Apache Shiro (pronounced "sheeroh", a Japanese word for

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) is an open source software security framework that performs

authentication Authentication (from ''authentikos'', "real, genuine", from αὐθέντης ''authentes'', "author") is the act of proving an assertion, such as the identity of a computer system user. In contrast with identification, the act of indicatin ...

authorization Authorization or authorisation (see spelling differences) is the function of specifying access rights/privileges to resources, which is related to general information security and computer security, and to access control in particular. More fo ...

cryptography Cryptography, or cryptology (from grc, , translit=kryptós "hidden, secret"; and ''graphein'', "to write", or '' -logia'', "study", respectively), is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adv ...

and

session management In computer science and networking in particular, a session is a time-delimited two-way link, a practical (relatively high) layer in the tcp/ip protocol enabling interactive expression and information exchange between two or more communication d ...

. Shiro has been designed to be an intuitive and easy-to-use framework while still providing robust security features.

History

Shiro's predecessor, JSecurity, was founded in 2004 by Les Hazlewood and Jeremy Haile because they could not find a suitable Java security framework that operated well at the application level and they were frustrated with JAAS. Between 2004 and 2008, JSecurity was hosted on

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and its committer list grew to include Peter Ledbrook, Alan Ditzel, Tim Veil. In 2008, JSecurity project was submitted to the

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(ASF) and accepted into their Incubator Program to be stewarded by mentors in order to become a top level Apache Project. Under the ASF's Incubator, Jsecurity was renamed Ki (pronounced Key) and shortly later renamed Shiro by the community because of trademark concerns. The project continued to grow while in the Apache Incubator, adding Kalle Korhonen as a project committer. And in July 2010, the Shiro community released its official version 1.0, marking a period of stability in the code base. Following the release of version 1.0, the Shiro community created a Project Management Committee and elected Les Hazlewood as its chair. On September 22, 2010, Shiro became a ''top level project'' (TLP) in the Apache Software Foundation.

Releases

* 1.8.0 on 2021-08-26 (current release) * 1.7.1 on 2021-01-31 * 1.7.0 on 2020-10-29 * 1.6.0 on 2020-08-17 * 1.5.3 on 2020-05-03 * 1.5.2 on 2020-03-23 * 1.5.1 on 2020-02-23 * 1.5.0 on 2020-01-24 * 1.4.2 on 2019-11-18 * 1.4.1 on 2019-04-18 * 1.4.0 on 2017-05-05 * 1.3.2 on 2016-09-11 * 1.3.1 on 2016-08-29 * 1.3.0 on 2016-07-25 * 1.2.6 on 2016-06-28 * 1.2.5 on 2016-05-24 * 1.2.4 on 2015-07-07 * 1.2.3 on 2014-02-25 * 1.2.2 on 2013-05-15 * 1.2.1 on 2012-07-28 * 1.2.0 on 2012-01-24 * 1.1.0 on 2010-11-01

References

External links

* {{Apache Software Foundation Shiro Free security software Java (programming language) libraries Java enterprise platform Computer access control frameworks

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