Kerberos 5 Release 1.0.7
(currently in beta test)

While development work has stopped on the 1.0 branch of the Kerberos code with the release of 1.1, a significant host security vulnerability involving ksu was found and announced recently. Since some sites have had difficulty with the upgrade to version 1.1, we are providing an update to 1.0.6 that fixes this problem. It also contains some minor Y2K updates to the test suite so we could run it before shipping this update.

Kerberos 5 Release 1.0.6

The MIT Kerberos Team is proud to announce the availability of MIT Kerberos V5 Release 1.0.6. This release is a bug-fix release only; there are no major feature enhancements over the 1.0.5 release. A list of major changes since 1.0.5 follows; please see individual ChangeLogs for details.

For more information about obtaining the 1.0.6 release, click here.

Kerberos 5 Release 1.0.5

The MIT Kerberos Team is proud to announce the release of MIT Kerberos V5 Release 1.0.5. This release is a bug-fix release only; there are no feature enhancements over the previous release. The following bugs were fixed:

Kerberos 5 Release 1.0.4

The MIT Kerberos Team is proud to announce the release of MIT Kerberos V5 Release 1.0.4. This release is a bug-fix release only; there are no feature enhancements over the previous release. The following bugs were fixed:

Kerberos 5 Release 1.0 Patchlevel 3

The MIT Kerberos Team is proud to announce the release of MIT Kerberos V5 Release 1.0 patchlevel 3. This release is a bug-fix release only; there are no feature enhancements over the previous release. The following bugs were fixed:

Kerberos 5 Release 1.0 Patchlevel 2

The MIT Kerberos Team is proud to announce the release of MIT Kerberos V5 Release 1.0 patchlevel 2. This release is a bug-fix release only; there are no feature enhancements over the previous release. The following bugs were fixed:

Kerberos 5 Release 1.0 Patchlevel 1

The MIT Kerberos Team is proud to announce the availability of MIT Kerberos V5 Release 1.0 patchlevel 1. This release is a bug-fix release only; there are no feature enhancements over the 1.0 release. The following bugs were fixed:

Kerberos 5 Release 1.0 announcement

At long last, the MIT Kerberos Team is proud to announce the availability of MIT Kerberos V5 Release 1.0. This release includes everything you need to set up and use Kerberos, including:

This release is available both as source code and as pre-built binary distributions for a number of Unix platforms. To retrieve either the source or binary distriubtions, click here. (See below for instructions on obtaining the source distribution via FTP.)

Warning: We are providing binary distributions for this release as a convenience to sites that are interested in experimenting with Kerberos for the first time, without needing to build it all from source. However, in general it is a very bad idea to run security software that you've downloaded from the net, since you have no way of knowing whether someone has left any "surprises" behind. If you are going to be using Kerberos V5 in production, we strongly recommend that you get the Krb5 sources and build the Krb5 distribution yourself."

MIT Kerberos V5 Release 1.0 has been tested on at least the following platforms:

The Macintosh port is now fully functional, although the UI still leaves much to be desired. This will be the focus of future work on this platform.

The Windows 16 port is also fully functional, although one major (but obvious and easy to correct) bug crept in at the last minute. (See our known bugs web page for more details.) One major difference from the previous Beta releases is that the DLL has been renamed from LIBKRB5.DLL to KRB5_16.DLL. This is to avoid conflicts with the a 32 bit version of the Krb5 DLL.

Unfortunately delays with stablizing and integrating the NT release prevented us from shipping this functionality with the 1.0 release. Please see the NT Alpha 2 announcement for more details about the latest NT development snapshot.

Notes and Major Changes since Beta 7

Getting the Kerberos 5 1.0.6 Release

Please report any problems/bugs/comments using krb5-send-pr

Acknowledgements

Appreciation Time!!!! There are far too many people to try to thank them all; many people have contributed to the development of Kerberos V5. This is only a partial listing....


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