Shibboleth Identity Provider V4.1.0 (and various plugins) now available

[Cantor, Scott]

The Shiiboleth Project is pleased/relieved/exhausted to announce the availability of V4.1.0 of the IdP software, a minor (in name) upgrade. This is a significant functional release that introduces configuration simplifications and new module and plugin features to support extensibility and future feature additions are primarily expected to be delivered as plugins in the future.

Over 175 issues, bugs, and features have been addressed in this release.

Downloads
https://shibboleth.net/downloads/identity-provider/archive/4.1.0/

Release Notes
https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/IDP4/ReleaseNotes

Upgrade Help (including a dedicated section on 4.1)
https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/IDP4/Upgrading

In addition to this release, we are announcing the general availability of the first batch of plugins to the IdP, which you can find enumerated at https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/IDPPLUGINS/Home

This includes two particularly notable extensions, V3.0.0 of the OIDC OP extension, and the first release of a pair of plugins supporting Duo Security's WebSDK 4 integration mode. Versions based on Duo's SDK and natively on our own OIDC support are available.

Since there are several such plugins all being published at the same time as the release, we're not doing formal announcements for them.

As the documentation emphasizes, the older OIDC extension versions are NOT supported with V4.1 and cannot be used with it, so some manual effort will be involved for early adopters as we expected.

There are some javadoc cleanup tasks left to finish so there may be some glitches with that encountered this week until things are finalized.

Thanks to the expanded development team for the massive amount of effort that went into this release.

-- Scott