simplesamlphp-changelog.md



SimpleSAMLphp changelog

This document lists the changes between versions of SimpleSAMLphp.
See the upgrade notes for specific information about upgrading.

Version 1.14.7
Released TBD

Fixed issue #424. Attributes containing XML as their values (like eduPersonTargetedID) were empty.


Version 1.14.6
Released 2016-07-18

Fixed issue #418. SimpleSAMLphp was unable to obtain the current URL correctly when invoked from third-party applications.


Version 1.14.5
Released 2016-07-12

Fixed several issues with session handling when cookies couldn't be set for some reason.
Fixed an issue that caused wrong URLs to be generated in the web interface under certain circumstances.
Fixed the exception handler to be compatible with PHP 7.
Fixed an issue in the dropdown IdP selection page that prevented it to work with PHP 5.3.
Fixed compatibility with Windows machines.
Fixed an issue with the PDO and Serialize metadata storage handlers.
Fixed the authwindowslive module. It stopped working after the former API was discontinued.
Other minor issues and fixes.


Version 1.14.4
Released 2016-06-08

Fixed two minor security issues that allowed malicious URLs to be presented to the user in a link. Reported by John Page.
Fixed issue #366. The LDAP class was trying to authenticate even when no password was provided (using the CAS module).
Fixed issue #401. The authenticate.php script was printing exceptions instead of throwing them for the exception handler to capture them.
Fixed issue #399. The size limitation of the TEXT type in MySQL was creating problems in certain setups.
Fixed issue #5. Incoherent population of the $_SERVER variable was creating broken links when running PHP with FastCGI.
Other typos and minor bugs: #389, #392.


Version 1.14.3
Released 2016-04-19

Fixed a bug in the login form that prevented the login button to be displayed in mobile devices.
Resolved an issue in the PHP session handler that made it impossible to use PHP sessions simultaneously with other applications.


Version 1.14.2
Released 2016-03-11

Use stable versions of the externalized modules to prevent possible issues when further developing them.


Version 1.14.1
Released 2016-03-08

Resolved an information leakage security issue in the sanitycheck module. See SSPSA 201603-01.


Version 1.14.0
Released 2016-02-15

Security

Resolved a security issue with multiple modules that were not validating the URLs they were redirecting to.
Added a security check to disable loading external entities in XML documents.
Enforced admin access to the metadata converter tool.
Changed xmlseclibs dependency to point to robrichards/xmlseclibs version 1.4.1.


New features

Allow setting the location of the configuration directory with an environment variable.
Added support for the Metadata Query Protocol by means of the new MDX metadata storage handler.
Added support for the Sender-Vouches method.
Added support for WantAssertionsSigned and AuthnRequestsSigned in SAML 2.0 SP metadata.
Added support for file uploads in the metadata converter.
Added support for setting the prefix for Memcache keys.
Added support for the Hide From Discovery REFEDS Entity Category.
Added support for the eduPersonAssurance attribute.
Added support for the full SCHAC 1.5.0 schema.
Added support for UNIX sockets when configuring memcache servers.
Added the SAML NameID to the attributes status page, when available.
Added attribute definitions for schacGender (schac), sisSchoolGrade and sisLegalGuardianFor (skolfederation.se).
Attributes required in metadata are now taken into account when parsing.


Bug fixes

Fixed an issue with friendly names in the attributes released.
Fixed an issue with memcache that would result in a push for every fetch, when several servers configured.
Fixed an issue with memcache that would result in an endless loop if all servers are down.
Fixed an issue with HTML escaping in error reports.
Fixed an issue with the 'admin.protectmetadata' option not being enforced for SP metadata.
Fixed an issue with SAML 1.X SSO authentications that removed the NameID of the subject from available data.
Fixed an issue with the login form that resulted in a NOSTATE error if the user clicked the login button twice.
Fixed an issue with replay detection in IdP-initiated flows.
Fixed an issue with SessionNotOnOrAfter that kept moving forward in the future with every SSO authentication.
Fixed an issue with the session cookie being set twice for the first time.
Fixed an issue with the XXE attack prevention mechanism conflicting with other applications running in the same server.
Fixed an issue that prevented the SAML 1.X IdP to restart when the session is lost.
Fixed an issue that prevented classes using namespaces to be loaded automatically.
Fixed an issue that prevented certain metadata signatures to be verified (fixed upstream in xmlseclibs).
Other bug fixes and numerous documentation enhancements.


