WSO2 Governance Registry team is pleased to announce the release of WSO2
Governance Registry 5.3.0.!

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 life cycle to assets and engage custom actions when an
   asset transitions 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
<https://docs.wso2.com/display/Governance530/WSO2+Governance+Registry+Documentation>
and quick start guide
<https://docs.wso2.com/display/Governance530/Quick+Start+Guide>.

How to Run

   1.

   Extract the downloaded zip
   <http://wso2.com/products/governance-registry/#download>
   2.

   Go to the bin directory in the extracted folder
   3.

   Run the wso2server.sh or wso2server.bat as appropriate
   4.

   Launch a web browser and navigate to https://localhost:9443/carbon to
   access the admin console
   5.

   Navigate to https://localhost:9443/publisher to access the publisher web
   app
   6.

   Navigate to https://localhost:9443/store to access the store web app
   7.

   Use "admin", "admin" as the username and password to login as an admin



WSO2 Governance Registry 5.3.0 includes following features, improvements
and bug fixes.

Features

List of features done in G-Reg 5.3.0
<https://wso2.org/jira/browse/REGISTRY-3595?filter=13278>

Improvements

List of improvements done in G-Reg 5.3.0
<https://wso2.org/jira/browse/REGISTRY-3864?filter=13276>

Bug Fixes

List of bug Fixes done in G-Reg 5.3.0
<https://wso2.org/jira/browse/REGISTRY-3860?filter=13277>

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 <https://wso2.org/jira/browse/REGISTRY-3865?filter=13279>

How You Can Contribute

Mailing Lists

Join our mailing list and correspond with the developers directly.

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<http://wso2.org/mailarchive/dev/>

Reporting Issues

We encourage you to report issues, documentation faults and feature
requests regarding WSO2 Governance Registry through the public JIRA
<https://wso2.org/jira/browse/REGISTRY>. You can use the Carbon JIRA
<https://wso2.org/jira/browse/CARBON> 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 --
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