SMP 4.2 RC1 released

We are happy to announce that the first release candidate of SMP 4.2 is available. SMP is the sample implementation of an eDelivery Service Metadata Publisher maintained by the European Commission.

We invite all users to install SMP 4.2 RC1 in their test environments as early as possible and report any issues they encounter during the upgrade process or during operations to EC-EDELIVERY-SUPPORT@ec.europa.eu. As the final release of SMP 4.2 is scheduled for 30/06/2022, any major issues to be addressed should be reported by 16/06/2022 at the latest.

SMP 4.2 RC1 includes a number of new features, improvements, and bug fixes, among which:

UI user authentication using an external CAS authentication server
Separate UI login credentials and Rest Service (API) credentials (access tokens)
Extension framework: support for custom extensions for payload security verification (e.g., malware scanning)
Alert features: ability to send email notifications for alerts (e.g., when credentials are about to expire, failed logins, etc.)
Configuration properties can be now edited in the UI
Admin UI now accessible using a separate URL, avoiding the need to have it exposed to the Internet (e.g., it can be secured via a firewall)
Support for multivalued RDN certificates for authentication to SMP
Support for SSLClientCert header authentication (base64-encoded X.509 certificate) when authenticating the client for the Rest Service (API) via reverse proxy
X.509 certificate policy extension validation
Support for participant identifiers without the scheme
Logging framework: Log4J replaced by SLF4J
Various security enhancements

SMP 4.2 RC1 is backward compatible with 4.1.x.

You can find more information about the release on this page.

For more information, please contact us via our portal or by e-mail: EC-EDELIVERY-SUPPORT@ec.europa.eu

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eDelivery is a building block that provides technical specifications and standards, installable software and ancillary services to allow projects to create a network of nodes for secure digital data exchange.

SMP is the sample software provided by the European Commission to implement an eDelivery Service Metadata Publisher (SMP) for publishing and retrieving data necessary for an eDelivery party to dynamically configure its system for message exchange with counterparties using eDelivery. It is based on the eDelivery SMP profile, an open technical specification for publishing service metadata within a 4-corner network.

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SMP 4.2 RC1 released

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