EJBCA Software Appliance 2.5.1 Release Notes

FEBRUARY 2024

We are pleased to announce the release of EJBCA Software Appliance 2.5.1.

This release brings an updated version of EJBCA Enterprise, customizable length of certificate chains, and other improvements and fixes.

Upgrade Information

Please review the essential information and assistance provided here for upgrading from version 2.5 to 2.5.1 before proceeding with updates to your Software Appliances. For more information see: Update Process.

Highlights

New Version of EJBCA Enterprise

EJBCA Enterprise has been updated to version 8.2.0.3. For more information, see the EJBCA Release Notes.

Enhanced Trusted Certificate Authority (CA) Management

EJBCA Software Appliance now enables you to customize the maximum length of certificate chains, extending it up to 9. For more information see: Managing Trusted CAs.

Improvements and Corrections

Further improvements and corrections included in this release are listed below:

• Resolved issue where an incorrect driver version was displayed after editing driver information for TrustWay Proteccio HSM.
  
• Fixed a problem with uploading TLS certificate in WebConf that previously rejected certificate chains containing certificates signed with SHA256 with RSA and MGF1.
• Added the possibility to set up NTP manually via WebConf (previously only possible in the Terminal UI) and the Software Appliance date/time is displayed in the WebConf. 
• Fix issue with the TrustWay Proteccio HSM driver when the server certificate contains Windows-style line breaks (\r\n).