Hi,

CR2 release fixes a critical issue from CR1: NumberFormatException when creating a new GlobalConfiguration objects (ISPN-797). Besides this, the client-server following two issues were fixed around client server modules:

Big thanks to Galder for fixing these so quickly!

Cheers,

Mircea

Hi,

4.2.CR1 code name "Ursus" has just been released! It contains multiple fixes and improvements, mainly on memcached server and rehashing when cluster topology changes. The jgroups version was also upgraded to 2.11. Another thing that’s worth mentioning is that the default port for HotRod server has changed from 11311 to 11222 (here’s why).

You can download it from here. Please share your thoughts with us!

Cheers,

Mircea

As much as I expected 4.1.0.CR2 to be the last release candidate before a final release, we’ve decided to release another candidate for you to try out before pushing out a final release.  CR3 is now out and ready to roll.

There has been a lot of activity in the Infinispan community over the last 3 weeks, with lots of people putting CR2 through its paces, and reporting everything from the trivial through to the critical.  This is awesome stuff, folks - keep it up!

This release has fixed a whole bunch of things you guys have reported.  Many thanks to Galder, Mircea, Vladimir and Sanne, working hard around vacations to get this release out.

Detailed release note reports are on JIRA, and it can be downloaded in the usual place.  Use the forums and report stuff - push this as hard as you’ve been pushing CR2 and we will have that rock-solid final release we all want!

Enjoy! Manik

I’ve just released Infinispan 4.1.0.CR2, codenamed Radegast.  Why is this release so important?  Because it is very close to the final version of the Hot Rod wire protocol, and the client and server modules that sit on either end of Hot Rod, allowing remote and non-JVM access to the data grid.  Further, the memached protocol - along with the ability to make use of any existing memcached client - is also supported.

Since the last release candidate, a number of important bugs - as reported by you, the community - have been addressed, all details available on this release note report.

Thanks go out to the community for contributions, lots of testing and feedback, and given that I hope this to be the last release candidate before a final release of 4.1.0, I’m counting on even more feedback, etc. for this release.  Keep 'em coming, people! :-)

The release is available on Sourceforge, please use the user forums for questions and JIRA to report issues.

Enjoy! Manik

After very busy last few weeks with JUDCon and JBoss World/Red Hat Summit, we’re proud to release Infinispan 4.1.0.CR1, the first candidate release of the Infinispan 4.1 series. The release is downloadable in the usual place.

A lot of work has gone into this release primarily with the aim of stabilising new functionality wrote in previous beta/alpha versions. Here are some of the highlights included in this release:

A more detailed changelog can be found here.

Finally, if you’re a user of Infinispan 4.0 or 4.1, please make sure you download and try this release out so that any outstanding issues are fixed in time for the final release. Also, if you’re interested in finding out more about Infinispan’s architecture, don’t miss Manik’s latest article explaining Infinispan’s 'nuts and bolts'.

Cheers,

Galder Zamarreño

In the run-up to preparing Infinispan for a public release, we’ve been busy on a number of interesting things, which have led to a decision to release another CR instead.

The main driver behind this is that we’ve finally managed to get our hands on a sizeable cluster large enough to truly test scalability. Expect interesting public benchmarks to be published soon, watch this space. (I recently blogged about some local-mode benchmarks)

To enable such benchmarks, we’ve renewed efforts on building out the Cache Benchmarking Framework. This framework was originally a part of JBoss Cache’s source tree, and has now been extracted and migrated to SourceForge. We welcome others contributing additional plugins for more distributed cache/data grid products, as well as more tests and access patterns.

Finally, extensive community feedback over the past few weeks have resulted in lots of bugs fixed and performance patches applied. Also, we finally have a beta release of JClouds and an all-new CloudCacheStore for folks to play with.

The release is available in its usual place. I look forward to getting feedback on this release, this time truly a release candidate, i.e., one that, unchanged, could very well become the final release.

Your last chance for feedback on this release, people!

Cheers

Manik

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