<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>I am pleased to announce the much awaited final release of Infinispan 5.2.0. Containing more than 100 features and enhancements and 150 bug fixes [1], this release the sustained effort of engineering, QA and our growing community - a big thanks to everyone involved! </div><div><br></div><div>Highlights:</div><div>- The non-blocking state transfer[2] which is a much more efficient and flexible implementation of the functionality that allows Infinispan to serve requests during nodes joining/leaving. </div><div>- The cross-site replication[3] functionality which allows backing up data between geographically distributed clusters in order to protect against catastrophic failures<br></div><div>- Rolling upgrades[4] of the hotrod clusters (zero downtime for upgrades)<br></div><div>- a handful of fixes[5] and improvements for the Map/Reduce framework </div><div><br></div><div>DZone: <a href="http://www.dzone.com/links/infinispan_52final_is_out.html">http://www.dzone.com/links/infinispan_52final_is_out.html</a></div><div><br></div>[1] release notes: <a href="http://goo.gl/ac0XD">http://goo.gl/ac0XD</a><div>[2] <a href="https://community.jboss.org/wiki/Non-BlockingStateTransferV2">https://community.jboss.org/wiki/Non-BlockingStateTransferV2</a><br><div>[3] <a href="https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/ISPN/Cross+site+replication">https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/ISPN/Cross+site+replication</a></div><div>[4] <a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-1410">https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-1410</a></div><div>[5] <a href="http://goo.gl/zZVyF">http://goo.gl/zZVyF</a><br><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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