API and user interface

Added a new and simple database class to serve as PDO interface for all the database needs.
Added the possibility to copy metadata and other elements by clicking a button in the web interface.
Removed the old, unused pack installer tool.
Improved usability by telling users the endpoints are not to be accessed directly.
Moved the hostname, port and protocol diagnostics tool to the admin directory.
Several classes and functions deprecated.
Changed the signature of several functions.
Deleted old and deprecated code, interfaces and endpoints.
Deleted old jQuery remnants.
Deleted the undocumented dynamic XML metadata storage handler.
Deleted the backwards-compatible authentication source.
Updated jQuery to the latest 1.8.X version.
Updated translations.


authcrypt


Added whitehat101/apr1-md5 as a dependency for Apache htpasswd.


authX509


Added an authentication processing filter to warn about certificate expiration.


ldap


Added a new port configuration option.
Better error reporting.


metaedit


Removed the admins configuration option.


metarefresh


Added the possibility to specify which types of entities to load.
Added the possibility to verify metadata signatures by using the public key present in a certificate.
Fix certificate precedence over fingerprint in the configuration options when verifying metadata signatures.


smartnameattribute


This module was deprecated long time ago and has now been removed. Use the smartattributes module instead.


Version 1.13.2
Released 2014-11-04

Solved performance issues when processing large metadata sets.
Fix an issue in the web interface when only one language is enabled.


Version 1.13.1
Released 2014-10-27

Solved an issue with empty fields in metadata to cause SimpleSAMLphp to fail with a translation error. Issues #97 and #114.
Added Basque language to the list of known languages. Issue #117.
Optimized the execution of redirections by removing an additional, unnecessary function call.
Solved an issue that caused SimpleSAMLphp to fail when the RelayState parameter was empty or missing on an IdP-initiated authentication. Issues #99 and # 104.
Fixed a certificate check for SubjectConfirmations with Holder of Key methods.


Version 1.13
Released 2014-09-25.

Added the 'remember me' option to the default login page.
Improved error reporting.
Added a new 'logging.format' option to control the formatting of the logs.
Added support for the 'objectguid' binary attribute in LDAP modules.
Added support for custom search and private attributes read credentials in all LDAP modules.
Added support for the WantAuthnRequestsSigned option in generated SAML metadata.
Tracking identifiers are no longer generated based on MD5.
Several functions, classes and interfaces marked as deprecated.
Bug fixes and documentation enhancements.
Updated translations.
New language: Basque.


adfs


Honour the 'wreply' parameter when redirecting.


aggregator


Fixed an issue when regenerating metadata from certain metadata sources.


discopower


Bug fix.


expirycheck


Translations are now possible for this module.


metarefresh


Use cached metadata if something goes wrong when refreshing feeds.


openidProvider


Fix for compatibility with versions of PHP greater or equal to 5.4.


saml


Make it possible to add friendly names to attributes in SP metadata.
The RSA_1.5 (RSA with PKCS#1 v1.5 padding) encryption algorithm is now blacklisted by default for security reasons.
Stop checking the 'IDPList' parameter in IdPs.
Solved an issue that allowed bypassing authentication status checks when presenting an 'IDPList' parameter.
The 'Destination' attribute is now always sent in logout responses issued by an SP.


sqlauth


Updated documentation to remove bad practice with regard to password storage.


Version 1.12
Released 2014-03-24.

Removed example authproc filters from configuration template.
Stopped using the 'target-densitydpi' option removed from WebKit.
The SimpleSAML_Utilities::generateRandomBytesMTrand() function is now deprecated.
Removed code for compatibility with PHP versions older than 5.3.
Removed the old interface of SimpleSAML_Session.
Fixed a memory leak in SimpleSAML_Session regarding serialization and unserialization.
Support for RegistrationInfo (MDRPI) elements in the metadata of identity and service providers.
Renamed SimpleSAML_Utilities::parseSAML2Time() function to xsDateTimeToTimestamp().
New SimpleSAML_Utilities::redirectTrustedURL() and redirectUntrustedURL() functions.
Deprecated the SimpleSAML_Utilities::redirect() function.
Improved Russian translation.
Added Czech translation.
New 'errorreporting' option to enable or disable error reporting feature.
Example certificate removed.
New SimpleSAML_Configuration::getEndpointPrioritizedByBinding() function.
PHP 5.3 or newer required.
Started using Composer as dependency manager.
Detached the basic SAML2 library and moved to a standalone library in github.
Added support for exporting shibmd:Scope metadata with regular expressions.
Remember me option in the IdP.
New SimpleSAML_Utilities::setCookie wrapper.
Custom HTTP codes on error.
Added Romanian translation.
Bug fixes and documentation enhancements.


adfs


Support for exporting metadata.


aggregator


Support for RegistrationInfo (MDRPI) elements in the metadata.
Fix for HTTP header injection vulnerability.
Fix for directory traversal vulnerability.


aggregator2


Support for RegistrationInfo (MDRPI) elements in the metadata.


aselect


License changed to LGPL 2.1.


authfacebook


Updated extlibinc to 3.2.2.


authtwitter


Added 'force_login' configuration option.


cdc


Bugfix related to request validation.


core


The AttributeAlter filter no longer throws an exception if the attribute was not found.
Support for removal of values in the AttributeAlter filter, with '%remove' flag.
Support for empty strings and NULL values as a replacement in the AttributeAlter filter.
Bugfixes in the AttributeAlter filter.
Support for NULL attribute values.
Support for limiting values and not only attributes in the AttributeLimit filter.
Log a message when a user authenticates successfully.
Added %duplicate flag to AttributeMap, to leave original names in place when using map file.
Fix infinite loop when overwriting attributes with AttributeMap.


