Date: Fri, 16 Apr 93 12:52:26 +0200 From: dsnmkey@guinness.ericsson.se (Martin Kelly) To: krb5-bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU Hello, I am interested in the current Schedule/Dates for MIT's Kerberos V Production-Quality release. As far as I have seen, there only seems to be a Beta release available. Can you let me know what the schedule is for future releases - rough dates, even Quarters are acceptable. Thanks in advance, Martin. =========================================================================== Martin Kelly E-Mail: dsnmkey@guinness.ericsson.se Senior Technical Specialist Ericsson Data Services BV. Tel: +31 1612 29358 Rijen, Netherlands. Fax: +31 1612 29071 ===========================================================================
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 93 12:19:03 -0400 From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@Athena.MIT.EDU> To: dsnmkey@guinness.ericsson.se Cc: krb5-bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU In-Reply-To: Martin Kelly's message of Fri, 16 Apr 93 12:52:26 +0200, Date: Fri, 16 Apr 93 12:52:26 +0200 From: dsnmkey@guinness.ericsson.se (Martin Kelly) I am interested in the current Schedule/Dates for MIT's Kerberos V Production-Quality release. As far as I have seen, there only seems to be a Beta release available. Can you let me know what the schedule is for future releases - rough dates, even Quarters are acceptable. Currently, the only firm date that we have is that we plan to ship the Kerberos V Beta 3 release at the end of April. MIT remains committed to releasing a production qualitiy release as soon as possible. Unfortunately, Kerberos 5 develop work is currently being done as unfunded research, which has meant that our work has been proceeding more slowly than we would have liked. However, we are making progress, albeit slowly. My current estimates are that we have roughly 6 man-months of work ahead of us before we get everything done that I'd like before declaring Kerberos v5 to be a "production-quality" release. However, there are sites which are using Kerberos V5 in production already --- we do not discourage this, although we wouldn't urge sites to do this yet ourselves. We do trust the KDC enough so that we are running a V5 KDC using production data. We are currently looking into ways to get some additional resources working on Kerberos V5, so that we can hopefully get a first production release out as soon as possible. If we are lucky, and we do get additional resources working on Kerberos V5, we might be able to get a production-ready release out as early as this Fall. - Ted