Wednesday, October 21, 2009

EJBCA 3.9.2 released

We are proud to announce the release of EJBCA 3.9.2. We believe this is
the most stable release of EJBCA to date.

This is a minor release but packed with new minor features and fixes, 38
issues have been resolved. Some minor features and options and many bug
fixes and stabilizations.

Noteworthy changes:
- Sign and verify of files with clientToolBox when the private key is
stored on a HSM.
- Possible to limit signing keys for an external OCSP responder to keys
within a set of key aliases.
- Add support for the TSL signer extended key usage
- Use improved validity period parsing in Certificate Profiles
- Add option to use publisher queue or not for CRLs and certificates
- Document MS application policies extension
- Fixes for ejbcaClientToolBox.bat for windows platform
- Timeouts for LDAP publishers to handle unstable LDAP servers
- For issue where CRL service may stop running if database is stopped
for some period
- Change so that Issuing Distribution Point on CRLs is not used by
default in CA configuration
- Fix issue using IAIK provider with several CAs
- Fix slow revocation if a user have many certificates
- cert-cvc: getting expiration date returns 00.00 hours but it means
it's valid the whole day
- cert-cvc: bad encoding of EC points in certificates in rare cases
where affineX and affineY is not same size
- Many small optimizations, fixes and improvements.

Read the full changelog for details.

For upgrade instructions, please see UPGRADE.

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Work has already started for EJBCA 3.9.3, as well as 3.10. For 3.9.3 we
will for the first time in ages get some new bling on the admin GUI,
thanks to David Carella in France who contributed some styles for the
admin GUI.

EJBCA 3.10 will have many changes, preparing for the big move to EJBCA
4.0. Among other things all configuration in properties files are now
possible to store outside of the ear file, and change dynamically in
runtime.

Regards,
The EJBCA team at PrimeKey.