discopower


Bugfix for incorrect handling of the 'idpdisco.extDiscoveryStorage' option.


ldap


Support for configuring the duplicate attribute handling policy in AttributeAddFromLDAP, 'attribute.policy' option.
Support for binary attributes in the AttributeAddFromLDAP filter.
Support for multiple attributes in the AttributeAddFromLDAP filter.


metarefresh


Support for specifying permissions of the resulting files.


negotiate


Added support for "attributes"-parameter.


oauth


Bugfix related to authorize URL building.


openidProvider


Support for SReg and AX requests.


saml


Send 'isPassive' in passive discovery requests.
Support for generating NameIDFormat in service providers with NameIDPolicy set.
Support for AttributeConsumingService and AssertionConsumingServiceIndex.
Support for the HTTP-POST binding in WebSSO profile.
Fix for entity ID validation problems when using the IDPList configuration option.


smartattributes


New 'add_candidate' option to allow the user to decide whether to prepend or not the candidate attribute name to the resulting value.


statistics


Bugfix in statistics aggregator.


Version 1.11
Released 2013-06-05.

Support for RSA_SHA256, RSA_SHA384 and RSA_SHA512 in HTTP Redirect binding.
Support for RegistrationInfo element in SAML 2.0 metadata.
Support for AuthnRequestsSigned and WantAssertionsSigned when generating metadata.
Third party OpenID library updated with a bugfix.
Added the Name attribute to EntitiesDescriptor.
Removed deprecated option 'session.requestcache' from config-template.
Workaround for SSL SNI extension not being correctly set.
New language cookie and parameter config options.
Add 'module.enable' configuration option for enabling/disabling modules.
Check for existence of memcache extension.
Initial support for limiting redirects to trusted hosts.
Demo example now shows both friendly and canonical name of the attributes.
Other minor fixes for bugs and typos.
Several translations updated.
Added Latvian translation.


authorize


Added a logout link to the 403 error page.


authtwitter


Updated API endpoint for version 1.1.
Fix for oauth_verifier parameter.


authX509


ldapusercert validation made optional.


consent


Added support for SQLite databases.


core


Fix error propagation in UserPass(Org)Base authentication sources.
MCrypt module marked as required.


discopower


Get the name of an IdP from mdui:DisplayName.


expirycheck


PHP 5.4 compatibility fixes.


InfoCard


PHP 5.4 compatibility fixes.


ldap


Added an option to disable following referrals.


metarefresh


Improved help message.


oauth


PHP 5.4 compatibility fixes.


saml


Verify that the issuer of an AuthnResponse is the same entity ID we sent a request to.
Added separate option to enable Holder of Key support on SP.
Fix for HoK profile metadata.
New filter for storing persistent NameID in eduPersonTargetedID attribute.
Support for UIInfo elements.
Bugfix for SAML SP metadata signing.
Ignore default technical contact.
Support for MDUI elements in SP metadata.
Support for more contact types in SP metadata.
New information in statistics with the time it took for a login to happen.


sanitycheck


Configuration file made optional.


smartattributes


New filter: smartattributes:SmartID.
New filter: smartattributes:SmartName.


smartnameattribute


Deprecated.


wsfed


Support for SLO in WS-Fed.


Version 1.10
Released 2012-09-25.

Add support for storing data without expiration timestamp in memcache.
Fix for reauthentication in old shib13 authentication handler.
Clean up executable-permissions on files.
Change encryption to use the rsa-oaep-mgf1p key padding instead of PKCS 1.5.
Update translations.
Added Serbian translation.


core


core:UserPass(Org)Base: Add "remember username" option.


papi


New authentication module supporting PAPI protocol.


radius


New feature to configure multiple radius servers.


riak


New module for storing sessions in a Riak database.


saml


Add support for overriding SAML 2.0 SP authentication request generation.
Add support for blacklisting encryption algorithms.


Version 1.9.2
Released 2012-08-29

Fix related to the security issue addressed in version 1.9.1.


Version 1.9.1
Released 2012-08-02.

Fix for a new attack against PKCS 1.5 in XML encryption.


Version 1.9
Released 2012-06-13.

