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On November 21, we released the Alpha version of UCS 5.2. It is the harbinger for the first minor release since the release of UCS 5.0 in May 2021. The Alpha version is intended to give a first impression of the upcoming UCS 5.2, in particular the basic packages of the distribution have been updated; […]

As announced, we will introduce Keycloak as the default identity provider (IDP) with UCS 5.2. That raises the question of how long the previous IDP based on SimpleSAMLphp will be supported in UCS. In this article, I explain why we have decided to link the maintenance period of SimpleSAMLphp with that of UCS Release 5.0 […]

Univention Corporate Server 5.0-5 is the fifth point release for Univention Corporate Server (UCS) 5.0. It contains all erratas released since version 5.0-4 for bug fixes, performance improvements and security updates for Samba, Linux, OpenSSH, Bind and Python, among others.

Since last year, the single sign-on solution Keycloak has been a central component of our identity and access management strategy. With Keycloak, third-party applications can log on to the system using standard protocols such as SAML and OpenID Connect. This means that users only have to log on once centrally and can then access all […]

Since our last blog article on the future role model, we have made significant progress in transforming the UCS role and rights model. The custom role design, currently under development, is taking shape. In this article, we would like to focus on introducing two promising new components: One of them allows you to evaluate the […]

The patch level release UCS@school 5.0 v4 from the beginning of August comes with a whole range of improvements for our school software solution UCS@school which I would like to share with you in this article.

In this blog article, I would like to inform you about important adjustments to the release and maintenance times for UCS patch level releases. First of all, I would like to give you a brief overview of how a maintenance cycle of UCS works and which components are part of it.

With UCS 5.2 Keycloak will become the standard IDP for SAML and OpenID Connect authentication and will replace the current SimpleSAMLPHP and Kopano Connect apps. Read more about the big picture in our blog article Migration of the Identity Provider in UCS – Keycloak App now Part of the Support Scope. The first step we […]

With Univention Corporate Server 5.0-4, the fourth point release for Univention Corporate Server (UCS) 5.0 is now available. It includes functional enhancements and improvements, new features, several detail improvements, and bug fixes. Also included in the installation media are all errata that have appeared since version 5.0-3.

I would like to look ahead to UCS Release 5.2. And yes, that is right, we will release UCS 5.2 and not, as you would otherwise expect, UCS 5.1. Let me briefly explain the reasons for this in the following.