[ixpmanager] [RELEASE] V5.2.0 - PeeringDB OAuth, rfc1997 pass-through, framework upgrade

[Boris Mimeur]

Hi Barry and all,

Great work on this.
We upgraded to 5.2 and got the Peering OAuth working seemlessly. Very
useful feature !

Thanks again for the effort on this,

Boris Mimeur
Operations Committee Chair
OGIX
E-mail: bmimeur at ogix.ca

On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 9:23 AM Barry O'Donovan <barry.odonovan at inex.ie>
wrote:

> We are pleased to announce the release of IXP Manager v5.2.0.
>
> This release adds a bunch of new features and tidies up a number of bugs
> / regressions in the milestone v5.0 and the v5.1 releases. All IX's
> running < v5.2.0 are advised to upgrade. Additionally, any IX's that are
> still allowing v5 to bed in can now safely upgrade as it has been in
> production at a number of exchanges for quite a while now.
>
> Full details including a list of new features:
>
> https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager/releases/tag/v5.2.0
>
>
> One of the biggest new features in v5.2.0 is PeeringDB OAuth support.
> This adds the ability to login to IXP Manager via a member's PeeringDB
> account.
>
> This is a particularly beneficial feature for members who are members of
> many IXPs which use IXP Manager - of which there are over 80 now - as it
> means they only need their PeeringDB account to access their portal at
> each of those IXPs. It also removes the hurdle for account creation via
> the IX operations team or having to find a user within a member's own
> organisation with administrative permissions.
>
> The management and operations team at INEX have worked with the team
> from PeeringDB on this functionality - with the initial conversations
> dating back to early 2017 where we each agreed to develop our respective
> parts. The general peering community benefits greatly from this as
> PeeringDB now has a publicly available OAuth service and, through our
> own work, we have added PeeringDB OAuth client functionally to one of
> the more popular OAuth programming libraries.
>
> IXP Manager interacts in a number of ways with PeeringDB [1] and
> specific instructions for enabling PeeringDB OAuth with IXP Manager can
> be found at [2].
>
>
> Thanks,
>   - Barry, Nick and Yann
>
>
> [1] https://docs.ixpmanager.org/features/peeringdb/
> [2] https://docs.ixpmanager.org/features/peeringdb-oauth/
>
>
> --
>
> Kind regards,
> Barry O'Donovan
> INEX
>
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