We interrupt your usual programming to bring you this breaking news about CVE-2021-44228, a.k.a “Log4Shell” vulnerability.
However, there is not much to talk about. MidPoint is not vulnerable to this attack, as midPoint is not using the Log4j logging implementation.
Despite that, there are some thoughts that we would like to share concerning this dangerous and far-reaching vulnerability. […]
Back in early 2010s we had a product, we had a brand new company and we were dressed for success. Yet, the success was not exactly waiting for us in the early years. We are quite successful now, but it was harder and it took longer than we have originally anticipated. […]
We were starting up a new company in 2011. We had with very little money and limited business experience. However, we had a good team, a vision and a code. The experts would say that starting up a company based on engineering, with no sales, no marketing and no rich investors equals a suicide. Yet, a decade later, we are still here, more successful than ever. We have built up a sustainable business based on open source. […]
Early summer 2011, ten years ago. We started midPoint project. We were preparing to set up a company to provide funding for midPoint development. We got the name, but there is much more than just a name needed to establish a company. […]
Naming things is hard. It is even harder to find good name for a company, especially if a company is built to last. Such as Evolveum. So, how did our company got its name? This is a story of the name, going back a decade, to early 2011. […]
There are some questions asked by midPoint community, questions that go back to the early days of the project. MidPoint is ten years old, therefore this is appropriate time to have a look back. So, why is midPoint called “midPoint”? […]
MidPoint 1.7 “Prometheus” was released exactly ten years ago. It was the very first midPoint release, yet the code had an interesting history behind it. This is a story of the first release, going back a decade. […]
MidPoint project started exactly 10 years ago. Ten years! Let’s get back in time to that moment of inception. This is how the story of midPoint began.
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MidPoint Studio 4.3 has been released. It is the first officially-supported version of MidPoint Studio, an integrated development environment (IDE) for MidPoint. […]
We are getting really close to midPoint 4.3 “Faraday” release, which also marks start of development of midPoint 4.4 LTS “Tesla” release. This is perhaps the right time to talk about our plans, as there are several important changes in both 4.3 and 4.4. […]