2022-08-10

In June, the X-Road Working Group decided on some changes to the X-Road development roadmap. According to the previous plans, the new Central Server was going to be included in version 7.2.0 (Q4 / 2022). Unfortunately, the release of the new Central Server had to be postponed to version 7.3.0 (Q2 / 2023). Therefore, the scope for versions 7.2.0 and 7.3.0 was updated.

Summary of changes included in version 7.2.0 (Q4 / 2022):

• Support for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

  • Central Server, Security Server and Configuration Proxy can be migrated from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to the latest Ubuntu 22.04 LTS version.

  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS support includes installation packages, and instructions for fresh install and migration from Ubuntu 20.

• Remove support for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

  • Ubuntu 18.04 versions of previous releases (v7.0, v7.1) are supported until the end of the release's official support period.

• Minor enhancements and bug fixes based on user feedback.

Summary of changes included in version 7.3.0 (Q2 / 2023):

• New user interface provides improved user experience (UX) for Central Server administrators.

• Common maintenance and configuration tasks can be automated using the Central Server administrator API.

• Improved HA support for Central Server.

NIIS Confluence and JIRA have been migrated to a new platfrom on Atlassian cloud.

From now on, the X-Road backlog is publicly accessible and browsing the backlog items doesn't require login anymore. However, logged in users are able to access the X-Road sprint board and see the real-time sprint status. Also, the same applies to the backlogs of X-Road extensions.

Because of the migration, the URLs of all the workspaces and projects have changed. The new URLs are:

• X-Road Backlog
  • https://nordic-institute.atlassian.net/browse/XRDDEV
• X-Road Knowledge Base
  • https://nordic-institute.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/XRDKB/overview
• X-Road Service Desk
  
  • https://nordic-institute.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/4
• X-Road Community Expert Group
  • https://nordic-institute.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/XRDCEG/overview
• MISP2 backlog
  • https://nordic-institute.atlassian.net/browse/MISPDEV
• X-Road Metrics backlog
  • https://nordic-institute.atlassian.net/browse/OPMONDEV
• Security Server Toolkit backlog
  • https://nordic-institute.atlassian.net/browse/SSTOOLKIT

The old URLs continue to work for some time, but the content of the old sites is no longer maintained.

Unfortunately, the user accounts to access the previous platform (https://jira.niis.org) don't work on the new platform anymore. Therefore, a new user account must be created and access to the X-Road Backlog / Service Desk must be requested in order to access information that requires login. Please use the link below to sign up for an account:

https://id.atlassian.com/signup

Please note that approving access requests typically requires 1-2 business days.

MISP2 has been migrated from 3 separate repositories to using one mono repository to host all the required modules. The new repository can be found at https://github.com/nordic-institute/misp2

The repository currently contains the source code for the unreleased version 2.7.0, which on a high level contains the following changes:

• Updated project structure and folder names to better match the setup we use for the X-Road core and support the new mono repository approach
• Updated Orbeon to Orbeon Forms 2020.1.2 (March 2021), which is the last version to support JAVA 8
• Removed the pre-compiled Orbeon war and updated the pipeline to build Orbeon from a git submodule
• Removed the pre-compiled Orbeon filter jar file from web-app, also built from the Orbeon submodule
• Migrated existing ant (Orbeon) and Maven (web-app) builds to Gradle and added a new root build to manage them
• Created a docker compose based development environment setup
• Fixed existing integration tests and added support for using dockerised webdriver in Selenium

The old repositories have been archived, but are still available in our GitHub account.

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