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
2020-03-19: SimpleSAMLphp 1.18.5 has been released. Please check the downloads page for more information.
2020-01-24: SimpleSAMLphp 1.18.4 has been released. Please check the downloads page for more information. This is security release related to SSPSA 202001-01 and SSPSA 202001-02.
2019-12-09: SimpleSAMLphp 1.18.3 has been released. Please check the downloads page for more information.
2019-11-26: SimpleSAMLphp 1.18.2 has been released. Please check the downloads page for more information.
2019-11-26: SimpleSAMLphp 1.18.1 has been released. Please check the downloads page for more information.
2019-11-20: SimpleSAMLphp 1.17.8 has been released. Please check the downloads page for more information. This is a bugfix and security release related to SSPSA 201911-02.
2019-11-19: SimpleSAMLphp 1.18.0 has been released. Please check the downloads page for more information.
2019-11-07: A new security advisory (SSPSA 201911-01) has been published, affecting robrichards/xmlseclibs and all SimpleSAMLphp versions prior to 1.17.7.
2019-11-06: SimpleSAMLphp 1.17.7 has been released. Please check the downloads page for more information. This is a security release related to SSPSA 201911-01.
2019-08-29: SimpleSAMLphp 1.17.6 has been released. Please check the downloads page for more information.
2019-08-02: SimpleSAMLphp 1.17.5 has been released. Please check the downloads page for more information.
2019-07-11: SimpleSAMLphp 1.17.4 has been released. Please check the downloads page for more information.
2019-07-10: SimpleSAMLphp 1.17.3 has been released. Please check the downloads page for more information. This is a bugfix and security release related to SSPSA 201907-01.
2019-04-02: SimpleSAMLphp 1.17.2 has been released. Please check the downloads page for more information.
2019-03-07: SimpleSAMLphp 1.17.1 has been released. Please check the downloads page for more information.
2019-03-07: SimpleSAMLphp 1.17.0 has been released. Please check the downloads page for more information.
2018-12-20: SimpleSAMLphp 1.16.3 has been released. Please check the downloads page for more information. This is a security release related to SSPSA 201812-01.
2018-09-28: SimpleSAMLphp 1.16.2 has been released. Please check the downloads page for more information.
2018-09-28: Three security advisories (SSPSA 201809-01, SSPSA 201809-02 and SSPSA 201809-03 have been published, affecting robrichards/xmlseclibs.
2018-09-07: SimpleSAMLphp 1.16.1 has been released. Please check the downloads page for more information.
2018-09-06: SimpleSAMLphp 1.16.0 has been released. Please check the downloads page for more information.
