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Payara Server 5.181 Release Notes

Release Highlights

This release has been based on GlassFish Server Open Source 5 which was released on September 21, 2017.

Important Information

  • Minimum Required JDK version is now 8u162.

  • Currently, you cannot drop-in and use a Payara 4 domain.xml with Payara 5.

Supported APIs and Applications

  • Java EE 8 Applications

  • MicroProfile 1.2 API

New Features

  • PAYARA-140 - Bundle an alternative embedded database with Payara (H2)

  • PAYARA-188 - Hazelcast based SSO

  • PAYARA-862 - Integrate JSONB

  • PAYARA-864 - Add support for HTTP/2

  • PAYARA-1079 - Make Hazelcast EJB timer store from Micro available in full profile

  • PAYARA-1305 - Add support for CDI 2.0

  • PAYARA-1541 - Integrate Soteria

  • PAYARA-1815 - Integrate Servlet 4

  • PAYARA-1909 - Create a domain discovery mode

  • PAYARA-1915 - Create Deployment Group as a loose grouping of servers

  • PAYARA-2081 - Create a Roles Permitted CDI annotation

  • PAYARA-2246 - Clustered Singleton beans CDI support

  • PAYARA-2297 - Directory Config Source with support for Kubernetes format

  • PAYARA-2434 - Put Mojarra parallel init behind switch

Improvements

  • PAYARA-189 - Completely Remove GMS and Shoal

  • PAYARA-1030 - Remove Jettison from Payara

  • PAYARA-1166 - Add configuration for JDK 8 metaspace into production domain

  • PAYARA-1225 - Enhance the production domain template further

  • PAYARA-1541 - Integrate Soteria

  • PAYARA-1740 - Split up application deployment in to prepare and initialize phases

  • PAYARA-1771 - Make default group to role mapping the default

  • PAYARA-1926 - JSF Deployment can be slow - unnecessary validation being done

  • PAYARA-1946 - Set X-Powered By to Servlet 4

  • PAYARA-1986 - Add the Quarter number to the Payara Version in the Logs

  • PAYARA-2079 - Update Truststores

  • PAYARA-2245 - JSF Deployment can be slow - Large XML file parsed

  • PAYARA-2256 - Remove Derby from Payara Micro

  • PAYARA-2286 - Update JSP Compiler

  • PAYARA-2331 - Refactor admin console SAM

  • PAYARA-2365 - Remove info about REST endpoints when there are none in the app

  • PAYARA-2381 - Change version string of Mojarra to not be a SNAPSHOT

  • PAYARA-2382 - Remove GlassFish reference at boot

  • PAYARA-2383 - Switch ANSI colour logging on by default

  • PAYARA-2385 - Sort out Cluster Logging

  • PAYARA-2437 - Mojarra deprecated cdi 1.1 warning

  • PAYARA-2455 - Rename payaradomain to "production"

  • PAYARA-2467 - Remove useless JarFileFactory log message

  • PAYARA-2471 - Tidy up some of the Data Grid terminology

  • PAYARA-2477 - Create asadmin commands for MicroProfile Metrics

  • PAYARA-2504 - Change the Default Value of the allowLinking Property to false

  • PAYARA-2519 - Make the enabled Option of the set-hazelcast-configuration Command Optional

  • PAYARA-2521 - set-hazelcast-configuration Asadmin Command allows you to set the clustermode as anything

  • PAYARA-2523 - Log a message when a user picks an obvious but wrong value when using Payara Micro and domain cluster mode

  • PAYARA-2347 - Reskin Admin Console

  • PAYARA-2379 - Review all INFO logs on boot and remove any that are not useful

  • PAYARA-2438 - Revamp Request Tracing into OpenTracing-style format

Bug Fixes

  • PAYARA-2038 - Payara Micro pom.xml contains non-optional dependencies

  • PAYARA-2148 - @Transactional interceptor not fully compatible with CDI 2.0

  • PAYARA-2212 - Weld Warnings for ServletRequestListener for async servlets

  • PAYARA-2283 - Illegal type error in logs when starting Payara

  • PAYARA-2335 - UX Issue on Data Grid Admin console

  • PAYARA-2342 - NoSuchElementException during Hazelcast Bootstrap

  • PAYARA-2346 - CDI event bus listeners not initialized in Payara micro, ManagedExecutorService fixes

