tl;dr: We’d like to drop JDK 11, preferably in our next feature release (midPoint 4.6). Current LTS (4.4.x) will not be affected. If you think it is not a good idea, let us know why. And now the whole story: It feels just like yesterday when we were stuck with JDK 8, but since then, Read more about Time to Let JDK 11 Go… Eventually[…]
For many versions, it has been possible to deploy midPoint as a standalone application. After all, this is the preferred way how to do it. Simply run the WAR, using one of the provided scripts or as a service. There was another way – the legacy way – how to do it. You could take Read more about Replacing WAR With JAR[…]
As the creator and maintainer of midPoint, the leading open-source identity governance, and administration platform, Evolveum has felt close to the higher education vertical since its beginning. It’s not only midPoint’s feature set, a considerable amount of connectors, and tailor-made subscription models that meet the higher education organizations’ needs. It’s also the approach aimed at Read more about Internet2 Membership and InCommon Catalysts Participation Propels Evolveum’s Engagement with Higher Education Community[…]
We are currently working on improvements to midPoint user experience, and we are planning even more of them in the future. However, to make good user experience improvements, we need to know how midPoint is used. MidPoint is a comprehensive open source platform, it can be used in a myriad of different ways and configurations. Read more about MidPoint Basic Use Survey[…]
The midPoint book Practical Identity Management with MidPoint was just updated. It has been updated to match with the midPoint 4.4 LTS release. There is also a comprehensive glossary of IAM terms. All the text, examples and pictures in the book were reviewed and updated to match midPoint 4.4. There have been significant improvements in Read more about MidPoint Book 2.2[…]
We interrupt your usual programming (again) to bring you this breaking news (again) about a dangerous and far-reaching vulnerability. This time it is CVE-2022-22965, a.k.a. “Spring4Shell”, a zero-day remote code execution vulnerability in Spring framework. Similarly to Log4Shell, midPoint is not vulnerable to Spring4Shell attack. However, there are some actions that you may need or want to take. […]
Based on the community’s request, we’ve asked higher education institutions about their midPoint usage. Learn about the interesting information we have managed to collect or participate in the survey yourself, as it is still active.
From version 4.4 midPoint supports only new Native Reports. In the webinar, we talked about two kinds of Native reports, the collection and dashboard reports. Afterwards, we saw basic configuration attributes for new reports like query, columns, parameters and subreport. We looked at what we can do with new Native reports. The creating of new Read more about Native Reports Webinar Summary[…]
MidPoint 4.4 called Tesla has been released in late November. Tesla includes a lot of different improvements, mainly regarding scalability, such as the new repository implementation or tasks improvements. During the Tesla development, we also invested time to re-design the graphical user interface. We wanted to bring better UX and more customization options. During the Read more about Customizing GUI Webinar Summary[…]
By the end of November we have released midPoint 4.4 “Tesla”. This release arrives with significant performance and scalability improvements, among other interesting things. In the Tasks webinar, we talked about new activity-based conceptual model for tasks and described the simplified task definition language. Afterwards, we went on to show the improvements (mainly in the area Read more about Tasks In MidPoint 4.4 Webinar Summary[…]