[Unity-idm-discuss] Unity 3 is around the corner!

[Krzysztof B. <kb...@un...>]

Dear Subscribers,

I'm happy to invite you to testing of Unity 3.0.0 Release Candidate. In 
short time from now we are planning to release 3.0.0 final version. 
Therefore spending short time now on quick testing of upgrade will help 
us to deliver a better initial version.

The main highlights of the Unity 3 follows:

*Admin Console*


The biggest change in Unity 3 is a new administrative web UI: Admin 
Console (or Console for short). It completely replaces the legacy Admin UI.


The grand goal of adding Console was to expose all functionalities Unity 
has over web interface. Previously Unity admin was forced to follow a 
hybrid approach: directory was managed with web interface, but many 
other settings like authenticators were only reachable from config 
files. Now almost everything is exposed within the Console.


It is hard to enumerate all improvements, the best is to give it a try. 
The most notable items are:

  *

    Complete management:

      o

        realms, authenticators, authentication flows

      o

        all endpoints (in console broken into two categories: /IdP//s/
        and other /Services/)

      o

        trusted certificates

      o

        moved all features of Admin UI

      o

        many of existing views refreshed, and much more useful now

          +

            better use of screen size, no more vertically split panels
            (besides group browser)

          +

            sorting and filtering in all relevant places

          +

            small improvements in many places (e.g. on realms view you
            can check which endpoint is using it)

          +

            many improvements in directory browser: some things still to
            come, but its UX is greatly improved already now. For
            instance attribute values are instantly visible for each
            selected entity.

  * Input and Output profiles are now 1-1 bound with their corresponding
    authenticator or endpoint (respectively). No more “global” view of
    profiles, e.g. editing of an input profile is now a part of
    authenticator editing.
  * New main layout with left bar navigation
  * Lightweight, faster loading compared to AdminUI


*New features*

**

  *

    Audit log. Unity now stores audit log of most important operations
    that were performed on the directory. That’s an initial version of
    this subsystem with certain gaps, but it is already now very
    functional and provides valuable insights into history of Unity
    deployment.

  *

    Java 11 is finally supported. Java 8 can still be used. In close
    future we are going to deprecate Java 8. Java 12 & 13 should work
    too, but was not tested.

  *

    It is possible to outsource message templates management and message
    sending to an external service. Admins can integrate Unity with
    dedicated mail systems or marketing/CMS software and manage all
    organization communication from one place.


RC1 can be downloaded from: 
https://sourceforge.net/projects/unity-idm/files/Unity%20server/3.0.0-rc1/

Documentation is available at: 
http://www.unity-idm.eu/documentation/unity-3.0.0-rc1/manual.html

For those upgrading make sure to read the upgrade instructions, which 
are short but cover two important points:
http://www.unity-idm.eu/documentation/unity-3.0.0-rc1/manual.html#ver-update


Happy testing!
Krzysztof