spring-security/changelog.txt

Changes in version 0.7 (2004-xx-xx)
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* Major CVS repository restructure to support Maven and eliminate libraries
* Major improvements to Contacts sample application (now demos ACL security)
* Added AspectJ support (especially useful for instance-level security)
* Added MethodDefinitionSourceAdvisor for performance and autoproxying
* Added MethodDefinitionMap querying of interfaces defined by secure objects
* Added AuthenticationProcessingFilter.setDetails for use by subclasses
* Added 403-causing exception to HttpSession via SecurityEnforcementFilter
* Added net.sf.acegisecurity.intercept.event package
* Improved BasicAclProvider to only respond to specified ACL object requests
* Refactored MethodDefinitionSource to work with Method, not MethodInvocation
* Refactored AbstractSecurityInterceptor to better support other AOP libraries
* Fixed AbstractProcessingFilter to use removeAttribute (JRun compatibility)
* Fixed GrantedAuthorityEffectiveAclResolver support of UserDetails principals
* Moved MethodSecurityInterceptor to ...intercept.method.aopalliance package
* Documentation improvements

Changes in version 0.6.1 (2004-09-25)
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* Resolved to use http://apr.apache.org/versioning.html for future versioning
* Added additional DaoAuthenticationProvider event when user not found
* Added Authentication.getDetails() to DaoAuthenticationProvider response
* Added DaoAuthenticationProvider.hideUserNotFoundExceptions (default=true)
* Added PasswordAuthenticationProvider for password-validating DAOs (eg LDAP)
* Added FilterToBeanProxy compatibility with ContextLoaderServlet (lazy inits)
* Added convenience methods to ConfigAttributeDefinition
* Improved sample applications' bean reference notation
* Clarified contract for ObjectDefinitionSource.getAttributes(Object)
* Extracted removeUserFromCache(String) to UserCache interface
* Improved ConfigAttributeEditor so it trims preceding and trailing spaces
* Refactored UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken.getDetails() to Object
* Fixed MethodDefinitionAttributes to implement ObjectDefinitionSource change
* Fixed EH-CACHE-based caching implementation behaviour when cache exists
* Fixed Ant "release" target not including project.properties
* Fixed GrantedAuthorityEffectiveAclsResolver if null ACLs provided to method
* Documentation improvements

Changes in version 0.6 (2004-08-09)
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* Added domain object instance access control list (ACL) packages
* Added feature so DaoAuthenticationProvider returns User in Authentication
* Added AbstractIntegrationFilter.secureContext property for custom contexts
* Added stack trace logging to SecurityEnforcementFilter
* Added exception-specific target URLs to AbstractProcessingFilter
* Added JdbcDaoImpl hook so subclasses can insert custom granted authorities
* Added AuthenticationProvider that wraps JAAS login modules
* Added support for EL expressions in the authz tag library
* Added failed Authentication object to AuthenticationExceptions
* Added signed JARs to all official release builds (see readme.txt)
* Added remote client authentication validation package
* Added protected sendAccessDeniedError method to SecurityEnforcementFilter
* Updated Authentication to be serializable (Weblogic support)
* Updated JAR to Spring 1.1 RC 1
* Updated to Clover 1.3
* Updated to HSQLDB version 1.7.2 Release Candidate 6D
* Refactored User to net.sf.acegisecurity.UserDetails interface
* Refactored CAS package to store UserDetails in CasAuthenticationToken
* Improved organisation of DaoAuthenticationProvider to facilitate subclassing
* Improved test coverage (now 98.3%)
* Improved JDBC-based tests to use in-memory database rather than filesystem
* Fixed Linux compatibility issues (directory case sensitivity etc)
* Fixed AbstractProcessingFilter to handle servlet spec container differences
* Fixed AbstractIntegrationFilter to resolve a Weblogic compatibility issue
* Fixed CasAuthenticationToken if proxy granting ticket callback not requested
* Fixed EH-CACHE handling on web context refresh
* Documentation improvements