Restructure error templates to share a common base template.
Warnings about URL length limits from Suhosin PHP extension.
New base class for errors from authentication sources.
Support for overriding URL generation when behind a reverse proxy.
New languages: Russian, Estonian, Hebrew, Chinese, Indonesian
Add getAuthSource()-function to SimpleSAML_Auth_Simple.
Add reauthenticate()-function to SimpleSAML_Auth_Source. (Is called when the IdP receives a new authentication request.)
iframe logout: Make it possible to skip the "question-page" for code on the IdP.
RTL text support.
Make SimpleSAMLAuthToken cookie name configurable.
Block writing secure cookies when we are on http.
Fix state information being unavailable to UserPassOrgBase authentication templates.
Make it possible to send POST-messages to http-endpoints without triggering a warning when the IdP supports both http and https.
Add IPv6-support to the SimpleSAML_Utilities::ipCIDRcheck()-function.
Do not allow users to switch to a language that is not enabled.
iframe logout: Add a per-SP timeout option.
SimpleSAML_Auth_LDAP: Better logging of the cause of exceptions.
SimpleSAML_Auth_State: Add $allowMissing-parameter to loadState().
module.php: More strict URL parsing.
Add support for hashed admin passwords.
Use openssl_random_pseudo_bytes() for better cross-platform random number generation.
Add the current hostname to the error reports.
Make the lifetime of SimpleSAML_Auth_State "state-arrays" configurable (via the session.state.timeout-option).
SimpleSAML_Auth_State: Add cloneState()-function.
Fix log levels used on Windows.
SimpleSAML_Auth_LDAP: Clean up some unused code.
core:UserPassOrgBase: Add selected organization to the authentication data that is stored in the session.
Do not warn about missing Radius and LDAP PHP extensions unless those modules are enabled.
Support for overriding the logic to determine the language.
Avoid crashes due to deprecation-warnings issued by PHP.
Use case-insensitive matching of language codes.
Add X-Frame-Options to prevent other sites from loading the SSP-pages in an iframe.
Add SimpleSAML_Utilities::isWindowsOS()-helper function.
chmod() generated files to only be accessible to the owner of the files.
Fix "re-posting" of POST data containing a key named "submit".
Do not attempt to read new sessions from the session handler.
Fix some pass-by-reference uses. (Support removed in PHP 5.4.)
Warn the user if the secretsalt-option isn't set.
A prototype for a new statistics logging core. Provides more structured logging of events, and support for multiple storage backends.
Support for arbitrary namespace-prefixed attributes in md:EndpointType-elements.
Fix invalid HTML for login pages where username is set.
Remove unecessary check for PHP version >= 5.2 when setting cookies.
Better error message when a module is missing a default-enable or default-disable file.
Support for validating RSA-SHA256 signatures.
Fixes for session exipration handling.


aselect


New module that replaces the previous module.
Better error handling.
Support for request signing.
Loses support for A-Select Cross.


authcrypt


authcrypt:Hash: New authentication source for checking username & password against a list of usernames and hashed passwords.

authcrypt:Htpasswd: New authentication source for checking username & password against a .htpasswd-file.


authfacebook


Update to latest Facebook PHP SDK.


authorize


authorize:Authorize: Add flag to change the behaviour from default-deny to default-allow.

authorize:Authorize: Add flag to do simple string matching instead of regex-matching.


authtwitter


Update to use the correct API endpoint.
Propagate "user aborted" errors back to the caller.
Changes to error handling, throw more relevant exceptions.
Store state information directly in the state array, instead of the session.


authYubiKey


Remove deprecated uses of split().


cas


Make it possible for subclasses to override finalState().


core


core:AttributeCopy: New filter to copy attributes.


consent


Add a timeout option for the database connection.
Fix disabling of consent when the data store is down.
Simpler configuration for disabling consent for one SP or one IdP.
Do not connect to the database when consent is disabled for the current SP/IdP.


consentAdmin


Fix for bridged IdP setup with userid.attribute set in saml20-idp-hosted metadata.


cron


Set the From-address to be the technical contact email address.


expirycheck


expirycheck:ExpiryDate: New module to check account expiration.


ldap


Add a base class for authentication processing filters which fetch data from LDAP.

ldap:AttributeAddUsersGroups: Authentication processing filter that adds group information from LDAP.


metarefresh


Support for blacklisting and whitelisting entities.
Support for conditional GET of metadata files.
Reuse old metadata when fetching metadata fails.


multiauth


Add multiauth:preselect-parameter, to skip the page to select authentication source.
Make it possible to configure the names of the authentication sources.
Remember the last selected authentication source.


negotiate


New module implementing "negotiate" authentication, which can be used for Kerberos authentication (including Windows SSO).


oauth


Update to latest version of the OAuth library.
Remove support for older versions of OAuth than OAuth Rev A.


openid


Separate linkback URL from page displaying OpenID URL field.
Throw more relevant exceptions.
Update to latest version of the OpenID library.
Support for sending authentication requests via GET requests (with the prefer_http_redirect option).
Prevent deprecation warnings from the OpenID library from causing deadlocks in the class loader.


openidProvider


Prevent deprecation warnings from the OpenID library from causing deadlocks in the class loader.


radius


Support for setting the "NAS-Identifier" attribute.


