<div dir="ltr">Dear Infinispan community,<br>
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We're proud to announce the final release of Infinispan 5.3.0 "Tactical Nuclear Penguin". Besides increased stability (130+ bug fixes) this
release also brings some highly demanded features:<br>
<ul><li><a href="http://infinispan.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/faster-transaction-protocols-in.html" target="_blank">Total Order transaction protocol</a> developed within the scope of the CloudTM project yielding significant performance improvements under concurrent access</li>
<li><a href="http://infinispan.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/give-java-caching-standard-api-go-using.html" target="_blank">Support for JSR-107</a> (Java Caching API) implementation</li><li>A new implementation of the Lucene Directory for Infinispan based on Lucene 4</li>
<li>A <a href="http://infinispan.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/infinispan-server-530alpha1.html" target="_blank">new packaging</a> for the Infinispan server modules, based on the JBoss AS</li><li><a href="http://infinispan.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/infinispan-server-remote-protocols.html" target="_blank">SSL access to Hot Rod</a></li>
<li><a href="http://infinispan.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/interoperability-between-embedded-and.html" target="_blank">Interoperability</a> between Hot Rod, Memcached, REST and embedded mode</li><li><a href="https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/ISPN/Storing+objects+%28e.g.+arrays%29+with+custom+Equivalence+functions" target="_blank">Storing arrays</a> in Infinispan as keys and values</li>
<li>Several new cache stores: a <a href="http://infinispan.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/using-mongodb-as-cache-store.html" target="_blank">mongoDB cache store</a> (courtesy of Guillaume Scheibel), a <a href="http://infinispan.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/introducing-jpa-cache-store.html" target="_blank">JPA based cache store</a> and a <a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-2657" target="_blank">LevelDB cache store</a> (courtesy of Ray Tsang)</li>
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For a complete list of features included in this release refer to the <a href="https://issues.jboss.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310799&version=12320550" target="_blank">release notes</a>.</div>
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Visit our <a href="http://www.jboss.org/infinispan/downloads" target="_blank">downloads</a> section to find the latest release and if you have any questions please check our <a href="http://www.jboss.org/infinispan/forums" target="_blank">forums</a>, our <a href="https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev" target="_blank">mailing lists</a> or ping us directly on <a>IRC</a>.</div>
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Time to move forward now: Infinispan 6.0 will bring some <a href="https://community.jboss.org/en/infinispan?view=documents" target="_blank">significant improvements</a> to the Inifinispan ecosystem and also a shift in licence to <a href="http://infinispan.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/infinispan-to-adopt-apache-software.html" target="_blank">Apache Software Licence</a> </div>
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Stay tuned!<br><br></div><div>Cheers,<br></div><div>Dan Berindei<br></div></div>