WildFly Releases

I’m pleased to announce that the new WildFly 35.0.0.Beta1 release is available for download at https://wildfly.org/downloads. New and Notable This quarter we had a heavy focus on MicroProfile, particularly MicroProfile 7.0. WildFly now supports MicroProfile Fault Tolerance 4.1. WildFly now supports MicroProfile OpenAPI 4.0. Standard WildFly now supports MicroProfile REST Client 4.0. This was previously supported in WildFly Preview. Standard WildFly now supports MicroProfile Telemetry 2.0. This was previously supported in WildFly Preview. Our MicroProfile...

WildFly 34.0.1.Final is now available for download. It’s been about a month since the WildFly 34 release, so we have done a small bug fix update, WildFly 34.0.1. This includes an update to WildFly Preview. The following issues were resolved in 34.0.1: Bugs [WFLY-19891] - ISPN000299: Unable to acquire lock…​ when cancelling a persistent timer in @PostConstruct on a suspended node [WFLY-19909] - Wrong routing of EJB calls in cluster Component Upgrades [WFLY-19927] - Upgrade...

I’m pleased to announce that the new WildFly and WildFly Preview 34.0.0.Final releases are available for download at https://wildfly.org/downloads. New and Notable This quarter we had a heavy focus on WildFly Preview. WildFly Preview now includes support for Jakarta Data 1.0. This feature is provided at the preview stability level. WildFly Preview now supports MicroProfile REST Client 4.0. WildFly Preview now supports MicroProfile Telemetry 2.0. As part of a general reorganization of our end user...

I’m pleased to announce that the new WildFly 34.0.0.Beta1 release is available for download at https://wildfly.org/downloads. As can be seen from the Release Notes a lot of maintenance and component upgrades have been included in this release but I would also like to call out some of the following highlights: [WFLY-19306] — move from ORM 6.4.x to 6.6.x [WFLY-19632] — Hibernate Search 7.1.x to 7.2.x [WFLY-19298] — FasterXML Jackson from 2.15.x to 2.17.x Within the WildFly Preview distribution we also have:...

WildFly 33.0.2.Final is now available for download. Typically after a major release of WildFly we follow up with one small bug fix release in the coming weeks before moving on to the next major release, however due to the nature of the issues fixed in this release we have decided to release one more release so I am pleased to confirm WildFly 33.0.2.Final is now available. The following issues were resolved in 33.0.2: Component Upgrade...

WildFly 33.0.1.Final is now available for download. It’s been about four weeks since the WildFly 33 release, so we’ve done a small bug fix update, WildFly 33.0.1. This includes an update to WildFly Preview. The following issues were resolved in 33.0.1: Bugs [WFLY-19549] - OIDCSecurityContext deserialization issue [WFLY-19577] - Undertow ServerAdd could not detect referenced capabilities [WFLY-19583] - Deployment-related undertow metrics are not exported [WFLY-19610] - @PostConstruct on Servlet may be called twice [WFLY-19613] -...

I’m pleased to announce that the new WildFly and WildFly Preview 33.0.0.Final releases are available for download at https://wildfly.org/downloads. New and Notable Individual Features There a number of new features in WildFly 33, but before getting into the specific items I want to mention again the capabilities introduced in WildFly 31 to introduce features at different stability levels. Features can be introduced at one of four stability levels — experimental, preview, community or default — with the ideal outcome...

WildFly 32.0.1.Final is now available for download. It’s been about five weeks since the WildFly 32 release, so we’ve done a small bug fix update, WildFly 32.0.1. This includes an update to WildFly Preview. The following issues were resolved in 32.0.1: Bugs [WFLY-19305] - ClassCastException when running live-only HA policy in messaging-activemq subsystem [WFLY-19326] - LinkageError: loader constraint violation for class io.netty.* [WFLY-19355] - Deploying multiple OpenAPI endpoints can result in a NoSuchElementException [WFLY-19366] -...

