Roadmap
Features planned for future releases.
Feature releases
Infinispan follows a time-boxed schedule for feature releases, according to the following rules:
- First Wednesday of Feb, Jun, Oct
- Feature releases increment the minor version number
- Major version increments may only happen when one of the following is true
- Deprecation removals
- JDK baseline upgrade
- In-place rolling upgrade incompatibilities introduced by new features
Release schedule
| Version | Slush freeze | Hard freeze | Release date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16.1 | 2026-01-21 | 2026-01-30 | 2026-02-04 |
| 16.2 | 2026-05-20 | 2026-05-29 | 2026-06-03 |
| 16.3 | 2026-09-23 | 2026-10-02 | 2026-10-07 |
Upcoming features
Warning: The list below is subject to change without notice at any time.
- Java Platform Module System: ensure that Infinispan jars can be used in a modular path
- Change Data Capture: integration with Debezium to keep data in the cache synchronized with an external source
- OpenAPI support: evolve our REST API to provide an OpenAPI/Swagger descriptor
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) endpoint: integrate Infinispan into AI workflows
- Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4: integrate with the new versions
- Safe Mode: start a cluster in a read-only mode for post-mortem analysis and repair
- More: see our issue tracker for more planned features
