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Sr. Technical Project Manager at InterSystems
InterSystems Official Fabiano Sanches · Jul 26, 2023

Developer preview #7 for InterSystems IRIS, & IRIS for Health 2023.2

InterSystems announces its seventh preview, as part of the developer preview program for the 2023.2 release.  This release will include InterSystems IRIS and InterSystems IRIS for Health.

Discontinuation of the Private Web Server (PWS)

A major topic in this release is the discontinuation of the Private Web Server (PWS) from the installers.  This feature has been announced since last year and it's removed from InterSystems installers, starting with this developer preview.

See this note in the documentation. Additional information related to this topic can be found here.

--> If you are facing any issues and would like to get in touch with Product Management, or would like to provide your feedback, please email: NoPWS@InterSystems.com.

Highlights

Many updates and enhancements have been added in 2023.2 and there are also brand-new capabilities, such as Time-Aware Modeling, and enhancements of Foreign Tables (but still as an experimental feature).

Initial documentation can be found at these links below. They will be updated over the next few weeks until launch is officially announced (General Availability - GA):

Availability and Package Information

As usual, Continuous Delivery (CD) releases come with classic installation packages for all supported platforms, as well as container images in Docker container format.  For a complete list, refer to the Supported Platforms document.

Installation packages and preview keys are available from the WRC's preview download site or through the evaluation services website (use the flag "Show Preview Software" to get access to the 2023.2).

Container images for both Enterprise and Community Editions of InterSystems IRIS and IRIS for Health and all corresponding components are available from the new InterSystems Container Registry web interface. For additional information about docker commands, please see this post: Announcing the InterSystems Container Registry web user interface.

The build number for this developer preview is 2023.2.0.221.0.

For a full list of the available images, please refer to the ICR documentation. Alternatively, tarball versions of all container images are available via the WRC's preview download site.

Comments

John Murray · Jul 27, 2023

I confirmed that the Community Edition containers (at least, the one I checked) still include a PWS 👍

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Fabiano Sanches  Aug 2, 2023 to John Murray

@John Murray - Yes, Community Editions still have the PWS. The discontinuation affects kits for production environments, without the "Community" names.

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Fabiano Sanches  Aug 2, 2023 to John Murray

@John Murray - Yes, Community Editions still have the PWS. The discontinuation affects kits for production environments, without the "Community" names.

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Kurt Hofman · Jul 28, 2023

I have a problem installing this version.

Microsoft Defender 365 has detected a security threath in studio.cab : 'Bearfoos' malware.

Maybe a false positive ?

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Dmitry Maslennikov  Aug 1, 2023 to Kurt Hofman

I'd scan file with VirusTotal, or alternatives

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Ben Spead  Aug 2, 2023 to Dmitry Maslennikov

@Dmitry Maslennikov - thank you for bringing this to our attention.  We're working on refreshing the keys now

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Fabiano Sanches  Aug 2, 2023 to Ben Spead

New keys are posted. Sorry for any inconvenience.

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Ben Spead  Aug 2, 2023 to Fabiano Sanches

Thank you!

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Ben Spead  Aug 4, 2023 to Dmitry Maslennikov

@Dmitry Maslennikov  - as GA is eminent the guys were set to expire post-GA, but Product Management decided that this really wasn't necessary so next time it will have a longer expiration even if GA is right around the corner.  Thanks for raising the question!

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