I’m pleased to announce that the new WildFly and WildFly Preview 32.0.0.Final releases are available for download at https://wildfly.org/downloads. There’s a lot to talk about this time, so let’s get going! New and Notable WildFly Glow 1.0 Final Ever since the introduction of Galleon several years back, a major WildFly focus has been tooling to improve our users' ability to easily provision an optimal WildFly installation, on-premise and particularly for the cloud. I’m very excited...

I’m pleased to announce that the new WildFly and WildFly Preview 32.0.0.Beta1 releases are available for download at https://wildfly.org/downloads. This is our usual single beta that we release a couple of weeks before the 32 Final release. We typically don’t do much of a release announcement post for the beta release, but there are a number of things happening with WildFly 32 that users of our betas should know about and that we encourage people...

WildFly 31.0.1.Final is now available for download. It’s been about five weeks since the WildFly 31 release, so we’ve done a small bug fix update, WildFly 31.0.1. This includes an update to WildFly Preview. The following issues were resolved in 31.0.1: Bugs [WFLY-18700] - java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Direct buffer memory [WFLY-18959] - Mail Quickstart maven dependencies have wrong scope [WFLY-18969] - Give the Apache Lucene module access to jdk.unsupported [WFLY-19010] - SSL Client context not loaded with...

I’m pleased to announce that the new WildFly and WildFly Preview 31.0.0.Final releases are available for download at https://wildfly.org/downloads. New and Notable This quarter there’s a lot to talk about beyond new things in the core server itself, but I’ll start with what’s new in the server. Application Server Features MicroProfile updates — We’ve updated our MicroProfile subsystems to the versions in MicroProfile 6.1. (We don’t support MicroProfile Metrics, so we are not a compatible MicroProfile 6.1...

WildFly 30.0.1.Final is now available for download. It’s been about five weeks since the WildFly 30 release, so we’ve done a small bug fix update, WildFly 30.0.1. This includes an update to WildFly Preview. The following issues were resolved in 30.0.1: Bugs [WFLY-18295] - WildFly vs WildFly Preview document needs update [WFLY-18384] - [CLUSTERING] File containing session data is never shrunk or deleted [WFLY-18533] - Simplest JAXRS app is failing when deployed in server provisioned...

I’m pleased to announce that the new WildFly and WildFly Preview 30.0.0.Final releases are available for download at https://wildfly.org/downloads. New and Notable An important focus of our work for this release was preparing for the arrival of Java SE 21, the latest LTS JDK release. While we still recommend that you run WildFly on SE 17 or 11 (see Java SE Support below for more on why), we do believe WildFly 30 is a great...

WildFly 29.0.1.Final is now available for download. It’s been about five weeks since the WildFly 29 release, so we’ve done a small bug fix update, WildFly 29.0.1. This includes an update to WildFly Preview. The following issues were resolved in 29.0.1: Bugs [WFLY-18296] - Wildfly 29: does not start on JRE, works on JDK. Worked in WFLY28 [WFLY-18330] - [29.x] Upgrade com.squareup.okio to 3.4.0 (resolves CVE-2023-3635) [WFLY-18350] - The testsuite/galleon tests are too unconstrained as...

I’m pleased to announce that the new WildFly and WildFly Preview 29.0.0.Final releases are available for download at https://wildfly.org/downloads. New and Notable During the WildFly 29 development cycle the WildFly contributors were heavily focused on bug fixing, plus a lot internal housekeeping that needed doing after all the recent work toward Jakarta EE 10. But we do have some new goodies: It is now possible to secure the management console with WildFly’s native support for...

WildFly 28.0.1.Final is now available for download. It’s been about five weeks since the WildFly 28 release, so we’ve done a small bug fix update, WildFly 28.0.1. This includes an update to WildFly Preview. The following issues were resolved in 28.0.1: Bugs [WFLY-17016] - todo-backend QS has outdated Readme instructions [WFLY-17921] - Add missing org.jboss.vfs to RESTEasy Spring deployments [WFLY-17947] - todo-backend Readme OpenShift instructions results in a non-functional QS app [WFLY-17960] - LRA causes...

