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WSO2 Governance Registry team is pleased to announce the release of WSO2 Governance Registry 5.4.0.!!

WSO2 Governance Registry provides end-to-end governance for enterprises. IT professionals can streamline application development, testing and deployment processes, as well as manage service lifecycles and assets using WSO2 Governance Registry. The community and social aspects of WSO2 Governance Registry will act as an enabler for collaboration between distributed teams, converting traditional human-centric tasks into key assets of the governance process. It also includes business runtime governance requirements through its interoperability with well-known external monitoring and reporting applications.

WSO2 Governance Registry allows you to

  • Store, manage and search any kind of enterprise asset, including services, APIs, policies, projects or applications. You can extend the predefined asset metadata or create your own
  • Ability to navigate through asset classifications and taxonomies.
  • Access and manage assets via a REST API, supporting the integration with enterprise initiative such as DevOps
  • Describe relationships between assets such as dependencies, usage or associations and perform impact analysis
  • Attach custom lifecycle to assets and engage custom actions when an asset transition from one state to the next
  • Secure the access to assets via a fine-grained permission model
  • Leverage social tools such as ratings and comments to enable better communication between asset providers and consumers
  • Notify users of any asset changes via email or a notification system of your choice
  • Integrate with mediation engines such as WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus or others via UDDI and REST for dynamic discovery of services and APIs endpoints

For more information on WSO2 Governance Registry and to download the product please visit http://wso2.com/products/governance-registry. Also, take a look at the online product documentation and quick start guide.

How to Run

WSO2 Governance Registry 5.4.0 includes following features, improvements and bug fixes.

Improvement

  • [REGISTRY-3107] - View "SEE MORE" option in search result page, if there are more results to show only
  • [REGISTRY-3904] - Include version in breadcrumb
  • [REGISTRY-3906] - Introduce an API delete executor for APIM integration.
  • [REGISTRY-3914] - Incorporate lifecycle Vote into a publisher.

Bug Fixes

  • [REGISTRY-3868] - [Publisher] OR and AND search is not working in landing page.
  • [REGISTRY-3869] - Publisher Association API doesn't return assets when search query params are not passed
  • [REGISTRY-3870] - WSDL doesn't show associated schemas in store UI
  • [REGISTRY-3871] - Ability to show/hide certain dependency types in dependency/impact analysis graph
  • [REGISTRY-3877] - The issuer is hard coded in store publisher in acs.jag's
  • [REGISTRY-3880] - Throwing solr exception in when we log into publisher with a role that has a special character
  • [REGISTRY-3883] - Customizing the storage path for endpoints artifacts an error occurs when a SOAP Service is created manually
  • [REGISTRY-3889] - Governance REST API doesn't return LC actions
  • [REGISTRY-3894] - Resource Not Found error is thrown for tenant anon users.
  • [REGISTRY-3909] - endpoints activate and deactivate apis should be PUT not POST in Gov REST API
  • [REGISTRY-3910] - Can not add a new RXT in the latest greg build
  • [REGISTRY-3913] - When updating custom artifact, it loss associated connections
  • [REGISTRY-3916] - WSDL Visualization doesn't work
  • [REGISTRY-3917] - Store User Registration is not working
  • [REGISTRY-3918] - UI alert are displaying with HTML content.
  • [REGISTRY-3920] - can not update the custom artifact name

Key Features of WSO2 Governance Registry

SOA Governance

  • Strong searching/filtering capabilities using taxonomy support
  • Multiple categorization support for assets.
  • Enhanced searching and filtering capabilities (with "AND" "OR" operations)
  • WSDL visualization in Governance Center
  • Per asset permission management in Governance Center.
  • Enhanced Governance Rest API.
  • Flexible service registry for any type of services including REST services, JSON services, SOAP services and Thrift services
  • Govern all aspects of services including service descriptions, service consumption, service usage, service discovery, service lifecycle management and service policies
  • Service and application discovery for third-party servers
  • Dependency management and impact analysis
  • 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
  • Policy management for both design-time and run-time
  • Comprehensive lifecycle management
  • Act as a policy store for any Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) including WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus and WSO2 Application Server
  • User notification and alert management supported with the ability to use email templates
  • Role based authentication and authorization leveraging information stored in common user repositories such as
    LDAP or MS Active Directory
  • Auditing, logging and reporting

