MidPoint 3.1 "Sinan"

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Release 3.1 is an eleventh midPoint release code-named Sinan. The 3.1 release brings new usability features and significantly improved user interface. It also improves performance, diagnostics and overall product quality.

Release date02 February 2015
Release type Production release
End of support02 February 2017
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Mimar Sinan (1489-1588) was the chief Ottoman architect and civil engineer. He was responsible for the construction of more than 300 structures ranging from simple roads to magnificent marvels of architecture. The list of his works is very long and it includes surprisingly high number of civic structures that provided benefit to the society: colleges, bath-houses, inns, public kitchens, bridges, store houses, granaries, schools, aqueducts and hospitals. Sinan remained in the post of chief architect for almost fifty years which made him one of the most productive and versatile architect in history.

Much alike many of Sinan's structures MidPoint version 3.1 brings stability, usability and other benefits to midPoint users. User interface improvements makes midPoint accessible to a broad user community. Diagnostics and stability improvements contribute to easy operation and maintenance of midPoint deployments. Similarly to Sinan himself MidPoint 3.1 is meant to be very productive and versatile. It can be deployed surprisingly quickly and supports wide variety of deployment types. MidPoint 3.1 is suitable for management of enterprise employee identities, customer identities, Internet identities or any kind of identities in almost any kind of environment.

Credits

Majority of the work on the Sinan release was done by the Evolveum team. However, this release would not be possible without the help of our partners, customers, contributors, friends and families. We would like to express a great gratitude to all the people that contributed to the midPoint project.

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MidPoint version 3.1 is named after Mimar Sinan, one of the greatest Turkish architects. By doing so we would like to express a special thanks to our Turkish partner Biznet for their contribution to the midPoint project and for their loyal support.

We would also like to thank:

  • Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information for their support in developing connectors for SAS, AIX and also supporting and testing other midPoint features. We would also like to thank our partner INFOkey for their great cooperation.

  • Deepak Natarajan from Axapoint for the help with testing midPoint and especially for a very valuable feedback and ideas.

  • The IT professionals from Union who helped to shape midPoint by their feedback and support.

  • Confluxsys for their valuable ideas and help with midPoint testing.

  • AMI Praha, PosAm and Datalan for their continuous support and cooperation.

  • Jason Everling for the real academic use cases testing and great feedback and improvement proposals.

  • Mauro Graziosi for his contribution of a spanish translation.

  • …​ and many others that we regrettably cannot mention yet.

Features

midPoint 3.1 provides following features:

Changes With Respect to Version 3.0

  • Resource wizard.

  • Improved role and organization user interface.

  • Improved entitlement GUI.

  • Notification support for roles and organizations.

  • GUI progress indicator for provisioning operations.

  • Support for account lock-out attributes. Also for lock-out attributes simulation.

  • Conditional roles and assignments/inducements.

  • Changes in assignment parameters are provisioned immediately, reconciliation is no longer needed.

  • OID-bound mode for attributes.

  • Multi-tenancy improvements in GUI.

  • Generic synchronization improvements in GUI.

  • Improved provisioning dependencies.

  • Support for iteration in inbound expressions (object template)

  • Significant performance improvement

    • Improved performance of organization structure ("org closure table").

    • Improved import and reconciliation performance (parallelization).

  • Polygon versions of LDAP, DBTable and CSVFile connectors (see this mailing list post)

  • Significantly improved paging support in LDAP connector

  • Support for case-insensitive attribute names.

  • Improved authorization and delegated administration support in GUI.

  • Support for "priority attributes" to work around some connector problems.

  • Improved reporting engine based on Jasper Reports.

  • Numerous user experience improvements.

Quality

Release 3.1 (Sinan) is intended for full production use in enterprise environments. All features are stable and well tested.

Platforms

MidPoint is known to work well in the following deployment environment. The following list is list of tested platforms, i.e. platforms that midPoint team or reliable partners personally tested this release. The version numbers in parentheses are the actual version numbers used for the tests. However it is very likely that midPoint will also work in similar environments. Also note that this list is not closed. MidPoint can be supported in almost any reasonably recent platform (please contact Evolveum for more details).

Java

  • OpenJDK 7 (1.7.0_65)

  • Sun/Oracle Java SE Runtime Environment 7 (1.7.0_45, 1.7.0_40, 1.7.0_67, 1.7.0_72)

  • Sun/Oracle Java SE Runtime Environment 8 (runtime only)

Please note that Java 6 environment is no longer supported.