I’m pleased to announce that the new WildFly and WildFly Preview 28.0.0.Final releases are available for download at https://wildfly.org/downloads. New and Notable Observability The biggest changes in WildFly 28 relate to the observability space. The micrometer subsystem has been added to standard WildFly, bringing Micrometer support. As part of this work, we’ve added support for Micrometer integration with our MicroProfile Fault Tolerance implementation. The micrometer subsystem was first introduced in WildFly Preview in WildFly 27....

I’m pleased to announce that the new WildFly and WildFly Preview 28.0.0.Beta1 releases are available for download at https://wildfly.org/downloads. New and Notable Observability The biggest changes in WildFly 28 Beta1 relate to the observability space. The micrometer subsystem has been added to standard WildFly, bringing Micrometer support. As part of this work, we’ve added support for Micrometer integration with our MicroProfile Fault Tolerance implementation. The micrometer subsystem was first introduced in WildFly Preview in WildFly...

WildFly 26.1.3.Final is now available for download. We’ve received requests from members of our community to address a recent critical severity CVE in Apache CXF. The WildFly project generally doesn’t continue to produce bug-fix releases for older versions once a new major or minor release is out. But we recognize that the transition to WildFly 27 and EE 10 is likely to take our users longer than it does for most releases, so given the...

WildFly 27.0.1.Final is now available for download. It’s been about five weeks since the WildFly 27 release, so we’ve done a small bug fix update, WildFly 27.0.1. This includes an update to WildFly Preview. The following issues were resolved in 27.0.1: Bugs [WFLY-17186] - Wrong exception handling by ManagedScheduledExecutorService.schedule(…​) [WFLY-17287] - Cannot persist ejb timers into database [WFLY-17313] - Distributed TimerService fails when cache is configured with jdbc-store [WFLY-17350] - Custom mail providers are not...

It gives me tremendous pleasure to announce that the new WildFly and WildFly Preview 27.0.0.Final releases are available for download at https://wildfly.org/downloads. Jakarta EE 10 Support For sure the biggest new thing in WildFly 27 is support for Jakarta EE 10. WildFly 27 is a compatible implementation of the EE 10 Platform as well as the Web Profile and the new Core Profile. WildFly is EE 10 compatible when running on both Java SE 11...

I’m pleased to announce that the new WildFly and WildFly Preview 27.0.0.Beta1 releases are available for download at https://wildfly.org/downloads. New and Notable As I noted in my last post, the key new thing in WildFly 27 is compatibility with the recently released Jakarta EE 10. Thanks so much to all the great WildFly contributors who worked so hard on our EE 10 journey! Besides Jakarta EE 10 support, here are some of the other new...

Congratulations to everyone involved with Jakarta EE for today’s announced general availability of Jakarta EE 10! It’s great to see continued advances in Jakarta EE, particularly Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection 4.0 with the new CDI Lite, along with the new Jakarta EE 10 Core Profile. I’m particularly happy to announce that our hard work in the WildFly community on EE 10 is paying off. Last week we released WildFly 27.0.0.Alpha5, and this week compatibility...

WildFly 26.1.2.Final is now available for download. This is a bug fix release. The full list of issues resolved in WildFly 26.1.2 is available here. Issues resolved in the WildFly Core update included with WildFly 26.1.2 are available here. As I’ve discussed in various posts that touch on the WildFly project’s plans for 2022, beginning with the upcoming WildFly 27 release WildFly releases will no longer support Java SE 8, Jakarta EE 8 and MicroProfile...

Today we have released the 27.0.0.Alpha4 version of WildFly, now available on the downloads page. This release serves as a major milestone on our way toward support for Jakarta EE 10 in WildFly, as it is the first release of standard WildFly that is based on the Jakarta EE APIs that are planned for the upcoming Jakarta EE 10 release. Until this release, only WildFly Preview has offered any kind of support for Jakarta EE...

WildFly 26.1.1.Final is now available for download. It’s been about five weeks since the WildFly 26.1 release, so we’ve done a small bug fix update, WildFly 26.1.1. This includes an update to WildFly Preview. The full list of issues resolved in WildFly 26.1.1 is available here. Issues resolved in the WildFly Core update included with WildFly 26.1.1 are available here. Note that the release artifacts are available in public maven in the jboss.org maven repo...

