[ANNOUNCEMENT] Auth-1.3.1RC1 (beta) Released.

The new PEAR package Auth-1.3.1RC1 (beta) has been released at http://pear.php.net/. Release notes ------------- This release candidate is test the numerous fixes described below. It is also to get feedback on the change made for Bug #8407. Bug #8407 adds automatic quoting of table and field names used in SQL in the Database backends. * Fixed Bug #7031: session_regenerate_id() not cleaning up old session storage. Fix for this bug in PHP5.1.0+ has been done, still a problem in older versions of PHP. * Fixed Bug #7421: Allow false to be passed in for allowLogin and advancedSecurity options. * Fixed Bug #7434: Enable start_tls support for LDAP Container by Stuart Prescott <php.net@nanonanonano.net> * Fixed Bug #7537: Made File Container capable of using all File_Passwd backends. * Fixed Bug #7841: Added missing </center>. Really the whole frontend needs reworking. * Fixed Bug #7860: Removed deprecated session_register call. * Fixed Bug #7899: sessionValidThru() returning incorrect value when no idle timeout set. * Fixed Bug #7956: Session handling had several security bugs before PHP4.3.3. Bumped PHP dependancy so we don't have to deal with them. * Fixed Bug #8076: MDB & MDB2 Containers not using default db_fields values * Fixed Bug #8351: Documentation of $loginFailedCallback pointed to incorrect set function. * Fixed Bug #8406: Error message updates by Adam Harvey <pear@adamharvey.name> * Fixed Bug #8407: Database containers don't quote table/field names by Adam Harvey <pear@adamharvey.name> Package Info ------------- The PEAR::Auth package provides methods for creating an authentication system using PHP. Currently it supports the following storage containers to read/write the login data: * All databases supported by the PEAR database layer * All databases supported by the MDB database layer * All databases supported by the MDB2 database layer * Plaintext files * LDAP servers * POP3 servers * IMAP servers * vpopmail accounts * RADIUS * SAMBA password files * SOAP * PEAR website Related Links ------------- Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Auth Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Auth/download/1.3.1RC1 Download: http://pear.php.net/get/Auth-1.3.1RC1.tgz Authors ------------- Martin Jansen <mj@php.net> (lead) James E. Flemer <jflemer@alum.rpi.edu> (developer) Yavor Shahpasov <yavo@siava.org> (lead) Adam Ashley <php@adamashley.name> (lead)