WSO2 Governance Registry 5.0.0 Release Notes

04 September 2015

The WSO2 Governance Registry team is pleased to announce the 5.0.0 release of the WSO2 Governance Registry. WSO2 Governance Registry is a user-friendly, but comprehensive enterprise governance, registry and repository solution available under the Apache Software License v2.0. WSO2 Governance Registry is pre-loaded with best practices to help users with governance adoption. WSO2 Governance Registry is fully integrated to the WSO2 Carbon platform with the 5.0.0 release. This allows WSO2 Governance Registry users to benefit from the flexibility and extensibility provided by the Carbon platform. WSO2 Governance Registry can be either used as a complete product or used in combination with components of other WSO2 products. User specific components, extensions or UIs to the WSO2 Governance Registry can be easily added as Carbon components.

We are striving for a simple and happy first time user experience as well as a satisfying experienced user experience with this release.

New Features in This Release

  • Create and manage registry resources, APIs and Swagger instances with the newly introduced Governance Centre UI
  • Installation provision for API-M, enabling API publisher and store functionalities, including API creation, publishing, subscription, token generation and regeneration within WSO2 Governance Registry
  • Centrally integrated with the latest version of WSO2 Enterprise Store 2.0
  • Out of the Box APIM Manager integration support
  • Graphical differentiation view to compare two inter-related assets
  • New asset association UIs and extension point to perform add/remove associations based activities
  • Improved extension points to write tasks based on registry API and governance API
  • New Governance REST API
  • Monitor time duration of artifacts in specific lifecycle states
  • Ability to set specific lifecycle state checkpoints
  • Service and application discovery for third-party servers
  • Graphical visualization (dependency graphs) of artifacts with associated resources and dependent artifacts enabling users to perform impact analysis when changes are made to an artifact
  • Out of the box versioning support for WSDL, WADL and XSD
  • Out of the box support for Swagger imports, with facility to upload via a file or import using a link
  • Ability to specify custom storage paths for any RXT
  • Improved notifications to support clustered deployments and tenants
  • Multiple life-cycle associations for artifacts
  • Improvement in performance by solr based advance search
  • New SOAP and REST service artifacts to improve service categorization

Issues Fixed in This Release

WSO2 Governance Registry Issue Tracker

Features of WSO2 Governance Registry

  • Storing and managing arbitrary resources and collections
  • Tagging, commenting and rating
  • Managing users and roles
  • Authentication and authorization on all resources and actions
  • Resource / collection versioning and rollback
  • Advanced search capabilities - tags, users, etc.
  • Built in media type support for common types (WSDL, XSD)
  • Built in support for known repository types
  • Dependency management - maintain relationships between dependent resources for impact analysis
  • Pluggable media type handlers for handling custom media types
  • Pluggable custom UIs for resource types
  • Activity log and monitoring with filtering support for the activity logs
  • Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) support for reading/writing the data store remotely
  • Subscribe to resources, collections, comments, tags, etc. with any standard feed reader(Bloglines, Google Reader, etc)
  • Intuitive User Interface with an Ajax-based Web 2.0 interface
  • Internationalization
  • Support for deploying back end and front end (UI) in separate servers
  • WSDL Tool to import service information from a given WSDL, and WSDL custom-view
  • WSO2 Governance Registry federation - mounting a remote WSO2 Governance Registry to a specified location
  • Based on the OSGi based WSO2 Carbon architecture: this is a unification of all Java based products from WSO2
  • Advanced service governance through, discovery, impact analysis, versioning and automatically extraction of service meta data
  • Dashboard support with gadgets with design-time and run-time governance information
  • Advanced Life cycle management with checklists, and scripting support
  • Validation policies. e.g. WSDL Validation, WS-I Validation and Schema Validation
  • Eventing and notifications
  • Supports remote links, symbolic links for resources
  • Attach remote WSO2 Governance Registry instances, providing one interface for many WSO2 Governance Registry instances
  • Support for processing custom URL patterns via pluggable URL handlers
  • Support for custom query languages via pluggable query processors
  • Import/export resources and collections
  • Support for WebSphere, WebLogic, and JBoss
  • Provisioning and feature management support for WSO2 Carbon family of products
  • Support for clustering
  • Check-in/Checkout tool
  • Gadgets for impact analysis on services and registry resources
  • Dynamic Handler configuration, and simulation
  • Tree-based Resource view
  • API to govern SOA artifacts
  • Complete Web Services API for Registry
  • WS-Discovery support
  • Platform, and Group/Cluster based deployment model, with support for adding remote mounts
  • Support for multiple server instances
  • E-mail verification for subscriptions
  • Hierarchical permission model with granular and extensible permissions
  • Governance Archive for uploading WSDLs and Schemas with imports
  • Rich text editor for editing text resources
  • XML editor for editing handler, lifecycle and service UI configurations
  • Support for deploying Carbon Applications (C-App)
  • Content Search
  • WebDAV support
  • Open-Social API
  • JCR API
  • UDDIv3 support
  • Cache-backed Registry
  • Resource Locking/Retention
  • Configurable Governance Artifacts
  • Conflict Resolution for Concurrent Updates
  • Adding Operators to Advanced Search API (Negation and Range Queries for Property Values)
  • UUID Support at Resource Level
  • Hierarchical Subscriptions for Collections
  • Onetime Email Verification for Subscriptions
  • URL Referenced Assets
  • API Assets
  • Worklist Notification Bar
  • Task Scheduling for Registry
  • Support for Source Configuration Management(SCM)
  • Support for Java Management Extensions(JMX)
  • XPath Query Support for Search
  • Lifecycle Audit
  • Invocation Statistics API
  • WS API for Governance Artifacts(CRUD Operation Support)
  • Adding Executor for Services to Publish as APIs

Project Resources

Installation and Running

  1. Extract the downloaded zip file
  2. Run the wso2server.sh or wso2server.bat file in the /bin directory
  3. Once the server starts, point your Web browser to https://localhost:9443/carbon/
  4. For more information, see the Installation Guide:
    Locally : INSTALL.txt
    On the web : http://docs.wso2.org/wiki/display/Governance500/Installation

Known Issues

WSO2 Governance Registry Issue Tracker

Reporting Problems

Issues can be reported using the public JIRA available at https://wso2.org/jira/browse/REGISTRY

Contact us

WSO2 Governance Registry developers can be contacted via the mailing lists:
For Users: user@wso2.org
For Developers: dev@wso2.org

Alternatively, questions can also be raised in the WSO2 Governance Registry forum:
Forum: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/wso2

Support

We are committed to ensuring that your enterprise middleware deployment is completely supported from evaluation to production. Our unique approach ensures that all support leverages our open development methodology and is provided by the very same engineers who build the technology.

For more details and to take advantage of this unique opportunity please visit http://wso2.com/support/

For more information about WSO2 Governance Registry please see http://wso2.com/products/governance-registry visit the WSO2 Oxygen Tank developer portal for additional resources.

Thank you for your interest in WSO2 Governance Registry

-The WSO2 Governance Registry Development Team