Today we have released a 27.0.0.Alpha1 version of WildFly Preview. This release serves as a milestone on our way toward support for Jakarta EE 10 in WildFly Preview, and eventually in standard WildFly. As discussed in my January WildFly Release Plans for 2022 post, the main focus of the WildFly developers as we work on WildFly 27 is implementing Jakarta EE 10 support. That work has now reached a point in WildFly Preview where it’s...

I’m pleased to announce that the WildFly 26.1 Final zip is now available for download. As I discussed in my January WildFly Release Plans for 2022 post, the primary work being done by the WildFly developer community since the start of this year has been aimed toward a feature-boxed WildFly 27 release, with the main targeted feature being Jakarta EE 10 support in standard WildFly. But while WildFly 27 will be feature-boxed and release when...

I’m pleased to announce that the new WildFly and WildFly Preview 26.1.0.Beta1 releases are available for download at https://wildfly.org/downloads. Whilst normally at this point we would be bringing the Beta for the next major release our main branch is being used for active development for the upcoming support of Jakarta EE 10 so we are releasing a minor release in the WildFly 26 stream to bring some new features. Here are the features specifically backported...

WildFly 26.0.1.Final is now available for download. It’s been about four weeks since the WildFly 26 release, so we’ve done a small bug fix update, WildFly 26.0.1. This includes an update to WildFly Preview. The full list of issues resolved in WildFly 26.0.1 is available here Enjoy!

I’m pleased to announce that the WildFly 26 Final zip is now available for download. (Note that the release may not be available yet on Maven Central; please Maven Availability below for more details.) There are number of new things in this release: WildFly Preview and MicroProfile Platform 5 Last week the MicroProfile group announced the release of the MicroProfile 5.0 platform. Thanks and congratulations to the MicroProfile community! MicroProfile 5.0 is mainly focused on...

I’m pleased to announce that the new WildFly and WildFly Preview 26.0.0.Beta1 releases are available for download at https://wildfly.org/downloads. For more information about the changes included in this release please consult the release notes, in the meantime the developers are working hard on tasks needed to prepare the base to add support for Jakarta EE 10 as the specifications become available. Release Notes The release notes for the release are here, with issues fixed in...

WildFly 25.0.1.Final is now available for download. It’s been about four weeks since the WildFly 25 release, so we’ve done a small bug fix update, WildFly 25.0.1. This includes an update to WildFly Preview. The full list of issues resolved in WildFly 25.0.1 is available here. Issues resolved in the WildFly Core updates (there were two) included with WildFly 25.0.1 are available here and here. Enjoy!

I’m pleased to announce that the WildFly 25 Final zip is now available for download. The big focus during the WildFly 25 development cycle has been on support for Java SE 17 and on the related transition away from our legacy security layer and to a purely WildFly Elytron-based security layer. More about those later, but first let’s look at new features in WildFly 25. New Features A new subsystem has been added that provides...

I’m pleased to announce that the new WildFly and WildFly Preview 25.0.0.Beta1 releases are available for download at https://wildfly.org/downloads. Work during the WildFly 25 development cycle has been primarily oriented toward completing a long planned evolution of our security layer. Before diving into that topic, there are a few significant new feature areas where feedback from our users would be most welcome. A new subsystem providing support for OpenTelemetry Tracing. WildFly still provides MicroProfile OpenTracing...

WildFly 24.0.1.Final is now available for download. It’s been about six weeks since the WildFly 24 release, so we’ve done a small bug fix update, WildFly 24.0.1. This includes an update to WildFly Preview. The full list of issues resolved in WildFly 24.0.1 is available here. Issues resolved in the WildFly Core update included with WildFly 24.0.1 are available here. Enjoy!

I’m pleased to announce that the WildFly 24 Final zip is now available for download. Work during the WildFly 24 development cycle has been primarily oriented toward bug fixing, plus the Jakarta EE 9.1 certification work done for WildFly 23. We’ve also been doing work on getting WildFly Preview to run well on SE 16 and 17, with a goal of being able to support SE 17 in standard WildFly later this year. There are...

