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

I’ve just released the long-awaited first beta of Infinispan 4.2.0, codenamed Ursus.  The blocker that’s been keeping Ursus in Alpha for so long - ISPN-180 - is now complete and ready for you to take out for a spin.  Thanks to the work put in by Mircea and Vladimir, ISPN-180 adds support in the distribution algorithm to detect whether Infinispan instances are co-located on the same physical server (or even the same rack) and pick secondary owners of data with this knowledge in mind. This helps ensure maximum durability of data, so if physical machines - or even an entire rack - were to fail, data is not lost.  For more details on ISPN-180, have a look at this wiki page which details its use.

The JOPR/RHQ plugin now works in multi cache manager environments (ISPN-675) and thanks to ISPN-754, cache manager instances can be easily identified when using the JOPR/RHQ management GUI.  As a result of ISPN-754, JMX object names follow best practices as set up by Sun/Oracle and so this means that object names exported to JMX have changed from this version onwards. See this wiki page for detailed information.

For a list of all fixes since Alpha5, have a look at the release notes in JIRA, and as always, download the release here, and let us know what you think using the user forums.

Onward to release candidate and final release phases!  :-)

Enjoy, Manik

Hi,

You can find the release notes here.

Try it and let us know what you think!

Cheers,

Mircea

Hi,

Infinispan 4.2.ALPHA3 "Ursus" has just been released!

Besides other fixes and improvements, it also contains an Cassandra cache store - thanks to Tristan Tarrant for contributing this!

For a complete list of the realed features refer to the release notes.

Download it and let us know what you think!

Cheers,

Mircea

Hi,

First of all A BIG THANKS to our very active community for all the input on the previous release!

Second alpha release of 4.2 "Ursus" is out today. It contains a set of bug fixes and improvements - see the detailed list here. For download information go here. And please share your thoughts on our forums!

Enjoy!

Mircea

Hi *,

4.2.ALPHA1 has just been released! Besides other things, it contains following two features: - supports deadlock detection for eagerly locking transactions (new) - an very interesting optimisation for eager locking, which allows one to benefit from eager locking semantics with the same performance as "lazy" locking. You can read more about this here. For download information go here. For a detailed list of features refer to the release notes.

Enjoy and please share your thoughts on our forums!

Mircea

Yes, things have been quiet on this blog as of late, but a lot has been going on.  Let’s start with the big news.  After much work on feedback reported on the last Radegast release candidate, Infinispan 4.1.0.FINAL is finally ready.  Many thanks to the community who have worked tirelessly in testing stuff, reporting stuff.

This is a very important release.  If you are using 4.0.0 (Starobrno), I strongly recommend upgrading to Radegast as we have a whole host of big fixes, performance improvements and new features for you.  A full changelog is available on JIRA, but a few key features to note are server endpoints, a Java-based client for the Hot Rod protocol, and the new LIRS eviction algorithm.

Download it, give it a go, and talk about it on the forums.  Tell your friends about it, tweet about it.

The other interesting piece of news is the announcement of a 4.2.0 release.  We’ve decided to take a few key new features from 5.0.0 and release them earlier, as 4.2.0 - codenamed Ursus.  If you are interested in what’s going to be in Ursus, have a look at this feature set, and expect a beta on Ursus pretty soon now!

Enjoy! Manik

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

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

Hi,

The second and hopefully last Beta for 4.1 has just been released. Thanks to excellent community feedback, several HotRod client/server issues were fixed. Besides this and other bug-fixes (check this for complete list), following new features were added: - an key affinity service that generates keys to be distributed to specific nodes - RemoteCacheStore that allow an Infinspan cluster to be used as an remote data store

Enjoy! Mircea