All, Based on the discussion in today's Developers Meeting <https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSPACE/2025-10-02+DSpace+Developers+Meeting>, we plan to* remove X.509 Certificate Authentication in DSpace 7.6.6, 8.3 and 9.2*.
After outreach via mailing lists, Slack and developer meetings, we've not heard of a single institution that uses this old authentication feature. Additionally, I've attempted to run it locally, and it appears to be non-functional (it seems it may not even be compatible with DSpace 7 and later). If there are any last minute concerns, please add your feedback in the ticket at https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/11334 Thanks! Tim On Monday, September 22, 2025 at 2:43:49 PM UTC-5 DSpace Community wrote: > All, > > The DSpace Committers have been made aware that DSpace's X.509 Certificate > Authentication plugin has been unmaintained for many years and appears to > be unused. Therefore, we are considering its removal. > > GitHub Ticket: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/11334 > > *Do you use X.509 Certificate Authentication in your DSpace 7.x - 9.x > site? * If so, please reach out via this email, or via the GitHub ticket > linked above. > > If we discover that X.509 Certificate Authentication is still in use by > several institutions, we'll do our best to find volunteers to help > modernize its code and continue maintain it. However, if we receive no > response, we'll instead work towards a plan to remove it. > > Let us know if you have any questions or concerns. > > Sincerely, > Tim Donohue, on behalf of the DSpace Committers > > -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the Code of Conduct: https://www.lyrasis.org/about/Pages/Code-of-Conduct.aspx --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-community/d30f29dd-b1c8-4741-a3ae-e882346835cen%40googlegroups.com.
