Roadmap (completed items)

These roadmap items have been completed. This is not an exhaustive list. Items will remain here until they have been cross-checked as being listed in the relevant release notes, at which time they will be removed.

Code quality

• Remove krb4 (1.7)
• Move applications to separate distribution (1.8)
• Use safer library functions
  • Avoids false positives
  • Avoids need to (probably manually) evaluate "unsafe" calls
  • Stop using strcpy, strcat, sprintf, etc.
    • Mostly done
    • New internal APIs for complex operations
• Reduce commitment to "difficult" platforms
  • See supported platforms
  • Focuses resources more effectively
• Move toward test-driven development
  • Python-based test framework (1.9)

Developer experience

• GSS-API mechglue changes to enable NTLM support (1.7)
• Crypto modularity (1.8)
  • Native (accelerated) crypto API support
  • Performance optimizations (caching, etc.)
  • New API design for encryption performance (1.8)
• "The Great Reindent" (1.8)
• Plugins
  • PRNG (1.9)
  • Profile / configuration (1.10)
• Subsets
  • GSS-API: separate context establishment from message protection functions, e.g. Solaris user/kernel space split (1.10)

End-user experience

• Referrals (1.7)
• Localization (1.10)

Administrator experience

• Incremental propagation (1.7)
• Master key rollover (1.7)
• Auditing support (log all ticket requests) (1.7)
• Disable DES by default (1.8)
  • Add more versatile facilities for configuring cryptosystems (1.8)
• Lockout for repeated login failures (1.8)
  • Implement LHA/Apple proposal to store config information in ccache to signal when a realm supports referrals and thus the future capability to eschew reverse DNS resolution (1.8)
• Trace logging for easier troubleshooting (1.9)
• Plugins for password quality checks (1.9)
• Plugins for password synchronization (1.9)
• Print enctypes using the "input form" string (1.9)

Performance

• New crypto API (1.8) facilitates optimizations
• Replay cache ("rcache")
  • Collision avoidance (1.7)
• Disable replay cache on KDC (1.9)

Protocol evolution

• Encryption algorithm negotiation (1.7)
• Microsoft Kerberos extensions (1.7)
• Improved PKINIT support (1.7)
• Anonymous PKINIT (1.8)
• FAST (done in 1.7 for a subset; IETF)
• FAST negotiation (1.8)
• IAKERB (1.9)
• Camellia (1.9)