The Alembic Foundation announced the availability of Aurion 4.0, the first release of the open source health information exchange software based upon CONNECT from the Federal Health Architecture. Aurion 4.0 was built by the Aurion open source community and incorporates code contributions from 19 people from five organizations. Major feature enhancements to the software include support for multiple assigning authority as well as a continuation of the code refactoring that began for the CONNECT 3.1 software...In previous versions of CONNECT, when an organization uses the software to create SAML assertions, if some of the required values were not filled in, the software inserted default values. This presented a potential security issue, and Aurion 4.0 addresses this problem by removing the defaults...

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