Re: ANN: Acegi Plugin 0.3 released

> Hi Burt-
> It sounds like there is not a real smooth upgrade path from 0.2 due to the
> drastic improvements that have been made here.  Am I way off base on that?
> I'd like to get on the latest rev with spring security 2.0, but don't know
> if I have time to work through the implementation again at this time...
>
> -Peter
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> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Burt Beckwith <burt@...>
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> wrote:
> > I don't know of any issues with 1.0.1 wrt the Acegi plugin.
> >
> > Burt
> >
> > On Wednesday 30 April 2008 7:12:29 pm Rahul Jain wrote:
> > > Thanks for the great job with the plugin !
> > >
> > > One question I couldn't answer from the documentation: what is the
> >
> > minimum
> >
> > > rev of grails needed to run acegi plugin 0.3 ? I see that you have used
> > > grails 1.0.2 in the examples. Will grails 1.0.1 or earlier releases
> > > work with it as well ?
> > >
> > > -Rahul
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message ----
> > > From: Tsuyoshi Yamamoto <mottsnite@...>
> > > To: user@...
> > > Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 6:37:08 AM
> > > Subject: [grails-user] ANN: Acegi Plugin 0.3 released
> > >
> > > The Grails Acegi plugin team is pleased to announce the release of
> >
> > version
> >
> > > 0.3 of the plugin.
> > >
> > > The Acegi plugin simplifies the work involved in integrating Acegi
> >
> > Security
> >
> > > into Grails applications. By combining a core configuration with
> > > user-specified options and overrides, it creates a best-practice
> > > configuration of Spring Security in any Grails application while
> >
> > allowing
> >
> > > developers to make config changes without having to deal with the
> > > complexity of using Spring Security directly.
> > >
> > > This release includes significant enhancements, including:
> > > - upgrade to Spring Security 2.0
> > > - new support for LDAP/ActiveDirectory logins, including the option to
> > > store roles in the database, infer them from LDAP group membership, or
> >
> > both
> >
> > > - new support for OpenID logins that integrate with your application's
> > > domain Users and Roles
> > > - made more of the configuration user-configurable, e.g. filter, logout
> > > handler, and role voter lists are now configurable - you can easily add
> > > your own, remove existing, or change the order
> > > - new configuration attributes were added, including mail server port
> >
> > and
> >
> > > mail server JavaMailProperties to allow more control over mail sending
> >
> > and
> >
> > > to allow usage of GMail SMTP
> > > - GrailsUser is now an interface, and GrailsDaoImpl was reworked to
> > > make subclassing or replacement easier to allow custom database user
> > > loading - added full suite of unit and integration tests, and also
> > > automated functional tests using WebTest
> > > - new wrapper for Acegi events that calls optional application-defined
> > > closures when events fire
> > > - moved all classes to packages
> > > - enhanced Ajax login support including a brief tutorial
> > > - lots of updates to the documentation
> > > (http://grails.org/AcegiSecurity+Plugin)
> > > - bug fix - bypassed DigestUtils for password encryption to allow use
> > > of any supported codec
> > >
> > > The plugin and source code are available for download here:
> > >
> > > http://plugins.grails.org/grails-acegi/tags/RELEASE_0_3/
> > >
> > > For more information on the Grails Acegi plugin, visit the Grails wiki
> > > page:
> > >
> > >   http://grails.org/AcegiSecurity+Plugin
> > >
> > > Feedback, suggestions for improvement and contributions are always
> >
> > welcome.
> >
> > > Cheers!
> > > ----------------
> > > The Grails Acegi plugin team
> > >
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