[midPoint] Blog: MidPoint 4.0 “Gutenberg”

[Radovan Semancik]

Dear midPoint community,

MidPoint 4.0 was released 
<https://wiki.evolveum.com/display/midPoint/Release+4.0>. Code-named 
Gutenberg, it is twenty-eighth midPoint release. MidPoint 4.0 is a major 
milestone in midPoint development. Similarly to the Gutenberg’s printing 
system, midPoint 4.0 provides a set of elements whose, when combined 
together, can create revolutionary solutions. Gutenberg was a 
long-waited release. It took some time to finish all the changes that we 
had to do. But it is finally here. And there is a lot to talk about.

MidPoint 4.0 is the first release with a consistent support for 
archetypes <https://wiki.evolveum.com/display/midPoint/Archetypes>. 
Those are not just pretty icons for objects. Archetypes can be used to 
organize the objects and influence their behavior, especially when 
combined with collections and views 
<https://wiki.evolveum.com/display/midPoint/Object+Collections+and+Views>. 
This is the beginning of a whole new episode of customized midPoint 
deployments.

MidPoint now supports multiple equivalent accounts, which was a feature 
requested by many midPoint users. There is also a large number of 
smaller improvement and enhancements to make midPoint more usable in 
practical deployments. A lot of effort was focused on midPoint 
scalability and performance. MidPoint security was also improved as 
midPoint underwent a EU bug bounty program. There is a number of 
exciting experimental features that will be productized in future 
midPoint releases.

There was also a lot of planned internal changes during midPoint 4.0 
development. MidPoint has dropped a lot of dead weight. MidPoint was 
using policy-based approvals 
<https://evolveum.com/policy-based-approvals-in-midpoint-4-0/> for some 
time already, therefore we have jettisoned the surplus workflow engine 
that slowed us down. User interface code was cleaned up. Some ancient 
schema elements had to go as well, making midPoint schema cleaner and 
more consistent. Those changes had one common goal. As midPoint 4.0 is a 
long-term support (LTS) 
<https://wiki.evolveum.com/display/midPoint/Long-Term+Support> release, 
we need to maintain it for a long time.

Even though it may not be obvious at a first sight, Gutenberg is really 
a revolutionary release. Features and improvements that were planned for 
a long time were finally done. All the new features clicked together. 
MidPoint 4.0 can be used to create IDM deployments that were never seen 
before. And all that with a long support program. This release is 
undoubtedly a major milestone for entire midPoint community.

(Reposted from Evolveum blog <https://evolveum.com/midpoint-4-0-gutenberg/>)


-- 
Radovan Semancik
Software Architect
evolveum.com

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