Hello Michael,

Sure and sorry for not adding any comment here. But we are not pushing changes to PicketLink anymore. As you might know, we have now Keycloak [1], which also provides SAML and where all changes are going in.

There would be no PicketLink releases in community anymore.

[1] http://blog.keycloak.org/2015/03/picketlink-and-keycloak-projects-are.html