xmlsectool

[Lohr, Donald A - lohrda]

thx

On 2/11/2024 9:20 AM, Ian Young wrote:
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>> On 9 Feb 2024, at 20:16, Lohr, Donald A - lohrda via users 
>> <users at shibboleth.net> wrote:
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>> I'm being asked to find out why the xmlsectool utility is still at 
>> v3.0.0 (last updated 2020-12-15 15:49).
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> There hasn't been a change in its requirements or functionality, or 
> any reported issues that we have felt it necessary to publish a new 
> version to address.
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> That might be surprising for a more sophisticated tool, but xmlsectool 
> is very simple.
>
> The most likely thing to be done in a v4 would be to shift its 
> baseline requirements to Java 17 to match the IdP but there's no real 
> functional benefit to that for an application of this kind.
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>
>> Is it considered an supported or unsupported tool?
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> It's supported, at least on the platforms mentioned in its System 
> Requirements page ([1]). In addition to that, it should work fine on 
> any subsequent version of Java to date; the big change was the 8->11 
> transition where the mechanism for using PKCS#11 tokens in Java 
> changed in an incompatible way. Our regular internal testing runs the 
> v3 trunk against Java 11, 17, 21 and 22.
>
>     -- Ian
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>
> [1] 
> https://shibboleth.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/XSTJ3/pages/2369683699/System+Requirements
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