The PrimeKey SignServer team is pleased to announce the release of SignServer 5.0.0.Beta1 Community Edition.
SignServer 5 is the next generation SignServer with 40 issues resolved since SignServer Enterprise 4.4.1 and a total of 407 issues resolved since SignServer Community Edition 4.0, some of the noteworthy listed below:
General
- Support for running on WildFly 14 and JBoss EAP 7.
- Support for running on Java 11.
- Upgraded libraries and dependencies.
- Stronger algorithms by default.
- Restructured and improved documentation.
SignClient
- Support for server failover and loadbalancing.
- New feature to allow downloading SignClient in the same way as the Admin GUI.
Signing
- Support for hashing on the client side for CMS/PKCS#7 detached signatures.
- Support for configurable content OID in CMS signatures.
- Support for DER encoding of CMS signatures.
- Performance: Option to disable request hashing in the Plain Signer.
Time-stamping
- Optional inclusion of IssuerSerial in SigningCertificate in Time-stamp tokens.
- Legacy option to encode the time-stamp tokens as before Bouncy Castle 1.50.
- Legacy option to not include the RFC#6211 cmsAlgorithmProtection attribute in the token.
This SignServer 5.0.0 Beta release is made available to allow you to test and evaluate the next major version of SignServer. Please try out SignServer in your environment and help us make the next release the best ever by reporting issues and any feedback using the mailing list or discussion forums.
The PrimeKey SignServer team is pleased to announce the release of SignServer 5.0.0.Beta1 Community Edition.
SignServer 5 is the next generation SignServer with 40 issues resolved since SignServer Enterprise 4.4.1 and a total of 407 issues resolved since SignServer Community Edition 4.0, some of the noteworthy listed below:
General
- Support for running on WildFly 14 and JBoss EAP 7.
- Support for running on Java 11.
- Upgraded libraries and dependencies.
- Stronger algorithms by default.
- Restructured and improved documentation.
SignClient
- Support for server failover and loadbalancing.
- New feature to allow downloading SignClient in the same way as the Admin GUI.
Signing
- Support for hashing on the client side for CMS/PKCS#7 detached signatures.
- Support for configurable content OID in CMS signatures.
- Support for DER encoding of CMS signatures.
- Performance: Option to disable request hashing in the Plain Signer.
Time-stamping
- Optional inclusion of IssuerSerial in SigningCertificate in Time-stamp tokens.
- Legacy option to encode the time-stamp tokens as before Bouncy Castle 1.50.
- Legacy option to not include the RFC#6211 cmsAlgorithmProtection attribute in the token.
This SignServer 5.0.0 Beta release is made available to allow you to test and evaluate the next major version of SignServer. Please try out SignServer in your environment and help us make the next release the best ever by reporting issues and any feedback using the mailing list or discussion forums.
The full list of fixed issues is available in the issue tracker:
https://jira.primekey.se/issues/?filter=14491
For download link, documentation and contact information for mailing list and discussion forums, see:
https://www.signserver.org
Best Regards,
Markus Kilås,
Product Owner SignServer
on behalf of the PrimeKey SignServer Team