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Re: [[cat-users]] CAT 2.0.4 released and to be deployed on cat.eduroam.org tomorrow
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- From: Daniele Albrizio <albrizio AT units.it>
- To: cat-users AT lists.geant.org
- Cc: Amministratori Rete <netadmin AT units.it>
- Subject: Re: [[cat-users]] CAT 2.0.4 released and to be deployed on cat.eduroam.org tomorrow
- Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 11:06:19 +0100
I agree on almost anything you (Stefan Winter) pinpointed in your
analysis. And I thank you for the quite exhaustive essay that is
very useful for us, local administrators, to understand the vision
of the project and the choices taken.
I'm indeed glad to evolve to geteduroam.
I'm also strongly convinced that eduroam is not a monolithic private project, but is backed and used by a huge scientific and education community. The list of names inside geteduroam effort (NORDUnet, DeiC, SURF, Uninett) is a vigorous evidence of this.
That said, I'm a bit less in line with the observations of Paul Dekkers about the minor issue of changing icons visible inside phonebook.
It's normal that this is seen as a minor issue by developers and NRENs just because they do not have or have few END USERS.
So becomes vitally important that choices and guidelines get shared in advance within the community to collect possible criticalities and suggestions in advance.
Medium, big and huge universities have tens or hundred of
thousands users that perceive those weird icons as a major problem
if not as a device tampering. Furthermore they refer to eduroamCAT
or geteduroam as an app of the university, not a third party one
(despite all disclaimers that nobody reads). So, if something goes
wrong, our institution, not Geant, not Surfnet, goes in the (bad)
news. (we can file a disclaimer but it would be too late)
This change affects user's workflow towards several different
applications. Usually when I have to communicate with a contact of
mine, I start from phonebook, I rapidly scroll which is the best
method to use that is available also to the other side and I
choose this to communicate.
It's part of the main communication workflow when we use a
smartphone.
The list of channels is growing rapidly with technology including
fast payments, different level of privacy chats, video, file
sending, etc.....
I don't see this as a minor problem. It's indeed not a bug, is a
bad choice. Normally we don't share eduroam profiles using
whatsapp or Signal, but we publish them on well known websites.
So, even knowing we are late with Android 10 and 11 support,
would it be possible to DELAY geteduroam adoption after the
removal of the responsible mime type?
User complaints on this general and widely adopted things has to
be handled with a certain helpdesk effort and if "glitches" can be
avoided it should be done in advance.
Sorry for complicating your already hard work, I'm open to
discussion or adverse opinions.
Daniele
Hello!
It's been little while since our last update of eduroam CAT. A number of small bug fixes accumulated over time, and there are a few "mini" features that deserve cutting a release 2.0.4.
The notable features are:
- [FEATURE #1] The system now sends out notification/alert
mails if a significantly security relevant parameter was
changed. The mails go to the NRO admin. Significant changes
are:
- change of institution name
- addition of a new root CA (with more prominent WARNING if the new CA has the same DN as an existing one)
- addition of a new acceptable server name - [FEATURE #2] support negotiation of TLS versions higher than 1.0 while still rejecting SSL2 and SSL3
- [FEATURE #3] realm reachability checks now produce a WARNING level message if the EAP server does not support TLS1.2 or higher
- [FEATURE #4] check whether SRV-discovered hostname and certificate hostname match
Also, we are happy to add a new translated language: welcome,
Română (Romanian).
You can find the tarball on GitHub as usual ( https://github.com/GEANT/CAT/releases/download/v2.0.4/CAT-2.0.4.tar.bz2 ) but for most of you the most interesting question is probably when the new code will be deployed on https://cat.eduroam.org.
We have reserved a maintenance slot for that tomorrow, 1300 CET. The expected downtime is in the seconds range, so you would be particularly unlucky to notice at all.
As usual, if you notice new buggy behaviour of any sorts after the update, please let us know.
Greetings,
Stefan Winter
-- Daniele ALBRIZIO - daniele.albrizio AT units.it Tel. +39-040.558.3319 UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE - Network Services Unita' di Staff Reti di Ateneo via Alfonso Valerio, 12 I-34127 Trieste, Italy
- [[cat-users]] CAT 2.0.4 released and to be deployed on cat.eduroam.org tomorrow, Stefan Winter, 02/24/2021
- Re: [[cat-users]] CAT 2.0.4 released and to be deployed on cat.eduroam.org tomorrow, Tomasz Wolniewicz, 02/24/2021
- Re: [[cat-users]] CAT 2.0.4 released and to be deployed on cat.eduroam.org tomorrow, Daniele Albrizio, 02/24/2021
- Re: [[cat-users]] CAT 2.0.4 released and to be deployed on cat.eduroam.org tomorrow geteduroam, Arthur Petrosyan, 02/24/2021
- Re: [[cat-users]] CAT 2.0.4 released and to be deployed on cat.eduroam.org tomorrow geteduroam, Tomasz Wolniewicz, 02/24/2021
- Re: [[cat-users]] [External] Re: CAT 2.0.4 released and to be deployed on cat.eduroam.org tomorrow, Hunter Fuller, 02/24/2021
- Re: [[cat-users]] CAT 2.0.4 released and to be deployed on cat.eduroam.org tomorrow, Paul Dekkers, 02/25/2021
- Re: [[cat-users]] CAT 2.0.4 released and to be deployed on cat.eduroam.org tomorrow, Guy Halse, 02/25/2021
- Re: [[cat-users]] CAT 2.0.4 released and to be deployed on cat.eduroam.org tomorrow geteduroam, Arthur Petrosyan, 02/24/2021
- Re: [[cat-users]] CAT 2.0.4 released and to be deployed on cat.eduroam.org tomorrow, Daniele Albrizio, 02/24/2021
- Re: [[cat-users]] CAT 2.0.4 released and to be deployed on cat.eduroam.org tomorrow, Stefan Winter, 02/25/2021
- Re: [[cat-users]] CAT 2.0.4 released and to be deployed on cat.eduroam.org tomorrow, Daniele Albrizio, 02/25/2021
- Re: [[cat-users]] CAT 2.0.4 released and to be deployed on cat.eduroam.org tomorrow, Stefan Winter, 02/25/2021
- [[cat-users]] CAT 2.0.4 installed, Tomasz Wolniewicz, 02/25/2021
- Re: [[cat-users]] CAT 2.0.4 released and to be deployed on cat.eduroam.org tomorrow, Paul Dekkers, 02/25/2021
- Re: [[cat-users]] CAT 2.0.4 released and to be deployed on cat.eduroam.org tomorrow, Stefan Winter, 02/25/2021
- Re: [[cat-users]] CAT 2.0.4 released and to be deployed on cat.eduroam.org tomorrow, Stefan Winter, 02/25/2021
- Re: [[cat-users]] CAT 2.0.4 released and to be deployed on cat.eduroam.org tomorrow, Daniele Albrizio, 02/25/2021
- Re: [[cat-users]] CAT 2.0.4 released and to be deployed on cat.eduroam.org tomorrow, Daniele Albrizio, 02/25/2021
- Re: [[cat-users]] CAT 2.0.4 released and to be deployed on cat.eduroam.org tomorrow, Tomasz Wolniewicz, 02/24/2021
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