[jboss-as7-dev] 7.1.0.Beta1b Release

This week we discovered an unintentional compatibility problem in our management protocol. The cause was that the protocol in master had been slightly updated in an incompatible way to better support SASL scenarios, BUT the protocol version was not correctly incremented. This means that 7.1.0.Beta1 can not successfully communicate with 7.0.x and vice versa. This also means that JBoss Tools was unable to communicate with both versions without having two separate plugins. We decided that since this was just a Beta release, the best solution is to correct the problem and release a patched Beta1 (called Beta1b). Beta1b now has transport compatibility in both directions with 7.0.x as expected. Beta1, however, will be forever incompatible. For this reason, I have removed Beta1 from the download site. In addition to the compatibility problem, we also discovered that the Beta1 distribution was using improper file permissions on the mgmt-users.properties files. This is a potential security issue if someone does not intentionally make these files unreadable to other users. This has been corrected. The zip and tar.gz distribution have the correct unix 600 permissions. For the CR1 and Final releases we will be doing additional compatibility testing to prevent this from happening in the future. Thanks, -- Jason T. Greene JBoss AS Lead / EAP Platform Architect JBoss, a division of Red Hat