Cross posted from the FreeIPA mailing lists:

The FreeIPA Project is proud to announce the latest release of the FreeIPA. As always, the latest tarball can be found at http://freeipa.org/

FreeIPA 2.1 is available in Fedora 15. It is currently in the updates-testing repository along with a number of its dependencies. Fedora 16 and rawhide builds will be coming soon.

== Highlights ==

* General client and server installation improvements. Server installation is significantly faster.
* Improved support for IPv6.
* General UI improvements related to navigation and work flow.
* Added UI for automount.
* A Host-based Access Control (HBAC) test tool
* Deprecation of HBAC deny rules
* A CA is no longer required on every replica and may be added post-install to a replica (see ipa-ca-install).
* A new replication tool for dogtag has been added (ipa-cs-manage). This allows you to control the replication topology of your CA.

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Here are the most frequently asked (technical) questions by people about Red Hat Enterprise Identity (IPA) from this past week at the Red Hat summit.

Question:  What is it?

Answer:  IPA is a domain controller for Linux/Unix environments. For the Linux/Unix world it does what Active Directory  does in the Windows world, but following open standards and by the means of open source software.  It is an identity management solution that integrates MIT Kerberos, LDAP via Red Hat Directory Server, DNS via Bind with an LDAP back end, and a Certificate Signing Authority (Dog Tag).  Its administration framework is a Python based server that runs inside Apache HTTPD.

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Reposted from the FreeIPA devel list.

To all freeipa-interest, freeipa-users and freeipa-devel list members,

The FreeIPA project team is pleased to announce the availability of the Release Candidate 3 release of freeIPA 2.0 server [1]. This should be the last release candidate, becoming the final release if no critical problems are found.

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