annoucements about the service and software of CAT

[Miroslav Milinovic <miro AT srce.hr>]

Hi all!

following earlier announcement (see Stefan's e-mail bellow) we'll
upgrade CAT service at cat.eduroam.org to ver 1.1.4.

on Thursday, April 13 between 8:00 and 9:00 a.m. CEST.

There might be a short (few minutes) disruption of the service.

Best regards

For eduroam operations

Miroslav Milinovic
eduroam service manager, GEANT4


On 24-Mar-17 08:56, Stefan Winter wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> we are happy to announce the release of CAT version 1.1.4.
> 
> This is almost exclusively a bugfix release; see the Changelog below. In
> fact, for those of you using the eduroam production-level instance
> https://cat.eduroam.org, it is almost a NOOP as we had backported many
> of the things from Changelog as hotfixes immediately.
> 
> One significant feature addition is the new language Euskara (Basque
> language).
> 
> The second significant change is related to credentials storing in
> Windows installers:
> 
> * all EAP types: credentials are stored with a new utility
> WLANSetEAPUserData donated by Simon Rozman (it is more universal than
> the previous setEAPCred.exe in that it can also store client
> certificates, not just PEAP passwords).
> 
> * EAP-TLS: previously, the installer always requested the user to point
> the certificate (P12) file. Now it also extracts the fingerprint from
> the personal certificate it is installing and then sets the TLS
> credentials pointing to this particular certificate. Therefore even if
> the user has more suitable certificates in the personal store, the
> installed one will be used without the user having to select it in the
> Windows prompt. If the IdP admin has set the EAP-specific option "Turn
> on selection of EAP username" then the user will be additionally
> prompted for this name and the name will be stored in the profile,
> therefore Windows will not prompt for that at connect time.
> 
> We plan to install 1.1.4 to production in the week starting 03 March
> 2017.
> 
> You can find the source code on the GEANT SVN under
> CAT/releases/CAT-1.1.4.tar.bz2. The file is also currently being
> uploaded to the GEANT Downloads Portal to the usual place. This may take
> a while.
> 
> FYI, the list of changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4 is below:
> 
> Changes in 1.1.4
> ================
> - [BUGFIX #1]  set_lang had some security issues
> - [BUGFIX #2]  the device name on the main button was not being
>                translated
> - [BUGFIX #3]  IdP listing was sending multiplied location info
> - [BUGFIX #4]  typo regarding Google Analytics fixed (wrong domain name)
> - [BUGFIX #5]  fixed problem with redirecting from index.php to
>                basic.php not passing arguments correctly
> - [BUGFIX #6]  fixed problem with IdP argument not overriding the
>                country setting form geolocation
> - [FEATURE #1] Windows credenial setting has been rebuilt for PEAP and
>                TLS, now TLS can point exactly to the user certificate
>                being installed.
> - [FEATURE #2] GEANTLink binary updated to final release version
> - [FEATURE #3] Euskara (Basque) language added
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Stefan Winter
>