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NEWSLETTER

ISSUE #31 | April 8, 2025

Maintenance Releases

Welcome to the April 2025 COmanage Newsletter! This month, we're bringing you updates on our upcoming Open Office Hours, recent Registry maintenance releases, and important documentation changes for PostgreSQL users. We've also got exciting news about COmanage's presence at BaseCAMP and potential training opportunities. Read on to stay informed about the latest developments in the COmanage community and find ways to connect with your peers.

Open Office Hours - April 11

Do you have a question about deploying or configuring Registry or Match? Want to get 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 spin up a presentation (but feel free if it suits you!); just show up! A short conversation starter kicks off each session to help get the discussion started. This is a great opportunity to connect with your peers, share your experiences, and learn from others.

Friday, April 11
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

Subscribe to COmanage Events or, https://www.addevent.com/calendar/Nr648428

Topic Aperitif: Your Questions

We will not have a specific topic this month. We will be available for your questions and topics.

Registry 4 Maintenance Releases

On February 19 and March 26, Internet2 and the COmanage Project announced Registry releases 4.4.1 and 4.4, respectively. These maintenance releases contain various bug fixes. Thank you to all who have reported bugs that they have found, and Internet2 and others who have provided the financial resources to support the fixes.

Review the full release notes to upgrade to these versions, and the release announcements for v4.4.1 and v4.4.2.

Documentation update: PostgreSQL 15+ users

PostgreSQL 15 introduced a significant security change regarding the default behavior of the public schema. Prior to version 15, the public schema was accessible to all database users by default through the public schema search path. This meant any user could create objects in the public schema.

In PostgreSQL 15, this default was changed to enhance security. The public schema is no longer automatically included in the search path for new databases. Additionally, the default privileges for the public schema were modified to prevent regular users from creating objects in it without explicit permissions.

For COmanage Registry users, this means if you're upgrading to PostgreSQL 15 or higher, you'll need to ensure your database configuration explicitly grants the necessary schema permissions to your Registry database user. The COmanage documentation has been updated to reflect the needed changes:

• New Registry Setup

• Registry Installation - Database

COmanage News

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

COmanage at BaseCAMP

We will be presenting a session about COmanage Registry and Match during the upcoming BaseCAMP, a five-day, virtual event (Jun 2-6) designed for those new to identity and access management. The COmanage Project session is scheduled for Wednesday, June 4, 12:15 - 1:00 PM US Eastern.

Training opportunity

We have heard from a few institutions that they are seeking COmanage Registry and/or Match training. If training has been on your check list, now would be a good time to check in. 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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