Re: [Hawkular-dev] Hawkular Inventory 0.16.0.Final Released

Congratulations guys! 2016-05-24 10:55 GMT+02:00 Lukas Krejci <lkrejci(a)redhat.com&gt;: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > hawkular-dev mailing list > hawkular-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hawkular-dev > -- Thomas Segismont JBoss ON Engineering Team _______________________________________________ hawkular-dev mailing list hawkular-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hawkular-dev