To use the Grouper installer, see the "Grouper Installer" training video and this wiki page.
For a minor upgrade, see the "Grouper Minor Upgrade" training video
Report Grouper Security Concerns here
Current Grouper release is v2.1.5
Read the Release Notes
Release components
If you are new to Grouper and need to get started, download the installer and watch this video
- Grouper Installer v2.1.5 (.tar.gz) (jar only) - Designed to get a working demo up and running quickly. Contains the Grouper API, UI, WS, loader (daemons), a demo database, a database engine, tomcat, and ant. All you need is Java 6+ JDK. Note: this is new and experimental.
- Grouper API Binary v2.1.5 (.tar.gz) - Binary release of the Grouper Application Program Interface and associated utilities. Getting started with the Grouper API Binary Distribution
- Grouper API Source v2.1.5 (.tar.gz) - Contains the full source for the Grouper Application Program Interface, Grouper Shell, and other associated utilities.
- Provisioning Service Provider v2.1.5 (.tar.gz) - Binary provisioning plugin for Grouper. More provisioning software for Grouper is available in Maven
- Grouper UI v2.1.5 (.tar.gz) - Contains the full source for the Grouper Administrative and Lite User Interfaces.
- Grouper WS v2.1.5 (.tar.gz) - Contains the full source for the Grouper Web Services Interface.
- Grouper Client v2.1.5 (.tar.gz) - Client for Grouper LDAP and Web Services, in binary form. Grouper Client v2.1.5 source is also available.
- Contributed Software
- Provided by the Grouper community, in addition to the above core Grouper products. - Grouper Voot Connector - NOTE: This has NOT been fully tested. Please confirm to your satisfaction that it meets your needs before deploying in a production environment.
New Features in Grouper 2.1.x
- PSP - Changes to user access can now happen in real time courtesy of real time and incremental provisioning based on Grouper's changelog. Group and folder moves and renames can be provisioned as well. This is accomplished with the new Provisioning Service Provider (PSP), which replaces LDAPPCNG.
- Provision from LDAP - Grouper can now be updated from LDAP via PSP or Grouper Loader.
- More Web Services Improved web services support for applications that outsource their internal access management to Grouper: The new web services are: Assign Attribute Def Name Inheritance, Attribute Def Name Save, Attribute Def Name Delete, and Find Attribute Def Names.
- Local Entities - Improved management of access by service principals to info stored in Grouper using a new "local entity" object type.
- Grouper Installer - It's quick and easy to get started using Grouper with the new installer. Really!
- Subject Filter and Attribute Decorator - Manage who can see which subject attributes with new subject attribute security support. You can also decorate subjects after retrieval from their source.
- Grouper Failover Client - Higher availability of web services using a new failover client library and discovery service library.
Grouper source code (or via viewvc) is in Internet2's SVN repository. For command line users:
svn co http://anonsvn.internet2.edu/svn/i2mi/tags/GROUPER_2_1_5/
Previous Grouper Versions
For previous Grouper versions, click the link for the desired version:
2.1: 2.1.4, 2.1.3, 2.1.2, 2.1.1, 2.1.0
2.0: 2.0.3, 2.0.2, 2.0.1, 2.0.0
1.7: 1.7.0
1.6: 1.6.3, 1.6.2, 1.6.1, 1.6.0
Email Subscriptions
As an open source project, support is provided by means of the Grouper documentation wiki and open mailing lists. Grouper implementers are urged and welcome to subscribe to the following email lists:
- Grouper-Announce mailing list, for important annoucements around security and releases.
- Grouper-Users mailing list, which is an open support forum for deployment issues.
- Grouper-Developers mailing list, for those interested in discussion of development issues.
To subscribe, see instructions here
License
Grouper is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. See http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html for a copy of this license.
Development of this software was supported with funding from Internet2, the University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, Duke University, University of Washington, University of Memphis, University of Bristol (UK), the NSF Middleware Initiative (NSF 02-028, Grant No. OCI-0330626, Grant No. OCI-0330626, OCI-0721896, and OCI-1032468), and JISC. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).