Kerberos for Windows (KfW) Release Notebook: version 3.2

Overview

MIT Kerberos for Windows (KfW) 3.2 is an integrated Kerberos release for the Microsoft Windows operating systems. It includes the Kerberos v4 library, Kerberos v5 library version 1.6.1, Kerberos v5 GSS API library, Kerberos 524 library, KClient API library, Leash API library, Network Identity Manager, kinit/klist/kdestroy/krb524init/ms2mit/aklog command-line credentials managers, and an in-memory credentials cache.

The release process includes:

• preliminary testing of the product
• writing a customized installer
• testing
• publishing documentation
• helpdesk training

After this process is completed, Kerberos for Windows 3.2 will be released to the MIT community.

Timeline

IS&T plans to release Kerberos for Windows 3.2 by the end of August 2007.

Project plan

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News

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Announcements

Kerberos for Windows 3.2 Release Effort underway
May 22 2007

Heads Up for KfW Business Process Owners
June 4, 2007

Release postponement
July 27, 2007

KfW 3.2.1 Release Announcement
August 15, 2007

KfW 3.2.2 Release Announcement
October 25, 2007

KfW 3.2.2 Addendum w.r.t. WIN domain & UAC
October 26, 2007

WIN domain KfW 2.6.5 and Daylight Savings Time
October 26, 2007

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Key Decisions

• We will create a customized installer
• We will not do community testing

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Notable Features

• Leash replaced with Network Identity Manager 
• Supported on Vista
• Kerberos V5 library updates & improvements
• Winsock helper library improvements
• Integrated logon improvements
• AFS functionality removed

For a complete list of new features, please reference the release notes for Kerberos for Windows 3.2.

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System Requirements

Below are the requirements needed in order to run Kerberos for Windows at MIT.

• Operating System: 32 bit Microsoft Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1 or SP2, Windows Vista and WOW64 environments. There is no native 64-bit process support at the current time.

For the latest IS hardware recommendations, see Recommended PCs for Staff and Students.

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Testing

Test plan

Deb Bowser will head the testing process. If you would like to participate in testing, then please email the release team -- kfw-release@mit.edu.

Beta 2 for authorized testers

After packaging an msi for the MIT community, testing KfW 3.2 showed the default realms presented in the INI file were different than those traditonally present. The installer writer will use the files provided by the Kerberos development team to include needed Realms for our environment.

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Known Issues

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Documentation

Existing or Planned Documentation:

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Release Team

	Kevin Koch - ISDA - Kerberos for Windows
	Product Release Coordinator
	Deb Bowser - SWRT
	Advisor & SWRT Coordinator
	Lee Ridgway - TWS [?]
	Documentation Writer
	Jozsef Dóczi - Help Desk Liaison
	Tech Help Representative
	Alex Kozlov - SWRT
	Windows Platform Coordinator
	Atticus Gifford - SWRT
	Installer writer
	Erek Speed - SWRT
	Tester

If you would like to contact the team, please send email to kfw-release@mit.edu.

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Meeting Minutes

• No meeting minutes at this time.

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