Dear CAS Community,

We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for CAS Server 3.1. As a recap, CAS Server 3.1 RC1 includes the following features:

  • JBossCache Ticket Registry
  • SPNEGO Support
  • RADIUS Support
  • NTLM Support
  • Java 5 Dependency
  • Maven 2 Support
  • Upgrade to Spring LDAP
  • Upgrade to Spring 2
  • Chinese, Russian, German, Japanese
  • Services Management Application
  • SAML 1.1 Response
  • BerkeleyDB Ticket Registry
  • CAS as OpenID Server ("dumb" mode)
  • Google Accounts Support
  • Single Sign Out Protocol
  • "Pseudo-Anonymous" Users

plus a ton of minor tweaks, optimizations, and bug fixes!

The release candidate can be found here:

Please try it out and report any bugs. We're specifically interested in people who can help us test the OpenID, Google Accounts, and SAML 1.1 support.