http://www.oclc.org/ezproxy/support/166285 EZproxy Enhancements Recent enhancements and updates 2012-05-23T04:24:48-05:00 OCLC webcontent@oclc.org http://www.oclc.org/common/images/logos/oclc/oclc_rss.gif http://www.oclc.org/common/images/logos/oclc/oclc_rss.gif Copyright (c) 2012, OCLC EZproxy5.6 http://www.oclc.org/ezproxy/support/enhancements/278840 2012-05-23T04:24:00-05:00

EZproxy Changes for v5.6

Enhancements for EZproxy implementations:

  1. Beta EZproxy implementations now simply “expire,” without requiring a license agreement.
  2. Functionality and logic has been added to the ezproxy.ftl file to insert the actual machine instruction that causes an EZproxy crash.
  3. Option Cookie information is now displayed in the EZproxy Administration Extended Information view for each database.

General bug fixes:

  1. Removed extraneous repeating lines in messages.txt for Shibboleth and UUAcquireMutex/UUReleaseMutex.
  2. Raised timers for the Guardian process and for Athens sites, eliminating a potential restart.
  3. Removed requirement for the “FriendlyName” attribute for Shibboleth 2.X, preventing further crashes.
  4. Resolved a potential problem in the SSL certificate import process. In some cases, a failed SSL certificate import would leave an incomplete .cnf file.
  5. Resolved a problem where, in rare cases, EZproxy would have problems running from a symlinked directory.
  6. Resolved an issue with referring URL authentication where some users were being sent the suspend.htm file instead of being transparently authenticated.
  7. Removed case sensitivity in URL starting checks.
  8. Resolved the issue where in some cases, EZProxy would crash when querying a Shibboleth Identity Provider for attributes.
  9. EZproxy once again ignores SIGHUP signals, so the Guardian process will keep running.
  10. Resolved an invalid pointer in the UTF-16 parser, preventing unauthorized access to the Siku Quanshu content, one of the largest collection of books in Chinese history.
  11. A number of additional security issues were also addressed in this release.