What version next?

[Ken Raeburn]

On Mar 1, 2007, at 12:10, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> Quoting Andreas Hasenack <ahasenack at terra.com.br>:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:01:33PM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
>>> I'm currently running (happily!) 1.4.4 but I was wondering
>>> if 1.6 is something for me (i.e. my live servers)?
>>>
>>> What's so new and cool, I just HAVE to upgrade? I have a
>>> little spare time right now so... :)
>>
>> It's worth it if you want to learn about the new ldap backend. It  
>> opens
>> up many possibilities.
>
> Actually I would, but I bought the reasoning a(bout) a year
> ago that this was a 'bad thing'...

Okay, well, no one's forcing you to use that back end. :-)

> So nothing else new?

Some plugin interfaces in the krb5 library, including  
preauthentication and KDC location determination; more will likely be  
added in the future.  Client-side support for server name referrals,  
if you're using a Microsoft KDC.  SPNEGO support in GSSAPI.  A KDB  
database abstraction layer, which is how the LDAP support was added.   
(Want to write support for another database back end?)  Security  
patches and many other bug fixes...

Ken