2023-11-15

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Summary of development activities

Summary of ongoing development activities.

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X-Road version 7.4.0

X-Road version 7.4.0 will be released in December 2023. What are the biggest changes in the upcoming release?

• Support for distributing global configuration over HTTPS.

• Rotate Central Server sign keys without sending a new configuration anchor.

• Configure a minimum Security Server version that's required to communicate with the Security Server.

• Support to map an LDAP group to different X-Road groups on the Security Server.

• Replace Akka with gRPC.

• Upgrade from Vue 2 to Vue 3.

• Upgrade from Spring Boot 2 to Spring Boot 3.

• Upgrade from Java 11 to Java 17.

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Setting up a development environment in Docker with hurl

We have created two small hurl scripts that can be used to automatically set up a small development environment that runs on Docker containers with Docker Compose.

setup.hurl does the following:

• Sets up and configures a Central Server and test CA

• Sets up and configures a management Security Server

• Sets up and configures a client Security Server

• Sets up an instance of the example adapter

• Configures and registers a TestService subsystem on the management Security Server with access allowed for the TestClient subsystem. The TestService has the example adapter SOAP service configured for it.

• Configures and registers a TestClient subsystem on the client Security Server

• Queries the getRandom service in the example adapter to verify that the communication works

single-ss.hurl does the following:

• (assumes that a Central Server and test CA have been configured by setup.hurl)

• Sets up and configures a Security Server container based on input parameters that is registered on the instance set up with the previous script

NB! This script is only intended for setting up a quick test environment and should not be used for production purposes. The script also makes quite a few assumptions regarding the setup. The minimum supported software versions are 7.3.0 for the Central Server and 6.24.0 on the Security Server.

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Open topics

Discussion on open topics.

Next meetings

• Meeting 18, December 13 2023 => December 4 2023, 15:00-16:00 (EET, UTC +2)

• Meeting 19, January 17 2024, 15:00-16:00 (EET, UTC +2)

• Meeting 20, February 14 2024, 15:00-16:00 (EET, UTC +2)