Web Containers

  • Apache Tomcat 6 (6.0.32, 6.0.33, 6.0.36)

  • Apache Tomcat 7 (7.0.29, 7.0.30, 7.0.32, 7.0.47, 7.0.50)

  • Apache Tomcat 8 (8.0.14)

  • Sun/Oracle Glassfish 3 (3.1)

  • BEA/Oracle WebLogic (12c)

Databases

  • H2 (embedded, only recommended for demo deployments)

  • PostgreSQL (8.4.14, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3)

  • MySQL
    Supported MySQL version is 5.6.10 and above (with MySQL JDBC ConnectorJ 5.1.23 and above).
    MySQL in previous versions didn’t support dates/timestamps with more accurate than second fraction precision.

  • Oracle 11g (11.2.0.2.0)

  • Microsoft SQL Server (2008, 2008 R2, 2012)

Unsupported Platforms

Following list contains platforms that midPoint is known not to work due to various issues. As these platforms are obsolete and/or marginal we have no plans to support midPoint for these platforms.

  • Java 6 and older

  • Sun/Oracle GlassFish 2

Download and Install

Release Form Download Install Instructions

Binary

https://evolveum.com/downloads/midpoint/3.1/midpoint-3.1-dist.zip

Installing MidPoint 3.1

Source

Evolveum/midpoint repository at GitHub, tag v3.1

Building MidPoint From Source Code

Java API JavaDoc

https://evolveum.com/downloads/midpoint/3.1/midpoint-api-3.1-javadoc/

JAR

SchemaDoc

https://evolveum.com/downloads/midpoint/3.1/midpoint-3.1-schemadoc/

ZIP

Upgrade

Upgrade from midPoint 2.x

Upgrade from version 2.x is possible but it is not publicly supported. It requires several manual steps. Evolveum provides this upgrade as part of the subscription or professional services.

Upgrade from midPoint 3.0

Several steps need to be executed:

  1. Update database schema. MidPoint database schema was extended due to organization structure performance improvements (a.k.a. "org closure table"). Execute the following script:
    config/sql/midpoint/<db>/<db>-3.1-closure-upgrade.sql

  2. Update connector namespaces and versions. The default connectors that are bundled with midPoint were migrated from OpenICF to Evolveum Polygon project (see this mailing list post). Connector bundle names and types were changed to avoid confusion. Therefore the connector types and namespaces used in the resource definitions need to be changes according to the following table:

Old New

LDAP Connector Configuration Namespace

http://midpoint.evolveum.com/xml/ns/public/connector/icf-1/bundle/org.forgerock.openicf.connectors.ldap-connector/org.identityconnectors.ldap.LdapConnector

http://midpoint.evolveum.com/xml/ns/public/connector/icf-1/bundle/com.evolveum.polygon.connector-ldap/org.identityconnectors.ldap.LdapConnector

CSVFile Connector Configuration Namesapce

http://midpoint.evolveum.com/xml/ns/public/connector/icf-1/bundle/org.forgerock.openicf.connectors.csvfile-connector/org.forgerock.openicf.csvfile.CSVFileConnector

http://midpoint.evolveum.com/xml/ns/public/connector/icf-1/bundle/com.evolveum.polygon.connector-csvfile/com.evolveum.polygon.csvfile.CSVFileConnector

CSVFile Connector Type

org.forgerock.openicf.csvfile.CSVFileConnector

com.evolveum.polygon.csvfile.CSVFileConnector

DatabaseTable Connector Configuration Namesapce

http://midpoint.evolveum.com/xml/ns/public/connector/icf-1/bundle/org.forgerock.openicf.connectors.databasetable-connector/org.identityconnectors.databasetable.DatabaseTableConnector

http://midpoint.evolveum.com/xml/ns/public/connector/icf-1/bundle/com.evolveum.polygon.connector-databasetable/org.identityconnectors.databasetable.DatabaseTableConnector

Background and History

midPoint is roughly based on OpenIDM version 1. When compared to OpenIDM v1, midPoint code was made significantly "lighter" and provides much more sophisticated features. Although the architectural outline of OpenIDM v1 is still guiding the development of midPoint almost all the OpenIDM v1 code was rewritten. MidPoint is now based on relative changes and contains advanced identity management mechanisms such as advanced RBAC, provisioning consistency and other advanced IDM features. MidPoint development is independent for more than two years. The development pace is very rapid. Development team is small, flexible and very efficient. Contributions are welcome.

For the full project background see the midPoint History page.

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