Monday, 29 May 2017
Hotrod clients C++/C# 8.1.1.Final released!
Dear Infinispanners,
we’re pleased to announce that 8.1.1.Final release for C++/C# clients is out!
Check the release notes and browse the source code, effort this time has been put in reducing code complexity.
This is the first release built by our new CI Jenkins environment, this is supposed to not affect the binaries but if you feel that something has gone wrong please fill a jira issue.
Enjoy and thanks for reading!
The Infinispan Team
Tags: c++ release minor release final cpp-client dotnet-client c#
Monday, 24 April 2017
Hotrod clients C++/C# 8.1.0.Final released!
Dears,
we’re pleased to announce that 8.1.0.Final release for C++/C# clients is out!
Check the Release Notes and try it yourself without fear, it’s tagged as stable!
As in the best TV series: Final doesn’t mean the last! Stay tuned for the next 8.2.0 "More Fun Is Coming" season :)
Enjoy and thanks for reading!
The Infinispan Team
Tags: c++ release final c#
Friday, 31 March 2017
Infinispan 9
Infinispan 9 is the culmination of nearly a year of work. It is codenamed "Ruppaner" in honor of the city of Konstanz, where we designed many of the improvements we’ve made. Prost!
Performance
We decided it was time to revisit Infinispan’s performance and scalability. So we went back to our internals design and we made a number of improvements. Infinispan 9.0 is faster than any previous release by quite a sizeable margin in a number of key aspects:
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distributed writes, thanks to a new algorithm which reduces the number of RPCs required to write to the owners
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distributed reads, which scale much better under load
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replicated writes, also with better scalability under load
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eviction, thanks to a new in-memory container
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internal marshalling, which was completely rewritten
We will have a post dedicated to benchmarks detailing the difference against previous versions and in various scenarios.
Marshalling
We’ve made several improvements in the cluster and persistent storage marshalling layer which has resulted in increased performance and smaller payloads. Also, the new marshaller layer makes JBoss Marshalling an optional component, which is only used when no Infinispan Externalizers (or AdvancedExternalizers) are available for a given type, hence relying on standard JDK Serializable/Externalizable capabilities to be marshalled.
Remote Hot Rod Clients
We now ship alternate marshallers for remote clients based on Kryo and ProtoStuff.
Additionally, the Hot Rod protocol now supports streaming operations for dealing with large objects.
Off-Heap and data-container changes
An In-Memory Data Grid likes to eat through your memory (because you want it to be fast!), but in the world of the JVM that is not ideal: that huge chunk of data gives Garbage Collectors a hard time when the heap goes into double-digit gigabyte territory. Long GC pauses can make individual nodes unresponsive, compromising the stability of your cluster.
Infinispan 9 introduces an improved data container which can optionally store entries off-heap.
Additionally, our bounded container has been replaced with Ben Manes' excellent Caffeine which provides much better performance. Check out Ben’s benchmarks where he compares, among other things, against Infinispan’s old bounded container.
Configuration-wise, the previously separate concepts of eviction, store-as-binary and data-container have been merged into a single 'memory' configuration element.
Persistence
The JDBC cache store received quite an overhaul:
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The internal connection pool is now based on HikariCP, for improved performance
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Writes will now use database-specific upsert functionality when available
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Transactional writes to the cache translate to transactional writes to the database
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The JdbcBinaryStore and JdbcMixedStore have been removed as detailed here
We have also replaced the LevelDB cache store with the better-maintained and faster RocksDB cache store.
Ickle, our new query language
We decided it was time for Infinispan to have a proper query language, which would take full advantage of our query capabilities. We have therefore grafted Lucene’s full-text operators on top of a subset of JP-QL to obtain Ickle. We have already started describing Ickle in a recent blog post. For a taste of Ickle, the following query shows how to combine a traditional boolean clause with a full-text term query:
select transactionId, amount, description from com.acme.Transaction where amount > 10 and description : "coffee"
Cloud integrations
Infinispan continues to play nicely in cloud environments thanks to a number of improvements that have been made to discovery (such as KUBE_PING for Kubernetes/OpenShift), health probes and our pre-built Docker images.
