Product Releases and Updates

The OutSystems UI GitHub repository is now available to the public, opening the door to community contributions, feedback, and collaboration. Whether you want to fix a bug, suggest a feature, or enhance existing code, we welcome your contributions to help us improve and build the future of our UI framework. Also, we released an NPM package that you can use as a dev dependency to your repositories and to extend our components' functionalities to suit your specific needs.

The method multipart/form-data is now available when consuming REST API. You typically use these requests for file uploads and for transferring data of several types in a single request (for example, a file along with a JSON object). Multipart requests combine one or more sets of data into a single body, separated by boundaries, where each form field has its section in the payload with internal HTTP headers.

You can now expose OutSystems REST services as a patch method. With this latest release, we're covering all of the most common methods on the REST protocol: Patch, Get, Put, Post, and Delete.

It is now possible to deploy all prepared modules at once after the Platform Server finishes upgrading. The Deploy All is another improvement from the Flexible Upgrades initiative that aims to reduce publish time and improve resilience during a platform upgrade, with the ability to resume development even before the preparation step finishes. To have your factory fully updated after each upgrade, you no longer need to do a solution publish or deploy one by one until the factory is fully published; use the new Deploy All functionality. The platform takes care of all required publishes, and you'll save a lot of time.

OutSystems cloud is now available in the AWS region Ohio, adding a third option to the already available North Virginia and Oregon cloud regions in the US. With these new additions, our enterprise cloud offer is now available in 17 different locations: Sydney, Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Bahrain, Seoul, Jakarta (Asia Pacific), Ireland, Frankfurt, London, and Cape Town (EMEA) and United States (Northern Virginia, Oregon, Ohio), Canada, and São Paulo (Americas).

Managing technical debt can become tedious with many findings if you have to update their status by selecting them individually. To speed up and ease the process, we’ve launched the bulk selection in the Report area of AI Mentor Studio, and you can now change the status of several findings at the same time. All previous functionalities remain the same, such as adding a reason to resolve as won't fix or as a false positive status. Make your teams ten times more productive going through the list of findings, ensuring that the spare time can be wisely used for other activities.

If you follow a domain-driven architecture approach, you can now take advantage of the most recent Architecture Mentor pattern, strong dependencies between apps owned by different LifeTime teams, available in AI Mentor Studio. One of the top architecture issues that hinders development teams' agility is having business apps strongly referencing other apps. With this visibility, architects and team leads can plan their backlogs to do the necessary refactoring to bring back the apps independent lifecycle. Also, it increases team agility by not having to align release cycles with other teams — promoting to production as soon as the work is complete.

You can now add built-in end-user SAML authentication to your mobile and Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) using the Single Sign-On plugin. Take advantage of a centralized Identity Provider (IdP), including its security, improved user experience, and support for built-in integrations with external providers such as AzureAD, Okta, and PingOne to name a few. The current offering uses device-specific authentication WebView to overcome general limitations usually linked to this system component.

Use your everyday language to create aggregates with the new Code Mentor feature. Built into Service Studio, this AI-powered capability is especially handy when you know which data you want to get from the database but are unsure how to add it to an aggregate. You can access it anytime by double-clicking on aggregates.

You can now find OutSystems platform APIs in Postman. Testing out AI Mentor Studio API, LifeTime API, and Performance API is easier and faster with Postman — the leading platform for building and testing APIs.

The external IT users authentication with OpenID Connect was launched in technical preview in August 2022 and is now generally available to everyone fully supported. In a few clicks, you can set an external identity provider to log in your IT users throughout the OutSystems platform, consoles, and tools (Service Studio, Service Center, LifeTime, and Integration Builder, to name a few). Easily delegate user authentication to your IdP of choice, AzureAD, Okta, Ping, or any other supporting OpenID Connect (OIDC). With an external IdP, you may enforce specific security policies, like MFA, password expiration, password complexity, and password rotation.

You can now publish your tailored Integration Builder connector to any other OutSystems infrastructure. This capability is available to the following providers: Salesforce, SAP OData, Dataverse, and Dynamics 365. If you have a commonly used integration, you can contribute to our global community and share that on the Forge helping other developers to be even more productive. Any connector ported to another OutSystems installation is fully customizable in the same way as it was if configured from the start.

The Architecture Dashboard was renamed to AI Mentor Studio, and it's now part of the OutSystems AI Mentor System family — an ever-evolving set of five mentors, namely Code Mentor, Architecture Mentor, Security Mentor, Performance Mentor, and Maintainability Mentor. All include AI-based development, security, and quality analysis tools that provide expert-level assistance across the most critical areas of the software development lifecycle. You'll learn more about the AI Mentor System and its capabilities at NextStep. This update does not impact your current work with the OutSystems Platform. It will only make your experience better.

OutSystems cloud is now available in the AWS regions of Seoul (South Korea) and Jakarta (Indonesia), adding to the Bahrain region that has become available since last August. With these new additions, our enterprise cloud offer is now available in 16 different locations: Sydney, Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Bahrain, Seoul, Jakarta (Asia Pacific), Ireland, Frankfurt, London, and Cape Town (EMEA) and United States (Northern Virginia and Oregon), Canada, and São Paulo (Americas).

Manage multiple app portfolios with different development lines with the latest LifeTime environment filters. Create development line views tailored to your needs, ensuring all roles deploying apps have visibility over the required environments.

Because time is money, you can now use the Payments plugin to configure Apple Pay and Google Pay for a frictionless checkout experience in your in-app purchases. This new supported plugin also includes a configurator so you can easily set up a mobile payment back-end service. A great plugin is worth a lot, but this one is priceless.

You can now integrate your apps with Azure PostgreSQL databases using Integration Builder. Following up on the PostgreSQL and Aurora PostgreSQL connectors, the new one also allows you to create, read, update, and delete data, this time on PostgreSQL databases in Azure. Find more about it in our documentation.

You can now use single sign-on (SSO) to log in to Service Studio, Service Center, LifeTime, and other OutSystems consoles. Developers, Architects, and Operations can use federated authentication like AzureAD, Okta, Ping, or any other supporting OpenID Connect (OIDC). Besides the improved login experience, the federated authentication mechanism allows customers to enforce security with specific login flows across all company digital assets, such as Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and password policies (rotation, expiration and complexity).

Our Firebase plugins family just got bigger! You can now use the Firebase Cloud Messaging mobile plugin to configure an array of advanced notification features and send notifications of different types to your mobile app end-users. Be the bearer of good news to your end-users and deliver them using the Cloud Messaging plugin.

Configure site properties in the target environment when defining your deployment plan in LifeTime is now generally available (previously in technical preview). With all the application settings configured, you'll avoid any misbehavior during runtime.