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Galasa Updates

By | March 4, 2025

Written by Louisa Seers, Product Manager at IBM, Chair of the Galasa Technical Steering Committee (TSC) and Open Mainframe Project Ambassador

On the 11th February, the Technical Steering Committee got together to talk about the progress on the project, the roadmap, what’s next, and to share experiences of the contributors and committers of the project. It’s been a couple of months since we all got together and looked at the technical deliveries of the project and the roadmap for the next few months.

Mike Cobbett, the project’s lead technical architect, lead the discussion below on the latest releases of 0.38, 0.39, and the upcoming planning for the 0.40 release later in February. Recent releases have introduced encrypted secrets management, a consolidated mono-repo for easier contributions, and role-based access control (RBAC) to improve security and governance. Looking ahead, the team is focusing on enhancing parallel test execution, improving security with HTTPS support inside clusters, and expanding Web UI capabilities for better visibility into test cases and results. Additionally, upcoming work will enable integration with password-protected Maven repositories and upgrade etcd for improved authentication and performance. As the contributors continue to enhance the project, the key aims are to ensure Galasa remains scalable, secure, and adaptable to your enterprise testing needs.

The team release regularly, with all the issues being tracked in GitHub (here) with a long backlog of items that the team want to achieve.

Additionally, the roadmap can be seen below and, in the video, to highlight what is upcoming for the project contributors.

The Galasa contributors and committers have an ambitious roadmap focused on enhancing scalability, security, and usability. In the near term, efforts are centred on secure access control, including role-based authentication enhancements and expiring access tokens to improve governance. Test execution is also being streamlined with support for password-protected Maven repositories and better HTTPS certificate handling. As the project progresses, expect major advancements in the Web UI, including expanded test visualization, log analysis, and real-time status tracking. Further down the line, the team is exploring infrastructure optimizations for better scalability, continued security enhancements, and ongoing refinements to make contributing to Galasa more accessible for the open-source community.

The contributors and TSC are looking ahead into 2025 with excitement about the increase of use of Galasa and the continued technical development in Galasa. You can also find content about all the technical updates have happened over the last quarter on the Galasa website. If you’d like to contribute, come and join us for our daily scrum meetings, fortnightly iteration planning meetings, monthly TSC meetings (calendar link), and the Github repo.

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