Re: SASL 2.1.27 rc7

Hey Ken,

would be great to get this patch in as well:
https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-sasl/pull/503

this makes cyrus-sasl to build with visual studio 2017

Cheers

On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 12:18 AM, Ken Murchison <[email protected]> wrote:

> All,
>
> I have built a seventh (and hopefully last) release candidate of SASL
> 2.1.27 which can be downloaded from here:
>
> HTTP:
>  https://www.cyrusimap.org/releases/cyrus-sasl-2.1.27-rc7.tar.gz
>  https://www.cyrusimap.org/releases/cyrus-sasl-2.1.27-rc7.tar.gz.sig
>
> FTP:
>  ftp://ftp.cyrusimap.org/cyrus-sasl/cyrus-sasl-2.1.27-rc7.tar.gz
>  ftp://ftp.cyrusimap.org/cyrus-sasl/cyrus-sasl-2.1.27-rc7.tar.gz.sig
>
>
> The primary reason for this candidate is to test the latest GSSAPI
> changes.  I'd like to roll out the final release in about a week.  If not
> done by Feb 14, it will wait until Feb 21 when I return from vacation.
>
>
> The (mostly) complete list of changes from 2.1.26 are these:
>
>    - Added support for OpenSSL 1.1
>    - Added support for lmdb (from Howard Chu)
>    - Lots of build fixes (from Ignacio Casal Quinteiro and others)
>    - Treat SCRAM and DIGEST-MD5 as more secure than PLAIN when selecting
>    client mech
>    - DIGEST-MD5 plugin:
>       - Fixed memory leaks
>       - Fixed a segfault when looking for non-existent reauth cache
>       - Prevent client from going from step 3 back to step 2
>       - Allow cmusaslsecretDIGEST-MD5 property to be disabled
>    - GSSAPI plugin:
>       - Added support for retrieving negotiated SSF
>       - Fixed GSS-SPNEGO to use flags negotiated by GSSAPI for SSF
>       - Properly compute maxbufsize AFTER security layers have been set
>    - SCRAM plugin:
>       - Added support for SCRAM-SHA-256
>       - Allow SCRAM-* to be used by HTTP
>       - LOGIN plugin:
>       - Don’t prompt client for password until requested by server
>    - NTLM plugin:
>       - Fixed crash due to uninitialized HMAC context
>    - saslauthd:
>       - cache.c:
>          - Don’t use cached credentials if timeout has expired
>          - Fixed debug logging output
>       - ipc_doors.c:
>          - Fixed potential DoS attack (from Oracle)
>       - ipc_unix.c:
>          - Prevent premature closing of socket
>       - auth_rimap.c:
>          - Added support LOGOUT command
>          - Added support for unsolicited CAPABILITY responses in LOGIN
>          reply
>          - Properly detect end of responses (don’t needlessly wait)
>          - Properly handle backslash in passwords
>       - auth_httpform:
>          - Fix off-by-one error in string termination
>          - Added support for 204 success response
>       - auth_krb5.c:
>          - Added krb5_conv_krb4_instance option
>          - Added more verbose error logging
>
>
>
> At this point any major changes (e.g. API, wire protocol) will be pushed
> out to 2.1.28 or 2.2.0.
>
> --
> Kenneth Murchison
> Cyrus Development Team
> FastMail Pty Ltd
>
>


-- 
Ignacio Casal Quinteiro