  • PAYARA-2352 - Domain Discovery mode doesn’t seem to work on Windows

  • PAYARA-2357 - Cannot update the Data Grid Configuration via the admin console

  • PAYARA-2358 - Restart Data Grid does not work

  • PAYARA-2363 - Applications Fail to undeploy cleanly

  • PAYARA-2364 - Soteria warning when deploying applications

  • PAYARA-2378 - start-cluster asadmin command executes but spits out fail message

  • PAYARA-2384 - Missing log messages on boot

  • PAYARA-2387 - Singleton JAX-RS failure

  • PAYARA-2389 - Fault Tolerance retry interceptor log message variable doesn’t get inserted

  • PAYARA-2390 - WebSocket in Mojarra fails to obtain the server port

  • PAYARA-2396 - Setting of properties fails

  • PAYARA-2412 - Fix Internal Server Error when using the Java EE Security API with Basic authentication without password

  • PAYARA-2418 - Payara 5 Log Files Display Leftover Version Point

  • PAYARA-2420 - EJB Timer button is broken on Deployment Groups page

  • PAYARA-2421 - "ErrorHandler not set" error on Startup of Payara 5

  • PAYARA-2422 - Enabling an app on the app page doesn’t work

  • PAYARA-2424 - Deployed Applications have an incorrect number of targets

  • PAYARA-2427 - Deployed application in Micro logs shows a lot of junk

  • PAYARA-2429 - "Invalid join request" warning periodically printed to Micro logs

  • PAYARA-2430 - Reenabling an app on the Applications page does not reenable ManagedExecutorService

  • PAYARA-2432 - "No valid EE environment for injection of fish.payara.microprofile.metrics.cdi.producer.MetricRegistryProducer" gets thrown a lot when deploying applications.

  • PAYARA-2435 - Payara 5 Embedded is Broken

  • PAYARA-2439 - SSL Certificate Expired spammed to log

  • PAYARA-2440 - Refactor a line within prettyDateFormat

  • PAYARA-2442 - H2 jdbc-connection-pool config

  • PAYARA-2449 - Current master shows started instances as stopped

  • PAYARA-2451 - Remove system.out in Mojarra

  • PAYARA-2463 - Unsatisfied Bean Dependency Error on Startup

  • PAYARA-2464 - asadmin doesn’t consider jacc-provider properties

  • PAYARA-2465 - Fix GH #2328 Cannot run payara from Intellij IDEA

  • PAYARA-2468 - Lots of junk in the log from JSF

  • PAYARA-2474 - Missing log message on boot

  • PAYARA-2478 - Creating a instance in the deployment group now results in java.lang.RuntimeException

  • PAYARA-2492 - Jasper Exception when loading an application deployed to Payara Micro Programmatically

  • PAYARA-2501 - Update FileDirContext.java

  • PAYARA-2502 - Have endtime for requesttraces use correct time

  • PAYARA-2505 - Clusteredrequesttracestore never removes traces

  • PAYARA-2507 - Hazelcast messagelisteners registered twice

  • PAYARA-2511 - If default config value not set, optional shouldn’t have a value

  • PAYARA-2512 - Investigate and fix JSON logging on Payara Micro

  • PAYARA-2514 - Properly escape quotes in request trace spans

  • PAYARA-2520 - The default target of the set-hazelcast-configuration command is incorrect

  • PAYARA-2524 - Duplicate Jackson jar packaged into Payara Micro

  • PAYARA-2530 - Payara Micro Fails to Produce InstanceDescriptor for EJB Jar

  • PAYARA-2535 - Stateful EJBs fail on Payara Micro due to Hazelcast not enabled

  • PAYARA-2536 - ConcurrentModificationException when restarting Hazelcast

  • PAYARA-2554 - NPE when starting span in the new context if instance is null

  • PAYARA-2563 - NullPointerException on MP Config CdiOptionalInjectionTest

Fixes for upstream bugs

  • PAYARA-2116 - restart-instance doesn’t synchronise when secure admin is enabled

  • PAYARA-2531 - ResourceValidator does not set up invocation context on lookups

Component Upgrades

Known Issues

  • ANSI colour logging does not work on Windows (Command Prompt / PowerShell)

  • Upgrading from Payara 4 to 5 causes a ClassNotFoundException to be thrown on startup on the AlpnServerNegotiator class.

  • There is a bug in Soteria regarding Expression Language (EL) and LDAP identities