From: "Jason Greene" <jason.greene(a)redhat.com>
To: wildfly-dev(a)lists.jboss.org
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 4:51:08 PM
Subject: [wildfly-dev] Announcing WildFly 8.0.0.Alpha1!
I am happy to formally announce the availability of the first release
of WildFly, 8.0.0.Alpha1. The code name is appropriately "WildFly".
The release is available for download here:
http://wildfly.org/download
As recently announced, this is the first in a series of iterative
releases that will be following a monthly cadence, with a goal for
delivery in November.
Some notable updates include
- Themes, icons, maven gavs, etc now all say WildFly
- Switched default web container to Undertow
(a new non-blocking high-performance web server)
- Significant performance improvements and related features in JPA
- A number of Java EE7 APIs previewed including:
* JSR-503 (JSON-P)
* Servlet 3.1
* JSF 2.2
* JSR-356 (Web Sockets)
* Common Annotations 1.2
* CDI 1.1
- Support for HTTP tunneling the remote management protocols and JMX
(A step towards our one-port profile planned for 8)
- Database backed EJB Timers
- CDI beans now allowed in static modules
- Switched to JDK7 (Java EE7 requires)
- Support for coarse deployment ordering dependencies
- Deployment descriptor overrides
- EC2 discovery support for domain mode using S3
- Dropped CMP, JAXR, JSR-88, and JAX-RPC Support (no longer in Java
EE)
- Major bundled third-party Updates
* Infinispan 5.2.5.Final
* HornetQ 2.3.0.Final
* Hibernate 4.2.0.Final
* Narayana 5.0.0.M2
* JBossWS-CXF 4.2.0.Beta1
The full list of 314 resolves issues is available here:
https://issues.jboss.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12313721&v...
As a reminder the main goals that WildFly 8 is targeting are:
- Java EE7
- Patching
- Domain Management Role Based Access Control
- Single Network Port profile
- Runtime performance improvements
If you would like to get involved, come and see us in the #wildfly
channel on
irc.freenode.org.
Thanks!
--
Jason T. Greene
WildFly Lead / JBoss EAP Platform Architect
JBoss, a division of Red Hat
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