PingDirectory 7.2 is a major release that includes a brand new API to make it easier for developers to manage identity data and meet business requirements quickly. The release optimizes how identity data is searched to improve directory performance and supports new platforms.

PingDirectory 7.2 is a major release that includes a brand new API to make it easier for developers to manage identity data and meet business requirements quickly. The release optimizes how identity data is searched to improve directory performance and supports new platforms.

Ping is pleased to announce the availability of PingDirectory 7.2 Beta, which includes significant improvements and performance enhancements. This release includes a brand new API to manage identity data, making it easier for application developers to meet business requirements more quickly. Using indexed statistics, we also optimized how identity data is searched to improve overall directory performance. For more detail on this release and our updated platform vendor support like Oracle Java JDK 11, OpenJDK 11, and newly supported Linux versions (RedHat 7.5, CentOS 7.5, and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS), please see our release notes.

PingDirectory 6.2.0.4 is a routine maintenance release that includes some minor improvements and reliability fixes. This release adds the capability to remove more than one defunct server from a replication cluster and an upgrade to TLS 1.2 for connections to external SMTP servers. Notable fixes include case-insensitive comparisons for the dictionary-based password validator and a fix for a rare condition leading to unexpected growth of network connections related to persistent searches.

PingDirectory 7.0.1 adds new capabilities to the Delegated Admin application package, which enables directory administrators to delegate the responsibility of managing group memberships for users in the PingDirectory Server. Administrators can easily delegate to individuals or groups of users, and assign authority over one or more groups in the PingDirectory Server.

PingDirectory 7.0 adds new features for easier management and enhanced security. To lessen directory administration workload, now you can easily delegate profile management to others in the enterprise. The Delegated User Admin web application enables customer service reps or help desk techs to update user profiles, unlock accounts, and reset passwords. Also, take advantage of several new features for enhanced security. Now you can encrypt data indexes to secure data and maintain performance; you can more easily encrypt and decrypt data backups, LDIF exports, and log files; and you can more easily manage the SSL certificates used for secure replication within clustered environments.

The PingDirectory 7.0 beta release provides consent capture and management capabilities to meet GDPR and similar consent-based regulatory requirements. This beta also includes a user administration application to support delegating abilities from admins to regular users, such as the ability to update profiles or initiate password resets on behalf of other users.

This 6.2.0.1 release provides numerous administrative, security and performance enhancements. To help ease administrative efforts, we added an HTTP trace log publisher to help trace and troubleshoot requests over HTTP-based API (e.g. SCIM). We also added a new ACI feature that uses templates and value interpolation to reduce the number of nearly identical ACI in large deployments. To strengthen security, we made multiple improvements to SSAM example application. Lastly, to boost performance, we improved start up times for certain configurations using many multi-valued attributes and/or frequently accessed entry caching. We also enabled more performance measurement logging out-of-the-box to help troubleshoot and tweak performance issues. In addition to the product enhancements, we fixed an issue that caused an index to unnecessarily become “degraded” under race conditions while the underlying data changes.

Special note: The ability to configure composite indexes has been hidden due to a recently discovered instability. Composite index support will be re-added in a subsequent patch. If you are currently using composite indexes, please contact Ping support to discuss the best option for moving to a regular attribute index.

For product updates prior to 2018, please visit docs.pingidentity.com.