Community-ID

The new release from Community-ID is available for download and some major features are included in this release. Please try the release and send us feedback.

When you have already installed C-ID please read first the instructions on the C-ID upgrade instructions wiki

The changes in this release are:

New features:
- Added configuration directives to support OpenID URLs using subdomains.
- Add a configuration directives to set the number of news items to show.
- When in maintenance mode, have a warning message explaining, and disable the login section.
- Improved installation procedure.
- Improved error handling and logging.
- Return 404 and 401 status on page not found and access denied scenarios, respectively.
- Don't send email on Access Denied Exceptions, as these may be caused by session timeouts.
- Check if set_include_path() is supported by the current PHP configuration.
- Moved from PDO Mysql to MySQLi database back-end, to avoid problems under Windows servers.

Bug fixes:
- Was throwing an exception when logging in during an openid authentication.
- Wasn't showing 'denied' or 'authorized' in the history list

The public service for Community-ID is from today available for registration. If you dont want to run your own OpenID service you can simple register at http://www.community-id.org for an account. Community-ID is a a non-commercial service from the Keyboard Monkeys to the world wide community.

In this stage we will offer the registration for a limited amount of users. In the future the service will to a wider user base.

More information about our privacy policy and about the service can be found at the Community-ID page.

Enjoy the service and please send us your feedback.

The Community-ID developers.

Dear users,

we need your feedback. When you are willing to help us, can you please tell us:

• On which OS C-ID is running (including OS version)
• Which web server do you use to run C-ID
• Which PHP version is is confirmed
• The MySQL version you run C-ID

You can add the information directly to the forum

Today the first release candidate of Community-ID hit the street. Please test this release candidate and send us feedback. As we have planned, there will be a public release of Community-ID available soon.

You can download the release as tar.gz and zip file from "https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=252134":Sourceforge

The Keyboard Monkeys

Community-ID installation is much more user friendly as we added an installer to Community-ID. Several parts of the installation are changed and the installation check is added to Community-ID.

The change is included in RC1 which will be available soon.

The Keyboard Monkeys

Community-ID was developed and released under the LGPL license, The development team decided to change the license to a BSD license where we believe it will give more freedom to out customers.

To understand the BSD license please have a view to BSD license explained

License changes will be applied to the source code before stable release will hit the streat

The Community-ID development team

When you are an early bird and you want to start testing Community-ID now, we added the Install howto to the wiki. Current the Wiki cover only information how to install on Linux. Other install instruction will follow soon.

The Community-ID development team

After some time of closed development, we will open the sources from Community-ID to the public. The source of Community-ID is released under an Open Source License and is based to 100% on Open Source software. Community-ID is OpenID 2.0 standard compliant.

Beside the server which you can download and install on you own, the Keyboard Monkeys will offer a free OpenID service for the public based on Comminity-ID. More details will be published soon.

The Community-ID developers