Change log entry for releasing updated core for SRA Identity & Auth #4571

gosar · 2023-10-10T18:29:41Z

Motivation and Context

Add changelog entry for the SDK core release for SRA Identity & Auth. Will merge this to the feature/master/sra-identity-auth branch first, before merging feature/master/sra-identity-auth to master (as part of #4509)

Modifications

Ran ./scripts/new-change

Testing

Screenshots (if appropriate)

Types of changes

Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)

Checklist

I have read the CONTRIBUTING document
Local run of mvn install succeeds
My code follows the code style of this project
My change requires a change to the Javadoc documentation
I have updated the Javadoc documentation accordingly
I have added tests to cover my changes
All new and existing tests passed
I have added a changelog entry. Adding a new entry must be accomplished by running the scripts/new-change script and following the instructions. Commit the new file created by the script in .changes/next-release with your changes.
My change is to implement 1.11 parity feature and I have updated LaunchChangelog

License

I confirm that this pull request can be released under the Apache 2 license

millems · 2023-10-12T16:07:58Z

.changes/next-release/feature-AWSSDKforJavav2-08d3003.json

+    "type": "feature",
+    "category": "AWS SDK for Java v2",
+    "contributor": "gosar",
+    "description": "This release contains a major internal refactor of authentication. The refactor is part of moving the SDK to Smithy Reference Architecture.\n\nIt paves the way for new features to be released over the coming months, e.g., SDK plugins and custom auth schemes. These will be released to individual service SDKs in a phased rollout.\n\nAlso, with this release:\n* custom 3rd party credential providers can be created with fewer SDK dependencies.\n* new signers can be used with fewer SDK dependencies.\n\nSince this is a major refactor, this release bumps the minor version of the SDK to 2.21. So keep an eye out for behavioral changes."


Is there a link for the smithy reference architecture? Or should we just say "a standardized AWS SDK architecture"

How about:

This release contains a major internal refactor of authentication. The refactor is part of moving the SDK to a standardized AWS SDK architecture.

It paves the way for new features to be released over the coming months: SDK plugins to provide a unified interface to add third-party functionality to the SDK and the ability to define additional ways of authenticating with services.

With this release, custom 3rd party credential providers can be created with fewer SDK dependencies (with the new identity-spi module), and AWS signers can be used with fewer SDK dependencies (with the new http-auth-aws module).

Because this is a major refactor that may result in backwards-compatible behavior changes, this release bumps the minor version of the SDK to 2.21."