On Tue 03 Jul 2007, Hugh Messenger wrote:

<baki@enternet.hu> said:

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I am developing a custom module for Debian 4.0 with preinstalled FreeRADIUS 1.1.3,

Baki - unless you have some utterly compelling reason to be working on the Debian distro version, you really should upgrade to at least 1.1.7. Depending on your schedule, you might even want to look seriously at the 2.0.0 beta.

<flame> I'm just wondering why some of the major Linux releases are still shipping 1.1.3. It's getting ridiculous. We're about to move to 2.0 ("real soon now"), and folk like RH, Debian and friends are still distributing a way out of date 1.x, perpetuating all the usual legacy support headaches for Alan et al.

Is there anything the freeradius community can do about this? Can we write our /Congressmen|Member of Parliament|Dictator|Oligarch/? Threaten to scream and scream until we're sick if we don't get our own way?

Yep. Use SUSE Linux which ships FreeRADIUS Server 1.1.6 and FreeRADIUS Client 1.1.5 in the latest version and engages with the community. Alternatively if you use one of these "way out of date" distros, submit bug reports and complain... Cheers -- Peter Nixon http://www.peternixon.net/ PGP Key: http://www.peternixon.net/public.asc

Hugh Messenger wrote:

<flame> I'm just wondering why some of the major Linux releases are still shipping 1.1.3.

There are versions of redhat that still use 1.0.4. The problem is that when you sell a distribution, the customers want support for N years. Software doesn't sit still, so they quickly become users of legacy versions.

Is there anything the freeradius community can do about this? Can we write our /Congressmen|Member of Parliament|Dictator|Oligarch/? Threaten to scream and scream until we're sick if we don't get our own way? </flame>

OpenLDAP has the same issue. See the Connexitor blog. Redhat either doesn't care, or doesn't have the resources to keep up to date with thousands of open source packages. This is where systems like Debian have a *huge* win. Alan DeKok.