<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(76,76,76);font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:17px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:white;color:rgb(68,68,68);line-height:17px">Dear Infinispan community,</span></span><br style="color:rgb(76,76,76);font-family:Helvetica,&#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Trebuchet,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:17px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">

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</span><span style="background-color:white;line-height:17px">We&#39;re proud to announce the first Alpha release of Infinispan 7.0.0.</span><span style="background-color:white;line-height:17px"><br></span></span><br style="color:rgb(76,76,76);font-family:Helvetica,&#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Trebuchet,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:17px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">

<span style="color:rgb(76,76,76);font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:17px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:white;color:rgb(68,68,68);line-height:17px">This release adds several new features:</span></span><br style="color:rgb(76,76,76);font-family:Helvetica,&#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Trebuchet,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:17px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">

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<li><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:17px">Support for clustered listeners. One of the limitation of Infinispan&#39;s distributed mode used to be that listeners could only receive events for cache modifications on their own node. That&#39;s no longer the case, and it paves the way for a long-requested feature: HotRod listeners.</span></li>

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<li><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:17px">Map/Reduce tasks can now execute the mapper/combiner/reducer<span class=""> </span><a href="http://blog.infinispan.org/2014/02/mapreduce-parallel-execution.html" style="color:rgb(67,22,9)">on multiple threads</a>. Stay tuned for more Map/Reduce improvements in the near future.</span></li>

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<li><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:17px">The first essential component of cache security has been added, which will be the building block for remote protocol authentication and authorization.</span></li>

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<li><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:17px">Improved OSGi support in the HotRod Java client. The core components are also getting into shape for OSGi, expect more on this front in the next release.</span></li>

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</span></span><span style="background-color:white;line-height:17px">As you can see, many of the new features are stepping stones for bigger things yet to come. Feel free to join us and shape the future releases on </span><span style="background-color:white;line-height:17px">our </span><a href="http://www.jboss.org/infinispan/forums" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(67,22,9);background-color:white;line-height:17px">forums</a><span style="background-color:white;line-height:17px">, our </span><a href="https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(67,22,9);background-color:white;line-height:17px">mailing lists</a><span style="background-color:white;line-height:17px"> or our<span class=""> </span><a href="http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23infinispan" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(67,22,9)">#infinispan</a> IRC channel.</span></span><br style="color:rgb(76,76,76);font-family:Helvetica,&#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Trebuchet,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:17px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">

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</span>For a complete list of features and bug fixes included in this release please refer to the <a href="https://issues.jboss.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310799&amp;version=12323785" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(67,22,9)">release notes</a>. </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:17px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Visit our </span><a href="http://www.jboss.org/infinispan/downloads" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(67,22,9);font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:17px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">downloads</a><span style="font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:17px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> section to find the latest release.</span><br style="color:rgb(76,76,76);font-family:Helvetica,&#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Trebuchet,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:17px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">

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</span><span style="color:rgb(76,76,76);font-family:Helvetica,&#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Trebuchet,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:17px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline!important;float:none"></span><span style="font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:17px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:white;line-height:17px">Thanks to everyone for their involvement and contribution!</span></span><br style="color:rgb(76,76,76);font-family:Helvetica,&#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Trebuchet,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:17px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">

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