What is the current status and roadmap for FreeRadius?

[Joshua Marshall]

Thank you for the speedy reply.  We're implementing stuff with FreeRadius
and are having to abuse it in a few unorthodox ways.  Config files with
silent errors or misconfigurations, using what seems to be undocumentd
interactions with LDAP to handle passwords securely -- challenges which
feel like they're from a bygone era.

Looking at the roadmap, and you've probably had to answer these before, why
not switch the codebase to C++ which has wrapped up much of the threading
and modularization work already and has a number of good libraries to
handle networking?  Why not use Antlr4 to run your grammars and make start
and runtime problems more apparent as well as providing a more robust
parsing method?

What we are really feeling over here is a lack of modern behavior and
features.  Which isn't just one thing, but an enormous amount of work and
polish.  That isn't a thing we could ever just ask for and get -- it iosn't
that easy and we know that.  But to know what is OK to ask and what might
be possible requires context.

On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 2:18 PM Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com>
wrote:

> On Mar 15, 2019, at 2:07 PM, Joshua Marshall <j.marshall at arroyo.io> wrote:
> >
> > I don't have a problem needing solving, but I would like context about
> > FreeRadius.  What is happening with the v4 work?
>
>   Lots.  There's a lot to do, but it's making good progress.
>
> https://wiki.freeradius.org/design/version4/Home
>
> >  What changes and challenges are being faced?
>
>   The main challenge is time.
>
>   The changes are sweeping.  While the configuration files look largely
> similar, almost everything has changed under the hood.
>
>   Things which used to be impossible are now trivial.  But some simple
> things have unfortunately gotten more complex.
>
>   The main thing is that the requests are now fully asynchronous.  The
> interpreter has it's own scheduler, and each request has it's own
> interpreter stack.  The result is that the server needs fewer threads to
> actually run things.
>
> >  What does the roadmap look like?
>
>   See the Wiki page above.
>
> >  Is there going to be a formalization of unlang?
>
>   What does that mean?
>
> > What work is currently being done?
>
>   Lots and lots.  The best thing here is to watch the git log.
>
>   Perhaps a better question is this: What are you looking for?
>
>   i.e. if you just want to know about v4, download it and look.  On the
> other hand, if you're looking for a particular feature, then it's best to
> ask about that.
>
>   Alan DeKok.
>
>
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