Product Timeline

Roadmap

General Principles

UXP roadmap is maintained for one year ahead. It is reviewed quarterly and it can change depending on shift in priorities. For the nearer future the roadmap is more precise, for the farther future it is more inexact. Cybernetica aims to create three releases of UXP Core per year. The other components are updated when necessary.

1. UXP Connector 1.6 — April 2020

2. UXP Portal 2.1 — June 2020

3. Personal Data Usage Monitor 1.0 — November 2020

4. UXP Consent Management 1.0 — November 2020

5. UXP Core 1.13 — August 2020

6. UXP Core 1.14 — December 2020

7. UXP Core 2.0 — April 2021

2. UXP Connector 1.6 — April 2020

UXP Connector 1.6 will be mostly maintenance release, incorporating mainly bug fixes and small improvements.

1. UXP Portal 2.1 — June 2020

Version 2.1 will be the first public release of the reworked UXP Portal product (the version 2.0 was unpublished beta release). The new Portal features:

completely rewritten user interface;
support for much wider range of services and XML elements;
comprehensive management interface for Portal configuration.

3. Personal Data Usage Monitor 1.0 — November 2020

The UXP Personal Data Usage Monitor will be a new UXP component that will provide the citizen the means to monitor the access to their data. The Personal Data Usage Monitor tool will act as a proxy between the security server and the information system (database containing personal data) and log all the accesses to the personal data. The tool will provide log viewer that can be used by the organization’s security officer to audit the personal data usage. However, its main function is to implement services that are called by the citizen portal (or other similar component) to provide the citizen view about who has accessed their data and for what reason.

4. UXP Consent Management 1.0 — November 2020

The UXP Consent Management will be a new UXP component that will provide the citizen (data owner) the means to control access to the protected personal data. Using the UXP Consent management tool, the data service providers can quickly implement consent-based access rules for the protected data. The data owner is firmly in control of the data distribution. The Consent Management tool helps in managing the data usage consents given by the data owners, as well as checking the consent when data clients access the data. Finally, the data owner is provided with the log of data access events, so that they are able to monitor the usage of their data and detect any irregularities.

5. UXP Core 1.13 — August 2020

UXP Core version 1.13 will include mainly technical improvements that will simplify implementation of UXP as well as make it more secure.

Service client library will simplify creating client information systems that invoke UXP services.
Optional timestamping makes it easier to deploy UXP in environment where timestamping service is not available or not required by the security policy.
Support for TLS version 1.3 brings the secure communication to the new level, implementing the latest and the most secure communication protocol. TLS 1.3 will bring superior privacy, security and performance. Together with support for new TLS version, new algorithms for authentication keys (for example, ECDSA) will be supported.
Support for arbitrarily long cryptographic keys for situations where the default key length is not enough.
High availability solution for UXP Security Server will make it simple for the Security Server administrator to configure high availability setup. The setup implements automatic failover in case one of the security servers in the cluster becomes unresponsive.

6. UXP Core 1.14 — December 2020

UXP Core version 1.14 will start the major rework of the UXP product, culminating with the UXP version 2.0. The main changes are the following.

High availability solution for the UXP Registry will be reimplemented using the etcd tool. This makes it possible to dynamically manage Registry Server clusters. When some of the server in the cluster go down, the other servers in the cluster detect this and reconfigure their connections. When the previously unresponsive servers become operational again they will receive the updated data and can continue responding to client requests.
Registry Server functionality is accessible over an API in addition to user interface. This makes it possible to create custom user interfaces for the Registry as well as automate registration and management tasks using the API.
Load balancing support for security servers. This makes it possible to use external load balancers to distribute the load between several security servers belonging to the organization. This improves both the performance and the realiability of the security server cluster.
UXP components will start migrating to OpenID Connect for authentication. This makes it possible to manage the UXP administration and management accounts using existing identity management systems used by the organization. In addition, this makes the UXP security policy flexible as the hosting organization can decide different user management mechanisms depending on the existing configuration and the security policy.
Support for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ensures that UXP will run on the most recent hardware and will include the latest performance and security improvements.

