[wildfly-dev] Announcing WildFly 8.0.0.Alpha1!

[Andrig Miller]

Congratulations everyone!

Andy

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason Greene" <jason.greene at redhat.com>
> To: wildfly-dev at 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&version=12321680
> 
> 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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