saml


Preserve ID-attributes on elements during signing. (Makes it possible to change the binding for some messages.)
Allow SAML artifacts to be received through a POST request.
Log more debug information when we are unable to determine the binding a message was sent with.
Require HTTP-POST messages to be sent as POST data and HTTP-Redirect messages to be sent as query parameters.
Link to download certificates from metadata pages.
Fix canonicalization of <md:EntityDescriptor> and <md:EntitiesDescriptor>.
Support for receiving and sending extension in authentication request messages.
Reuse SimpleSAML_Utilities::postRedirect() to send HTTP-POST messages.
Allow ISO8601 durations with subsecond precision.
Add support for parsing and serializing the <mdrpi:PublicationInfo> metadata extension.
Ignore cacheDuration when validating metadata.
Add support for the Holder-of-Key profile, on both the SP and IdP.
Better error handling when receiving a SAML 2.0 artifact from an unknown entity.
Fix parsing of <md:AssertionIDRequestService> metadata elements.
IdP: Do not always trigger reauthentication when the authentication request contains a IdPList-element.
IdP: Add saml:AllowCreate to the state array. This makes it possible to access this parameter from authentication processing filters.
IdP: Sign the artifact response message.
IdP: Allow the "host" metadata option to include more than one path element.
IdP: Support for generating metadata with MDUI extension elements.
SP: Use the discojuice-module as a discovery service if it is enabled.
SP: Add saml:idp-parameter to trigger login to a specific IdP to as_login.php.
SP: Do not display error on duplicate response when we have a valid session.
SP: Fix for logout after IdP initiated authentication.
SP: Fix handling of authentication response without a saml:Issuer element.
SP: Support for specifying required attributes in metadata.
SP: Support for limiting the AssertionConsumerService endpoints listed in metadata.
SP: Fix session expiration when the IdP limits the session lifetime.

saml:PersistentNameID: Fail when the user has more than one value in the user ID attribute.

saml:SQLPersistentNameID: Persistent NameID stored in a SQL database.

saml:AuthnContextClassRef: New filter to set the AuthnContextClassRef in responses.

saml:ExpectedAuthnContextClassRef: New filter to verify that the SP received the correct authentication class from the IdP.


Version 1.8.2
Released 2012-01-10.

Fix for user-assisted cross site scripting on a couple of pages.


Version 1.8.1
Released 2011-10-27.

Fix for key oracle attack against XML encryption on SP.
Fix for IdP initiated logout with IdP-initiated SSO.
Fix a PHP notice if we are unable to open /dev/urandom.
Fix a PHP notice during SAML 1.1 authentication.


Version 1.8

New authentication modules:

authmyspace
authlinkedin
authwindowslive


Support for custom error handler, replacing the default display function.
Allow error codes to be defined in modules.
Better control of logout what we do after logout request.

This makes it possible for the SP to display a warning when receiving a PartialLogout response from the IdP.


New cdc module, for setting and reading common domain cookies.


consent


Support for disabling consent for some attributes.


ldap


ldap:AttributeAddFromLDAP: Extract values from multiple matching entries.


oauth


Added support for:

RSASHA1 signatures
consent
callbackurl
verifier code
request parameters


openid


Support for sending custom extension arguments (e.g. UI extensions).


saml


Extract Extensions from AuthnRequest for use by custom modules when authenticating.
Allow signing of SP metadata.
Better control over NameIDPolicy when sending AuthnRequest.
Support encrypting/decrypting NameID in LogoutRequest.
Option to disable client certificate in SOAP client.
Better selection of AssertionConsumerService endpoint based on parameters in AuthnRequest.
Set NotOnOrAfter in IdP LogoutRequest.
Only return PartialLogout from the IdP.


Version 1.7

New authentication modules:

aselect
authX509


Unified cookie configuration settings.
Added protection against session fixation attacks.
Error logging when failing to initialize the Session class.
New session storage framework.

Add and use generic key/value store.
Support for storing sessions in SQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL & SQLite).
Support for implementing custom session storage handlers.
Allow loading of multiple sessions simultaneously.


Set headers allowing caching of static files.
More descriptive error pages:

Unable to load $state array because the session was lost.
Unable to find metadata for the given entityID.


Support for multiple keys in metadata.

Allow verification with any of the public keys in metadata.
Allow key rollower by defining new and old certificate in configuration.
Verify with signing keys, encrypt with encryption keys.


Change debug-option to log messages instead of displaying them in the browser.

Also logs data before encryption and after decryption.


Support for custom attribute dictionaries.
Add support for several authentication sessions within a single session.

Allows several SPs on a single host.
Allows for combining an SP and an IdP on a single host.


HTTP proxy support.


Internal API changes & features removed

The saml2 module has been removed.

The saml2:SP authsource has been removed.
The sspmod_saml2_Error class has been renamed to sspmod_saml_Error.
The sspmod_saml2_Message class has been renamed to sspmod_saml_Message.


Moved IdP functions from sspmod_saml_Message to sspmod_saml_IdP_SAML2.
Removed several functions and classes that are unused:

SimpleSAML_Utilities::strleft
SimpleSAML_Utilities::array_values_equal
SimpleSAML_Utilities::getRequestURI
SimpleSAML_Utilities::getScriptName
SimpleSAML_Utilities::getSelfProtocol
SimpleSAML_Utilities::cert_fingerprint
SimpleSAML_Utilities::generateTrackID
SimpleSAML_Utilities::buildBacktrace
SimpleSAML_Utilities::formatBacktrace
SimpleSAML_Metadata_MetaDataStorageHandlerSAML2Meta
SimpleSAML_ModifiedInfo


Moved function from Utilities-class to more appropriate locations.


getAuthority to SimpleSAML_IdP


generateUserId to sspmod_saml_IdP_SAML2.


