The open-ils.auth service has a new API for requesting an authentication token. It performs the same steps as the open-ils.auth.authenticate.init and .complete APIs in a single call, using the bare password. No intermediate password hashing is required.

The paramaters are the same as the .complete call with a few modifications.

The following methods are used to mark patron contact fields as invalid by moving the invalid value to a standing penalty:

These methods now accept a fifth argument specifying the value of the contact field, e.g., a specific phone number or email address. If supplied, and if a specific patron ID (the first argument) is not supplied, all patrons with that specific contact value will have it marked invalid.