[infinispan-dev] Infinispan 5.3.0.Final is out!

Dear Infinispan community, 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: - Total Order transaction protocol<http://infinispan.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/faster-transaction-protocols-in.html>developed within the scope of the CloudTM project yielding significant performance improvements under concurrent access - Support for JSR-107<http://infinispan.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/give-java-caching-standard-api-go-using.html>(Java Caching API) implementation - A new implementation of the Lucene Directory for Infinispan based on Lucene 4 - A new packaging<http://infinispan.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/infinispan-server-530alpha1.html>for the Infinispan server modules, based on the JBoss AS - SSL access to Hot Rod<http://infinispan.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/infinispan-server-remote-protocols.html> - Interoperability<http://infinispan.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/interoperability-between-embedded-and.html>between Hot Rod, Memcached, REST and embedded mode - Storing arrays<https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/ISPN/Storing+objects+%28e... Infinispan as keys and values - Several new cache stores: a mongoDB cache store<http://infinispan.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/using-mongodb-as-cache-store.html>(courtesy of Guillaume Scheibel), a JPA based cache store<http://infinispan.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/introducing-jpa-cache-store.html>and a LevelDB cache store <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-2657> (courtesy of Ray Tsang) For a complete list of features included in this release refer to the release notes<https://issues.jboss.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310... . Visit our downloads <http://www.jboss.org/infinispan/downloads> section to find the latest release and if you have any questions please check our forums <http://www.jboss.org/infinispan/forums>;, our mailing lists<https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev>or ping us directly on IRC. Time to move forward now: Infinispan 6.0 will bring some significant improvements <https://community.jboss.org/en/infinispan?view=documents> to the Inifinispan ecosystem and also a shift in licence to Apache Software Licence<http://infinispan.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/infinispan-to-adopt-apache-software.html> Stay tuned! Cheers, Dan Berindei