On Sep 26, 2026, at 7:13 AM, Douglas Fischer <fischerdouglas@gmail.com> wrote:
That’s great news to read on a Saturday morning! Thanks!
You're welcome.
To be honest, the biggest headache for me right now isn't related to RADIUS for access users (802.1x, VPNs, Wireless, B-RAS, and BNGs). We already have a pretty good handle on that—knowing which stepping stones are solid and which ones are loose in the river.
That's good to hear.
My greatest hope lies in the realm of management access control—specifically, having TACACS+ and RADIUS working together and leveraging the same match conditions to avoid duplicating operational work.
v4 support TACACS+ for precisely this reason. It's done the FreeRADIUS way, so it's a little different than "traditional" TACACS+ servers. But the result is (we think) more powerful.
I’m very happy to hear about the beta planned for roughly three months from now. But I’d like to make a request: Please release an alpha version of v4 "as-is"—as an actual release, not just a branch or a tag.
As Matthew noted, v4 builds are available every day. And, nothing goes into v4 unless all of the 1000's of CI tests pass. So while there might be issues, the code is exhaustively tested.
It might seem like a silly request... But beyond believing it would encourage testing of the v4 alpha right away, I also think the "crazy folks" who spend tokens on security scans for open-source projects would be encouraged to spend that money on your software. Sure, you’ll get a lot of junk back. But it’s likely that something useful could be salvaged from it.
See my previous message, we've already done that, and we're continuing to do it. Alan DeKok.