<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Congratulations!<br><br>Andy<br><br><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Mircea Markus" &lt;mmarkus@redhat.com&gt;<br><b>To: </b>"infinispan" &lt;infinispan-dev@lists.jboss.org&gt;<br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, January 31, 2013 1:51:05 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Infinispan 5.2.0.Final is out!<br><br><div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><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&nbsp;100 features and enhancements&nbsp;and&nbsp;150 bug fixes [1], this release the sustained effort of engineering, QA and our growing community - a big thanks to everyone involved!&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Highlights:</div><div>- The&nbsp;non-blocking state transfer[2] which is a much more efficient and flexible implementation of the functionality that allows Infinispan to serve requests during&nbsp;nodes joining/leaving.&nbsp;</div><div>- The cross-site replication[3]&nbsp;functionality which allows backing up data between geographically distributed clusters in order to protect against catastrophic failures<br></div><div>- Rolling upgrades[4]&nbsp;of the hotrod clusters (zero downtime for upgrades)<br></div><div>- a handful of fixes[5] and improvements&nbsp;for the Map/Reduce framework&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>DZone:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dzone.com/links/infinispan_52final_is_out.html" target="_blank">http://www.dzone.com/links/infinispan_52final_is_out.html</a></div><div><br></div>[1] &nbsp;release notes:&nbsp;<a href="http://goo.gl/ac0XD" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/ac0XD</a><div>[2]&nbsp;<a href="https://community.jboss.org/wiki/Non-BlockingStateTransferV2" target="_blank">https://community.jboss.org/wiki/Non-BlockingStateTransferV2</a><br><div>[3]&nbsp;<a href="https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/ISPN/Cross+site+replication" target="_blank">https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/ISPN/Cross+site+replication</a></div><div>[4]&nbsp;<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-1410" target="_blank">https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-1410</a></div><div>[5]&nbsp;<a href="http://goo.gl/zZVyF" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/zZVyF</a><br><div><br><div>
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