Changes in version 0.51 (2004-06-06)
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* Added samples/quick-start
* Added NullRunAsManager and made default for AbstractSecurityInterceptor
* Added event notification (see net.sf.acegisecurity.providers.dao.event)
* Updated JAR to Spring 1.0.2
* Updated JAR to Commons Attributes CVS snapshot from Spring 1.0.2 release
* Updated GrantedAuthorityImpl to be serializable (JBoss support)
* Updated Authentication interface to present extra details for a request
* Updated Authentication interface to subclass java.security.Principal
* Refactored DaoAuthenticationProvider caching (refer to reference docs)
* Improved HttpSessionIntegrationFilter to manage additional attributes
* Improved URL encoding during redirects
* Fixed issue with hot deploy of EhCacheBasedTicketCache (used with CAS)
* Fixed issue with NullPointerExceptions in taglib
* Removed DaoAuthenticationToken and session-based caching
* Documentation improvements
* Upgrade Note: DaoAuthenticationProvider no longer has a "key" property

Changes in version 0.5 (2004-04-29)
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* Added single sign on support via Yale Central Authentication Service (CAS)
* Added full support for HTTP Basic Authentication
* Added caching for DaoAuthenticationProvider successful authentications
* Added Burlap and Hessian remoting to Contacts sample application
* Added pluggable password encoders including plaintext, SHA and MD5
* Added pluggable salt sources to enhance security of hashed passwords
* Added FilterToBeanProxy to obtain filters from Spring application context
* Added support for prepending strings to roles created by JdbcDaoImpl
* Added support for user definition of SQL statements used by JdbcDaoImpl
* Added definable prefixes to avoid expectation of "ROLE_" GrantedAuthoritys
* Added pluggable AuthenticationEntryPoints to SecurityEnforcementFilter
* Added Apache Ant path syntax support to SecurityEnforcementFilter
* Added filter to automate web channel requirements (eg HTTPS redirection)
* Updated JAR to Spring 1.0.1
* Updated several classes to use absolute (not relative) redirection URLs
* Refactored filters to use Spring application context lifecycle support
* Improved constructor detection of nulls in User and other key objects
* Fixed FilterInvocation.getRequestUrl() to also include getPathInfo()
* Fixed Contacts sample application <A></A> tags
* Established acegisecurity-developer mailing list
* Documentation improvements

Changes in version 0.4 (2004-04-03)
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* Added HTTP session authentication as an alternative to container adapters
* Added HTTP request security interceptor (offers considerable flexibility)
* Added security taglib
* Added Clover test coverage instrumentation (currently 97.2%)
* Added support for Catalina (Tomcat) 4.1.30 to in-container integration tests
* Added HTML test and summary reporting to in-container integration tests
* Updated JARs to Spring Framework release 1.0, with associated AOP changes
* Updated to Apache License version 2.0
* Updated copyright with permission of past contributors
* Refactored unit tests to use mock objects and focus on a single class each
* Refactored many classes to enable insertion of mock objects during testing
* Refactored core classes to ease support of new secure object types
* Changed package layout to better describe the role of contained items
* Changed the extractor to extract additional classes from JBoss and Catalina
* Changed Jetty container adapter configuration (see reference documentation)
* Improved AutoIntegrationFilter handling of deployments without JBoss JARs
* Fixed case handling support in data access object authentication provider
* Documentation improvements

Changes in version 0.3 (2004-03-16)
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* Added "in container" unit test system for container adapters and sample app
* Added library extractor tool to reduce the "with deps" ZIP release sizes
* Added unit test to the attributes sample
* Added Jalopy source formatting
* Modified all files to use net.sf.acegisecurity namespace
* Renamed springsecurity.xml to acegisecurity.xml for consistency
* Reduced length of ZIP and JAR filenames
* Clarified licenses and sources for all included libraries
* Updated documentation to reflect new file and package names
* Setup Sourceforge.net project and added to CVS etc

Changes in version 0.2 (2004-03-10)
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* Added Commons Attributes support and sample (thanks to Cameron Braid)
* Added JBoss container adapter
* Added Resin container adapter
* Added JDBC DAO authentication provider
* Added several filter implementations for container adapter integration
* Added SecurityInterceptor startup time validation of ConfigAttributes
* Added more unit tests
* Refactored ConfigAttribute to interface and added concrete implementation
* Enhanced diagnostics information provided by sample application debug.jsp
* Modified sample application for wider container portability (Resin, JBoss)
* Fixed switch block in voting decision manager implementations
* Removed Spring MVC interceptor for container adapter integration
* Documentation improvements

Changes in version 0.1 (2004-03-03)
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* Initial public release



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