2023-03-15

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Summary of development activities

Summary of ongoing development activities.

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Prioritization changes to X-Road backlog

Change 1

In February, the Working Group decided to replace Akka with gRPC in version 7.4.0 (Q4 / 2023). Originally, replacing Akka with another technology was scheduled for 2025. Since replacing Akka was moved from 2025 to 2023, it means that some of the roadmap item(s) originally scheduled for this year must be postponed.

In March, the Working Group approved the following changes to the X-Road backlog:

• Replace Akka with another technology (gRPC): 2025 → 2023

• Redesign signer to improve performance (XRDDEV-57): 2023 → 2025

Change 2

Support for automated certificate management through ACME was orginally scheduled for 2024.

In March, the Working Group approved the following changes to the X-Road backlog:

• Support for automated certificate management through ACME (XRDDEV-1520): 2024 → 2023

• Automatic configuration of Security Server IP ACL (XRDDEV-823): 2023 → 2024

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X-Road Metrics and Analytics Platform

More information about X-Road reporting and analytics platform is available here.

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Open topics

• Starting from March, NIIS begins to publish an updated version of the Sidecar image on a monthly basis. The image is published on the last working day of the month.

• X-Road Metrics version 1.1.0 was released on March 7 and version 1.1.1 was released on March 10.

• NIIS has kicked off a new research project with the University of Helsinki. The project will be completed by the end of 2023. The purpose of the research project is to investigate and advance the following research themes:

  • X-Road software development process environmental impacts evaluation and improvement opportunities discovery.

  • X-Road environmental handprint evaluation.

  • X-Road carbon footprint measurement in actual operative environments comparing to the X-Road Emissions Calculator estimations.

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