Infinispan 9.0.0.Alpha1 is out!

Dear Infinispan community,

it is with great pleasure that we are announcing the release of Infinispan 9.0.0.Alpha1 the first release of the Infinispan 9 series.

We plan to do many exciting things in Infinispan 9.x, and this release is just one of many stepping-stones that will get us there. Here's what's included with Alpha1:

• Graceful clustered shutdown / restart with persistent state
• The REST cache store has a shiny new Netty-based backend, courtesy of Antoine Toulme
• and many, many bugfixes: consult our issue tracker for a list of things we have fixed. 

A new major release is also the moment to peform some "spring-cleaning" (pun intended):

• We've removed Spring 3.x support
• We've removed our home-brew map/reduce implementation. By now you should be using the wonderful Streams-based API instead which are much nicer and provide better performance
• We've dropped our custom NotifyingListeners in favour of Java's standard CompletableFuture

Don't forget to check-out our roadmap to see the schedule and the things we want to do

Download it now, try it and tell us what you think on the infinispan forums or come and meet us on IRC: channel #infinispan on Freenode.

Infinispan 8.1.3.Final is out!

Dear community,

We are proud to announce the release of Infinispan 8.1.3.Final. Download it here and try it out!

The maintenance release includes:

• Fixed cluster startup in client server mode
• Fixed default cache race condition during server start
• Fixed QueryDSL parser failure with inheritence
• Improved test suite stability
• Fixed registering clustered listener (previously it cased SuspectException)

We also performed some upgrades:

• Protostream was upgraded to 3.0.5.Final
• XStream was upgraded to 1.4.9

Check out the fixed issues, download the releases and tell us all about it on the forum, on our issue tracker or on IRC on the #infinispan channel on Freenode.

Cheers,
The Infinispan team

Infinispan 8.2.1.Final is out!

Dear community,

We are proud to announce the release of Infinispan 8.2.1.Final. Download it here and try it out!

The release contains the following changes:

• Improved test suite stability
• Fixed deadlock and default cache race condition during server start
• Fixed ShardIndexManager stop order
• Rebalance start now contains node info
• Fixed Timeout updating the JGroups view after killing one node
• Boolean projections will work correctly in compatibility mode

We also upgraded some of our components:

• Hibernate Search was upgraded to 5.6.0.Alpha3
• XStream was upgraded to 1.4.9

Check out the stable release notes, download the releases and tell us all about it on the forum, on our issue tracker or on IRC on the #infinispan channel on Freenode.

Cheers,
The Infinispan team