Hi, Just a heads up, the next Infinspan release will be Infinispan 7.0 and the major features we plan to add are: Server: - .NET hot rod client (HRCPP-122, Ion) - Remote Events of HotRod (ISPN-374, Galder) - authentication and authorization over HotRod (ISPN-3908, ISPN-3910, Tristan) - configuration revamp (ISPN-3930, Galder) Core: - Map/Reduce enhancements (Vladimir) - parallel iteration of keys (ISPN-2284) - cache the results of mapping (scale out M/R) - consider an Hadoop M/R adaptor - x-site state transfer (ISPN-2342, Pedro) - Controlled cluster shutdown with data restore from persistent storage (Dan, ISPN-3351) - handling of cluster partitions (Mircea, ISPN-263) - transactions improvements (ISPN-3927, Ion) - clustered listeners (ISPN-3355 , Will) - authentication and authorization in embedded mode (ISPN-3909) Query: - execute query on non-indexed fields (ISPN-3917, Adrian) - stabilize remote querying (performance, bug fixing) (Adrian, Sanne) The target date for 7.0.Final is end of July. Cheers, -- Mircea Markus Infinispan lead (www.infinispan.org)