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As you may have noticed, our forum was not available since Friday evening until this Saturday afternoon (Paris time).

In fact, our Dedibox hardware, which was running fine for years, just break down, and was not able to reboot.
The Dedibox/ScaleWay/Online service answered to my ticket that... the server just died... and they were not able to reboot either. What I did not know is that they can't access the hardware, because there are other servers in the same chassis, so they can't fix it. Or even investigate further. Period. Nice service.

So pretty much killed dead.

mORMot is a general purpose Open Source library, which features some advanced cryptographic primitives. It is written in modern object pascal, with some assembly for its core process. It is used since years in several security-sensitive projects, and has been audited internally by at least one billion dollar company.

We already spoke about this a few years ago. In the meanwhile, the implementation details of our CSPRNG (Cryptographically Secure Pseudorandom Number Generator), as it is currently in the mORMot 2 repository, have been tuned and proven. Time to share some more information.

It is time for a new mORMot release!

OpenAPI, which was formerly called Swagger, is a set of specifications to encode the server API endpoints definitions into text, mostly JSON.
From this reference text, you can generate client code to access the service, in a vast number of languages.

Delphi seems to be far behind other languages, in terms of this code generation. I found nothing even working for FPC.
Since we needed it for our internal tools at Tranquil IT, we just published the new mormot.net.openapi.pas Open Source unit, which is quite a game changer. Thanks Andreas for starting this project, and testing it in its early age!