Kerberos 5 Release 1.9.5

Kerberos 5 Release 1.9.5 is now available

The MIT Kerberos Team announces the availability of the krb5-1.9.5 release. The detached PGP signature is available without going through the download page, if you wish to verify the authenticity of a distribution you have obtained elsewhere.

Please see the README file for a more complete list of changes.

You may also see the current full list of fixed bugs tracked in our RT bugtracking system.

DES transition

The Data Encryption Standard (DES) is widely recognized as weak. The krb5-1.7 release contains measures to encourage sites to migrate away from using single-DES cryptosystems. Among these is a configuration variable that enables "weak" enctypes, which now defaults to "false" beginning with krb5-1.8.

Major changes in krb5-1.9.5 (2013-04-25)

This is a bugfix release. The krb5-1.9 release series has reached the end of its maintenance period, and krb5-1.9.5 is the last planned release in the series. For new deployments, installers should prefer the krb5-1.11 release series or later.

Major changes in krb5-1.9.4 (2012-06-20)

This is a bugfix release.

Major changes in krb5-1.9.3 (2012-02-06)

This is primarily a bugfix release.

Major changes in krb5-1.9.2 (2011-11-02)

This is primarily a bugfix release.

Major changes in krb5-1.9.1 (2011-05-05)

This is primarily a bugfix release.

Major changes in krb5-1.9 (2010-12-22)

Code quality
Developer experience
Performance
Administrator experience
Protocol evolution

Known Bugs

Known bugs reported against krb5-1.9.5 are listed here.

Documentation for krb5-1.9.5

Please note that the HTML versions of these documents are converted from texinfo, and that the conversion is imperfect. If you want PostScript or GNU info versions, please download the documentation tarball.

Retrieving Kerberos 5 Release 1.9.5

You may retrieve the Kerberos 5 Release 1.9.5 source from here. If you need to acquire the sources from some other distribution site, you may verify them against the detached PGP signature for krb5-1.9.5.


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