7. UXP Core 2.0 — April 2021

UXP Core version 2.0 will bring together the rework effort started in UXP Core 1.14. The most significant changes introduced in this version are the following.

Security Server functionality is accessible over an API in addition to user interface. This makes it possible to create custom user interfaces for the Security Server as well as automate management tasks using the API.
UXP will support additional protection of the UXP transactions using post-quantum encryption algorithms. This is critical for organizations that exchange data with high confidentiality requirements, especially in cases where the confidentiality of the exchanged data must be retained for many years. Using post-quantum encryption algorithms now ensures that the confidentiality is assured even when the quantum computers become feasible.
UXP will use distributed blockchain as an additional measure of protecting long-term proof value of UXP transactions. Currently, PKIX timestamping protocol is used to provide long-term validation of transaction. In addition, the Security Server administrator can enable blockchain-based timestamping that is based on different security assumptions and thus adding another layer of security.

Release notes

March 2020

For more details of the March 2020 release, see the blog post.

UXP Core 1.12

There is a new component UXP Verifier. It can be used to view the contents of the message log stored in the security server as well as download and verify individual signed messages.
There is new HTTP header Uxp-Transaction-ID. It is automatically generated by the security server to contain a unique value for every message mediated by the security server. The transaction ID is also saved to the message log and can be used to uniquely identify UXP messages.
There is a new configuration option to disable saving the technical messages (monitoring and metainfo services) to message log. This can help to save disk space if there is no need create proof value for exchanges that do not involve business data.
Java Runtime Environment is upgraded to version 11. The other third-party libraries and components are upgraded as well to ensure security and good performance of the system.
Version 7.x of Elasticsearch and Kibana tools is now supported for local monitoring. Elasticsearch clusters are now supported.
The old Request Statistics Document (the old format for UXP statistics) is no longer supported in local monitoring.
Ubuntu 18.04 is now the oldest supported platform.

UXP Directory 2.1

It is possible to visualize the data exchange between organizations (who has communicated with who) using either a graph or a heat map.
It is possible to download subset of the data exchange statistics as open data.
The UXP Directory can now be installed in a cluster.
It is now possible to customize the user interface.
Java Runtime Environment was upgraded to version 11.

UXP Monitoring 2.2

Java Runtime Environment is upgraded to version 11. The other third-party libraries and components are upgraded as well to ensure security and good performance of the system.
Version 7.x of Elasticsearch and Kibana tools is now supported. Elasticsearch clusters are now supported.
Added monitoring server cluster support. Multiple monitoring servers can be configured to use the same Elasticsearch cluster.
Added email notification support. The Monitoring Server can now send e-mail when collecting monitoring data from security servers fails.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is now the oldest supported platform.

December 2019

Find detailed overview of the release in our Blog.

Directory 2.0

UXP Directory 2.0 is a rewrite of the previous UXP Service Directory product. The new version is no longer focused only on services but provides a good overview of the whole UXP installation. The main changes are the following.

The user interface is redesigned to be more user friendly. The UI also supports localization.
The Directory provides information about members, subsystems and services. The UI provides visualization of the input and output parameters of the service.
It is possible to upload additional information to directory, such as contact information for members or human-readable documentation for services.
The front page shows a dashboard providing the overview of the most important statistics of the UXP installation.
For every directory entry (member, subsystem, service), the Directory displays statistical information - how many requests are associated with the entry.

August 2019

Find detailed overview of the release in our Blog.

UXP Core 1.11

Full support for IPv6.

Improved Hardware Security Module (HSM) support.

More modular packaging.

Restricted charset of UXP identifiers.

Upgraded versions of third-party libraries.

Implemented various improvements and bug fixes, updated documentation.

UXP Monitoring Server 2.1

UXP Monitoring 2.1 is a maintenance release containing mainly minor enhancements and fixes as well as updated versions of third-party components.

December 2018

UXP Core 1.10

Added support for new monitoring server (version 2.0).

It is now possible to get detailed statistics for central Monitoring Server.

Ubuntu 18.04 is now a supported (and recommended) platform.

