Hi,

I would like to release 1.14 alpha today, so I prepared the release notes: https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/wiki/Releases/Notes-1.14.0alpha

I will also move the tickets that didn't make the Alpha release out of the Trac milestone.

Please comment or edit the notes directly. For convenience, I copied the first version of the notes below:

== Highlights == * Several internal interfaces were refactored, providing cleaner code and better memory hierarchy. This change will allow the code to be easier to maintain and extend and get rid of sssd_be crashes on service restarts while active requests are running. * The IPA provider allows looking up users from trusted Active Directory domains by certificates that are included in the IPA ID-views. Please note that this functionality requires a recent IPA server. * The AD provider is now able to look up users from Active Directory domains by certificate. This change enables logins for Active Directory users with the help of a smart card. * The sss_override tool is now able to add certificates as local overrides in the SSSD cache. Please note that the certificate overrides are stored in the local cache, so removing the cache also removes all the certificates! * Invalid certificates are skipped instead of aborting the whole operation when logging in with a smart card using SSH. * A new option local_negative_timeout was added. This option allows the admin to specify the time during which lookups for users that are not handled by SSSD but are present on the system (typically in /etc/passwd and /etc/group) and prevents repeated lookups of local users on the remote server during initgroups operation. * This version allows several OCSP-related options such as the OCSP responder to be configured during smart card authentication * SSSD is now able to determine the name of the user who logs in from the inserted smart card without having to type in the username. Please note that this functionality must be enabled with the allow_missing_name pam_sss option. * The sss_cache command line tool is now able to invalidate SUDO rules with its new -r/-R switches. Please note that the sudo rules are not refreshed with the sss_cache tool immediately. Refer to the sssd-sudo man page for the existing refresh timeouts. * The AD provider as well as the IPA provider part that handles AD users is able to use the PAC blob attached to the Kerberos ticket to resolve group memberships for a user if available. If the PAC blob is not available, other methods such as tokenGroups are used instead. * The libipa_hbac library was decorated with debug statements, allowing the administrator to see individual parts of the HBAC rules as well as the request passed to the evaluator * Several systemtap probes were added across the SSSD codebase as well as example systemtap scripts that use these probes. The scripts allow the administrator to observe the performance of some operations such as saving a group or the 'id' command with systemtap.

== Packaging Changes == * The libsss_sudo.so and libsss_autofs.so libraries were moved to individual subpackage. This change allows the sudo and autofs libraries to be installed in containers when the SSSD deamon is running on the host or in another container. * The PolicyKit rules used by the p11 child during smartcard authentication were moved into their own subpackage to prevent conflict in ownership with the polkit package * The upstream RPMs no longer run as an unprivileged user, because there are several known issues related to running SSSD completely unprivileged. It it still possible to switch to a non-privileged user in the sssd.conf file. * If no configuration file exists on SSSD startup, the SSSD is now able to read a default sssd.conf on first start. Downstreams are encouraged to ship a default sssd.conf to allow SSSD to be enabled by default.

== Documentation Changes == * It is possible to configure SSSD debugging with the debug option which is an alias to the existing debug_level option. * A new local_negative_timeout option was added to configure the time during which lookups for users that exist on the system but are not handled by SSSD are negatively cached. * The PAC responder allows the time during which data read from the PAC bloc is considered valid with a new pac_lifetime option. * Several PAM services were added to the default list of Group Policy mappings. These include adding the unity login manager to the ad_gpo_map_interactive list and the polkit-1 service to the ad_gpo_map_allow list. * The p11 responder allows configuring the default OCSP responder with its new option ocsp_default_responder and the certificate expected to sign the OCSP response with the new ocsp_default_responder_signing_cert option. * The pam_sss.so PAM module has a new option allow_missing_name that allows looking up the user (typically with the help of a certificate on a smartcard) during login. * The sss_override tool gained a new option -x/--certificate that can be used to specify a local (as in the local cache) certificate for a particular user. * The sss_cache tool gained new options -r/-R that allow the administrator to invalidate the sudo rules in the cache.