3/1/03
Version 0.8

This is the third public release of code for the Shibboleth project.

Most of the work between 0.7 of OpenSAML and this 0.8 release has
been confined to the Java side.

Features and Changes

Java

Major rewrite of the SAML APIs to support the features for building,
serializing, and rebuilding objects that the C++ version has. API
should be largely stable now.

Many SAML features and classes added that were missing before.

Complete refactoring of the XML Signature code to internalize it to
the SAMLSignedObject class. Signing and verifying is still a bit fussy,
but is easy to program (call sign() and verify()). Some holes in
canonicalization of embedded signatures and other areas may still exist.

Some code has been added that requires JDK 1.4, so we have moved to this
release officially.

C++

API is likely to be largely stable now.
Documentation on programming and object management will be available soon.

Signing still not supported, though some simple verification is. We expect
to migrate to the Apache XML Signature library by 1.0, which should improve
the overall signature layer.