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Roadmap

Current Release Plans

IPA v2.1 Release

Target Date: Targeting Summer 2011

Overview: Maintenance release.

This maintenance release will include general bug fixes and some of the minor enhancements that did not make the IPA v2 release. Main focus of the release:

• UI usability and better navigation
• General cleanup of minor issues found in CLI/UI and installation
• Cleanup of the error messages in command line utilities

More detailed information about project plans, enhancements and bug fixes is available from the IPA trac instance.

View the design documents for the 2.1 Web UI.

Future Direction

• Cross Kerberos IPA to IPA and IPA to AD trusts
• Centralized SELinux management
• Centralized management of the SSH keys
• Support of the cloud deployment use cases
• Key management for LVM
• Integration of the two factor OTP authentication with IPA via Kerberos protocol
• User certificate management

... and more

Notes about P and A of IPA

• The general direction of the project is to continue adding identity and policy related changes to IPA. The centralized management of the SELinux contexts and SSH keys falls into this bucket.
• The audit component of the project will remain deferred until further notice.

Past Releases

• IPA v1 Release April 2008
• IPA v2 Release March 2011