annoucements about the service and software of CAT

[Miroslav Milinovic <miro AT srce.hr>]

Hi all!

I'd like to confirm that upgrade went Ok.

We now run CAT ver 1.1.4 at http://cat.eduroam.org

Regards

Miro



On 11-Apr-17 09:05, Miroslav Milinovic wrote:
> 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
>>