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Release Summary

Below is a summary of the enhancements and bug fixes that were released during the SSO Proxy version upgrade (1.8.0.0) across all environments on Feb 6 (Pilot) and Feb 8, 2018 (Prod).   

• Bring all environments to the latest version of the sso proxy code (Version 1.8.0.0
• A series of user and technical enhancements 
• A couple of bug fixes

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In addition to bringing all development and production environments up to the latest version of the CCC SSO proxy, several end-user enhancements and bug fixes are being deployed that will benefit students and college faculty and staff.  

CCCID User Validation Process

The CCCID User Validation feature allows colleges to "pre-seed" the SSO proxy CCCID-eppn mapping in a preparatory step to get students' who aren't passing their CCCID with the college's IdP - through the CCCID account creation or account recovery process before, and independently of, actually requiring students to login to Canvas or Course Exchange for the first time. 

Benefits:

• Saves time for the student validating that the student session b CCCID Supports the required proxy integration process by allowing colleges to  implementing the SSO proxy  Colleges & Students Implementing the Proxy 
• Allows colleges to prepare their students 
• Supports colleges during and after the required proxy integration process by providing an opportunity for students to encounter the proxy before they need to login or sign in the

What are the priority bug fixes and who benefits from them?

No action is required by the colleges to implement these enhancement and fixes above and beyond the requirement for all colleges to integrate their college or district IdPs with the CCC SSO proxy.

If your college has not yet completed the CCC SSO Proxy integration process, please contact Matt Schroeder, CCCTC Systems Admin Engineer, mschroeder@ccctechcenter.org - however if you would like to discuss the details of this implementation with the CCCApply product manager, please contact Patty Donohue at pdonohue@ccctechcenter.org.

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Release Scope

Issue Type	Description	Summary Notes
Release 1.6.0	Enhancement	Make student check in eduPersonAffliation case insensitive	Though the eduPerson specification uses all lower case characters for their eduPersonAffiliation permissible values, e.g. faculty, student, staff, alum, member, affiliate, employee, library-walk-in, some college/district IdPs are sending mixed case, e.g. Student. This enhancement converts all eduPersonAffiliation values to lower-case before sending them on as attributes to the downstream SP.
Enhancement	Send RelayState Information if configured for the destination IdP	This enhancement facilitates MyPath IdP initiated logins through the OpenCCC IdP.  In the case of the OpenCCC IdP only, the Proxy includes the initial RelayState so that information is not lost and can be used to ultimately redirect the user back to MyPath. This is a limited use case and should rarely if ever be used by other applications.
Release 1.7.1	Enhancement	Add CCCID / eppn mapping when CCCID is passed in SAML	Currently, if a college/district IdP passes the CCCID as an attribute, it is not added to the eppn-CCCID map. The map is only updated if a CCCID is NOT included and the user is detoured to OpenCCC to retrieve it. This enhancement captures CCCIDs sent by the college/district IdPs and adds them to the map so that the map is updated in both cases.
Enhancement	Pass MIS codes associated with authsource in authsources_<env>.json as new SAML attribute	To satisfy this enhancement, the proxy now adds a new SAML attribute, https://www.openccc.net/saml/attributes/cccMisCodes available to downstream SPs that includes an array of the MisCode(s), e.g. 310, 311, 312, 313, of the authenticated college/district IdP.
Enhancement	Include authsource as a SAML attribute	To satisfy this enhancement, the proxy now adds a new SAML attribute, https://www.openccc.net/saml/attributes/cccAuthSource available to the downstream SPs that includes an the authsource, e.g. MIS310, of the authenticated college/district IdP.
Enhancement	Validate CCCID value passed by College/District IdPs	The CCCID is defined in OpenCCC to be a string consisting of 3 upper-case characters and 4 numbers from 0-9 inclusive.  Early Proxy testing showed that some college/district IdPs were sending bogus CCCIDs along in the SAML attributes. This enhancement implements a basic validation test against the inbound CCCID attribute and, if it fails, detours the user to OpenCCC to recover or create a CCCID in case the attribute was not passed to the proxy.
Release 1.8.0	Enhancement	Upgrade Proxy core to SimpleSAMLphp 1.14.17	The current release of the SSO Proxy is based on the SimpleSamlPHP core version 1.14.3.  Several security patches have been released since then. This enhancement upgrades the SimpleSamlPHP core version to 1.14.17.
Enhancement	Change Proxy to not redirect users with 'student' eduPersonAffliation to OpenCCC if destination SP is Jasper Reports or CCCAdmin	During initial testing, some college/district personnel are designated in their directory with eduPersonAffiliation values that include student and staff.   If these users try to go through the Proxy to, say the OpenCCC Admin page, and their college/district does not send a CCCID, they are detoured to OpenCCC to retrieve it. This enhancement implements a configurable "whitelist" of SP entity IDs that, even if the inbound attributes do not include the CCCID, are excluded from the detour to OpenCCC.  This list is currently limited to OpenCCC Admin and OpenCCC JasperReports. NOTE:  12.13.17 - Patty added to the scope of this requirement by expanding the whitelist of SP entity IDs to include additional destinations (Canvas LMS entity IDs for each college, Admin2, Jasper, DW, etc.)
BUG	Always default to redirect session to Canvas Prod environment after redirecting from OpenCCC	When testing Canvas integration with the Proxy, it was noted that, if the initial request was for the Canvas beta site and if a CCCID was not included in the inbound attributes and therefor the user was detoured to OpenCCC to retrieve it the ultimate destination was the Canvas prod site, even though the initial target was the Canvas beta site. This enhancement adds logic to capture the initial destination, prior to the detour, and ultimately redirects the user back to that destination.
Enhancement	Change config.php logging from DEBUG to INFO in Prod	Currently, the Proxy in production is configured with log level DEBUG.  Due to the traffic in production, this results in the log disk partition filling with regularity. This enhancement changes the logging configuration for the production environment from DEBUG to INFO to cut down on verbose logging.
Enhancement	Update Proxy College IdP Search Page to remove text "Identity Provider" from each college/district that returns in search type ahead box	On the college picker page of the Proxy, the string "Identity Provider" is appended to the current descriptions for each college/district IdP. This has been deemed confusing to the users. This enhancement removes that string.
Enhancement	Implement ability for user to find their college on the Proxy IdP search page even if the college uses a district level IdP	Currently, if a college rolls up under their district IdP, the college name does not appear in the selection list on the college picker page. This enhancement lists every college and, if it rolls up to a district IdP, when it is selected the user is redirected to the district IdP as if they had chosen the district IdP from the selection list.
Enhancement	Remove deprecated configuration parameters from config.php	This is a de-clutter enhancement to remove deprecated configuration parameters from the Proxy's config.php.  It should not impact any application using the Proxy.
Enhancement	Create an /index.php landing page for proxy to handle proxy session timeout scenarios	This enhancement stems from CIP-688.  If a user initially hits the proxy and is redirected to their college/district IdP per the normal flow, if they take longer to authenticate than then timeout set in CIP-688 they will be sent to this Proxy session timeout page.
Enhancement	Revise the student user experience when encountering a session timeout	Some SAML2 SP implementations, including the one used by Course Exchange, honor the SessionNotOnOrAfter attribute which is currently set to to the same duration as the Proxy session timeout.  This enhancement allows us to control that attribute setting independently from the Proxy session timeout.

Out-of-Scope Development

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User Interface Enhancements

UI Enhancement

Documentation

The following links point to the most current versions of the CCC SSO Proxy documentation.

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