Katana 3.0.0 alpha1 released

The package was released yesterday under the name Microsoft.Owin and the version 3.0.0-alpha1 on NuGet.

The release is actually planned for April as per the roadmap. What is planned in this released?

  • WS-Federation - Middleware component supporting the WS-Federation protocol for federated identity in an OWIN pipeline.
  • Remove support for .NET Framework 4.0 in order to exclusively use async await

But from the changesets, it appears to be that the first point one delivered.

So what is WS-Federation? It’s a standard for securing web services that has been made by Oracle, Microsoft and way more companies.

For more information, I recommend this MSDN Library article for a more thorough understanding.

If you try it, keep me posted on Twitter @MaximRouiller.