Middleware Announcements

[Renee Woodten Frost <>]

The Internet2 Middleware Initiative announces the release of Grouper version 1.4.0.  The Grouper Groups Management Toolkit is designed to function as the core element of a common infrastructure for managing group information across integrated applications and repositories. It enables project managers, departments, institutions, and end-users to create and manage institutional and personal groups.

This release has substantial new integration, automation, and diagnostic capabilities, designed to enable deployers to do more with less effort. Among much more, it includes:

* Grouper Loader, to automatically maintain groups and memberships from external sources
* Programmatic hooks, to enable 3rd party extension of Grouper's processing of key internal events
* Grouper Shell, now a comprehensive command line interface to the Grouper API and all associated utilities, and finally an official part of the Grouper Toolkit
* A binary form of the toolkit, in addition to source.

Downloads and documentation are available at
<https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/GrouperWG/Grouper+Product>.

A more complete list of what's new & improved in this release:
<https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/GrouperWG/v1.4+Release+Notes>

Enjoy!

Tom
on behalf of the Grouper Developers

Development of the Grouper Groups Management Toolkit was supported with funding from University of Chicago and the University of Bristol with additional support from Internet2 through the National Science Foundation OCI-0721896 and OCI-0330626 and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).

Led by the Middleware Architecture Committee for Education (MACE), the Internet2 Middleware Initiative comprises a number of projects that address challenges in the middleware space, such as identity and access management. For more information, visit  http://www.internet2.edu/middleware/.