June 22, 2020

General Availability of Symantec SiteMinder (previously called CA Single Sign-On) 12.8.04

On behalf of Symantec, a Division of Broadcom, we appreciate your business and the opportunity to provide you with high quality, innovative software and services. As part of our ongoing commitment to customer success, we regularly announce updated releases and maintenance for our products.

We are pleased to announce the recent release of SiteMinder 12.8.04. This update includes new features, certification for Oracle 19c, upgrades of internal libraries (OpenSSL, Tomcat, etc.) and bug fixes.  

New Feature: SM_Authentication Level in OIDC flows        

Business Value:  Enables simpler OIDC-based integration with applications that requires authentication level information (such as those that are following the NIST 800-63B standard)

New Feature: Support for “Nested Groups” or “Users, if common across multiple groups” in SAML configurations

Business Value: Lower cost of administration of partnerships

New Feature: Identity Mapping feature extended to WS-Federation

Business Value: Lowers cost of administration and may lower subscription fees for Azure integration

New Feature: Modification of administrative scope required for private key management for federation partnerships

Business Value: Increase security

Documentation content for the Service Pack:

New features: https://techdocs.broadcom.com/content/broadcom/techdocs/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/layer7-identity-and-access-management/single-sign-on/12-8/release-notes/New-Features/New-Features-in-12_8_04.html 

Defect fixes: https://techdocs.broadcom.com/content/broadcom/techdocs/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/layer7-identity-and-access-management/single-sign-on/12-8/release-notes/service-packs/Defects-Fixed-in-12_8_04.html 

The 12.8.04 kits are available on this page (there are separate links for the Policy Server (Solution #SS13399) and the Access Gateway (Solution #SS13400)):

https://support.broadcom.com/external/content/release-announcements/CA-Single-Sign-On-Hotfix-Cumulative-Release-Index/6544#SMWAM

We also encourage you to visit the SiteMinder information page on the Support Online website at https://support.broadcom.com/enterprise-software/product-page.html?productName=CA%20Single%20Sign-On

If you have any questions or require assistance, please contact Customer Support at +1-800-225-5224 in North America or see http://www.ca.com/phone for the local number in your country.

Your success is very important to us, and we look forward to continuing our successful partnership with you.

Sincerely, SiteMinder Management team