The current version for View500 is View500 Release 6.0 Patch 5e9 which was released on 2nd May 2008 and Version 6.0.0.9 for the View500 DUA (Directory User Agent).

The next release is version 7.0. This is a major new release and is expected to be available during Q2 2008 (November).
Version 7.0 will have some of the following features:

1. A brand new Windows .NET based Administrative client. This new client will allow customers easy to use tools to set up, design and implement View500. It will communicate with the View500 server using secure links and using strong Authentication and be capable of managing many distributed Directory servers from the one Administrative client.

2. Completely updated Documentation with easy to use Help screens

3. A brand new API Toolkit. This will allow customers to implement their own application very easily using a set of pre defined API Links.

4. A set of pre-configured user application templates for use within the integrated webDUA (These templates include Organisation Charting, Reporting lines – an ability to navigate up and down an Organisational Tree, On the Fly reporting – the ability of users to specify on the run a particular report that they need, Certificate Management – the ability of users to use View500 to do PKI and Role based attribute certificate management, Security Policy management , the ability to search, create, edit, manage and delete, access control and security policies in View500.

5. A whole range of newly defined attributes types and the ability through access control to secure access to these attribute types. Such new Attributes include Role, Rank, Security Policy, X.841 Security Classification, Zulu time start and finish etc.

6. The ability to support both Role Based and Time based access control in the Directory Server itself.

7. Full Support for IPv6 Full support for TCP IP v6 - Internet Protocol Version 6 is abbreviated to IPv6 (The previous version of the Internet Protocol is version 4 (referred to as IPv4). IPv6 is a new version of IP which is designed to be an evultionary step from IPv4. IPv6 is designed to run well on high performance networks (e.g. Gigabit Ethernet, OC-12, ATM etc) and at the same time still be efficient for low bandwidth networks (eg. wireless).

8. The full support of Multi-word synonyms for approximate matching as well as support of redefined LDAP syntaxes plus component approximate matching and Noise word and synonym lists stored as operational attributes with new Noise list support for Defence.

9. Full support for RXER encoding instructions in the RXER encoder/decoder and simpler pointer dereferencing in the ASN.1 runtime environment.

10. Full support for approximate matching capabilities for Chinese languages and an implementation Template for both White & Yellow Pages in Chinese.

11. Full support (using DAP strong authentication and component matching) for Clearswift EAL4 Deep Secure High Assurance Guard and Clearswift EAL4 Directory Bastion.

12. The ability to hide URLs in the web DUA page line in order to not reveal organisational structures.

13. A set of integration capabilities built to support customers using our new XML enabled support of XLDAP. Examples are the integration of View500 with both NEC and Alcatel’s XML Based PBX systems, integration with Lotus Same time to allow automatic awareness of User Presence and the ability to open up Presence windows within View500.