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<section name="Apache WSS4J&#8482; - Web Services Security for Java">
<subsection name="The Project">
<p> 
The <b>Apache WSS4J&#8482;</b> project provides a Java implementation of the
primary security standards for Web Services, namely the OASIS Web Services
Security (WS-Security) specifications from the 
<a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wss">OASIS Web Services Security TC</a>. WSS4J provides an implementation of the following
WS-Security standards:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/v1.1/wss-v1.1-spec-os-SOAPMessageSecurity.pdf">
SOAP Message Security 1.1</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/v1.1/wss-v1.1-spec-os-UsernameTokenProfile.pdf">Username
Token Profile 1.1</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/v1.1/wss-v1.1-spec-os-x509TokenProfile.pdf">X.509
Certificate Token Profile 1.1</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/v1.1/wss-v1.1-spec-os-SAMLTokenProfile.pdf">SAML Token
Profile 1.1</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/v1.1/wss-v1.1-spec-os-KerberosTokenProfile.pdf">Kerberos Token
Profile 1.1</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/v1.1/wss-v1.1-spec-os-SwAProfile.pdf">SOAP Messages with Attachments Profile 1.1</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.ws-i.org/Profiles/BasicSecurityProfile-1.1.html">Basic Security Profile 1.1</a>
</li>
</ul>
</subsection>
<subsection name="News">
<ul>
<li>
<p><b>July 2023</b> - 
The Apache WSS4J team are pleased to announce the release of versions 3.0.1, 2.4.2 and 2.3.4. These releases contain a fix for a bug with STR Transform and contain dependency updates.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><b>October 2022</b> - 
The Apache WSS4J team are pleased to announce the release of version 3.0.0.
This is a major new release of WSS4J. Significant changes:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Moved from javax to jakarta namespace</li>
<li>OpenSAML 4.x upgrade</li>
<li>Santuario 3.0.x upgrade</li>
</ul>
<p>
Please see the <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310063&amp;version=12350043">
3.0.0 release notes</a> for more information.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><b>February 2022</b> - 
The Apache WSS4J team are pleased to announce the release of version 2.4.1. It
fixes an issue with the timestamp in the WSS4J jars being invalid.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><b>November 2021</b> - 
The Apache WSS4J team are pleased to announce the release of version 2.4.0. This release contains relatively few changes, but picks up a new major version of Apache Santuario - XML Security for Java (2.3.0)
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><b>September 2021</b> - 
The Apache WSS4J team are pleased to announce the release of versions 2.3.3
and 2.2.7. The main changes for these releases are updates to fix CVE issues
in a few dependencies. 
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><b>December 2020</b> - 
The Apache WSS4J team are pleased to announce the release of versions 2.3.1
and 2.2.6. Please see the <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310063&amp;version=12348399">2.3.1 release notes</a> and <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310063&amp;version=12347804">
2.2.6 release notes</a> for more information.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><b>June 2020</b> - 
The Apache WSS4J team are pleased to announce the release of version 2.3.0.
This is a major new release of WSS4J. Significant changes:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Private key caching enabled which greatly speeds up private key retrieval for PKCS12 keys</li>
<li>OpenSAML 3.4.x upgrade</li>
<li>Santuario 2.2.x upgrade</li>
<li>EhCache 3.x upgrade</li>
<li>JDK 14 officially supported</li>
</ul>
<p>
Please see the <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310063&amp;version=12343948">
2.3.0 release notes</a> for more information.
</p>
</li>
</ul>
</subsection>
</section>

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