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<p>Hey there,</p>
<p>First of all, I apologize if my question ought to be posted
elsewhere. In that case please tell me where.<br>
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<p>I just saw that Midpoint 4.8.1 was released 🎉<br>
However, reading the changelog left me a bit confused about why
the additional check to detect if a user is running in a
production-like environment was added and why the decision was
made to disable clustering in instances without a subscription?<br>
Adding this just in case: This mail is not supposed to be a rant
about the change being bad or anything, I just want to understand
the reasons behind it and what to expect in the future.</p>
<p>So my questions:</p>
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<li>Is there a specific reason why these changes were made? I can
understand that the generic repos were disabled since they are
supposed to be deprecated, but why was clustering disabled in a
non-subscribed instance?<br>
</li>
<li>I queried the blog, the wiki and the jira tickets but apart
from the release notes and the commit log, I could not find any
further information on that change, especially not on the wiki
pages that explain how to set up a HA instance of MidPoint.
Apart from asking in this mailing list, is there a better place?</li>
<li>Why was that change done inside a Maintenance release rather
than a minor/major release? This change is not backwards
compatible for non-subscribed instances.<br>
</li>
<li>Are there going to be more features that are disabled inside a
non-subscribed instance? Will there be something a "core"
midpoint that can be run in production even without a
subscription and additional features that require a
subscription?<br>
Will there be an extra subscription model for people that want
to use these features but don't want/need a support
subscription?<br>
If so, does this align well with the principles outlined in the
wiki Page on Openness and the page explaining the Dual
Licensing? <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://docs.evolveum.com/midpoint/introduction/openness/">https://docs.evolveum.com/midpoint/introduction/openness/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://docs.evolveum.com/community/dual-licensing/">https://docs.evolveum.com/community/dual-licensing/</a></li>
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<p>Best regards and stay awesome,<br>
Timo<br>
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