Payara Server

Uniquely for support customers, 171 will be our first Long Term Support version, with patches and fixes provided for the next 12 months!

Long Term Support release.

New notifiers for the Notification Service

Expanding the notification service introduced with Payara Server 163, we have further built on Payara Server's

Notification events can now be transmitted using multiple channels:

via mail notification using the JavaMail API;

via standard JMS using managed resources;

via SNMP traps;

to a XMPP server;

to a HipChat room;

to a Slack Channel.

Admin Console integration for the Health Check Service

Taking advantage of the expanded notification service, 171 includes a new A Console integration for the Health Check Service. It is now possible to configure the monitoring of pools directly from the A Console.

Public API JAR

, with the new Public API

CDI Remote Events are now available to Payara Server

Starting from release 153, an extension to CDI events was included with Payara Micro that allows the sending and receiving of custom "remote" events to other instances that leave on the same cluster. This feature is now included in Payara Server Full Profile, along with new enhancements that allow developers to take advantage of this feature within a Hazelcast cluster.

New JAR structure

Asadmin command s can now be used with Payara Micro

Further Hazelcast improvements

Minor New Features

Rolling Upgrades;

Historical Health Checks and Request Tracing capabilities;

Configure Hazelcast Host aware partition groups in the administration console;

Keep trace of top and slow SQL queries;

Environment variable substitution in the domain.xml configuration.

Component Upgrades

Hazelcast upgraded to 3.7.4

EclipseLink upgraded to 2.6.4

upgraded to 2.2.14

Jackson upgraded to 2.8.5

Jettison upgraded to 1.3.8

asm-commons upgraded to 5.0.3

Weld upgraded to 2.4.1.Final

Payara Server 171 also includes a number of fixes for critical vulnerabilities: