[infinispan-dev] Infinispan 6.0.0.Final is out!

[Bela Ban]

Congrats !

Note that the link to "heterogeneous clusters" doesn't work

On 11/19/13 9:08 PM, Adrian Nistor wrote:
> Dear Infinispan community,
>
> We're pleased to announce the final release of Infinispan 6.0
> "Infinium". Asannounced
> <http://infinispan.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/infinispan-to-adopt-apache-software.html>,
> this is the first Infinispan stable version to be released under the
> terms ofApache License v2.0
> <http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html>.
>
> This release brings some highly demanded features besides many stability
> enhancements and bug fixes:
>
>   *
>     Support for remote query
>     <http://blog.infinispan.org/2013/09/embedded-and-remote-query-in-infinispan.html>.
>     It is now possible for the HotRod clients to query an Infinispan
>     grid using a new expressive query DSL. This querying functionality
>     is built on top of Apache Lucene and Google Protobuf and lays the
>     foundation for storing information and querying an Infinispan server
>     in a language neutral manner. The Java HotRod client has already
>     been enhanced to support this, the soon-to-be announced C++ HotRod
>     client will also contain this functionality (initially for
>     write/read, then full blown querying).
>   *
>     C++ HotRod client.  Allows C++ applications to read and write
>     information from an Infinispan server. This is a fully fledged
>     HotRod client that is topology (level 2) and consistent hash aware
>     (level 3) and will be released in the following days. Some features
>     (such as Remote Query and SSL support) will be developed during the
>     next iteration so that it maintains feature parity with its Java
>     counterpart.
>   *
>     Better persistence integration. We’ve revisited the entire cache
>     loader API and we’re quite pleased with the result: the new
>     Persistence API
>     <http://blog.infinispan.org/2013/09/new-persistence-api-in-infinispan.html>brought
>     by Infinispan 6.0 supports parallel iteration of the stored entries,
>     reduces the overall serialization overhead and also is aligned with
>     the JSR-107 <http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=107>specification,
>     which makes implementations more portable.
>
>   *
>     A more efficient FileCacheStore implementation
>     <http://blog.infinispan.org/2013/07/faster-file-cache-store-no-extra.html>.
>     This file store is built with efficiency in mind: it outperforms the
>     existing file store with up to 2 levels of magnitude. This comes at
>     a cost though, as keys need to be kept  in memory. Thanks to Karsten
>     Blees <https://github.com/kblees>for contributing this!
>   *
>     Support for heterogeneous clusters
>     <http://blog.infinispan.org/2013/09/heterogenous-clusters-with-infinispan.htm>.
>     Up to this release, every member of the cluster owns an equal share
>     of the cluster’s data. This doesn’t work well if one machine is more
>     powerful than the other cluster participants. This functionality
>     allows specifying the amount of data, compared with the average,
>     held by a particular machine.
>   *
>     A new set of usage and performance statistics
>     <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-2861>developed within the
>     scope of the CloudTM project<https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-3234>.
>   *
>     JCache <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-3234>(JSR-107)
>     implementation upgrade. First released in Infinispan 5.3.0, the
>     standard caching support is now upgraded to version 1.0.0-PFD.
>
>
>
> For a complete list of features included in this release please refer to
> the release notes
> <https://issues.jboss.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310799&version=12322480>.
> The user documentation for this release has been revamped and migrated
> to the new website <http://infinispan.org/documentation/>- we think it
> looks much better and hope you’ll like it too!
> This release has spread over a period of 5 months: a sustained effort
> from the core development team, QE team and our growing community - a
> BIG thanks to everybody involved! Please visit our downloads
> <http://infinispan.org/download/>section to find the latest release.
> Also if you have any questions please check our forums
> <http://infinispan.org/community/>, our mailing lists
> <https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev>or ping us
> directly on IRC <irc://irc.freenode.org/infinispan>.
>
> Cheers,
> Adrian
>
>
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