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NEWSLETTER

ISSUE #33 | June 4, 2025

Shiny New Things

Over the past several weeks, we have shared new releases for Registry 5.1 (new features!) Match 1.2.2 (maintenance release), and a release candidate for Registry 4.5 (new features, improvements, and fixes). We are also excited about COmanage Project Training for Registry version 4.x  and Match coming soon on June 24-26. (There is still time to register!)

Open Office Hours - June 13

Do you have a question about deploying or configuring Registry or Match? Would you like to receive some input on a solution architecture design? Want to hear how your colleagues in the community are solving problems similar to yours? Each month, we gather for the Open Office Hours, a platform where you can bring your topics for discussion to the call. No need to register or prepare a presentation (but feel free if it suits you); just show up! A brief conversation starter begins each session to help initiate the discussion. This is an excellent opportunity to connect with your peers, share your experiences, and learn from others.

Friday, June 13
9:00 AM (San Francisco) | 12:00 PM (New York) | 17:00 (London)
(no registration necessary)

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86226181846?pwd=T2VCIHTbdCEuiJyHF2avVuD0FwkZGe.1

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Topic Aperitif: Registry v5.1

Discover the new functionality in Registry v5.1. We will also be available for your other questions and topics.

RELEASED: Registry PE 5.1.0

Enrollment Flows have been integrated into the COmanage Registry PE! In addition to bug fixes, this new version introduces several new capabilities and improvements, including

✅ Enrollment Flows

Version 5.1 adds Enfollment Flows to COmanage Registry PE  | Documentation

Every organization has one or more ways of bringing new people into the organization. There are several terms used to describe this process, including application, enrollment, intake, invitation, petition, and signup. These processes vary significantly across organizations.

This enhancement provides version 4.x’s popular and fully customizable mechanism for representing these processes and translating them into methods for integrating people into a CO's population. Known as Enrollment Flows, any number of these processes can be established to cover your organization’s needs. Enrollment Flows are generally intended for interactive, human-driven processes.

✅ Env Source Plugin

Version 5.1 adds this plugin, helpful in collecting identities during Enrollment Flows | Documentation

Env Source is an External Identity Source Plugin. External Identity Sources enable the creation of People and Person Roles based on data received from an external source or System of Record. The Env Source Plugin is designed to retrieve attributes from environment variables, which are typically populated by web server authentication modules. It is designed primarily to collect identities as part of an Enrollment Flow.

✅ Identifier Assignment Format Enhancements

Version 5.1 enhances Identifier Assignment formatting to include minimum length and transliteration support | Documentation

COmanage Registry is capable of automatically assigning Identifiers to entities within COs. Identifiers may be assigned on demand, as part of an Enrollment Flow, or as part of a Pipeline. Multiple algorithms for assigning Identifiers are supported via plugins. This enhancement extends the Format Identifier Assignment Plugin to support minimum length (requirement for the identifier to have at least a certain number of characters) and transliteration (the process of converting non-ASCII7 characters to an approximate ASCII7 representation, for example, converting ñ to n).

✅ Identifier Mapper Pipeline Plugin

Version 5.1 adds modifications to identifiers from external identities | Documentation

This plugin provides the ability to modify identifiers obtained from external Identities to offer greater utility from COmanage Registry. In this enhancement, you can specify an identity to be flagged as one used for login. This Identifier Mapper is used with Pipelines, which connect data from External Identity Sources to Person Records.

✅ Record Adoption

Version 5.1 enhances the  ability to transition records to Registry | Documentation

Adoption is the process of converting an External Identity to a Person. This may be useful when an External Identity Source is used to temporarily synchronize records to Registry, perhaps as part of a data migration strategy where records are transitioned to Registry as the authoritative System of Record.

Funding for Registry PE 5.1.0 has been provided by

• The CILogon Project and the University of Illinois

• SCG Collaboration Group

• Southern Methodist University

• And an additional funder

RELEASED: Match 1.2.2

Maintenance release that addresses several bugs

RELEASED: Registry 4.5.0 Release Candidate

This Release Candidate is actively seeking community review in preparation for its release. This version includes the following enhancements and fixes:

• New features

• [CO-2857] - OAuth2Server method determine access token expired

• [CO-2859] - Pipeline establish Cluster

• [CO-2867] - Configuration to Require MFA For Login to Registry

• [CO-2890] - JobShell delete all locks

Tasks

• [CO-2726] - Enrollment flow now attaches empty Org Identity

• [CO-2770] - People Picker Test

Improvements

• [CO-2844] - During enrollment flow step redirect, messaging should state “Do Not Close Your Browser”

• [CO-2846] - Make the top, global search more noticeable / discoverable

• [CO-2847] - Add “Long Description” field to groups

• [CO-2849] - Add Enrollment Flow "Description" field

• [CO-2850] - Sorting an index view by date should default to descending order

• [CO-2851] - Retain the open/closed state of the filters form on index views

• [CO-2852] - Improve the style of "Accept / Decline" buttons on Terms and Conditions

• [CO-2909] - Support Attriubutes' filtering when syncing from OrgIdentity to CoPerson via a pipeline

Bug fixes

Training and Presentations

BaseCAMP

Laura Paglione and Graeme Varga gave a presentation to introduce COmanage Registry and Mach during BaseCAMP last week. BaseCAMP was a five-day, virtual event (Jun 2-6) designed for those new to identity and access management. We will share a copy of our slides in the Presentations section of the wiki in the coming days.

COmanage Training is Back! - June 24-26

This is your opportunity to receive COmanage training from Shayna Atkinson and Laura Paglione, covering both Registry and Match, for a single, bundled price. This three-day class will explore:

• REGISTRY
  Configure an identity registry with sophisticated lifecycle management capabilities.

• Configure Registry for your specific organizational needs

• Model your organization or collaboration

• Set up enrollment flows and automate data processing

• Manage identifiers, groups, and roles

• Provision registry data for use in other systems

MATCH
Minimize account duplication for members of your population using heuristic-based identity record matching against your systems of records

• Create and refine matching rules for canonical and potential matches

• Build and test datasets to validate your rules

• Gain hands-on experience with the Match API

Additional information: https://incommon.org/academy/comanage/ 

Good to see you at CommEx and TIIME

It was great to see some of you during our recent travels to the Community Exchange and TIIME Conferences in May.

COmanage Project Team members at TNC25

Benn has been at TNC25 this week. Hope you said hello if you also were there!!

COmanage News

Do you have news to share? Let us know on the #incommon-comanage Slack channel or by !

That’s it for this month’s newsletter. We hope to see you at our next Open Office Hours!

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About The COmanage Project

COmanage is an Open Source Project that is focused on streamlining digital lifecycle management for your populations. It consists of two tools: Registry and Match. 

COmanage Registry is an identity registry with flexible enrollment and lifecycle management capabilities that helps you meet your identity management objectives using standardized tools and approaches. It can be used as a central person registry, a guest management system, or a collaboration hub for scholarly collaborations.

COmanage Match performs identity de-duplication in order to help minimize the creation of duplicate accounts for the same individual. It provides a heuristic-based system for matching identity records across multiple authoritative systems of record. Match can be used with Registry or as a standalone product complementary to your other tools.

Learn more about the project and its supporters at https://incommon.org/software/comanage/.

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