COmanage News and Announcements

[Benn Oshrin <>]

The COmanage Project is pleased to announce the next Milestone Release 
of Registry PE: v5.0.0 MR 12. This release includes:

- Message Templates
- Notifications
- Oracle SqlServers (experimental)
- SmtpServers
- Lots of frontend improvements
- Improvements to handling of status during Pipelines
- Various bug fixes, especially for Transmogrification
- Container updates

While we have been creating Milestone Releases for some time, we have 
reached the point where we are seeking additional early testers, and to 
facilitate that process we will begin treating the Milestone Release 
process similarly to the regular product release processes. That said, 
Registry PE is still in an early access phase, and we do not yet 
recommend it for production deployments.

We are specifically seeking volunteers to assist with testing 
Transmogrification, the process of converting v4 datasets to PE. If you 
have an existing Registry v4 dataset and are interested in helping out, 
please join tomorrow’s Open Office Hours or let us know via Slack or 
email. Or just dive in and let us know how it goes.

For additional information about Registry PE, including installation 
instructions, see

https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/COmanage/COmanage+Registry+PE+Technical+Manual

and for Transmogrification specifically, see

https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/COmanage/Registry+Transmogrification

Note that container support for PE is currently limited. You should be 
comfortable building your own containers, or you can install directly on 
a VM or server without using containers.

Funding for MR 12 has been provided by

The CILogon Project and the University of Illinois
SCG Collaboration Group
Southern Methodist University
And an additional funder (pending disclosure approval)