Friday, 11 December 2009
Infinispan's third release candidate
I’d happy to announce that after a long wait, we’ve finally released Infinispan 4.0.0.CR3 - the latest and greatest in a series of release candidates, which will hopefully be the last before we cut the final release. As such, it is really important that you try out CR3 - test it, stress it out, and provide as much feedback as possible on the user forums.
In this release, we’ve:
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Fixed the dependency issues on RHQ snapshots, which was causing problems for several people
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Added the ability to configure the cache instance used by the REST server
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Updated the query API so it is not restricted to String keys
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Loads more stuff
As always, the full set of changes are on JIRA. Download this release here, and as always, provide feedback here.
Cheers
Manik
Tags: release candidate
Monday, 23 November 2009
Article: "Introducing the Infinispan Data Grid Platform"
I’ve written the first article in a two-part series introducing Infinispan as a data grid platform, including some basic usage examples and demos. Have a look, it’s on DZone: http://java.dzone.com/articles/infinispan-data-grid-platform
Cheers Manik
Tags: user guide documentation
Monday, 23 November 2009
Devoxx 2009 recap
We’re back from Devoxx 2009, and thanks to Stephan et al for organising an excellent event. There were some brilliant talks, especially on performance tuning, JDK7 and Scala. And of course Infinspan. :)
Once the recording of my talk on Infinispan is up on Parleys.com, I’ll link to it here. But for now, you should check out this PODcast interview I did with Chariot Solutions' Ken Rimple a couple of weeks back - http://techcast.chariotsolutions.com/index.php?post_id=550487
To see what folks have been tweeting about regarding my talk at Devoxx, check out this search on twitter.com!
Enjoy, Manik
Tags: interview podcast
Friday, 13 November 2009
Second release candidate for 4.0.0
Hi all
I’m pleased to announce a second release candidate for Infinispan 4.0.0. CR2 builds on CR1, fixing a whole pile of issues reported - thanks for the feedback, everyone! In addition, we have started benchmarking and profiling Infinispan using the CacheBenchFwk project, and based on our findings have tweaked and tuned things accordingly. We will publish results of these tests soon.
This release also brings along another tech preview - the Lucene Directory Provider, courtesy of Google Summer of Code student Lukasz Moren and frequent contributor Sanne Grinovero. Excellent work, guys, finally a distributed, in-memory store for Lucene indexes! This provider is bundled in the Infinispan distro, as is a demo showing off the capabilities of such a directory provider. More details on this wiki page.
For full details on what’s changed, have a look at the release notes report in JIRA.
As always, we need feedback, especially as close as we are to a final release. Download this release (or add it as a Maven dependency), and report feedback!
Enjoy Manik
Tags: release candidate
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
First release candidate now available
Infinispan 4.0.0.CR1 is now available for download. This is an important release, containing several critical bug fixes on the last beta. Performance has improved too, with a better default JGroups stack. Many thanks to the multitude of contributors and committers who have worked hard to make this release a possibility.
A full change log is available on JIRA. Downloads and documentation are in the usual place. Please test this release with anger; feedback is critical to a high-quality final release. The user forums should be used to provide such feedback.
Enjoy
Manik
Tags: release candidate