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v1.4.0

v1.4.0 Release Notes - January 9th, 2019
@denyeart denyeart tagged this 09 Jan 22:35 
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What's New in Hyperledger Fabric CA v1.4
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No new features in Fabric CA v1.4. v1.4 is a maintenance release only,
with bug fixes, dependency updates, test improvements.

Changes, Known Issues, and Workarounds
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None.

Known Vulnerabilities
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FABC-174 Commands can be manipulated to delete identities or affiliations

This vulnerability can be resolved in one of two ways:

1) Use HTTPS (TLS) so that the authorization header is not in clear text.

2) The token generation/authentication mechanism was improved to optionally prevent
token reuse. In v1.4 a more secure token can be used by setting environment variable:

FABRIC_CA_SERVER_COMPATIBILITY_MODE_V1_3=false

However, it cannot be set to false until all clients have
been updated to generate the more secure token and tolerate
FABRIC_CA_SERVER_COMPATIBILITY_MODE_V1_3=false.
The Fabric CA client has been updated in v1.4 to generate the more secure token.
The Fabric SDKs will be updated by v2.0 timeframe to generate the more secure token,
at which time the default for Fabric CA server will change to:
FABRIC_CA_SERVER_COMPATIBILITY_MODE_V1_3=false

Resolved Vulnerabilities
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None.

Other improvements and fixes
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Updated to Go version 1.11.1
Updated baseimage version to 0.4.14

For the full list of improvements and fixes, refer to the release change log:
https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric-ca/blob/release-1.4/CHANGELOG.md#v140
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