[wildfly-dev] First Alphas of WildFly 10 and WildFly Core 2 have been released

[Brian Stansberry]

On 5/18/15 1:04 PM, Arun Gupta wrote:
> Brian,
>
>
> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Brian Stansberry
> <brian.stansberry at redhat.com> wrote:
>> I've released WildFly 10.0.0.Alpha1 and WildFly Core 2.0.0.Alpha1 and
>> Alpha2. They are available from the jboss.org maven repository.[1]
>>
>> The 10.0.0.Alpha1 release is the first in a series of alphas we intend
>> to release roughly every two weeks.
>
> Will these be Alpha2, Alpha3, and so on?
>

Yes, until we produce the Beta1, currently scheduled for early August.

>>
>> At this point we don't intend to include these alphas on the normal
>> wildfly.org download page.[2] However the full distribution zip is
>> available from the maven repo.[3]
>
> What's the rationale behind that?
>

They'll fill up the downloads page, and they require manual republishing 
every time. We'd like to tweak the page such that it automatically shows 
the latest alpha, but we've got too many higher priority tasks to focus on.

> Arun
>
>>
>> These releases differ from what's in the recent 9.0.0.CR1 release in
>> four main ways:
>>
>> 1) Bug fixes and component updates that will go into 9.0.0.Final are
>> included.
>>
>> 2) The build has been changed to require use of JDK 8.
>>
>> 3) Narayana (transactions) was upgraded from 5.0.4 to 5.1.1.
>>
>> 4) A number of miscellaneous changes related to getting the master
>> branch ready for work on the next major release were made.
>>
>> To see the full list of resolved issues, see [4].
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> --
>> Brian Stansberry
>> Senior Principal Software Engineer
>> JBoss by Red Hat
>>
>>
>> [1] https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public-jboss
>> [2] http://wildfly.org/downloads/
>> [3]
>> https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public-jboss/org/wildfly/wildfly-dist/10.0.0.Alpha1/wildfly-dist-10.0.0.Alpha1.zip
>> [4]
>> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY/fixforversion/12327159/?selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin:version-issues-panel
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-- 
Brian Stansberry
Senior Principal Software Engineer
JBoss by Red Hat