Welcome to the Q1’2025 quarterly platforms update. 

If you’re new to these updates, welcome!  The big news this quarter is the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 release.  Read on for more on that.  This update aims to share recent changes as well as our best current knowledge on upcoming changes, but predicting the future is tricky business and this shouldn’t be considered a committed roadmap. 

With that said, on to the update…

InterSystems IRIS Production Operating Systems and CPU Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

• Upcoming Changes
  • We’re expecting Red Hat to release RHEL 10 in late May or early June and add support for it shortly thereafter in IRIS 2025.1
  • RHEL 9.5 has undergone minor OS certification without incident.
• Further reading: RHEL Release Page

Ubuntu

• Previous Updates
  • We’ve completed minor OS certification for Ubuntu 24.04.01 and 22.04.3 on IRIS 2024.1 without incident
• Upcoming Changes
  • Ubuntu 24.04.2 has just been released and minor OS certification will begin shortly.
• Further Reading: Ubuntu Releases Page

SUSE Linux

• Recent Update
  • We’ve completed minor OS certification of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 without incident.
  • We’re planning to change how we phrase SUSE Service Pack support to just say “Any Service Pack that SUSE publicly supports” rather than list specific SPs in the documentation.  We made this change for RHEL and it’s working well there, so we’ll make the same change with SUSE.
• Previous Updates
  • General Support from SUSE for Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 came to an end on 12/31/2022, but extended security support will continue until December, 2025.

Further Reading: SUSE lifecycle

Oracle Linux

• Upcoming Changes
  • We’re expecting Oracle Linux 10 to be released around the same time as RHEL 10.  Since we support Oracle Linux via the IRIS RHEL kit, we’re expecting Oracle Linux 10 support at the same time as RHEL 10 support is released.
• Further Reading: Oracle Linux Support Policy

Microsoft Windows

• Recent Changes
  • Windows Server 2025 was released in November and we’re actively adding support for the platform.  We’re expecting our testing to finish shortly and if all goes well, it’ll be added as a supported platform.
• Upcoming Changes
  • Microsoft has pushed back the anticipated release date for Windows 12 to the fall of 2025.  We’ll start the process of supporting the new OS after it’s been released.
• Further Reading: Microsoft Lifecycle

AIX

• Previous Changes
  • IRIS 2024.3 and up will only support OpenSSL 3. NOTE:  This means that 2024.2 is the last version of IRIS that has both OpenSSL 1 and OpenSSL 3 kits.  In IRIS 2023.3, 2024.1, & 2024.2, we provided two separate IRIS kits – one that supports OpenSSL 1 and one that supports OpenSSL 3.  Given the importance of OpenSSL 3 for overall system security, we’ve heard from many of you that you’ve already moved to OpenSSL 3.
• Further Reading: AIX Lifecycle

Containers

• Previous Updates
  • We changed the container base image from Ubuntu 22.04 to Ubuntu 24.04 with IRIS 2024.2
  • We’re considering changes to the default IRIS container to, by default, have internal traffic (ECP, Mirroring, etc) on a different port from potentially externally facing traffic (ODBC, JDBC, etc).  If you have needs in this area, please reach out and let me know.

InterSystems IRIS Development Operating Systems and CPU Architectures

MacOS

• Upcoming Changes
  • Apple has released MacOS 15 and we are planning support for it in IRIS 2025.1

InterSystems Components

• Previous Updates
  • InterSystems API Manager 2.8.4.11 & 3.4.3.11 have been released.  If you’re using IAM, please upgrade soon.
  • InterSystems Reports 24.1 has been released.

Caché & Ensemble Production Operating Systems and CPU Architectures

• Previous Updates
  • A reminder that the final Caché & Ensemble maintenance releases are scheduled for Q1-2027, which is coming up sooner than you think.  See  Jeff’s excellent community article for more info.

InterSystems Supported Platforms Documentation

The InterSystems Supported Platforms documentation is the definitive source information on supported technologies.

• IRIS 2024.1 Supported Server Platforms
• IRIS 2023.1 Supported Server Platforms
• IRIS 2022.1 Supported Server Platforms
• Caché & Ensemble 2018.1 Supported Server Platforms

… and that’s all folks.  Again, if there’s something more that you’d like to know about, please let us know.