Ezproxy 5.2 now available

The library community’s leading authentication and access solution has been enhanced again. OCLC encourages all users to upgrade to this latest version (EZproxy5.2) to stay current with product improvements and fixes.

Enhanced features now include:

• New directive for use in LDAP authentication, which allows the search filters that are used in login to also be used when reading attributes.
• EZproxy now allows vector notation in the user.txt file, because the Innovative Interfaces, Inc (III) system patron API has changed to support multiple use of the same field. Previous versions of EZproxy would only retrieve the first value of the field--but now they can be specified in the array. For example, if the system has a field named "phone," the first instance might be home, the second might be work, and the third might be cell. Now EZproxy user.txt can access each as auth:phone[0], auth:phone[1], auth:phone[2], which gives the system more flexibility with contact information.
• The sample config.txt (generated by the -m command) has been updated to include more stanzas for OCLC resources. These additional stanzas make it easier and faster to add a new database to your configuration file.
• The signing algorithm for certificates has been updated to SHA1, which is more secure than the previous MD5.
• DisableSSLv2 directive now works as expected.
• There were a number of additional minor fixes to improve the overall stability of EZproxy.

OCLC encourages all EZproxy licenses to update to the latest software version to stay current with all enhancements to functionality.

Alternatively, OCLC is piloting a hosted EZproxy service, and expects to move the pilot into production in 2010. Any library running an older version of the software who is interested in moving to a hosted solution, please contact ezproxy@oclc.org. (Please note additional fees will apply for hosted EZproxy.)

Download EZproxy 5.2

(2009 08 31)