WildFly 13 "Baker’s Dozen" is released!
By Jason Greene
| May 31, 2018
WildFly 13 Final is now available for download!
EE8 Capabilities & New Release Model
This is our second release following our new quarterly delivery model. A central theme of this plan, is to deliver EE8 functionality in fully completed incremental chunks, as opposed to waiting for everything to finish in a big bang relase. WildFly 13 largely accomplishes this goal, by achieving EE8 feature completeness. WildFly 14 will focus on achieving formal certification, and converting over to a sole EE8 execution model. Since Java EE8 is fully backwards compatible, EE7 deployments will still function ast they do today.
An overview of all changes for the EE8 execution mode are as follows:
| Name | From Version | From JSR | To Version | To JSR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Java Servlet |
3.1 |
JSR-340 |
4.0 |
|
Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java |
1.2 |
JSR-346 |
2.0 |
|
Bean Validation |
1.1 |
JSR-349 |
2.0 |
|
JavaServer Faces |
2.2 |
JSR-344 |
2.3 |
|
JavaMail |
1.5 |
JSR-919 |
1.6 |
|
Java API for RESTFul Web Services |
2.0 |
JSR-339 |
2.1 |
|
Java API for JSON Processing |
1.0 |
JSR-353 |
1.1 |
|
Java API for JSON Binding |
- |
- |
1.0 |
|
Common Annotations for the Java Platform |
1.2 |
JSR-250 |
1.3 |
|
Java EE Security |
- |
- |
1.0 |
|
Java Persistence |
2.1 |
JSR-338 |
2.2 |
By default WildFly 13 launches in EE7 mode. In order to use these new capabilities you have to enable EE8 preview mode. This can be accomplished by passing the ee8.preview.mode property during startup:
./standalone.sh -Dee8.preview.mode=trueAlternatively, this can be achieved by launching the server using the new standalone-ee8.xml configuration, which simply includes the property in the config.
./standalone.sh -c standalone-ee8.xmlThe CLI can also be used to modify the existing configuration to add this property. For example:
embed-server --admin-only=true
/system-property=ee8.preview.mode:add(value=true)
stop-embedded-serverOther Notable Items
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WildFly 13 is now internally built using project Galleon, a new provisioning model for WildFly we plan to roll out in coming releases
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Java 10 compatibilty has been improved
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A major upgrade to the WildFly administration console (HAL version 3)
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Infinispan has been updated to 9.2
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Hibernate ORM has been updated to 5.3 when running in EE8 mode
Jira Release Notes
The full list of issues resolved is available here.