Multi-tenant server and SNI support
Infinispan Server is now capable of exposing multiple cache containers through a single Hot Rod or REST endpoint. The selection of the container is performed via SNI. This allows you to have a single cluster serve all your applications while maintaining each one’s data isolated.
Administration Console
The adminstration console has been completely rewritten in a more modular fashion using TypeScript to allow for greater extensibility and ease of maintanence. In addition to this refactor, the console now supports the following:
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Stateless views
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HTTP Digest Authentication
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Management of individual and clustered Standalone server instances
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Internet Explorer
Documentation overhaul
Our documentation has been completely overhauled with entire chapters being added or rewritten for readability and consistency.
What’s coming
We will be blogging in more detail about some of the things above, so watch out for more content coming soon !
We’ve already started working on Infinispan 9.1 which will bring a number of new features and improvements, such as clustered counters, consistency checker with merge policies, a new distributed cache for even better write performance, and more.
Tags: release final
Tuesday, 17 May 2016
Infinispan 9.0.0.Alpha2 (and 8.2.2.Final)
Dear Infinispan users,
we have baked two fresh releases for you today.
First off we have a new micro release of our stable 8.2 branch which fixes 57 issues. If you are using any other 8.x release, please upgrade to 8.2.2.Final as this contains a bunch of bugfixes and performance improvements in all areas.
On top of that we have a brand new Alpha release from our development branch: 9.0.0.Alpha2 which comes loaded with a few goodies:
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SNI support for HotRod, which paves the way for server multi-tenancy
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JDBC cache stores can use upsert (one of our oldest bugs !!!)
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An httpd-style access log for server
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The new sequential interceptor architecture
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Lucene query caching
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A grand total of 138 issues were resolved
Don’t forget to check-out our roadmap to see the schedule and the things we want to do
Tags: release final alpha
Monday, 01 February 2016
Infinispan 8.2.0.Beta1 and 8.1.1.Final are out!
Dear all,
We are proud to announce two releases today:
Infinispan 8.2.0.Beta1 is the first release in the 8.2 cycle. It doesn’t have big new features, but there are a few significant changes in addition to the usual bug fixes:
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SyncConsistentHashFactory is now the default consistent hash factory (ISPN-4851). This means the owners of a key are going to be the same in all the caches, as long as the caches have the same members and the same number of owners.
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We now have a new way for applications to determine the location of keys: the KeyPartitioner interface (ISPN-5465). In spirit it is very similar to the existing Grouper interface, but it is segment-aware. Note that none of the HotRod clients support Keypartitioner in this release.
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We improved the rolling upgrade performance (ISPN-6046).
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We added a new event logger that records cluster membership, cache topology, and cache availability changes (ISPN-5816). In the next release, it will also be accessible through the server’s management console.
Infinispan 8.1.1.Final includes a number of bug fixes. All users of 8.1.0.Final are encouraged to upgrade.
You can get both releases from our download page. If you are new to Infinispan, you can learn how to use it, and help us continually improve it.
Tags: beta release final
Tuesday, 08 December 2015
Infinispan 8.1.0.Final is out!
Dear all,
We are proud to announce the release of Infinispan 8.1.0.Final, codenamed “Mahou”, the culmination of four months of active development.
This release brings many enhancements but most of all we would like to highlight the new Infinispan Web Management Console which is finally ready for prime time. We have gone through quite a few iterations in UI/UIX design to make sure the majority of use case scenarios are covered. In 8.2 release we are going to add further enhancements to configuring and managing endpoints, server tasks, cache containers and others. Until then, have a look, try it out and do not forget to provide us with your feedback. As a teaser, we provide you with the following video showcasing the new admin console.
Discover all the cool new features here or read the full release notes here. You can get this release from ourhttp://infinispan.org/download/[ download page] as usual. If you are new to Infinispan you can learn how to use it and help us continually improve it.
Enjoy and stay tuned for more posts covering the new features!
The Infinispan team
Tags: release console final
Monday, 04 May 2015
Infinispan 7.2.0.Final is out!
Dear Infinispan community,
We are proud to announce the release of Infinispan 7.2.0.Final.