Replaced calls to  with throwing an SimpleSAML_Error_Error exception.
Removed metadata send functionality from old SP code.
Removed bin/test.php and www/admin/test.php.
Removed metashare.
Removed www/auth/login-auto.php.
Removed www/auth/login-feide.php.
Removed optional parameters from SimpleSAML_XHTML_Template::getLanguage().
Removed functions from SAML2_Assertion: get/setDestination, get/setInResponseTo.
Replaced with setSubjectConfirmation.
Removed several unused files & templates.


SAML 2 IdP

Support for generation of NameID values via processing filters

Obey the NameIDPolicy Format in authentication request.
Allow AuthnContextClassRef to be set by processing filters.
Rework iframe logout page to not rely on cookies.


SAML 2 SP

Support SOAP logout.
Various fixes to adhere more closely to the specification.

Allow multiple SessionIndex-elements in LogoutRequest.
Handle multiple Assertion-elements in Response.
Reject duplicate assertions.
Support for encrypted NameID in LogoutRequest.
Verify Destination-attribute in LogoutRequest messages.


Add specific options for signing and verifying authentication request and logout messages.

saml:NameIDAttribute filter for extracting NameID from authentication response.


SAML 1 IdP

Add urn:mace:shibboleth:1.0 as supported protocol in generated metadata.


SAML 1 SP

Support for IdP initiated authentication.


aggregator


Allow metadata generation from command line.


authfacebook


Change attribute names.


casserver


Support for proxying.
Add ttl for tickets.


core


core:AttributeLimit: Make it possible to specify a default set of attributes.
Make the SP metadata available on the login pages.


discoPower


Sort IdPs without a name (where we only have an entityID) last in the list.
CDC cookie support.


exampleAuth


Add example of integration with external authentication page.


ldap


Add ldap:AttributeAddFromLDAP filter for adding attributes from a LDAP directory.


metarefresh


Don't stop updates on the first exception.


openid


Don't require access to the PHP session.
Remove OpenID test page. (May as well use the normal test pages.)
Support for attribute exchange.
Add target option, for directing authentication to a specific OpenID provider.
Add realm option, for specifying the realm we should send to the OpenID provider.


portal


Make it possible to register pages from modules, and not only from configuration.


statistics


New y-axis scaling algorithm


twitter


Change attribute names returned from twitter.


Version 1.6.3
Released 2010-12-17.

Fix for cross site scripting in redirect page.


Version 1.6.2
Released 2010-07-29.

Various security fixes.


Version 1.6.1
Released 2010-06-25.

saml:SP: Fix SingleLogoutService endpoint in SSP-format metadata array.
Shib13:IdP: Add urn:mace:shibboleth:1.0 to supported protocols.
Fix SAMLParser::parseElement().
SAML2:IdP: Fix persistent NameID generation.
Fix scoping on IdP discovery page.
metaedit: Fix endpoints parsed from XML.
Dictionary update.
Documentation fixes.


Version 1.6
Released 2010-05-31.
Upgrade notes

Detection of cookies disabled on the IdP.
New IdP core, which makes it simpler to share code between different IdPs, e.g. between SAML 1.1 and SAML 2.0.
Dictionaries moved to JSON format.
New authentication module: cas:CAS.
All images that doesn't permit non-commercial use have been replaced.
Better support for OrganizationName, OrganizationDisplayName and OrganizationURL in metadata.
Cookie secure flag no longer automatically set.
Cross-protocol logout between ADFS and SAML 2.
New experimental module for aggregating metadata: aggregator2

Metadata support for multiple endpoints with multiple bindings.
The metadata generation is using a new set of classes.
As a result, all generated metadata elements now have a md:-prefix.
The deprecated functions init(...) and setAuthenticated(...) in the SimpleSAML_Session` class have been removed.
Configuration check and metadata check was removed, as they were often wrong.


SAML 2 SP

SAML 2.0 HTTP-Artifact support on the SP.


SAML 2 IdP

SAML 2.0 HTTP-Artifact support on the IdP.
Support for sending PartialLogout status code in logout response.
Set AuthnInstant to the timestamp for authentication.
Combine normal and iframe versions of the logout handlers into a single endpoint.
The SessionIndex is now unique per SP.
Statistics for logout failures.
Better generation of persistent NameID when nameid.attribute isn't specified.


