[Hawkular-dev] Hawkular Inventory 0.16.0.Final Released

[Thomas Heute]

Nice !

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Thomas Segismont <tsegismo at redhat.com>
wrote:

> Congratulations guys!
>
> 2016-05-24 10:55 GMT+02:00 Lukas Krejci <lkrejci at redhat.com>:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm happy to announce the release of Hawkular Inventory 0.16.0.Final.
>>
>> The most important change in this release is the alignment of
>> authorization
>> and tenant selection with the rest of the Hawkular components.
>>
>> >From now on, Inventory no longer depends on Keycloak for authentication
>> and
>> instead is using JAAS. Any authenticated user is allowed to do anything by
>> default.
>>
>> The tenant is no longer deduced from the authenticated user but is
>> selected
>> using the Hawkular-Tenant header (which is therefore required in every
>> request
>> to inventory).
>>
>> This moves inventory more into a role of a "backend service" which
>> delegates
>> more granular authentication and authorization to the application layer
>> above
>> inventory.
>>
>> That said, the authorization logic has been factored out and made
>> pluggable
>> and a mechanism to check per-entity CRUD privileges is still in place. We
>> just
>> swapped the default implementation for a "permissive" one and changed the
>> way
>> we figure out the tenant.
>>
>> Apart from this big change, the following enhancements and fixes have been
>> included in the release:
>>
>> * all internal properties, stored as "__foo" in the backend, are now
>> available
>> for filtering as "foo".
>> * SwitchElementType filter has been "promoted" to the API so that it is
>> usable
>> by the API clients.
>> * Hawkular Commons dependency has been updated to 0.7.2.Final
>>
>> In 0.17.0.Final we will introduce a new REST API and will deprecate the
>> current one (most probably by moving it to
>> /hawkular/inventory/deprecated).
>> This work is well underway but unfortunately didn't make it for
>> 0.16.0.Final.
>>
>> Huge thanks go out to Peter Palaga who did all the security related
>> changes in
>> this release and Jirka Kremser who provided the generic mapping of
>> internal
>> properties.
>>
>> --
>> Lukas Krejci
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