As many of you may already be aware, the GlassFish team has been diligently working on the upcoming 4.0.1 release. The overall goals of GlassFish 4.0.1 is very specific and focused:
- JDK 8 certification.
- Fixing high priority bugs, especially potential Java EE 7 compatibility gaps.
- Architecture and design documents using UML
- Hardening security and fixing security bugs.
- Incorporating updates to all GlassFish components such as Mojarra, Jersey, Grizzly, OpenMQ, HK2, EclipseLink, JAXB, Weld and so on. These updates contain mostly bug fixes and some new features.
Our team has been talking about the 4.0.1 release at various venues:
- GlassFish product manager John Clingan did an extensive interview with Adam Bien on the future of GlassFish - check out the interview text here.
- I (Reza Rahman) did a GlassFish community open round table with the London GlassFish User Group - check out video here.
- My colleague David Delabassee held a GlassFish BoF recently at Devoxx UK.
Steve Millidge of the London GlassFish User Group very recently shared his thoughts on 4.0.1, the future of GlassFish and community contributions.
Many of you may also be aware of FishCAT. It stands for the GlassFish Community Acceptance Testing program. Through the program community members can help test early builds of GlassFish before the final release. Contributing to GlassFish through the FishCAT program is one of the easiest, most valuable and most effective ways in helping the Java EE and GlassFish communities move forward. We are now launching FishCAT for GlassFish 4.0.1. You can find the details for FishCAT for GlassFish 4.0.1 here.
The voice of the community has always been important to us and we need your help. Please do consider donating some of your time to the FishCAT program.
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