omit specific fields when empty or obvious. This simplification enables faster configuration as well as a better readability for long term maintenance of the service.
  • IMG_4090The introduction of “Decorator” for configuration objects, easily adding new behaviors to existing configured objects. OpenIG 3.1 provides 3 decorators out of the box: a CaptureDecorator that enables debugging and logging in a much easier and more dynamic way; a TimerDecorator that records times spent in the decorated objects; an AuditDecorator that allows to audit operations for any decorated objects.
  • The support for a sample monitoring handler that provides basic statistics about the exchanges and routes. The monitoring information can be used to provide an activity dashboard such as here on the right..
  • Some optimisations and performance improvements when using OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0

For the complete details of the changes in OpenIG 3.1, please check the release notes.

You can download the ForgeRock product here. It’s been heavily tested by our Quality Assurance team : functional tests on Windows, Mac and Linux, stress tests as proxy, with OAuth2 and OpenID Connect, non-regression tests… The documentation has been entirely reviewed and all examples tested.  The  source code is available in our code repository (https://svn.forgerock.org/openig).

We are interested in your feedback, so get it, play with it and give us your comments, either on the mailing list, the wiki, the OpenIG Forum or through blog posts.

 

On track for the release…

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Yesterday we’ve announced the new releases of 3 of ForgeRock products : OpenAM 12.0, OpenIDM 3.1 and OpenIG 3.1.

There are still a few days before we make OpenIG 3.1 generally available. We are currently stressing it out and reviewing the documentation. But all indicators are green for now :

Snapshot of OpenIG Issue Tracker

New ForgeRock product available : OpenIG 3.0

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Since the beginning of the year, I’ve taken an additional responsibility at ForgeRock: Product Management for a new product finally named ForgeRock Open Identity Gateway (built from the OpenIG open source project).

OpenIG is not really a new project, as it’s been an optional module of OpenAM for the last 2 years. But with a new engineering team based in Grenoble, we’ve taken the project on a new trajectory and made a full product out of it.

OpenIGOpenIG 3.0.0 was publicly released on August 11th and announced here and there. But as I was on holidays with the family, I had not written a blog post article about it.

So what is OpenIG and what’s new in the 3.0 release ?

OpenIG is a web and API access management solution that allows you to protect enterprise applications and APIs using open standards such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect and SAMLv2.

Enhanced from the previous version are the Password Capture and Replay and SAMLv2 federation support features. But OpenIG 3.0 also brings several new features:

  • Support for OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect standard protocol to ease authentication and authorized access from clients, browsers, mobile devices and things
  • Support for scripting using the Groovy language to quickly develop complex flows
  • Support for protecting multiple applications or APIs with a single instance and splitting configuration in multiple dynamically reloaded files

I’ve presented publicly the new product and features this week through a Webinar. The recording is now available, and so is the deck of slides that I’ve used.

You can download OpenIG 3.0 from ForgeRock.com, or if you would like to preview the enhancements that we’ve already started for the 3.1 release, get a nightly build from ForgeRock.org.

Play with it and let us know how it is working for you, either by email, using a blog post or writing an article on our wiki. I will be reviewing them, relaying and advertising your work. And I’m also preparing a surprise for the authors of the most outstanding use cases !

I’m looking forward to hear from you.

OpenDJ 2.6.0 is now available

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OpenDJ-300x100I am really happy to announce the general availability of OpenDJ 2.6.0, a major update of ForgeRock  directory service product, built from the tag 2.6.0 (revision 9086 in our SVN repository).

OpenDJ 2.6.0 brings a lot of added value, including :

– A REST to LDAP service, allowing an easy access to directory data using HTTP/JSON. The service can be run either embedded in the server or as a standalone web application.

– A new upgrade process to ease transition from OpenDJ 2.4.5 or newer to 2.6.

– New Linux native packages (RPM and Debian) to facilitate the automatic deployment of OpenDJ in the private and public cloud.

– OpenDJ can be configured to delegate authentication to a Microsoft Active Directory service, providing tighter integration with Microsoft environment without the burden of synchronizing passwords.

– An optional extension to remove specific attributes from updates, making it more flexible and easier to deal with legacy applications and migration tasks.

– A way to synchronize SAMBA password attributes with the user’s password.

– Some improvements on the integrity of references, that is now enforced at creation or on update.

– More flexible and efficient audit logs.

– A Java based LDAP software development kit.

– An official stable documentation.

For the complete list of new features, enhancements and fixed defects, please read the release notes.

The binaries can be downloaded from ForgeRock Downloads.

Over the course of the development of OpenDJ, we’ve received many contributions, in form of code, issues raised in our JIRA, documentation… We address our deepest thanks to all the contributors and developers :

Aiman Tahboub, Alan Evans, Arturo V Sanchez, Auke Schrijnen, Bernhard Thalmayr, Brent Palmer, Bruno Vernay, Chris Dowey, Chris Ridd, Christophe Sovant, Dan Gardner, Danny Turner, Darin Perusich, Donal Duane, Elliot Kendall, Eswar Moorthy, Fred Voss, Gael Allioux, Gary Williams, German Parente, Göran Odmyr, Ian McGlothlin, Jamie Nelson, Jean-Noël Rouvignac, Jeff Blaine, Jeffrey Crawford, Jens Elkner, Lana Frost, Laurent Bristiel, Ludovic Poitou, Manuel Gaupp, Manuel Schallar, Mark Craig, Mark Gibson, Marko Harjula, Martin Sperle, Matthew Stevenson, Matthew Swift, Miroslav Fadrhonc, Mitch Silverstein, Nemanja Lukić, Nicholas Sushkin , Nikolay Belaevski, Per-Olov Sjoholm, Peter Major, Rauli Ikonen, Sachiko Wallace, Slavomir Katuscak, Tomas Forsman, Vanessa Richie, Violette Roche, Willi Burmeister

Happy 4th of July everyone !

OpenDJ 2.4.6 is now available

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As few days after an important milestone for OpenDJ, the open source LDAP directory server in Java, I’m happy to announce that a new bug fix release of  the 2.4 series has just been made available. OpenDJ 2.4.6 is an update release of the OpenDJ project and improves reliability and performances with large groups and entries, as well as very large databases. The full details about the release have been posted in the OpenDJ 2.4.6 Release Notes. Upgrading to this release is recommended for everyone running earlier versions. For additional features and bug fixes, please use OpenDJ 2.5.0-Xpress1.

The release is built out of revision 8102 of the b2.4 branch of the code repository.

As usual, you can find every thing on the OpenDJ Downloads page:

The draft documentation for OpenDJ, and more specifically the Administration Guide, has been updated on the OpenDJ project site, still on the track for an accurate, reviewed version for OpenDJ 2.5.

Feedback is important to us and you can participate on the IRC channel, the mailing lists or join our community.

Enjoy !

OpenDJ 2.5.0-Xpress1 is now available

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I’m happy to announce that a new revision of OpenDJ, the open source LDAP directory server in Java has just been released. OpenDJ 2.5.0-Xpress1 is a new stable release of the main development branch of the OpenDJ project.

OpenDJ 2.5.0-Xpress1 brings you the latest features such as:

  • Capability to delegate authentication to Microsoft Active Directory (pass-through authentication)
  • Improved enforcement of referential integrity for groups, whereby OpenDJ can now ensure both that members’ entries exist when they are added to groups, and also that members are removed from groups when their entries are deleted
  • Access log filtering, with additional output configuration to combine request and response messages, log control OIDs, and specify timestamp formats
  • Optimistic concurrency control through ETag attributes
  • Synchronization of Samba and OpenDJ passwords

You can find more details about the OpenDJ 2.5.0-Xpress1 release in the OpenDJ Release Notes.

The release is built out of revision 8087 of the trunk of the code repository.

As usual, you can find every thing on the OpenDJ Downloads page:

The draft documentation for OpenDJ, and more specifically the Administration Guide, has been updated on the OpenDJ project site, still on the track for an accurate, reviewed version for the final release of OpenDJ 2.5.0, due by the end of this year.

Feedback is important to us and you can participate on the IRC channel, the mailing lists or join our community.

Enjoy !

OpenAM 10.0.0 is now available…

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This is a big milestone for ForgeRock and the OpenAM project, an open source WebSSO, Authentication, Authorization, Federation and Entitlements solution. After months of development (a few more than we anticipated), we’ve finally released OpenAM 10.0.0, a major version of the product.

OpenAM 10 brings a set of new features, including support for OAuth 2.0 client authentication, the ForgeRock Identity Gateway (built out of project OpenIG), enhanced SAML 2 identity provider capabilities, a new Risk Based Authentication module, …  It also now relies on OpenDJ 2.4.5, the latest stable release of OpenDJ the open source LDAP directory server, and supports the internet-draft based LDAP password policy. You can find more details  in the press announcement, or the product release notes. The documentation of the OpenAM 10 release can be read at http://docs.forgerock.org/en/index.html?product=openam&version=10.0.0.

The OpenAM 10 release owes a lot to the OpenAM community, for the issues raised : a total of 41 issues fixed in OpenAM 10 were raised by 26 different persons, and for the generous patches offered to fix over a dozen of these issues.
To each and every contributor : THANK YOU !