Configuration Governance

  • Govern any kind of server/system configuration
  • Version and revision management with checkpointing & rollback
  • Full lifecycle management spanning across development, testing, staging and production environments
  • Integrates to any 3rd party product via command-line clients
  • Deeply integrated to all WSO2 Carbon middleware products

Development Process Governance

  • Govern all aspects of the develop-build-test-stage-production process
  • Integration with source code control systems such as SVN
  • Integration with 3rd party continuous integration (CI) systems such as Jenkins or Atlassian Bamboo
  • Integration with popular build systems such as Maven or Ant
  • Comprehensive end-to-end application lifecycle management and governance

Framework for Governing Anything

  • Define any type of governance asset
  • Customizable repository extension points, executable via manual intervention (aspects) and by the framework (handlers) along with relevant evaluation criteria (filters)
  • Integrated with 3rd party products and external systems
  • Repository APIs: JCR
  • Registry APIs: REST, JAXR
  • Governance APIs: REST, Atom/AtomPP, SOAP
  • Centrally integrated with the latest version of WSO2 Enterprise Store 2.0 and WSO2 API Manager
  • Create and manage registry resources, APIs and Swagger instances with the newly introduced Governance Centre UI
  • 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
  • Store search text box maintain a list of last five searches performed by the logged in user.

Lifecycle Management

  • Customizable lifecycle management with built-in best practices
  • Content introspection, validation and verification
  • Human interactions, notifications and checklists
  • Extensible with SCXML, WS-BPEL and Java
  • Monitor time duration of artifacts in specific lifecycle states
  • Ability to set specific lifecycle state checkpoints
  • Manage associations between assets as well as asset lifecycles
  • Set up notifications for subscribed assets at asset lifecycle state changes and for updates to assets

Design-time Governance

  • Discovery and managed reuse of schemas and other shared metadata supporting contract-first service design
  • Lifecycle management and approval for metadata
  • IDE integration with WSO2 Developer Studio, Eclipse plugin, Microsoft Visual Studio and WebDAV
  • Standards enforcement including all WS-I profiles
  • Built-in best practices for common metadata types

Run-Time Governance

  • Acts as Policy Store for any type of runtime policies including security policies, API policies, service contracts, SLAs and XACML authorization policies
  • Integrates with WSO2 Business Activity Monitor to provide analytics, monitoring and business intelligence including custom KPIs
  • Service performance metrics management

Change Management

  • Role based separation of actions
  • Approval processes
  • Ability schedule tasks for future execution

Registry & Repository for Anything

  • Store any type of data or metadata as resources including contracts, models, workflows, WSDLs, Word documents, server configurations and more
  • Revisions, versions with checkpointing and rollback for any resource or resource collections
  • Full-text search, metadata search, tagging
  • Register externally stored resources including via Microsoft Sharepoint
  • Define behaviors that trigger automatically based on resource type
  • 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

Social Collaboration for Enterprise Governance

  • Empower the social enterprise
  • Human interaction with governance via tasks
  • Comments, ratings and tags on any type of resource or artifact

Lightweight, Developer Friendly and Easy to Deploy

  • Server customization via feature provisioning of any WSO2 middleware capability
  • Deployable standalone or as federated set of servers
  • Choice of deployment to on-premise servers, private cloud, or managed cloud, without configuration changes
  • Integrated with SVN, Maven, Ant and other standard tools for development & deployment
  • Integrated to WSO2 Developer Studio, Eclipse-based IDE for all WSO2 products

Manage & Monitor

  • Comprehensive management & monitoring Web console with enterprise-level security
  • Built-in collection and monitoring of standard access and performance statistic
  • JMX MBeans for key metrics monitoring and management
  • Integrates with WSO2 Business Activity Monitor for operational audit and KPI monitoring and management
  • Flexible logging support with integration to enterprise logging systems
  • Centralized configuration management across different environments with lifecycles and versioning

Known Issues

All the open issues pertaining to WSO2 Governance Registry are reported at the following location:

Known Issues

How You Can Contribute

Mailing Lists

Join our mailing list and correspond with the developers directly.

Developer List : [email protected] | Subscribe | Mail Archive

Reporting Issues

We encourage you to report issues, documentation faults and feature requests regarding WSO2 Governance Registry through the public JIRA. You can use the Carbon JIRA to report any issues related to the Carbon base framework or associated Carbon components.

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

To learn more about WSO2 Governance Registry and WSO2 support offerings please visit http://wso2.com/products/governance-registry/.

-- The WSO2 Governance Registry Team --