SimpleSAMLphp is an award-winning application written in native PHP that deals with authentication. The project is led by UNINETT, has a large user base, a helpful user community and a large set of external contributors. The main focus of SimpleSAMLphp is providing support for:
However, it also supports some other identity protocols and frameworks, such as Shibboleth 1.3, A-Select, CAS, OpenID, WS-Federation or OAuth, and is easily extendable, so you can develop your own modules if you like.
With the memcache session handler, SimpleSAMLphp scales pretty well. A replication layer is built upon memcache, such that an unlimited number of SimpleSAMLphp web front-ends can work with a back-end matrix of memcache servers with both replication (fail-over) and load-balancing.
SimpleSAMLphp is tested with several other federation software implementations. Among others; Shibboleth 1.3, Shibboleth 2.2, PingID, Sun Federation Manager, Sun Federated Access Manager, Sun Access Manager, mod_mellon, CAS, etc. If someone discovers incompatibility issues, we try to sort them out as fast as possible if reported properly through the issue tracker.
Latest news
2017-03-30: SimpleSAMLphp 1.14.12 has been released. Please check the downloads page for more information. This is a bugfix and security release related to SSPSA 201703-01 and SSPSA 201703-02.
2016-12-13: A note has been published regarding a bug with potential security consequences in case of severe misconfiguration. Please read SSPSA 201612-04 carefully.
2016-12-12: SimpleSAMLphp 1.14.11 has been released. Please check the downloads page for more information. This is a bugfix and security release related to SSPSA 201612-02 and SSPSA 201612-03.
2016-12-02: SimpleSAMLphp 1.14.10 has been released. Please check the downloads page for more information. This is a bugfix and security release related to SSPSA 201612-01.
2016-11-10: SimpleSAMLphp 1.14.9 has been released. Please check the downloads page for more information. This is a bugfix release.
2016-08-23: SimpleSAMLphp 1.14.8 has been released. Please check the downloads page for more information. This is a bugfix release.
2016-08-01: SimpleSAMLphp 1.14.7 has been released. Please check the downloads page for more information. This is a bugfix release.
2016-07-18: SimpleSAMLphp 1.14.6 has been released. Please check the downloads page for more information. This is a bugfix release.
2016-07-12: SimpleSAMLphp 1.14.5 has been released. Please check the downloads page for more information. This is a bugfix release.
2016-06-08: SimpleSAMLphp 1.14.4 has been released. Please check the downloads page for more information. This is a bugfix and security release related to SSPSA 201606-01.
2016-04-19: SimpleSAMLphp 1.14.3 has been released. Please check the downloads page for more information. This is a bugfix release.
2016-03-11: SimpleSAMLphp 1.14.2 has been released. Please check the downloads page for more information. This is a bugfix release.
2016-03-08: SimpleSAMLphp 1.14.1 has been released. Please check the downloads page for more information. This is a security release related to SSPSA 201603-01.
2016-02-15: SimpleSAMLphp 1.14.0 has been released. Please check the downloads page for more information. If you rely on any custom templates or modules, please read the upgrade notes carefully too.
