WildFly Project News

WildFly 21.0.1.Final is now available for download. It’s been about a month since the WildFly 21 release, so we’ve done a small bug fix update, WildFly 21.0.1. The full list of issues resolved in WildFly 21.0.1 is available here. Issues resolved in the WildFly Core update included with WildFly 21.0.1 are available here. Enjoy!

I’m pleased to announce that the WildFly 22 Alpha1 zips are now available for download. This includes the first release of a new 'WildFly Preview' distribution of WildFly, which we’re using to give our community a tech preview look at things we see coming down the road in our main WildFly distribution. Right now this is mostly about what we are doing with Jakarta EE 9, although there are some other differences that I’ll get...

I am happy to announce the 1.0.0.Final release of the MicroProfile Reactive specifications feature pack for WildFly. It is tested against both WildFly 20 and 21. The main changes since 1.0.0.Beta1 are essentially upgrades to the latest SmallRye implementations of all the MicroProfile Reactive specifications, and fixing problems related to memory leaks and redeployments. The MicroProfile Reactive specifications are: MicroProfile Reactive Messaging 1.0 - this is a framework for building event-driven, data streaming and event...

WildFly 21 S2I Docker images The WildFly S2I (Source-to-Image) builder and runtime Docker images for WildFly 21 have been released on quay.io/wildfly. For a complete documentation on how to use these images using S2I, OpenShift and Docker, refer to the WildFly S2I README. Adding the imagestreams and template to OpenShift At some point the new images will be made available from the OpenShift catalog and image repository. But you can already use these images by...

This blog post highlights the new security features that are in WildFly 21.

WildFly Operator now allows seamless upgrades of application deployed on OpenShift.

Bootable JAR Maven plugin 2.0.0.Final has been released. Using WildFly 21 you can now build self-contained JAR file to run microservices.

I’m excited to announce that the WildFly 21 Final zip is now available for download. Bootable JAR / Galleon Layers The biggest thing in WildFly 21 is Jean-Francois Denise and the team have added GA-level support for the Bootable JAR feature that we’ve been working on over the last two releases. The bootable jar feature allows you to add a maven plugin to your application’s pom and have your build package your application deployment and...

In Java 15 *biased locking* has been deprecated as per JEP 374. This means the default setting has been switched from enabled to disabled and the plan is to remove support for it from the Java Virtual Machine in a pending release. We need your help seeing if this affects WildFly performance in your application.

I am pleased to announce the 1.0.0.Beta1 release of the MicroProfile GraphQL feature pack for WildFly. It offers experimental support for the MicroProfile GraphQL 1.0 specification, implemented by SmallRye GraphQL. MicroProfile GraphQL - link to the specification. SmallRye GraphQL - link to the underlying implementation. The source code for the feature pack can be found on GitHub. Installing the feature pack For now, the GraphQL support is distributed as a feature pack rather than integrated...