[jboss-as7-dev] 7.1.0.Beta1b Release

[Jason T. Greene]

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