I’m pleased to announce that the new WildFly and WildFly Preview 24.0.0.Beta1 releases are available for download at https://wildfly.org/downloads. Work during the WildFly 24 development cycle has been primarily oriented toward bug fixing, plus the Jakarta EE 9.1 certification work done for WildFly 23. But I do want to express my special thanks to Sonia Zaldana, a great contributor to WildFly over the past year, who has added three new features in WildFly 24 Beta1:...

WildFly 23.0.2.Final is now available for download. After the release of Jakarta EE 9 the Jakarta EE Platform Project has been busy with the Jakarta EE 9.1 Release. This has now progressed to the point that a candidate release of the Jakarta EE 9.1 TCK is available with WildFly 23.0.2.Final being our release candidate as a compatible implementation based on this TCK. WildFly Preview and Jakarta EE 9 The WildFly Preview variant of the server...

WildFly 23.0.1.Final is now available for download. It’s been about a month since the WildFly 23 release, so we’ve done a bug fix update, WildFly 23.0.1. WildFly Preview and Jakarta EE 9.0 The big news in this release is the fact that the WildFly Preview variant of the server passes the TCKs for the Jakarta EE 9.0 Full Platform and the Web Profile. We’ve sent a compatibility certification request for the Full Platform to Eclipse....

I’m pleased to announce that the WildFly 23 Final zip is now available for download. It’s been a busy time since the January WildFly 22 release, with a bit shorter development cycle than normal. But a lot has been accomplished. Let’s have a look at what’s new. New Features MicroProfile 4.0 In this release we have moved our MicroProfile platform implementations from the 3.3 platform specification versions to the 4.0 versions. WildFly 23 supports the...

I’m pleased to announce that the new WildFly and WildFly Preview 23.0.0.Beta1 releases are available for download at https://wildfly.org/downloads. The WildFly 23 development cycle has been a bit shorter than our typical three months, as we’ve reduced this one some to see if we can get on a rough cadence of Final releases in March/June/September/December. That works well for avoiding releases during the peak summer and year end holiday periods. And the cycle was even...

WildFly 22.0.1.Final is now available for download. It’s been about a month since the WildFly 22 release, so we’ve done a small bug fix update, WildFly 22.0.1. The full list of issues resolved in WildFly 22.0.1 is available here. Issues resolved in the WildFly Core update included with WildFly 22.0.1 are available here. Enjoy!

I’m pleased to announce that the WildFly 22 Final zip is now available for download. Let’s have a look at what’s new. New Features Logging In response to a great deal of user demand, WildFly has added support for log4j2. Applications deployed in the server can use the log4j2 API which will delegate to the JBoss Log Manager. Provisioning and Managing WildFly It is now possible to use a Galleon feature pack provided by Keycloak...

Year End Treats I’m pleased to announce that two new WildFly releases are available for download at https://wildfly.org/downloads. First you can get WildFly 22.0.0.Beta1 and have a look at what’s coming soon in WildFly 22. This also includes an update of WildFly Preview. Release notes for that release are here, with issues fixed in the underlying WildFly Core betas listed here. For developers using our bootable jar feature, please have a look at the new...

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’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...

WildFly 20.0.1.Final is now available for download. It’s been about a month since the WildFly 20 release, so it’s time for a small bug fix update, WildFly 20.0.1. The full list of issues resolved in WildFly 20.0.1 is available here. Issues resolved in the WildFly Core 12.0.2 and 12.0.3 releases included with WildFly 20.0.1 are available here and here. Onward to WildFly 21! Enjoy.

Congratulations to the Jakarta EE community for the recent great progress on Jakarta EE 9! The Jakarta EE community has been making great strides in its work on Jakarta EE 9, and given today’s Jakarta EE 9 milestone release I wanted to give the WildFly community an update on what’s been going on regarding EE 9 in WildFly and a heads up on what I expect will be happening over the summer and the rest...

