<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Dear midPoint community,</div><div><br></div><div>Evolveum team is proud to announce maintenance releases of midPoint, namely 4.4.6 and 4.7.2 and first release candidate of midPoint 4.8.</div><div>In addition to many stabilization fixes, those releases contain fixes for security issues and also improved implementation for Ninja upgrade tool. </div><div>Complete release notes regarding changes made in those releases might be found at:</div><ul><li><a data-mce-href="https://docs.evolveum.com/midpoint/release/4.4.6/" href="https://docs.evolveum.com/midpoint/release/4.4.6/">midPoint 4.4.6</a> </li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a data-mce-href="https://docs.evolveum.com/midpoint/release/4.7.2/" href="https://docs.evolveum.com/midpoint/release/4.7.2/">midPoint 4.7.2</a> </span><br></li></ul><div><br></div><div>We would like to point out the <a data-mce-href="https://docs.evolveum.com/midpoint/reference/deployment/ninja/" href="https://docs.evolveum.com/midpoint/reference/deployment/ninja/">Ninja</a> improvements, which we believe would help you with data migration and upgrade process while upgrading to prepared LTS version 4.8.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Moreover, midPoint 4.8-RC1 has been released as well. For more information about the LTS version 4.8 that is currently being developed, please read<span style="caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;" data-mce-style="caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;"> the <a data-mce-href="https://docs.evolveum.com/midpoint/release/4.8/" href="https://docs.evolveum.com/midpoint/release/4.8/">release notes</a>.</span><div style="clear: both;" data-mce-style="clear: both;"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div></div><div>We believe, the release candidate together with Ninja improvements released with midPoint 4.4.6 and 4.7.2 are prepared for final testing. </div><div>To ensure, midPoint 4.8 would be stable and ready to use, we would like to ask you, our dear community, to help us with testing of <a data-mce-href="https://download.evolveum.com/midpoint/4.8-RC1/midpoint-4.8-RC1-dist.zip" href="https://download.evolveum.com/midpoint/4.8-RC1/midpoint-4.8-RC1-dist.zip">4.8-RC1</a>.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>To ease the upgrade process, we also prepared tutorial about <a data-mce-href="https://guide.priv.evolveum.com/teams/devel/ninja/upgrade-with-ninja/" href="https://guide.priv.evolveum.com/teams/devel/ninja/upgrade-with-ninja/">Upgrade with Ninja</a> which might be handy. </div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Ninja is a part of midPoint distribution, therefore according to the version from which you are going to upgrade, you can download the latest releases:</div><div>- <a data-mce-href="https://evolveum.com/download/4-7-2-johnson-update-2/" href="https://evolveum.com/download/4-7-2-johnson-update-2/">midPoint 4.7.2 version</a></div><div>- <a data-mce-href="https://evolveum.com/download/4-4-6-tesla-update-6/" href="https://evolveum.com/download/4-4-6-tesla-update-6/">midPoint 4.4.6 version</a></div><div><br></div><div>In case you use Docker, you can visit <a data-mce-href="https://hub.docker.com/r/evolveum/midpoint/tags" href="https://hub.docker.com/r/evolveum/midpoint/tags">docker hub</a> for the complete list of available versions.</div><div><br></div><div>Should you encounter any bug, please, let us know by creating a bug report in <a data-mce-href="https://jira.evolveum.com/projects/MID" href="https://jira.evolveum.com/projects/MID">Jira</a>. </div><div>While creating a bug report, please, make sure all the important information is filled and nothing is missing. </div><div>Read more about <a data-mce-href="https://docs.evolveum.com/midpoint/reference/diag/creating-a-bug-report/" href="https://docs.evolveum.com/midpoint/reference/diag/creating-a-bug-report/">how to create a bug report</a> if you have any doubts.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>We would like to express a special thanks for all midPoint subscribers, partners, supporters and especially contributors.</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Katarina Bolemant</div><div>Development Team Leader</div><div>evolveum.com</div></div></body></html>