We are excited to announce the release of Tractus-X 24.05! This release builds the foundation for one of the most significant updates to our Catena-X data space to date. Highlights include an update to the Multi-Opco solutions, the full implementation of the Industry Core KIT as well as the advancement of Self Sovereign Identity concepts. Conjointly, it makes several improvements to the user-friendliness of KITs based on feedback received to date, making Tractus-X overall more accessible and welcoming to newcomers and veterans alike. A big thank you to all contributors and committers for bringing this milestone to life and keep Tractus-X as one of the most significant open-source projects in the automotive industry.

With Release 24.05, the Catena-X Association will also introduce significant advancements in its operating model including an update to its regulatory framework, an update to its roles, improvements to the overall release management and compatibility schemes as well as for the first time, interoperability criteria. Stay tuned for an official release on the Catena-X website at the end of June 2024.

Enjoy diving into the all new Tractus-X Release!

Dear Tractus-X Community Members 🎉,

we are excited to extend this invitation to you for our upcoming Tractus-X meetings. These meetings are a great opportunity for both business stakeholders and developers to contribute and collaborate on the future of Tractus-X. Please feel free to forward this post to anyone interested in contributing, whether in planning or development.

Open Meetings​

• Refinement Phase - Release 24.12
• Refinement Day 1 - Release 24.12
• Draft Feature Freeze - Release 24.12
• Refinement Day 2 - Release 24.12
• Open Planning Days - Release 24.12

We are pleased to announce our first minor release in 2024!

Tractus-X Release 24.03 focuses on improving the performance and stability of our Catena-X core and onboard services, strengthening our data space foundation.

Use Cases & Value Creation: With five new KITs we are introducing exciting new offerings to solve the toughest industry problems such as company certificate management, data governance, manufacturing as a service, environmental & social standards (ESS).

The Industry Core is an integrative layer between the industry-agnostic dataspace foundation and the use cases. It ensures that the various applications can access common functionalities. It describes how digital twins of components, materials and vehicles can be created for the automotive industry and linked with direct business partners.

Data Space Governance: The Catena-X Automotive Network e.V. will provide the corresponding standards (https://catena-x.net/de/standard-library).

Dear Tractus-X- and Dataspace-Community,

After the great success of our event in December 2023, we are pleased to invite you to the second edition: the Second Eclipse Tractus-X Community Days on May 16 and 17, 2024, again in the inspiring and collaborative atmosphere of ARENA2036 in Stuttgart!

Dear Tractus-X Community Members 🎉,

we are excited to extend this invitation to you for our upcoming Tractus-X meetings. These meetings are a great opportunity for both business stakeholders and developers to contribute and collaborate on the future of Tractus-X. Please feel free to forward this post to anyone interested in contributing, whether in planning or development.

Agenda​

• Date: 10th April and 11th April 2024
• Time: 08:00 - 12:00
• Please see the Open Meetings page for downloadable ICS file and session link
• Release Planning Board

Dear Tractus-X Community Members 🎉,

We are excited to extend this invitation to you for our upcoming Tractus-X meetings. These meetings are a great opportunity for both business stakeholders and developers to contribute and collaborate on the future of Tractus-X. Please feel free to forward this post to anyone interested in contributing, whether in planning or development.

Upcoming Meetings:

• Tractus-X Guardrails
  • Date: 13th December 2023
  • Time: 13:00 - 14:00
  • Meetinglink
• Tractus-X Open Refinement meeting canceled
  • Date: 19th December 2023
  • Time: 09:00 - 16:00
  • Meetinglink
• Tractus-X Open Refinement
  • Date: 10th January 2024
  • Time: 09:00 - 16:00
  • Meetinglink
• Tractus-X Open Planning
  • Date: 17th January 2024
  • Time: 09:30 - 16:30
  • Meetinglink

We are pleased to announce the Tractus-X Release 23.12! This release brings important improvements to our Catena-X operating system and KITs in terms of robustness, documentation, and usability (e.g. enhanced error handling) for all data space participants.

Catena-X Operating System (cxOS): We have significantly improved the performance, deployability, and the automation of our test approach of our core and enablement services. We realized our vision of multi-operating-company scenarios by fully enabling the Onboarding Service Provider Role, which allows various companies to perform the registration process now.

Use Cases & Value Creation: With five new use case KITs and the Knowledge Agent KIT, we are introducing exciting new offerings to solve the toughest industry problems such as Demand and Capacity Management and Circular Economy together. The Knowledge Agent KIT provides a new compute-to-data approach, that is already implemented in the Remaining Useful Life KIT.

Data Space Governance: The Catena-X Automotive Network e.V. will provide the corresponding standards ( https://catena-x.net/de/standard-library) as well as 101 pager describing Catena-X in an easy way ( https://catena-x.net/de/library).

The Tractus-X open source community is pleased to announce the introduction of a new tutorial section, including our inaugural End-to-End (E2E) Adopter Journey Tutorial.

Overview of the New Tutorial Section​

This new section aims to provide structured and detailed educational content for our community members. The initiative reflects our commitment to supporting the continuous learning and development of our users and contributors.

Hello Open Source Enthusiasts! 🎉

the Catena-X open-source reference implementations are currently mainly driven by the Catena-X consortium. We want to open-up the software development step by step and therefore warmly invite you to shape and contribute to this reference implementation!

To get more transparency about the status and product roadmaps of our reference implementations, we will conduct refinement and planning meetings in the Tractus-X open-source community.

We're thrilled to announce our upcoming planning sessions for Tractus-X:

• Open Refinementsession on 19.10.2023
• Open Planning/Review Session on 25.10.2023

Here's your chance to be part of an exciting journey from the ground up.

Dear Tractus-X-Community, dear All, being interested in Catena-X and the open source reference implementations, KITs and open core products in the Tractus-X project or in general in the technology of data sovereign data exchange,

We are pleased to announce the First Eclipse Tractus-X Community Days, which will take place on December 7th and 8th at ARENA2036 in Stuttgart.