eDelivery: Recent Releases and Roadmap for the Future 

eDelivery’s roadmap for 2023 includes several major updates of all three major eDelivery sample softwares – Domibus, DomiSML and DomiSMP.  

In early February, Domibus 4.2.13 and 5.0.4 have been released, and a new version of eDelivery sample software Domibus 5.1 was published in March. Support for Domibus 4.2 has ended and users were strongly encouraged to upgrade. In addition, the team released DomiSMP 5.0 in June and DomiSML 4.2.1 in July.

Looking into the future, the team is preparing the release of DomiSML 4.3 for Q4 2023. The release of Domibus 6.0 has been postponed to the end of 2024. Instead, there will be an earlier update - Domibus 5.2. This minor update is going to be released in Q1 2024 and it will contain some of the features that were originally planned for Domibus 6.0.  

The eDelivery team is looking forward to share even more updated sample software development plan after the summer. 

The eDelivery Building Block   

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.   

Domibus is the sample software provided by the European Commission to implement an eDelivery AS4 Access Point for the interoperable, secure and reliable data exchange. It is based on the eDelivery AS4 profile, an open technical specification for the secure, web-based, payload-agnostic exchange of data or documents.   

DomiSMP is the sample software provided by the European Commission to implement an eDelivery Service Metadata Publisher 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.   

DomiSML is the sample software provided by the European Commission to implement an eDelivery Service Metadata Locator for an eDelivery party to discover the URLs of other counterparties using eDelivery Access Points and their corresponding metadata. It is based on the eDelivery BDXL profile, an open technical specification for locating Access Points within a network, and on the PEPPOL SML Specification, a technical specification defining a BDXL administration API.   

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