[SignServer-announce] SignServer Community 5.0.0.Final Released

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

Hi all,

The PrimeKey SignServer team is proud to announce the release of
SignServer 5.0.0.Final Community edition.

SignServer 5 is the next generation SignServer with 48 issues resolved
since SignServer Enterprise 4.4.1 and a total of 415 issues resolved
since SignServer Community edition 4.0.

>From today you will be able to take advantage of the new server failover
and load balancing functionality in the SignClient as well as leveraging
the client side hashing feature for CMS/PKCS#7 detached signatures. In
addition, with SignServer 5 we have done a major technology upgrade.
Some more noteworthy updates are listed below:

SignClient
 - Support for server failover and load balancing.
 - 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.

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.


The full list of fixed issues is available in the issue tracker:
https://jira.primekey.se/issues/?filter=14492

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