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Barbican Havana-3 Milestone

Written for Barbican by John Wood on 2013-09-06

The Barbican team is proud to announce the third milestone delivery with the OpenStack project: Havana-3.

This milestone can be found at:
    https://launchpad.net/cloudkeep/havana/havana-3/+download/barbican-2013.2.b3.tar.gz

With this milestone, 3 blueprints have been implemented. Here is a quick summary of the new features:

  * Added a variety of refinements to the API and crypto plugin contracts.
  * Added PKCS #11 interface support for HSMs, currently operating with SafeNet's Luna SA
  * Added Role Base Access Control (RBAC) utilizing 4 roles: admin, creator, audit, observer.
  * Added an error reason to 'orders' resource creates that fail asynchronously

More details can be found at: https://launchpad.net/cloudkeep/havana/havana-3,
and here: https://github.com/cloudkeep/barbican/wiki/Release-Notes

An updated Python client library and command line interface for Barbican is also available in Pypi here: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-barbicanclient/

Thanks to Jarret Raim, Andrew Hartnett, Douglas Sims, Sheena Gregson, John Vrbanac, Henry Yamauchi, Douglas Mendizabal, Paul Kehrer, Melissa Kam, Arash Ghoreyshi, Malini Bhandaru and John Wood for their contributions to this milestone.

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Barbican Havana-2 Milestone

Written for Barbican by John Wood on 2013-07-18

The Barbican team is proud to announce the second milestone delivery with the OpenStack project: Havana-2.

This milestone can be found at:
    https://launchpad.net/cloudkeep/havana/havana-2/+download/barbican-2013.2.b2.tar.gz

With this milestone, 2 blueprints have been implemented and 1 bug has been fixed. Here is a quick summary of the new features:
  * The Barbican project was setup in the Stackforge repository
  * Database migration support was added (via Alembic)
  * RPM packaging support was added
  * Debian packaging support was cleaned up
  * Validation was improved
  * Several defects were addressed (as managed prior to Launchpad/Stackforge move)

More details can be found at: https://launchpad.net/cloudkeep/havana/havana-2

Thanks to Jarret Raim, Andrew Hartnett, Douglas Sims, Sheena Gregson, John Vrbanac, Douglas Mendizabal, Paul Kehrer, Melissa Kam, Arash Ghoreyshi, Malini Bhandaru and John Wood for their contributions to this milestone.

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