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 developed within the scope of the CloudTM project yielding significant performance improvements under concurrent access
• Support for JSR-107 (Java Caching API) implementation
• A new implementation of the Lucene Directory for Infinispan based on Lucene 4
• A new packaging for the Infinispan server modules, based on the JBoss AS
• SSL access to Hot Rod
• Interoperability between Hot Rod, Memcached, REST and embedded mode
• Storing arrays in Infinispan as keys and values
• Several new cache stores: a mongoDB cache store (courtesy of  Guillaume Scheibel), a JPA based cache store and a LevelDB cache store (courtesy of Ray Tsang)