I’m pleased to announce that the WildFly 20 Final zip is now available for download. After the big push on Eclipse MicroProfile 3.3 for WildFly 19, the focus for WildFly 20 was more on bug fixing and component updates. Between WildFly Core and full WildFly we resolved well over 100 bugs and did over 90 component upgrades, most of which also brought bug fixes. These are challenging times for all of us, with a lot...

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...

WildFly 12 Final is now available for download! EE8 Capabilities & New Release Model This is our first release following our new quarterly delivery model. As part of this plan, we are delivering EE8 functionality in fully completed incremental chunks, as opposed to waiting for everything to finish in a big bang reelase. WildFly 12 makes significant progress on this front, adding support for the majority of the new standards: Name From Version From JSR...

WildFly 11 Final is now available for download! The highlights of WildFly 11 are as follows: Elytron - New Security Infrastructure The biggest change in WildFly 11 is unification on a new common security framework across the full application server. Previously we had two separate security infrastructures (picketbox and security-realms), each covering separate use cases, and largely operating independent of the other. In addition to unification, Elytron brings a number of advanced capabilities such as...

WildFly 11 CR1 is now available for download! Since the Beta, 66 issues have been resolved. You can find the full list below. Provided that no major issues are found, we hope to release the final very soon. The highlights of WildFly 11 are as follows: Elytron - New Security Infrastructure The biggest change in WildFly 11 is unification on a new common security framework across the full application server. Previously we had two separate...

WildFly 11 is now feature complete and the beta is now available for download! This release includes a significant amount of change, with 459 issues completed since the Alpha, and includes a number of major changes, including architectural changes around a new richer security layer. Since WildFly 11 is feature complete, and appears stable in our local testing, we aim to move to CR quickly. The highlights of this release are as follows: Elytron -...

WildFly 10.1 is officially complete and available for download! Major new features include: Out of the box HTTP/2 support with no JVM flags required ! TLS cert auto-generation Load-balancing profile is now in our default domain.xml config Support for clustering node discovery on Azure (jgroups AZURE_PING) Additionally there was a massive 324 issues resolved in this release! Out of the Box HTTP/2 and TLS Unique to WildFly, is that HTTP/2 now works without any special...

WildFly 10 Final is officially complete and available for download! WildFly 10 adds a number of capabilities and improvements to the powerful, yet lightweight, open-source application server. Java EE 7 As with WildFly 8 and WildFly 9, WildFly 10 implements the Java EE 7 Full and Web Profile standards. Builds on WildFly 9 In addition to the key features mentioned below, this release includes all the major features from 9, such as HTTP/2 support and...

The fifth release candidate for WildFly 10 (10.0.0.CR5) is now available for download! For details, see the official 10.0.0.CR5 Release Notes wiki page. Give it a try over the holidays, and let us know what you think! Provided there are no showstoppers, this will become the final 10 release. Enjoy!

WildFly 9.0.2 is now available for download. This release includes a security update, bug fixes, and a few component updates. For more information, see the JIRA release notes.

The fourth release candidate for WildFly 10 (10.0.0.CR4) is now available for download! For details, see the official 10.0.0.CR4 Release Notes wiki page. Give it a try and let us know what you think. If all goes well, this will be the last CR before the final release. Enjoy!

The second release candidate for WildFly 10 (10.0.0.CR2) is now available for download! For details, see the official 10.0.0.CR2 Release Notes wiki page. Give it a try and let us know what you think.

The first candidate for release of WildFly 10 (10.0.0.CR1) is now available for download! For details, see the official 10.0.0.CR1 Release Notes wiki page. Give it a try and let us know what you think.

The WildFly 10.0.0.Beta2 release is now available for download! For details, see the official 10.0.0.Beta2 Release Notes wiki page.

Once again, we’re delighted and enthralled to announce a release of WildFly Swarm. This time, it’s 1.0.0.Alpha4! That’s like one more than last time! This release has taken a few months, but it is chock-a-block full of awesome changes. But first, you might be wondering What is WildFly Swarm? Well, it’s WildFly, but dis-assembled and repackaged so that you can consume just the bits’n’bobs you need in order to build slimmer application services and run...

