# Search Guard RC1 released alongside with all dual licensed modules

**URL:** <https://forum.search-guard.com/t/search-guard-rc1-released-alongside-with-all-dual-licensed-modules/185>\
**Category:** Search Guard\
**Created:** [June 10, 2016, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/search-guard-rc1-released-alongside-with-all-dual-licensed-modules/185 "2016-06-10T15:49:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/search-guard-rc1-released-alongside-with-all-dual-licensed-modules/185/1 "2016-06-10T15:49:43Z")

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We`re happy and proud to announce the first release candidate of Search Guard 2 for Elasticsearch 2.

It took us a few month to build all this but now we are ready for the final release which will happen on **17. June 2016**.

Commercial modules and support will also be available on 17. June 2016. We ask you kindly to install and test RC1 and provide

you feedback to make this product even more stable and useful. Thanks in advance.

RC1 of Search Guard 2:

> **[GitHub - floragunncom/search-guard: Search Guard Plugin - Security for...](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard)**
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> Search Guard Plugin - Security for Elasticsearch. Contribute to floragunncom/search-guard development by creating an account on GitHub.

**Dual licensed/commercial modules**

\*Although those are “open source” (which means you can look into the code) they are licensed under a “dual license”. \*  
\*This dual license permits free (and fee of charge) usage for all non-commercial purposes (including academic use) \*

\*and for systems which are not in production. \*_For production systems you have to obtain a commercial license on a per-cluster base._

\*Pls. look here \*[Licensing | Search Guard Community, Enterprise and Compliance Edition](https://floragunn.com/searchguard/searchguard-license-support/) for details and \*contact information. \*

LDAP/Active Directory Authentication and Authorization:

> **[Home · floragunncom/search-guard-authbackend-ldap Wiki](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-authbackend-ldap/wiki)**
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> \[OUTDATED\] LDAP Authentication- and Authorizationbackend for Search Guard - Home · floragunncom/search-guard-authbackend-ldap Wiki

Kerberos/SPNEGO Authentication:

> **[Home · floragunncom/search-guard-auth-http-kerberos Wiki](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-auth-http-kerberos/wiki)**
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> \[OUTDATED\] Provide Kerberos authentication for Search Guard - Home · floragunncom/search-guard-auth-http-kerberos Wiki

Audit Log:

> **[Home · floragunncom/search-guard-module-auditlog Wiki](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-module-auditlog/wiki)**
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> \[OUTDATED\] Provide audit logging for Search Guard. Contribute to floragunncom/search-guard-module-auditlog development by creating an account on GitHub.

Document-/Fieldlevel Security:

> **[GitHub - floragunncom/search-guard-module-dlsfls: DLS/FLS Module for Search...](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-module-dlsfls)**
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> DLS/FLS Module for Search Guard 5. Contribute to floragunncom/search-guard-module-dlsfls development by creating an account on GitHub.

JWT (JSON Web Token) Authentication:

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**Author:** ![nils](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d6d6ee/32.png) [@nils](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/nils)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 2:51pm UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/search-guard-rc1-released-alongside-with-all-dual-licensed-modules/185/3 "2020-11-02T14:51:12Z")

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