Reference: Build 2025.1.0.1.24372U.25e14d55

Overview

This release introduces significant enhancements to security, analytics capabilities, and user experience, along with important operational improvements aimed at reducing downtime and improving reliability.

New Features and Enhancements

InterSystems is pleased to announce that IAM 3.10 has been released. IAM 3.10 is the first significant release in about 18 months, so it includes many significant new features that are not available in IAM 3.4, including:

• Added support for incremental config sync for hybrid mode deployments. Instead of sending the entire entity config to data planes on each config update, incremental config sync lets you send only the changed configuration to data planes.

InterSystems is pleased to announce that the following products are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

• InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2025.1.0.230.2
• InterSystems IRIS for Health 2025.1.0.230.2
• HealthShare Health Connect 2025.1.0.230.2

This release adds support for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 operating system.  RHEL 10 includes Linux kernel 6.12.0, security improvements, performance optimizations, and improved developer tools.

How to get the software

Installation packages are available from the WRC's Extended Maintenance Releases page.

InterSystems has released new point updates to resolve a defect affecting the most recent prior versions of 2025.1.0, 2024.1.4, 2023.1.6, and 2022.1.

Summary

InterSystems Kubernetes Operator (IKO) 3.8 is now Generally Available.  IKO 3.8 adds new functionality along with numerous bug fixes and security updates.  Highlights include:

• Compute Groups allows you to deploy more than one type of compute node to handle different types of workloads in a single IrisCluster
• Consolidate Volumes – you can now choose to deploy with fewer volumes, such as consolidating data and WIJ on the same volume.

Follow the Installation Guide for guidance on how to download, install, and get started with IKO.  The complete IKO 3.

We have a big update this quarter. 

• RHEL 10 was released yesterday, read on for what that means for you
• 2025.3 will use OpenSSL 3 across all operating systems  SUSE 15 sp6 will be the minimum OS for orgs using SUSE
• The minimum CPU standards are going up in 2025.3
• Older Windows Server operating systems will no longer be supported in 2025.3

The Application Services team is pleased to announce the release of git-source-control version 2.4.0, introducing several new features to the open-source project.

For those unfamiliar, git-source-control is an embedded (or "server-side") source control tool for InterSystems products, installed through the InterSystems Package Manager.

Here are the key additions to the 2.4.0 release:

1. Basic Mode

Basic mode presents an overall great simplification to the git workflow, suitable for users with less knowledge of git as a source control tool.

We’re issuing a point release for InterSystems IRIS, IRIS for Health, and Health Connect 2025.1 — version 2025.1.0.225.1 — to address a critical interoperability issue affecting users who leverage System Default Setting enabled business hosts.

What’s the issue?
In certain configurations where a Business Host is marked as System Default Setting enabled, applying new settings via the UI may incorrectly indicate that changes were applied, even though the necessary restart did not occur.

When AMD published the x86-64 standard in 1999, little did they know they were inventing what would become the de-facto architecture for server CPUs.  But the CPUs of today aren’t the same as ones produced 20 years back – as they have extensions for everything from Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) to Hardware-Assisted Virtualization (VT-d).

InterSystems would like to take better advantage of these new extensions in upcoming versions of InterSystems IRIS.  While our compilers are smart enough to create optimized code for many situations, some optimizations can only be turned on by explicitly cutting off support for processors that do not have that instruction set. Additionally, we are finding it increasingly difficult to maintain older CPU models to test on.

The 2024.1.4 and 2023.1.6 maintenance releases of InterSystems IRIS^® data platform, InterSystems IRIS^® for Health^TM, and HealthShare^® Health Connect are now Generally Available (GA). These releases include the fixes for the following alert recently issued - Alert: SQL Queries Returning Wrong Results | InterSystems. Please share your feedback through the Developer Community so we can build a better product together.

Summary of Alerts

Detail of Alerts

DP-439207 - AIX JSON Unicode Parsing Issue

A bug has been identified in InterSystems IRIS 2024.3.0 on AIX instances that affects the parsing of JSON Unicode strings.