Improved SOAP fault handling.

Bug fixes and minor improvements.

UXP Monitoring Server 2.0

Rewrite of the monitoring server.

Support for new monitoring protocol and detailed statistics.

Support for ElasticSearch version series 6.x and Kibana version series 6.x.

UXP Connector 1.5

Ubuntu 18.04 is now a supported (and recommended) platform.

Bug fixes and minor improvements.

UXP Portal 1.4

Ubuntu 18.04 is now a supported (and recommended) platform.

Bug fixes and minor improvements.

August 2018

UXP Core 1.9

Licence management system is improved.

It is now possible to delegate license signing to another entity.

Different products installed on the same machine can use separate licenses.

Licenses can be viewed and managed in the user interface.

Monitoring system supports version 6 Elasticsearch and Kibana tools.

Local monitoring provides more detailed transaction statistics.

Ubuntu 14.04 is no longer a supported platform.

User guides and installation guides contain more detailed information and are restructured for better readability.

User guide can also be accessed from the user interface as online help.

Third party libraries and frameworks are updated.

Several smaller usability, performance and security enhancements.

UXP Connector 1.4

UXP Connector supports the updated UXP license system.

Licenses can be viewed and managed in the user interface.

User guides and installation guides contain more detailed information and are restructured for better readability.

Third party libraries and frameworks are updated.

UXP Portal 1.3

UXP Portal supports the updated UXP license system.

Licenses can be viewed and managed in the user interface.

User guides and installation guides contain more detailed information and are restructured for better readability.

Third party libraries and frameworks are updated.

October 2017

UXP Core 1.8

UXP now has Azure Key Vault support

UXP has support for additional message encryption (can use encryption algorithms that are not supported by TLS)

UXP Connector 1.3

It is now possible to configure content-type header used for sending attachments

Added output parameter type FILE. FILE parameters point to files in the file system that are returned as attachments

UXP Portal 1.2

Added support for authentication plugins

Added support for attachments

Improved multilanguage support

June 2017

UXP Core 1.7

REST APIs can now be provided and consumed over UXP infrastructures

WSDLs containing import statements are now supported

UXP Service Directory 1.0

Initial version of the UXP Service Directory

May 2017

UXP Core 1.6

Upgraded to new version of Elasticsearch for collecting monitoring analytics

Security and performance improvements

Improved Registry Server high availability solution

April 2017

UXP Trust Services 1.1

Fixes and improvements added

March 2017

UXP Core 1.5

UXP can now be installed on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

WSDLs that do not describe response message (push services) are now supported.

February 2017

UXP Connector 1.2

UXP Connector can be installed on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

JDBC drivers for popular databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, MS SQL, HSQLDB) are packaged with UXP Connector

Updated documentation

January 2017

UXP Portal 1.1

UXP Portal can be installed on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

December 2016

UXP Portal 1.0

First release of UXP Portal.

October 2016

UXP Core 1.4

UXP now supports SOAP 1.2 messages

UXP WSDL handling now supports services without UXP/X-Road headers. This allows providing existing SOAP services via UXP without any modification.

August 2016

UXP Trust Services 1.0

Initial version of UXP Certiciation Registration Authority.

July 2016

UXP Core 1.3

UXP supports translation of user interfaces.

Several security improvements.

June 2016

UXP Connector 1.1

SOAP attachments are supported.

User interface can be translated to other languages.

Connections with security server are secured using mutually authenticated TLS.

April 2016

UXP Core 1.2

UXP Monitoring Server is introduced.

March 2016

UXP Core 1.1

UXP supports multihomed mode of operation.

Added system status view in security server.

Several bugfixes and enhancements.

January 2016

UXP Connector 1.0

First version of UXP Connector.

December 2015

UXP Core 1.0

First release of UXP Core components.

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Cybernetica continually improves UXP product according to current and future customer needs. Improvements are based on the latest research and address security, performance, stability and usability improvements.

Cybernetica provides full set of necessary software to establish secure data exchange between organisations and information systems. Here are the details about stable releases by different components.