The WildFly 9 Final release is now available for download! Java EE7 As with WildFly 8, WildFly 9 is a certified implemenation of both the Java EE7 full and web profile specifications. HTTP/2 Support Undertow, the web server in WildFly, has added support for the new HTTP/2 standard. HTTP/2 reduces latency by compressing headers and multiplexing many streams over the same TCP connection. It also supports the ability for a server to push resources to...

Once again, we’re delighted and enthralled to announce a release of WildFly Swarm. This time, it’s 1.0.0.Alpha3! Since this follows quickly on the heels of the last release, there’s not a whole lot of major changes. Rather, we’ve fixed some things, enhanced others, written some tests, and generally knocked it together a little sturdier. Changes Based on WildFly 9.0.0.CR2. You can now stop() the container. Better classloading for javax.* stuff. JPA improvements: Default datasources are...

I’m happy to announce the WildFly 9.0.0.CR2 release! This release addresses a number issues discovered during the CR1 cycle, and also includes a major UX update to the console. For those new to WildFly 9, it builds off of WildFly 8’s Java EE7 support, and adds many new capabilities, including intelligent load balancing, HTTP/2 support, a new offline CLI mode, graceful single node shutdown, and a new Servlet-only distribution. Provided no major issues are discovered,...

We’ve been churning through the improvements and fixes for Alpha2! Windows All the Windows issues are now resolved. You can enjoy the benefits of WildFly Swarm on your operating system of choice. Modify your Application from Alpha1 We’ve made a few changes to how the plugin works which means that you will need to update any applications that are already utilizing Alpha1: Remove the execution phase from the wildfly-swarm-plugin Change the goal of the wildfly-swarm-plugin...

Happy Cinco De Mayo! Crack open a cold adult beverage and start retooling your JavaEE skills towards microservices. What is WildFly Swarm? WildFly Swarm [1] is a new sidecar project supporting WildFly 9.x to enable deconstructing the WildFly AS and pasting just enough of it back together with your application to create a self-contained executable jar. JAX-RS is a microservice? In the simplest case, you make small adjustments to your existing Maven pom.xml that generates...

I’m happy to announce WildFly 9.0.0.CR1! WildFly 9 builds off of WildFly 8’s Java EE7 support, and adds many new capabilities, including intelligent load balancing, HTTP/2 support, a new offline CLI mode, graceful single node shutdown, and a new Servlet-only distribution. For more details, check out the full release notes. Provided no major issues are discovered, we plan to move to Final fairly quickly, sometime in May. Enjoy!

I’m happy to announce the beta release of WildFly 9! WildFly 9 builds off of WildFly 8’s Java EE7 support, and adds many new capabilities, including intelligent load balancing, HTTP/2 support, a new offline CLI mode, graceful single node shutdown, and a new Servlet-only distribution. For more details, check out the full release notes. Provided no major issues are discovered, we plan to move to CR fairly quickly, sometime in April. Enjoy!

I’m happy to announce the release of WildFly 8.0.0.Final. This means we feel the project is now stable and ready for general use. We received excellent feedback from the community regarding the CR1 release, and are looking forward to hearing more about your experiences with 8 Final. We will be highlighting notable WildFly 8 articles, videos and resources on our new WildFly 8 Resources page. Please keep an eye on it for future developments. Java...

I’m happy to announce the release of WildFly 8.0.0.CR1. This is the first candidate for release of WildFly 8. Provided no significant issues are discovered, we will follow up with an 8.0.0.Final release soon after. We are calling on all members in the community to help us evaluate WildFly 8, and that it is indeed ready for primetime. Java EE7 TCK 100% Passing The biggest development in this release is that WildFly 8 is now...

I’m happy to announce the release of WildFly 8.0.0.Beta1. This is a significant milestone because all planned major features have been implemented. Let’s run through the big ones. Java EE7 Java EE7 offers applications several productivity improving capabilities including support for the modern web, batch processing, simplified concurrent task processing, and improvements in dependency injection. At this point all user facing EE7 APIs have been implemented! Aside from achieving compliance certification, the only remaining work...