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final release of Infinispan 6.0 "Infinium". As</span><a
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announced</span></a><span style="background-color:
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first Infinispan stable version to be released under the terms
of</span><a
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demanded features besides many stability enhancements and bug
fixes:</span></div>
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none; vertical-align: baseline;">Support for <a
href="http://blog.infinispan.org/2013/09/embedded-and-remote-query-in-infinispan.html"
target="_blank">remote query</a>. It is now possible for
the HotRod clients to query an Infinispan grid using a new
expressive query DSL. This querying functionality is built
on top of Apache Lucene and Google Protobuf and lays the
foundation for storing information and querying an
Infinispan server in a language neutral manner. The Java
HotRod client has already been enhanced to support this, the
soon-to-be announced C++ HotRod client will also contain
this functionality (initially for write/read, then full
blown querying).</span></div>
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none; vertical-align: baseline;">C++ HotRod client. Allows
C++ applications to read and write information from an
Infinispan server. This is a fully fledged HotRod client
that is topology (level 2) and consistent hash aware (level
3) and will be released in the following days. Some features
(such as Remote Query and SSL support) will be developed
during the next iteration so that it maintains feature
parity with its Java counterpart.</span></div>
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none; vertical-align: baseline;">Better persistence
integration. We’ve revisited the entire cache loader API and
we’re quite pleased with the result: the new </span><a
href="http://blog.infinispan.org/2013/09/new-persistence-api-in-infinispan.html"
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API</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent;
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brought by Infinispan 6.0 supports parallel iteration of the
stored entries, reduces the overall serialization overhead
and also is aligned with the </span><a
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text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">JSR-107</span></a><span
style="background-color: transparent; color: black;
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font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline;"> specification, which makes
implementations more portable.</span></div>
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none; vertical-align: baseline;">A more efficient
FileCacheStore </span><a
href="http://blog.infinispan.org/2013/07/faster-file-cache-store-no-extra.html"
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text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">implementation</span></a><span
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font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline;">. This file store is built
with efficiency in mind: it outperforms the existing file
store with up to 2 levels of magnitude. This comes at a cost
though, as keys need to be kept in memory. Thanks to </span><a
href="https://github.com/kblees" style="text-decoration:
none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color:
#1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style:
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text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Karsten
Blees</span></a><span style="background-color:
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for contributing this!</span></div>
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none; vertical-align: baseline;">Support for </span><a
href="http://blog.infinispan.org/2013/09/heterogenous-clusters-with-infinispan.htm"
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text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">heterogeneous
clusters</span></a><span style="background-color:
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15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.
Up to this release, every member of the cluster owns an
equal share of the cluster’s data. This doesn’t work well if
one machine is more powerful than the other cluster
participants. This functionality allows specifying the
amount of data, compared with the average, held by a
particular machine.</span></div>
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none; vertical-align: baseline;">A new set of usage and
performance </span><a
href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-2861"
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font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline;"> developed within the scope
of the CloudTM project</span><a
href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-3234"
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<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-3234"
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text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">JCache</span></a><span
style="background-color: transparent; color: black;
font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (JSR-107) implementation
upgrade. First released in Infinispan 5.3.0, the standard
caching support is now upgraded to version 1.0.0-PFD.</span></div>
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none; vertical-align: baseline;">For a complete list of features
included in this release please refer to the </span><a
href="https://issues.jboss.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310799&version=12322480"
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normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">release
notes</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent;
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none; vertical-align: baseline;">The user documentation for this
release has been revamped and migrated to the </span><a
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style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color:
transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size:
15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">new
website</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent;
color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style:
normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - we think it
looks much better and hope you’ll like it too!</span></div>
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none; vertical-align: baseline;">This release has spread over a
period of 5 months: a sustained effort from the core development
team, QE team and our growing community - a BIG thanks to
everybody involved! Please visit our </span><a
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none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color:
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normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;
vertical-align: baseline;"> section to find the latest release.
Also if you have any questions please check our </span><a
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none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color:
#1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style:
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normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;
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lists</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent;
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normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> or ping us
directly on <a href="irc://irc.freenode.org/infinispan"
target="_blank">IRC</a>.</span></div>
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