Check out the new 7.2.0 release notes on our website. Also, this release contains bugfixes and optimizations to make your application faster.
For a complete list of features and bug fixes included in this release, please refer to the full release notes. Visit our downloads section to find the latest release.
Feel free to join us and shape the future releases on our https://developer.jboss.org/en/infinispan/content?filterID=contentstatus%5Bpublished%5Dobjecttypeobjecttype%5Bthread%5D[forums], our mailing lists or our #infinispan IRC channel.
A big thank you to our community for their helpful contributions and support.
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The Infinispan Team
Tags: release final
Wednesday, 19 November 2014
Infinispan 7.0.2.Final released!
Dear community,
Infinispan 7.0.2.Final is now available!
This release removes duplication from the service lookup metadata. Please consult the release notes for details.
Thanks to everyone involved in this release!
Visit our downloads section to find the latest release. If you have any questions please check our forums, our mailing lists or ping us directly on IRC.
Tags: release final
Monday, 17 November 2014
Infinispan 7.0.1.Final released!
Dear community,
Infinispan 7.0.1.Final is now available!
This is a bug-fix release and contains query performance improvements. For the complete list of changes please consult the release notes.
Thanks to everyone involved in this release!
Visit our downloads section to find the latest release. If you have any questions please check our forums, our mailing lists or ping us directly on IRC.
Tags: release final
Tuesday, 04 November 2014
Infinispan 7.0.0.Final is out!!
Hi all,
We are really proud to announce the release of Infinispan 7.0.0.Final!!
This is the culmination of several months of development which has focused on on Security, Cluster Partition handling, JSR-107 JCache 1.0.0 support, Clustered Listeners, Remote Events, Query improvements and brand new XML configuration.
To mark the occasion, the team has prepared a thorough release notes page highlighting all the major features and enhancements implemented in Infinispan 7.0 series.
The Infinispan team would like to recognise all the community members that have contributed to this release, in no particular order:
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Radim Vansa for his Soft-Index File Store and many more enhancements and fixes
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Takayoshi Kimura for fixes such as ISPN-3752, ISPN-4476 and ISPN-4477
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Jiri Holusa for his tremendous work to improve our test coverage work and fixing issues like ISPN-3442
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Karl von Randow for his documentation fixes, init.d fixes in ISPN-4141 and enhancements to putForExternalRead method as part of ISPN-3792
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Jakub Markos for his work to optimise the Infinispan Server testsuite in ISPN-4317 and many fixes and test suite enhancements
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Michal Linhard fox his ISPN-3750 fix
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Vitalii Chepeliuk for his work on extending test coverage and fixes such as ISPN-3880
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Vojtech Juranek for his continued work to improve Infinispan with fixes such as ISPN-4072 and his work to increase the test coverage
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Martin Gencur for the many issues he fixed including ISPN-3771, ISPN-4499 and others…
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Norman Maurer for porting Infinispan Servers to use Netty 4
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Tomáš Sýkora for fixes such as ISPN-3136 and ISPN-4076, and improved test coverage
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Paul Ferraro for many fixes including fixes such as ISPN-4375 and ISPN-4374
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Nicolas Filotto for his ISPN-3689 fix
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Brett Meyer for his amazing work to get Infinispan working in OSGI environments as part of ISPN-800 and many related fixes
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Radoslav Husar for his several fixes
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Sebastian Łaskawiec for his work to improve our CDI integration and moving to Jackson for JSON
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Karsten Blees for his LIRS eviction fixes
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Niels Bertramn for his ISPN-4679 fix
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Duncan Doyle for his work on ISPN-4637
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Emmanuel Bernard for his documentation improvements
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Gabriel Francisco for his work to revamp the Mongo DB cache store
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Bilgin Ibryam for his OSGI fixes
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Erik Salter for his work on orphaned transactions and fixes such as ISPN-4872
Thanks to all contributors for your amazing work and effort! We hope you carry on contributing in future releases.
Finally, during the Infinispan 7.0 series, Gustavo Fernandes has joined the team making outstanding contributions in our Query project, and Tristan Tarrant has joined the team full time taking on Infinispan’s Security layer. Thanks to both!!
Cheers,
Galder
Tags: release final
