The FreeIPA team would like to announce FreeIPA 4.9.0 release candidate 3!

It can be downloaded from http://www.freeipa.org/page/Downloads. Builds for Fedora Rawhide will be available from the official repository soon.

Highlights in 4.9.0#

No major changes since release candidate 2, only fixes to regressions found in Rawhide and RHEL 8.4 development builds.

Bug fixes#

FreeIPA 4.9.0 release candidate 3 is a stabilization release for the features delivered as a part of 4.9 version series.

There are 6 bug-fixes since FreeIPA 4.9.0 release candidate 2 release. Details of the bug-fixes can be seen in the list of resolved tickets below.

Upgrading#

Upgrade instructions are available on Upgrade page.

Feedback#

Please provide comments, bugs and other feedback via the freeipa-users mailing list (https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org/) or #freeipa channel on Freenode.

Resolved tickets#

  • #8595 Allow ipa-ca as a name for an IPA server

  • #8596 (rhbz#1895197) improve IPA PKI susbsystem detection by other means than a directory presence, use pki-server subsystem-find

  • #8613 mod_auth_gssapi cannot create unique ccache as it runs under apache and not ipaapi

  • #8615 ipa-rewrite.conf upgrade is failing due to missing variable definition

  • #8616 xmlrpc tests test_user_plugin failure

  • #8617 systemd: enforce en_US.UTF-8 locale in systemd units

Detailed changelog since 4.9.0rc2#

Alexander Bokovoy (6)#

  • Become FreeIPA 4.9.0rc3 commit

  • systemd: enforce en_US.UTF-8 locale in systemd units commit #8617

  • upgrade: provide DOMAIN to the server upgrade dictionary commit #8595, #8615

  • Allow mod_auth_gssapi to create and access ccaches in /run/ipa/ccaches commit #8613

  • Correct SELinux policy requirements commit

  • Back to git snapshots commit

Florence Blanc-Renaud (3)#

  • ipatests: add test for PKI subsystem detection commit #8596

  • Improve PKI subsystem detection commit #8596

  • xmlrpctests: remove harcoded expiration date from test_user_plugin commit #8616