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WebSphere Liberty

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SSL Handshake should not fail if CRLDP present in certificate is not reachable

We have observed one behavior in WAS traditional after enabling CRL. When any certificate presented to WAS for authentication and having CRLDP which is not reachable then SSL HANDSHAKE failed with below exception.Caused by: javax.naming.Communicat...
16 days ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Under review

App expanded folder auto cleanup

When applications deployed to a Liberty server are expanded, e.g. <applicationManager autoExpand="true"/> the expanded war and ear files are not deleted when the corresponding application is stopped and removed from the Liberty server.An exp...
26 days ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Prevent sensitive information logging by redirecting the messages of certain liberty codes to a specific file in liberty logs directory

As of today, the liberty messages with sensitive information such as email ID, user name etc., is being logged in messages.log which causes it to be logged in INFO level. Liberty has the hide message attribute to hide those certain liberty message...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Not under consideration

Host an IBM-per-Customer Maven-Repository to download the WLP license files

Currently, downloading the WLP license files (base/core) requires manual steps: Logging in to IBM Browsing through Download Central Clicking through a set of sites Downloading the license Verifying the signature Re-Uploading to our internal reposi...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Under review

Enable bypass of certificate alternate names verification for inbound requests

Hi Lets supose my My zCEE endpoint is someprefix.mf.jpmchase.net :xxxx/someApi I MUST have someprefix.mf.jpmchase.net in the SAN server certificate, otherwise I don’t get a secure connection. I'd like to add zCEE/Liberty some feature to skip that ...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Not under consideration

Upgrade Jandex Version to Support the Latest Persistent Format Version to Shorten CDI scanning processing

We are addressing the Java version-up project and have a problem of taking about at least 12 minutes to start Liberty in the development environment (Eclipse), which means that development productivity cannot be increased and fundamental measures ...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Under review

Support selecting JWT signature and decryption algorithms from JOSE header

For OIDC, mpJwt, etc., the algorithms are currently specified via the configuration in the server.xml or mp config properties file. This limits the configuration of those features to one specific algorithm. If the JWT is signed using a different a...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Not last 2 but last 3 LTS versions should be udpated.

Our idea is that for the update strategy for the Liberty Container Images not only the last 2 LTS versions should be updated, but the last 3 versions. In our company we only bring every half a year new Liberty Version to production and in between ...
2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Make compression feature extensible

Currently, Liberty only supports gzip and deflate, as already stated in https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/LIBERTY-I-144 However, it is impossible for users to add new compressions globally, as the classes are not extensible at all. I think the relevant ...
2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Under review

Allow JNDI as a mpConfig configuration source to allow encryption of secrets

Currently, it is not clear whether any configuration source can benefit from the liberty encryption.If this was possible, the secrets could be stored on disk in an encrypted way. I know JNDI properties can be encrypted, so let's add JNDI to the ex...
2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration