Question about where to start/Which version to use

[Tom Scavo]

On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 8:13 AM, Billy Anzovino
<billy.anzovino at nuovosolutions.com> wrote:
>
> I’m looking into tinkering around with Shibboleth as the authentication platform for some stuff we are looking to do.  I’ve been reading the documentation and I stumbled across some documents saying that the V3 documentation for IDP is not fully complete.  Additionally the documentation about obtaining the source references idp-2.  I was wondering if idp3 is the best place to start or if using idp2 is still recommended as the golden standard for now and then migrating to V3 at a later date.

Thank you for asking this timely question. My answer is not directed
at you, it is for everyone:

Shibboleth IdP V2 reached end-of-life on July 31, 2016. As of that
date, no bug fixes, not even security-related bug fixes, will be
issued.

If you are using V2, you should upgrade to Shibboleth IdP V3 now! If
you are starting from scratch, you should deploy V3 of course.

Shibboleth IdP V3.3.0 was announced [1] on November 11, 2016. You
should start there. You'll be glad you did :-)

Tom

[1] http://marc.info/?l=shibboleth-announce&m=147882355303031&w=2