InterSystems is pleased to announce the 2022.1 releases of InterSystems IRIS Data Platform, InterSystems IRIS for Health, and HealthShare Health Connect are now Generally Available (GA).

2022.1 is an extended maintenance release, which means that maintenance builds will be available for two years, followed by an additional two years of security-specific builds.

Release Highlights 

Platform Updates

InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2022.1 expands support to include the following new & updated operating systems for production workloads:

• Windows Server 2022
• Windows 11
• AIX 7.3
• Oracle Linux 8 

We’re also happy to announce that both Apple’s M1 & Intel chipsets are supported with MacOS 12 (Monterey) for development environments.

Better Development

• Embedded Python – use Python & ObjectScript inside IRIS
• Interoperability Adapters for Kafka, AWS S3, AWS SNS, & CloudWatch
• Redesigned user experience for Production Extensions (PEX)

Speed, Scale, & Security

• Online Shard Rebalancing
• Adaptive SQL
• Journal & Stream Compression
• TLS 1.3, OAuth 2 Support for email 

Analytics & AI

• SQL Loader
• InterSystems Reports deployment improvements

More details on all of these features can be found in the product documentation:

• InterSystems IRIS 2022.1 documentation and release notes
• InterSystems IRIS for Health 2022.1 documentation and release notes
• HealthShare Health Connect 2022.1 documentation and release note 

How to get the software

The software is available as both classic installation packages and container images.  For the complete list of available installers and container images, please refer to the Supported Platforms document.

Full installation packages for each product are available from the WRC's Software Distribution page.  Using the Custom installation option, you to pick the options you need, such as InterSystems Studio and IntegratedML, to right-size your installation footprint.

Container images for the Enterprise Editions of InterSystems IRIS and IRIS for Health and all corresponding components are available from the InterSystems Container Registry using the following commands:

docker pull containers.intersystems.com/intersystems/iris:2022.1.0.209.0
docker pull containers.intersystems.com/intersystems/irishealth:2022.1.0.209.0
docker pull containers.intersystems.com/intersystems/iris-arm64:2022.1.0.209.0
docker pull containers.intersystems.com/intersystems/irishealth-arm64:2022.1.0.209.0
docker pull containers.intersystems.com/intersystems/iris-ml:2022.1.0.209.0
docker pull containers.intersystems.com/intersystems/iris-ml-arm64:2022.1.0.209.0

For a full list of the available images, please refer to the ICR documentation.

Container images for the Community Edition can also be pulled from the InterSystems Container Registry using the following commands:

docker pull containers.intersystems.com/intersystems/iris-community:2022.1.0.209.0
docker pull containers.intersystems.com/intersystems/irishealth-community:2022.1.0.209.0
docker pull containers.intersystems.com/intersystems/iris-community-arm64:2022.1.0.209.0
docker pull containers.intersystems.com/intersystems/irishealth-community-arm64:2022.1.0.209.0
docker pull containers.intersystems.com/intersystems/iris-ml-community:2022.1.0.209.0
docker pull containers.intersystems.com/intersystems/iris-ml-community-arm64:2022.1.0.209.0

InterSystems IRIS Studio 2022.1 is a standalone IDE for use with Microsoft Windows and can be downloaded via the WRC's components download page. It works with InterSystems IRIS and IRIS for Health version 2022.1 and below. InterSystems also supports the VSCode-ObjectScript plugin for developing applications for InterSystems IRIS with Visual Studio Code, which is available for Microsoft Windows, Linux and MacOS.

Our corresponding listings on the main cloud marketplaces will be updated in the next few days.

The build number for this release release is 2022.1.0.209.0.