The SP API

Support for handling errors from the IdP.
Support for passing parameters to the authentication module.
This can be used to specify SAML 2 parameters, such as isPassive and ForceAuthn.


adfs


Move to new IdP core.


casserver


Collect all endpoints in a single file.
Fix prefix on the tickets.


consent


Support for deactivating consent for specific services.


consentAdmin


Support for the SAML SP module.


core


New filter: core:PHP, which allows processing of attributes with arbitrary PHP code.
Support for multiple target attributes in core:AttributeMap.
New filter: core:ScopeFromAttribute, which allows the creation an attribute based on the scope of another attribute.
Support for a target attribute in core:AttributeAlter.


discoPower


Support for new scoring algorithm.


ldap


SASL support in LDAPMulti


ldapstatus


This module was removed, as it was very specific for Feide.


multiauth


Support for specifying the target authentication source through a request parameter.


oauth


Configurable which authentication source should be used.


openidProvider


OpenID 2.0 support.
XRDS generation support.


saml


Support for specifying parameters for authentication request.
Add AttributeConsumingService to generated metadata.
The two SPSSODescriptor elements in the metadata has been merged.


Version 1.5.1
Released 2010-01-08.

Fix security vulnerability due to insecure temp file creation:

statistics: The logcleaner script outputs to a file in /tmp.
InfoCard: Saves state directly in /tmp. Changed to the SimpleSAMLphp temp directory.
openidProvider: Default configuration saves state information in /tmp.
Changed to '/var/lib/simplesamlphp-openid-provider'.
SAML 1 artifact support: Saves certificates temporarily in '/tmp/simplesaml', but directory creation was insecure.


statistics: Handle new year wraparound.
Dictionary updates.
Fix bridged logout.
Some documentation updates.
Fix all metadata to use assignments to arrays.
Fix $session->getIdP().
Support AuthnContextClassRef in saml-module.
Do not attempt to send logout request to an IdP that does not support logout.
LDAP: Disallow bind with empty password.
LDAP: Assume that LDAP_NO_SUCH_OBJECT is an error due to invalid username/password.
statistics: Fix configuration template.
Handle missing authority in idp-hosted metadata better.


Version 1.5
Released 2009-11-05. Revision 1937.

New API for SP authentication.
Make use of the portal module on the frontpage.
SQL datastore.
Support for setting timezone in config (instead of php.ini).
Logging of PHP errors and notices to SimpleSAMLphp log file.
Improve handling of unhandled errors and exceptions.
Admin authentication through authentication sources.
Various bugfixes & cleanups.
Translation updates.
Set the dropdown list as default for built in disco service.


New modules:

adfs
authorize
authtwitter
autotest
exampleattributeserver
metaedit
multiauth
oauth
openidProvider
radius
saml


aggregator:

Add ARP + ARP signing functionality to the aggregator.
Improvements to the aggregator module. Added documentation, and re-written more OO-oriented.
Add support for reconstructing XML where XML for an entity is already cached.
Add support for excluding tags in metadata aggregator.


AuthMemCookie:

Delete the session cookie when deleting the session.
Support for authentication sources.
Set expiry time of session data when saving to memcache.
Support multiple memcache servers.


cas:

Added support for attributes in cas:serviceResponse.


consent:

Support for hiding some attribute values.


consentAdmin:

Added config option to display description.


core:

New WarnShortSSOInterval filter.


discopower:

Live search in discopower-module.


ldap:

Support for proxy authentication.
Add 'debug' and 'timeout' options.
Privilege separation for LDAP attribute retrieval.
Allow search.base to be an array.
(LDAPMulti) Add support for including the organization as part of the username.


ldapstatus:

Do a connect-test to all ip-addresses for a hostname.
Check wheter hostname exists before attempting to connect.
hobbit output.
Check schema version.
Add command line tab to single LDAP status page for easier debugging.


logpeek:

Blockwise reading of logfile for faster execution.


metarefresh:

Adding support for generating Shibboleth ARP files.
Add 'serialize' metadata format.


preprodwarning:

Don't show warning in passive request.
Focus on continue-button.


SAML:

Support for multiple AssertionConsumerService endpoints.
SAML 1 artifact support on the SP side.
New SAML authentication module.
Deprecation of www/saml2/sp & www/shib13/sp.
Support for encrypted NameID.
NameIDPolicy replaces NameIDFormat.
Better support for IdP initiated SSO and bookmarked login pages.
Improvements to iframe logout page.
Scoping support.
New library for SAML 2 messages.
Support for transporting errors from the IdP to the SP.
Sign both the assertion and the response element by default.
Support for sending XML attribute values from the IdP.


statistics:

Extended Google chart encoding... Add option of alternative compare plot in graph...
Added support for Ratio type reports in the statistics module..
Changed default rule to sso.
Added incremental aggregation, independent time resolution from rule def, combined coldefs and more.
Add DST support in date handler. Added summary columns per delimiter. Added pie chart. +++
Log first SSO to a service during a session.


Version 1.4
Released 2009-03-12. Revision 1405.
Updates to config.php. Please check for updates in your local modified configuration.

