UK Access Management Federation
for Education and Research
The UK federation is operated by Jisc and provides a single solution to accessing online resources and services for education and research. Here is some information on how it works and its benefits.
Eligible organisations are invited to join the current membership.
Latest news
Shibboleth Identity Provider 3.4.4 now available
Posted on Thursday, 23 May 2019
The Shibboleth Project has released v3.4.4 of the Identity Provider (IdP) software, this is a patch release containing a number of bug fixes. The UK federation recommends that you run the latest version of the IdP software, and upgrade as soon as your maintenance schedules allow. Please see the Shibboleth IdP Release Notes
Upgrading to v3.4.x is an important step in maintaining your Shibboleth IdP, as it should be possible to in-place upgrade from an existing IdP v3 to this version. This version identifies a number of deprecation warning messages, and you will need to work to resolve the issues identified prior to the release of Shibboleth IdP v4 (expected to be released later in 2019).
We will be releasing further and updated guidance on our website shortly. In the meantime you may wish to review the following page about Deprecation in IdP v4
Shibboleth SP 3.0.4.1 Update for Windows
Posted on Tuesday, 26 March 2019
There's been a service update [1][2] to the SP installers for Windows labeled V3.0.4.1 to make a fix for the bug where a non-default handlerURL fails with the IIS 7 module [3]. To be clear: this only affects your Shibboleth SP deployment if you are running Windows AND IIS 7 AND have set handlerURL in the ApplicationDefaults or ApplicationOverride elements.
This is the only change in the packages, so is only relevant for IIS 7+ deployments. This is an atypical release process that would normally be done as a full patch, but that would delay the fix for an indeterminate period and the bug has been causing a lot of problems and traffic on the Shibboleth Users list, so it was the most expedient solution.
[1] http://shibboleth.net/downloads/service-provider/3.0.4/win32/
[2] http://shibboleth.net/downloads/service-provider/3.0.4/win64/
[3] https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/SSPCPP-856