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Dear midPoint community,<br>
<p>New year is here and with it there is a new energy and new plans.
There is a lot that we plan for 2020. This year is going to be
exciting.</p>
<p>Fist and foremost there is the usual routine of midPoint
development and releases. As usual, two feature releases of
midPoint are planned for this year. MidPoint 4.1 is planned to be
released in spring and midPoint 4.2 is planned for autumn. We have
a lot of requests for development of midPoint functionality,
therefore the <a
href="https://wiki.evolveum.com/display/midPoint/Roadmap">roadmap</a>
for both releases is filling up already. Also, the 4.0.2
maintenance release is about to happen quite soon. This is
fulfillment of our commitment for midPoint 4.0 <a
href="https://wiki.evolveum.com/display/midPoint/Long-Term+Support">long-term
support</a>.</p>
<p>But 2020 will not be just about the routine. Quite the contrary.
We will need to make a lot of important design decisions quite
early this year. We have to decide the future of midPoint
repository, reporting, IDE and other components. Fortunately, you
have <a
href="https://wiki.evolveum.com/display/midPoint/MidPoint+2019+Survey+Results#MidPoint2019SurveyResults-ConnectorsandConnIdFramework">told
us</a> what you would like to see in midPoint. And we will
listen.</p>
<p>The next bit of news will probably cheer up the whole midPoint
community. There will be a new release of <a
href="https://evolveum.com/midpoint/midpoint-guide-about-practical-identity-management/">midPoint
book</a>. There are four new chapters and the book is completely
reviewed and updated for midPoint 4.0. This is our big gift to
midPoint community. And it is coming very soon.</p>
<p>The exciting news is that Evolveum is growing. There are new
people in our team, including two senior developers. We hope that
this is going to help satisfy all the development requests that we
are getting from our subscribers.</p>
<p>There are also events planned for 2020. The year will start with
two significant events: <a
href="https://evolveum.com/midpoint-on-tiime-2019-reserve-the-dates/">TIIME
in Vienna</a> and RSA Conference in San Francisco. We will be
there. While the RSA conference is obviously the glamorous one, it
is the <a href="https://tiimeworkshop.eu/">TIIME un-conference</a>
that may be quite important for midPoint community. We will be
conducting a full day midPoint event in Vienna this year. This is
going to be a chance to discuss the past, present and especially
the future of midPoint.</p>
<p>Overall, we also plan improvements to our overall communication
and to the way how we conduct our business. We will try to share
more information with midPoint community, we would try to keep you
updated about our plans and ambitions. Continuous streamlining of
our business model and practices will go on this year. As we are
Evolveum, we try to stay true to our name and continually evolve
and improve whatever we do – whether it is technology, business or
our general operations. And we hope that this year will be a year
of great achievements both for us and also for the entire midPoint
community.</p>
<p>(Reposted from <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://evolveum.com/happy-new-year-2020/">Evolveum blog)</a><br>
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Radovan Semancik
Software Architect
evolveum.com
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