The following is the official release note sent by WSO2 G-Reg team. You can download the new version using this link.

WSO2 Governance Registry 4.5.0 Released

07 September 2012

The WSO2 Governance Registry team is pleased to announce the 4.5.0 release of the WSO2 Governance Registry. WSO2 Governance Registry is a user-friendly, but comprehensive enterprise governance, registry and repository solution available under the Apache Software License v2.0. WSO2 Governance Registry is pre-loaded with best practices to help users with governance adoption. WSO2 Governance Registry is fully integrated to the WSO2 Carbon platform with the 4.5.0 release. This allows WSO2 Governance Registry users to benefit from the flexibility and extensibility provided by the Carbon platform. WSO2 Governance Registry can be either used as a complete product or used in combination with components of other WSO2 products. User specific components, extensions or UIs to the WSO2 Governance Registry can be easily added as Carbon components.
We are striving for a simple and happy first time user experience as well as a satisfying experienced user experience with this release.

New Features in This Release

Adding Operators to Advanced Search API (Negation and Range Queries for Property Values)
UUID Support at Resource Level
Hierarchical Subscriptions for Collections
Onetime Email Verification for Subscriptions
URL Referenced Assets
API Assets
Worklist Notification Bar
Task Scheduling for Registry
Additional Reporting Improvements
Improving Support for Configurable Governance Artifacts
Support for Source Configuration Management(SCM)
Support for Java Management Extensions(JMX)
XPath Query Support for Search
Lifecycle Audit
Dynamically Clensing Version History
Invocation Statistics API
Inversions and Range Queries for Search
WS API for Governance Artifacts(CRUD Operation Support)
Adding Executor for Services to Publish as APIs
Display Life Cycle Status in the List View of Services, WSDLs, Schemas and Policies
Search by Name for the List View of WSDLs, Schemas, Policies and Configurable Governanace Artifacts
Display Notification Type Information on Notifications UI

Issues Fixed in This Release

WSO2 Governance Registry Issue Tracker

Features of WSO2 Governance Registry

Storing and managing arbitrary resources and collections
Tagging, commenting and rating
Managing users and roles
Authentication and authorization on all resources and actions
Resource / collection versioning and rollback
Advanced search capabilities - tags, users, etc.
Built in media type support for common types (WSDL, XSD)
Built in support for known repository types
Dependency management - maintain relationships between dependent resources for impact analysis
Pluggable media type handlers for handling custom media types
Pluggable custom UIs for resource types
Activity log and monitoring with filtering support for the activity logs
Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) support for reading/writing the data store remotely
Subscribe to resources, collections, comments, tags, etc. with any standard feed reader (Bloglines, Google Reader, etc)
Intuitive User Interface with an Ajax-based Web 2.0 interface
Internationalization
Support for deploying back end and front end (UI) in separate servers
WSDL Tool to import service information from a given WSDL, and WSDL custom-view
WSO2 Governance Registry federation - mounting a remote WSO2 Governance Registry to a specified location
Based on the OSGi based WSO2 Carbon architecture: this is a unification of all Java based products from WSO2
Advanced service governance through, discovery, impact analysis, versioning and automatically extraction of service meta data
Dashboard support with gadgets with design-time and run-time governance information
Advanced Life cycle management with checklists, and scripting support
Validation policies. e.g. WSDL Validation, WS-I Validation and Schema Validation
Eventing and notifications
Supports remote links, symbolic links for resources
Attach remote WSO2 Governance Registry instances, providing one interface for many WSO2 Governance Registry instances
Support for processing custom URL patterns via pluggable URL handlers
Support for custom query languages via pluggable query processors
Import/export resources and collections
Improved transaction support
Support for WebSphere, WebLogic, and JBoss
Provisioning and feature management support for WSO2 Carbon family of products
Support for clustering
Check-in/Checkout tool
Gadgets for impact analysis on services and registry resources
Dynamic Handler configuration, and simulation
Tree-based Resource view
API to govern SOA artifacts
Complete Web Services API for Registry
WS-Discovery support
Platform, and Group/Cluster based deployment model, with support for adding remote mounts
Support for multiple server instances
E-mail verification for subscriptions
Hierarchical permission model with granular and extensible permissions
Governance Archive for uploading WSDLs and Schemas with imports
Ability to update resource content by uploading
Rich text editor for editing text resources
XML editor for editing handler, lifecycle and service UI configurations
Support for deploying Carbon Applications (C-App)
Content Search
WebDAV support
Open-Social API
JCR API
UDDIv3 support
Cache-backed Registry
Resource Locking/Retention
Configurable Governance Artifacts
Improvements to the Lifecycle Model (Executors, Validators, Permissions, and Transition UI)
Improvements to Metadata Search
Improvements to Impact Analysis
Conflict Resolution for Concurrent Updates
Human-Readable Names for media-types

Project Resources

Home page : http://wso2.com/products/governance-registry
Library : http://wso2.org/taxonomy/term/350/all
JIRA-Issue Tracker : https://wso2.org/jira/browse/REGISTRY
QA Artifacts :
SVN : http://wso2.org/repos/wso2/trunk/commons/qa/registry

Installation and Running

Extract the downloaded zip file
Run the wso2server.sh or wso2server.bat file in the /bin directory
Once the server starts, point your Web browser to https://localhost:9443/carbon/
For more information, see the Installation Guide:
Locally : INSTALL.txt
On the web : http://docs.wso2.org/wiki/display/Governance450/Installation

Known Issues

WSO2 Governance Registry Issue Tracker

Reporting Problems

Issues can be reported using the public JIRA available at https://wso2.org/jira/browse/REGISTRY

Contact us

WSO2 Governance Registry developers can be contacted via the mailing lists:
For Users: user@wso2.org
For Developers: dev@wso2.org

Alternatively, questions can also be raised in the WSO2 Governance Registry forum:
Forum http://wso2.org/forum/351

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/
For more information about WSO2 Governance Registry please see http://wso2.com/products/governance-registry visit the WSO2 Oxygen Tank developer portal for additional resources.
Thank you for your interest in WSO2 Governance Registry
-The WSO2 Governance Registry Development Team

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