[infinispan-dev] JGroups 2.7 and 2.8 work with Infinispan now

[Mircea Markus]

Bela Ban wrote:
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> Mircea Markus wrote:
>> Vladimir Blagojevic wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Give it a try as well! I suggest we move to 2.8 sooner than later. 
>>> Currently, with tcp and 2.7 I get 0 failures and with 2.8 I get 9 
>>> faliures.
>> That's something!
>> The way I see it we are kind of trapped: on one hand we cannot fix 
>> NBST without a JGroups fix,
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> I thought NBST doesn't use JGroups anymore ? (I mean the block() and 
> unblock() and flush functionality)
that was a hack[1] in order to fix a race condition taking place when a 
new member joins.
It didn't work, though.
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>> and JGroups fix can only be performed on 2.8, and we cannot go live 
>> with it.
>> When is 2.8 scheduled for going GA? 
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> I think by the end of the summer. I'll release a first beta soon. 
> 'Beta' sounds scary, but as a matter of fact 2.8 is very stable already.
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[1] https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/ISPN-83