Language updates
Documentation update. New authencation source API now default and documented.
New authentication source (new API):

LDAP
LDAPMulti
YubiKey authentication source. (Separate module)
Facebook authentication source. (Separate module)


New Authentication Processing Filter:

AttributeAlter
AttributeFilter
AttributeMap
Smartname. does it best to guess the full name of the user based on several attributes.
Language adaptor: allow adopting UI by preferredLanguage SAML 2.0 Attribute both on the IdP and the SP. And if the user selects a lanauge, this can be sent to the SP as an attribute.


New module: portal, allows you to created tabbed interface for custom pages within SimpleSAMLphp. In example user consent management and attribute viewer.
New module: ldapstatus. Used by Feide to monitor connections to a large list of LDAP connections. Contact Feide on details on how to use.
ldapstatus also got certificate check capabilities.
New module: MemcacheMonitor: Show statistics for memcache servers.
New module: DiscoPower. A tabbed discovery service module with alot of functionality.
New module: SAML 2.0 Debugginer. An improved version of the one found on rnd.feide.no earlier is not included in SimpleSAMLphp allowing you to run it locally.
New module: Simple Consent Amdin module that have one button to remove all consent for one user.
New module: Consent Administration. Contribution from Wayf.
We also have a consent adminstration module that we use in Feide that is not checked in to subversion.
New module: logpeek. Lets administrator lookup loglines matching a TRackID.
New module: PreprodWarning: Adding a warning to users that access a preprod system.
New module: CAS Server
New module: Aggregator: Aggregates metadata. Used in Kalmar Union.
New module: Metarefresh, download, parses and consumes metadata.
New module: SanityCheck. Checks if things looks good and reports bad configuration etc.
New module: Cron. Will perform tasks regularly.
Module: SAML2.0. SAML 2.0 SP implemented as an module. Yet not documented how to use, but all SAML 2.0 SP functionality may be moved out to this module for better modularization.
New module: statistics. Parses STAT log files, and aggregates based on a generic rule system. Output is stored in aggregated text files, and a frontend is included to present statistics with tables and graphs. Used sanitycheck and cron.
Added support for IdP initiated SSO.
Added support for IdP-initiated SLO with iFrame type logout.
Major updates to iFrame AJAX SLO. Improved user experience.
iFrame AJAX SLO is not safe against simulanous update of the session.
Added support for bookmarking login pages. By adding enough information in the URL to be able to bootstrap a new IdP-initiated SSO and sending.
Major updates to the infocard module.
Added some handling of isPassive with authentication processing filters.
More localized UI.
New login as administrator link on frontpage.
Tabbed frontpage. Restructured.
Simplifications to the theming and updated documentation on theming SimpleSAMLphp.
Attribute presentation hook allows you to tweak attributes before presentation in the attribute viewers. Used by Feide to group orgUnit information in a hieararchy.
Verification of the Receipient attribute in the response. Will improve security if for some reason an IdP is not includeding sufficient Audience restrictions.
Added hook to let modules tell about themself moduleinfo hook.
Improved cron mails
Improved santity check exception handling
Preserver line breaks in stack trace UI
Improvements to WS-Federation support: dynamic realms, logout etc.
Better handling of presentation of JPEG photos as attributes.
Support limiting size of attribute retrieved from LDAP.
Added notes about how to aggregate and consume metadata. Just a start.
Large improvements to Configuration class, and config helper functions.
STAT logging is moved into separate authenticaion processing filter.
Fix for NoPassive responses to Google Apps with alternative NameIDFormats.
LDAP module allows to search multiple searchbases.
All documentation is converted from docbook to markdown format.
Added headers to not allow google to index pages.
Added check on frontpage for magic quotes
Added statistic loggging to Consent class.
Improvements to Exception handler in LDAP class, and better logging.
LDAP class supports turning on LDAP-debug logging.
Much improvements to SAML 2.0 Metadata generation and parsing.
Adding more recent jquery library.
Generic interface for including jquery dependencies in template headers.
Improved UI on default theme
Fix for session duration in the Conditions element in the Assertion (SAML 2.0).
Updated with new Feide IdP metadata in metadata-templates


Version 1.3
Released 2008-11-04. Revision 973.
Configuration file config.php should not include significant changes, except one language added.

New features

Documentation update
Added new language. Now there are two different portugese
dialects.
Consent "module" modified. Now added support for preselecting the
checkbox by a configuration parameter. Consent module supports
including attributs values (possible to configure).
CSS and look changed. Removed transparency to fix problem for some
browsers.
The login-admin authentication module does not ask for username any
more.
Added support for persistent NameID Format. (Added by Hans
ZAndbelt)
Added experimental SAML 2.0 SP AuthSource module.
More readable XML output formatting. In example metadata.
Better support for choosing whether or not to sign authnrequest.
Possible to specify both at SP hosted and IdP remote.
Adding more example metadata in metadata-templates.
Improved e-mails sent from SimpleSAMLphp. Now both plain text and
html.
Configuration class may return information about what version.
iFrame AJAX SLO improved. Now with non-javascript failback
handling.


Bug fixes

Fixed warning with XML validator.
Improved loading of private/public keys in XML/Signer.
Improvements to CAS module.
Fixed memcache stats.