With new features like incremental build support, OpenTelemetry integration, and dynamic data masking, developers can create robust, more secure business applications while optimizing performance
Progress, a trusted provider of infrastructure software, announced the release of the newest version of ProgressOpenEdge, leading application development platform used by more than 100,000 customers worldwide to simplify the delivery of mission-critical business applications. By leveraging the new features and enhancements in OpenEdge 12.8, organizations can streamline their development processes, improve database performance, enhance application security, and stay up to date with the evolving technology landscape.
Francisco Larez, vice president of Progress
“Progress is always aware of market developments and the need to offer technology solutions that help organizations function increasingly effectively and thrive as markets evolve and end-user priorities change. In this sense, for decades we have been consolidating solutions capable of helping them optimize their development processes, security and mission-critical applications. OpenEdge 12.8 is an example of this, a tool that allows you to develop, deploy and manage more secure, scalable and agile business applications”, reinforces Francisco Larez, vice president of Progress for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Developer productivity
OpenEdge 12.8 increases developer productivity by equipping ABL (Advanced Business Language) developers with tools and features to streamline their workflows, including:
- Improved OpenEdge Observability: OpenEdge 12.8 integrates OpenTelemetry, a powerful observability framework, with instrumentation to provide operational metrics and tracking information. Metrics help manage your OpenEdge applications, while traces provide developers with deep insights into application performance to identify code bottlenecks and optimize application performance.
- Faster development of Packages: With incremental build support, developers can change their codebase and quickly rebuild only the affected parts. This significantly reduces build times, enabling faster iterations and accelerated development cycles.
Integration and Management
OpenEdge 12.8 delivers advancements in application integration and environment management through enhanced monitoring and administration capabilities.
- Real-time messaging and streaming with Apache Kafka: Integration with Kafka allows companies to use it to enhance their applications with event streaming and data integration to generate real-time data feeds.
- OpenEdge Command Center (OECC): Next-generation cloud-ready tooling and APIs that simplify management of OpenEdge applications. OECC provides centralized monitoring, administration, and diagnostics by integrating popular application performance management (APM) tools that are likely already in your environment.
- Online Database Maintenance: This release includes several database improvements that allow more administrative tasks to be performed online, eliminating the need for downtime for offline maintenance operations. It also offers a variety of performance improvements, especially in the areas of database scanning/repair and backup/restore.
Application and data protections
OpenEdge 12.8 introduces several features to strengthen application security and help protect critical data.
- Protecting sensitive data with dynamic data masking (DDM): For a security administrator or database administrator who needs to enable OpenEdge business applications with privacy and data integrity compliance requirements such as GDPR, HIPAA, or LGPD, the DDM feature offers an easier approach to disguise sensitive data in runtime, based on the user's role permissions.
- Hardware Security Module (HSM) Support): OpenEdge 12.8 supports HSMs, which help provide a more secure environment for cryptographic operations, making it easier to protect sensitive data and supporting compliance with rigorous security standards.
- Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 support: OpenEdge 12.8 adopts OpenSSL 3.1, the latest version of the open source cryptographic library that supports TLS 1.3. This helps improve security protocols and cryptographic algorithms to promote strong encryption and data integrity for OpenEdge applications.
OpenEdge is the leading platform for developing enterprise applications that require high performance, high availability and flexible deployment options for extensibility, scalability, security and reliability. Developers around the world are using the OpenEdge application development platform to create innovative business applications that are the backbone of healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and more.
The OpenEdge 12.8 application development platform is now available. For more information, visit https://www.progress.com/openedge/whats-new.
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