Infinispan 9.4.0.CR3, 9.3.3 and codename vote

Hi Infinispan Community,

our original plan was to release 9.4 Final today, but we have decided to delay the release by an extra sprint (3 weeks).
So today we are announcing 9.4.0.CR3 instead, which comes with the following fixes:

• Segmented off-heap data container
• Performance improvements for Near Caches
• Hot Rod client-side statistics
• Removal of the old compatibility mode in favor of the new transcoding capabilities is now complete
• Server rebased on top of WildFly 14
• Lots of code cleanups, especially around query
• Bug fixes

For those of you on our stable branch, we also released a 9.3.3 with some bug fixes.

Please download, report bugs, chat with us, ask questions on the forum or on StackOverflow.

As this release is yet unnamed, please make sure you vote for the name:

Infinispan 9.3.2.Final and 9.4.0.CR2 are out!

Dear Infinispan users,

We have just released 9.3.2.Final and 9.4.0.CR2.

9.3.2.Final includes bug fixes and improvements.

Highlights of this release include:

• Upgrade to protostream 4.2.1.Final (ISPN-9399) 
• Ship basic analyzers by default (ISPN-9429) 
• Avoid unneeded parentheses in Ickle query string generated by QueryBuilder (ISPN-9378) 

The full list of 9.3.2.Final fixes are here.

9.4.0.CR2 has been released due to an internal issue we experienced releasing CR1.

You can find both releases on our download page. Please report any issues in our issue tracker and join the conversation in our Zulip Chat to shape up our next release.

Enjoy,

The Infinispan Team

Infinispan 9.3.0.Final is out!

We're delighted to announce the release of Infinispan 9.3.0.Final, which is a culmination of several months of hard work by the entire Infinispan community. Here's a summary of what you can find within it:

• First final release to work with both Java 8 and Java 10. Note that Infinispan only works in classpath mode.
• Transaction support Hot Rod. The java Hot Rod client can participate in Java transactions via Synchronization or XA enlistment. Note that recovery isn't supported yet.
• Caches can now configure the maximum number of attempts to start a CacheWriter/CacheLoader on startup before cache creation fails.
• Write-behind stores are now fault-tolerant by default.
• Segmented On Heap Data Container. It improves performance of stream operations.
• Server upgraded to Wildfly 13.
• We have introduced several WildFly feature packs to make it easier for Infinispan to be utilised on WildFly instances via the Server Provisioning Plugin. The following feature packs have been created, most notably:
• infinispan-feature-pack-client
• All of the modules required to connect to a hotrod server via the client
• infinispan-feature-pack-embedded
• The modules required for embedded instances of Infinispan
• infinispan-feature-pack-embedded-query
• The same as above but with query capabilities
• infinispan-feature-pack-wf-modules
• This is equivalent to the Wildfly-modules.zip
• Hibernate second-level cache provider works with Hibernate ORM 5.3.
• The Hot Rod Server allows now to use multiple protocols with a Single Port. The initial version supports HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 and Hot Rod. Switching protocols can be done using TLS/ALPN and HTTP/1.1 Upgrade header.
• Admin console - improved all editors (schema, scripts, JSON data) to include syntax highlighting.
• Several enhancements in the Java Hot Rod client allowing to read and write data in different formats such as JSON, for cache operations and deployed filters/converters.
• Cluster wide max idle expiration.
• Component Upgrades
• Hibernate Search 5.10
• Hibernate ORM 5.3
• Numerous bug fixes which improve stability

For more details, please check our issue tracking release notes.

Thanks to everyone involved in this release! Onward to Infinispan 9.4!

Cheers,

Galder

Infinispan 9.3.0.CR1

Dear Infinispan Community,

we're glad to announce that 9.3.0.CR1 is out!

This is the first release which works with both Java 8 and Java 10. Pre-releases of Java 11 work too. Note that Infinispan still only works in classpath mode.

Highlights of this release include:

• Expanded transaction support in Hot Rod, which can now participate in Java transactions via Sync or Xa enlistment. Transaction recovery isn't supported yet.
  
• Caches can now configure the maximum number of attempts to start a CacheWriter/CacheLoader on startup before cache creation fails.
• Write-behind stores are now fault-tolerant by default
• Segmented On-Heap Data Container improves stream operation performance
• We have introduced several WildFly feature packs to make it easier for Infinispan to be utilised on WildFly instances via the Server Provisioning Plugin. The following feature packs have been created:
• infinispan-feature-pack-client: all of the modules required to connect to a hotrod server via the client
• infinispan-feature-pack-embedded: the modules required for embedded instances of Infinispan
• infinispan-feature-pack-embedded-query: the same as above but with query capabilities
• infinispan-feature-pack-wf-modules: this is equivalent to the wildfly-modules.zip
  
• 2-Level cache now works with Hibernate ORM 5.3
• The server now allows multiple protocols with a Single Port. The initial version supports HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 and Hot Rod. Switching protocols can be done using TLS/ALPN and HTTP/1.1 Upgrade header.
• Admin console - improved all editors (schema, scripts, JSON data) to include syntax highlighting
• Component Upgrades: Hibernate Search 5.10 and Hibernate ORM 5.3

Numerous bug fixes which improve stability are also included (here is the full list of the solved issues).

As usual, you can find all the bits on our website. If you find any issues, don't hesitate to report them on our issue tracker.