Re: [wildfly-dev] Announcing WildFly 8.0.0.Alpha1!

From: "Jason Greene" <jason.greene(a)redhat.com&gt; 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 _______________________________________________ wildfly-dev mailing list wildfly-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/wildfly-dev