[WinPartners] Kerberos for Windows 2.6 Release Effort Underway Announcement

[Bryant C. Vernon]

Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2004
To: MIT Community: itpartners at mit.edu, winpartners at mit.edu,
sw-release-announce at mit.edu, ed-tech at mit.edu
Cc: itag at mit.edu, is&t at mit.edu, kakapo at mit.edu
From: Software Release Team
Subject: Kerberos for Windows 2.6 Release Effort Underway Announcement 

Good Afternoon, 

I am pleased to announce that the Kerberos for Windows 2.6 (KfW) release
effort has begun. KfW is an integrated Kerberos release for the Microsoft
Windows operating systems. It includes the Kerberos v4 library, Kerberos v5
library version 1.3.3, Kerberos v5 GSS API library, Kerberos 524 library,
KClient API library, Leash API library, Leash GUI credentials manager,
kinit/klist/kdestroy/krb524init/aklog command-line credentials managers, and
an in-memory credentials cache.

New Features and Improvements to Kerberos for Windows 2.6 include: 

-There will be a system tray icon for Leash 
-Clients will now be prompted for tickets with all GSSAPI applications
Example:  When users launch SAPgui without Kerberos tickets having been
initialized, they are prompted will a Kerberos login window. This feature
will be applicable to Eudora 5.2.1 SMTP authentication and IMAP.
-The Kerberos logon dialogs seen from Eudora (POP) and HostExplorer are the
same as the standard logon dialog for Leash

For a complete list of new features, please reference the release notes for
Kerberos for Windows 2.6: 
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/kfw-2.6/kfw-2.6.1/relnotes.html#whatsnew

The Kerberos for Windows 2.6 Release Team will send updates throughout the
process. For additional information on Kerberos for Windows 2.6 and the
release effort, see the Kerberos for Windows 2.6 release notebook located at
http://web.mit.edu/swrt/releases/kfw. 

If you have questions, suggestions, or would like to participate in the
release of Kerberos for Windows 2.6, please contact the team via email at
kfw-release at mit.edu. 

All the Best, 

Bryant C. Vernon
Kerberos for Windows 2.6 Product Release Coordinator 
Software Release Team 
Information Services and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology