SASL 2.1.27 rc6

Ken Murchison murch at fastmail.com
Wed Dec 20 11:00:35 EST 2017


We haven't had much, if any, feedback on this release candidate.

Do the GSSAPI/LDAP folks have any further comments on 
https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-sasl/issues/419

I'd really like to make a final release by Christmas as promised, but I 
also don't want to make a release that folks will have to patch immediately.


On 12/11/2017 08:01 AM, Ken Murchison wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I have built a sixth (and hopefully last) release candidate of SASL 
> 2.1.27 which can be downloaded from here:
>
> HTTP:
>   http://www.cyrusimap.org/releases/cyrus-sasl-2.1.27-rc6.tar.gz
>   http://www.cyrusimap.org/releases/cyrus-sasl-2.1.27-rc6.tar.gz.sig
>
> FTP:
>   ftp://ftp.cyrusimap.org/cyrus-sasl/cyrus-sasl-2.1.27-rc6.tar.gz
>   ftp://ftp.cyrusimap.org/cyrus-sasl/cyrus-sasl-2.1.27-rc6.tar.gz.sig
>
> MD5 Sum:
> cyrus-sasl-2.1.27-rc6.tar.gz : de083cc2e5c1cc3a1b88f7d85332a3ff
> cyrus-sasl-2.1.27-rc6.tar.gz.sig: 868cc9f5feee63ca2bd91279f5ac043b
>
> Note that the distro has been signed by my colleague Partha Susarla at 
> FastMail.
>
>
> We didn't receive much feedback to Alexey's post on the GSSAPI/LDAP 
> issue, so hopefully this release candidate will provoke some 
> discussion leading to a resolution.  As stated previously, we would 
> like to make a final release before Christmas.  If we have some last 
> minute activity on the GSSAPI issue or any other showstoppers, we 
> could push the release back to the end of the year as a last resort.
>
>
> The (mostly) complete list of changes from 2.1.26 are these:
>
>   * Added support for OpenSSL 1.1
>   * Added support for lmdb (from Howard Chu)
>   * Lots of build fixes (from Ignacio Casal Quinteiro and others)
>   * Treat SCRAM and DIGEST-MD5 as more secure than PLAIN when
>     selecting client mech
>   * DIGEST-MD5 plugin:
>       o Fixed memory leaks
>       o Fixed a segfault when looking for non-existent reauth cache
>       o Prevent client from going from step 3 back to step 2
>       o Allow cmusaslsecretDIGEST-MD5 property to be disabled
>   * GSSAPI plugin:
>       o Added support for retrieving negotiated SSF
>       o Fixed GSS-SPNEGO to use flags negotiated by GSSAPI for SSF
>       o Properly compute maxbufsize AFTER security layers have been set
>   * SCRAM plugin:
>       o Added support for SCRAM-SHA-256
>       o Allow SCRAM-* to be used by HTTP
>   * LOGIN plugin:
>       o Don’t prompt client for password until requested by server
>   * NTLM plugin:
>       o Fixed crash due to uninitialized HMAC context
>   * saslauthd:
>       o cache.c:
>           + Don’t use cached credentials if timeout has expired
>           + Fixed debug logging output
>       o ipc_doors.c:
>           + Fixed potential DoS attack (from Oracle)
>       o ipc_unix.c:
>           + Prevent premature closing of socket
>       o auth_rimap.c:
>           + Added support LOGOUT command
>           + Added support for unsolicited CAPABILITY responses in
>             LOGIN reply
>           + Properly detect end of responses (don’t needlessly wait)
>           + Properly handle backslash in passwords
>       o auth_httpform:
>           + Fix off-by-one error in string termination
>           + Added support for 204 success response
>       o auth_krb5.c:
>           + Added krb5_conv_krb4_instance option
>           + Added more verbose error logging
>
>
>
> At this point any major changes (e.g. API, wire protocol) will be 
> pushed out to 2.1.28 or 2.2.0.  I believe that this is close to being 
> a final release which I would like to get out by the end of December.
>
> -- 
> Kenneth Murchison
> Cyrus Development Team
> FastMail Pty Ltd

-- 
Kenneth Murchison
Cyrus Development Team
FastMail Pty Ltd

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