Beyond Higgins 1.0

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This page is deprecated. See http://www.eclipse.org/higgins/projectplan.php for current info.

SVN Branch Structure

Existing:

• Trunk -- ongoing development
• M0-8 -- at the end 1.0M8
• B1-0M9 -- at the end of 1.0M9
• B1-0-0 -- Higgins 1.0.0 release (2008-2-21) [Branch off of trunk]

Planned:

• T1-0-1 ---- Higgins 1.0.1 release [Tagged version on B1-0-0 branch]
• T1-0-2 ---- Higgins 1.0.2 release [Tagged version on B1-0-0 branch]
• B1-1M1 ---- Higgins 1.1M1 [Branch off of trunk]
• B1-1M2 ---- Higgins 1.2M2 [Branch off of trunk]

Graphically:

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 +-- B1-0-0 ------+--------+                               
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 +-- B1-1M1 ---
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 +-- B1-1M2 ---
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trunk

Higgins 1.0.X

This section describes the 1.0 release and planned follow-on bugfix releases.

Higgins 1.0

• 1.0 was released on February 21, 2008
• The B-1-0-0 branch was created for this release

Higgins 1.0.1

• This will be the first bugfix release of Higgins 1.0
• Date: 5-April-08
• Higgins 1.0.1 Open Issues List
• Higgins 1.0.1 Open & Closed List

Bugs fixed:

• 216488: FF-embedded selector: UI bug on Mac prevented closing/moving card edit window
• 222142: Firefox-Embedded Selector: Workaround for Firefox bug preventing login to some RP sites (e.g. Kim's blog).
• 223692: STS was not encrypting tokens when there was an AppliesTo element in the RST.
• 223689: The XML File IdAS Context Provider was crashing if someone deleted the file after it had opened the context
• 223691: XML File context provider not making sure updates propagate to other threads

Higgins 1.1

Higgins 1.1 is currently under development in a series of milestones planned out until June 2008.

Higgins 1.1M1 (Stable) 2-May-08

NOTE: it is important to list bug fixes, new features, API changes, etc. here as this list will become the associated notes for this version. The goal is for every line to quote a Bugzilla item# Open issues:

• Higgins 1.1M1 Open Issues List <-- we need to push most of these to 1.1M2

Bugs fixed:

• All fixes from 1.0.1 (see above)

Features added:

• 192592 .crds import (FF-embedded selector)
• IdAS
  • 222143: IdAS: Rename INode->IEntity
  • Remove metadata, change to attributes on attribute instances?
  • IdAS Events
  • Authorization query method? e.g. "boolean isAllowed(URI attributeType, <operation>)"
• 216743: Add an ability to auto-build feature projects
• 222134: Revised HOWL
• 222136: New Hibernate-based CP (supports new HOWL).
• 222141: Higgins Selector Selector (for windows only?)
• 188961: Update I-Card interfaces and I-Card Registry to support batch import-export operations

New Selector Solution:

• 222139: AIR-based selector

Mike, are these still planned?

• X509
• Kerberos
• SAML 2.0
• WS-Trust 1.3
• SOAP 1.2, etc.
• WS-Federation Passive Interop
• De-Axisify the STS IdP

Related event:

• April 7-11 - RSA Conference

1.1M2 (Stable) 13-June-08

Related event:

• May 12-14 IIWa 2008 Unconference
• WS-Federation Active Interop

Features added:

• ISAP Support
  • Extending RPPS
  • Extending AIR Selector

1.1M3 (Stable) 25-July-08

Features added:

• UN/PW-Card

Related event:

• Approximate alignment with Eclipse release

1.1M4 (Stable) 5-Sep-08

• Relationship Card support

See Also

• Higgins 1.0