Zato 3.0 has just been released - this is a major release that brings a lot of immensely interesting API integration features.

Zato is an enterprise open-source Python-based ESB/SOA/API integration platform and backend application server.

It is designed specifically for construction of online, mobile, IoT, middleware and backend Python systems running in banking, telecommunications, health-care, insurance, education, public administration or other environments that require integrations of multiple applications.

Highlight of the release are:

• Addition of a built-in multi-protocol message broker with publish/subscribe topics and guaranteed delivery queues

• Single Sign-On and user management API

• Security mechanisms to help in achieving compliance with PII regulations (e.g. GDPR, HIPAA or PDPA)

• SAP connections

• IDE plugins for PyCharm and Visual Studio Code

• WebSocket channels

• New caching layer and Memcached connections

• Automatic API documentation generation - Sphinx, OpenAPI/Swagger and WSDL

• SMS messaging with Twilio

• HashiCorp Vault security definitions

• JSON Web Token security definitions (JWT)

• Extended hot-deployment to work with static files, including JSON, XML, CSV or any other format

• AMQP, ZeroMQ and IBM MQ connections can now be synchronous

• New crypto mechanisms: encryption and decryption, hashing as well as generation of passwords and secrets

• General performance improvements let Zato servers run up to several times faster - applies to HTTP, AMQP, ZeroMQ and IBM MQ connections

Here is the documentation, downloads and full changelog.