[SignServer-announce] SignServer 5.0.0.Beta1 pre-release

[Markus K. <mar...@pr...>]

Hi everyone,

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

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