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About COmanage Registry Release 1.0


The Internet2 Middleware Initiative is pleased to announce the release of COmanage Registry version 1.0.0.  The COmanage Registry v. 1.0.0is a full-featured, stable person registry designed to meet the needs of Virtual Organizations (VOs) with distinct identity and access management requirements. Over the last several years, the COmanage team has expanded the platform from a very basic registry service to one with the flexibility and feature set to meet the needs of most complex virtual organizations. The platform is being used in production at several sites, and the potential for integration with other platforms such as OpenConext has been demonstrated. COmanage v. 1.0.0 features include:

  • Configurable enrollment processes and templates that support self-enrollment as well as more managed enrollment (e.g., enrollment with approvals, conscriptive enrollments, etc.)
  •  Configurable notifications around enrollment, expiration, and status changes
  •  Group management from simple groups supported directly by COmanage to plugins to support the more complex groups within Grouper
  •  Various plugins and provisioners to applications that extend the functionality of COmanage, including Shibboleth EDS, Grouper, LDAP, github, and SSH key support
  •  Account linking to connect multiple campus and/or social identities back to the same person, either through their actions or administratively
  •  Automatic identifier assignment, based on configurable rules to meet your organizations requirements
  •  Automatic expiration to assist with the proper lifecycle management of accounts
  •  Collaboration-specific attributes to support specific attribute requirements beyond what may be available from the federated identity home organization
  •  Enhanced Terms and Conditions functionality for VOs that have particular legal requirements around participation
In addition to the overall maturation of functionality, the UI has also undergone significant improvements, including redesigned menus, various usability enhancements, better HTML5 compliance, and improved error messages.

For current deployments running earlier versions, we strongly recommend performing an upgrade on a test deployment prior to upgrading production installations. Information on upgrading is available at:
 https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/COmanage/Upgrading+Registry.

It will not be possible to upgrade earlier versions past v1.0.0 without first upgrading to v1.0.0. In other words, if you are currently running v0.9.4, you will not be able to directly upgrade to v1.1.0 when it is released. You will need to upgrade to v1.0.0 first.

Full release notes are available at:
 https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/COmanage/Release+History

In addition, this release coincides with the first security advisory for COmanage. The framework utilized by COmanage Registry has announced (but not yet provided details about) a security advisory, which may affect all versions prior to 1.0.0 (including release candidates). Further details are available at (and updates will be posted to)
 https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/x/mAOVBQ

We strongly recommend upgrading to v1.0.0, or taking an alternate mitigation approach, as soon as practical.

 
For further information about COmanage and to download the software,
please visit: http://www.internet2.edu/comanage and
https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/COmanage

Having reached the v. 1.0.0 milestone, the platform will continue to evolve as part of both the TIER and CILogon 2.0 initiatives. COmanage is funded by Internet2 and the National Science Foundation.

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