We’re a bit behind releasing 1.2.  We had hoped to release in July and we may still, but if we don’t make it before the end of this week we’ll definitely have it ready to go by August 6th.  In the meantime, here’s another preview into the new features in 1.2.

Those of you using LDAP / Active Directory for authentication will be pleased to know that with 1.2 it will be possible to use AD groups for permission management.  This is accomplished by creating an “LDAP Group” and entering the name of the group in your LDAP directory.  For example, if you wanted to add “Domain Users”, you would simply create a new LDAP group in Sublime named “Domain Users”.  The group membership will be automatically populated based on the users in the Domain Users active directory group.  Sublime will then keep this membership up to date automatically.  So whenever you add new users to the group in active directory, those additions will be automatically picked up by Sublime.

Sublime is also smart enough to only give access to users who you want using Sublime in the first place.  For example, if you have configured Sublime to exclude all users except those in a given OU, Sublime will respect those rules when pulling in users from your AD groups.  So even if a user exists in that group, if they aren’t in the OU you specified they won’t be granted access to Sublime or Subversion.

That’s it for this post.  Next time we’ll talk about the new user dashboard and user RSS feeds – promise!