InterSystems Announces General Availability of InterSystems IRIS, InterSystems IRIS for Health, and HealthShare Health Connect 2025.1

The 2025.1 release of InterSystems IRIS® data platform, InterSystems IRIS^® for Health^TM, and HealthShare^® Health Connect is now Generally Available (GA). This is an Extended Maintenance (EM) release.

As of InterSystems IRIS® data platform version 2025.1, InterSystems is officially deprecating MultiValue and including it in the Deprecated and Discontinued Features list. While InterSystems will continue to support existing customers using MultiValue, it is not recommended for new applications.

What This Means for You:

• Continued Support: Support for MultiValue will still be available through the Worldwide Response Center (WRC) on a "best effort" basis, as is provided for releases older than our Minimum Supported Versions.

The first developer previews of InterSystems IRIS^® data platform, InterSystems IRIS^® for Health, and HealthShare^® Health Connect 2025.1 have been posted to the WRC developer preview site.  Containers can be found on our container registry and are tagged latest-preview.

These developer previews include the feature to migrate to IBM "Open XL C/C++ for AIX" 17.x compiler ensuring compatibility with future AIX builds as older compilers approach end-of-support. This migration focuses on the aixopenssl30 target, supporting SSL3 on AIX 7.2 and 7.3.

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.

February 19, 2025 – Alert: SQL Queries Returning Wrong Results

InterSystems has corrected two issues that can cause a small number of SQL queries to return incorrect results. In addition, InterSystems has corrected an inconsistency in date/time datatype handling that may lead to different, unexpected – yet correct – results for existing applications that rely on the earlier, inconsistent behavior.

First, let me wish the developer community a Happy New Year! We hope to bring you many good things this year, and today I'd like to introduce the latest version of the Intersystems Language Server extension to VS Code. Most Language Server improvements are experienced via the ObjectScript extension UI, so you many not be aware of the many improvements in areas like Intellisense and hover overs that were released throughout 2024. Please take a quick read over the Language Server's CHANGELOG and find out what you missed. Most recently, version 2.7.

The latest extended maintenance releases of InterSystems IRIS, InterSystems IRIS for Health, and HealthShare Health Connect are now available.

✅ 2024.1.3

Release 2024.1.3 provides bug fixes for any of the previous 2024.1.x releases, including the fix for the following alert recently issued - Alert: Invalid Data Introduced to Database and Journal files with Specific.

It's been a while since I've posted about Embedded Git on the Developer Community, and I'd like to provide an update on the massive amount of work we've done this year and where we're going next.

Context

If you're building solutions on IRIS and want to use Git, that's great! Just use VSCode with a local git repo and push your changes out to the server - it's that easy.

InterSystems has corrected a defect that causes invalid database and journal records to be introduced when using a specific $LIST syntax. The likelihood of encountering this defect is very low but the operational impacts can be significant.

Products Affected

• InterSystems IRIS® data platform: Versions 2023.3, 2024.1.0, 2024.1.1, 2024.1.2, 2024.2, 2024.3
• InterSystems IRIS® for Health: Versions 2023.3, 2024.1.0, 2024.1.1, 2024.1.2, 2024.2, 2024.3
• HealthShare® Health Connect: Versions 2023.3.0, 2024.1, 2024.1.1, 2024.1.2, 2024.2, 2024.3
• HealthShare® Unified Care Record and Suite: Version 2024.

We have released IPM 0.9.0. I previously remarked on some of the history and reasoning here; to summarize, this is a big release for two reasons: it represents a long-overdue reunification of our internal and community-driven work around IRIS-centric ObjectScript package management, and it has some backwards incompatibilities. There are several necessary backwards incompatibilities in our roadmap, and we've lumped them together; this will not be some new norm.

Under the hood, the class naming and package structure has completely changed.

InterSystems is announcing an end of maintenance event for Zen Reports beginning in Intersystems IRIS and IRIS for Health 2025.1.  This follows the deprecation notice made when InterSystems IRIS was introduced in 2018 and subsequent inclusion of InterSystems Reports in 2020 to provide replacement reporting functionality.  An overview of the timeline is:

March 2018.   InterSystems IRIS 2018.1:  Announcement of Zen Reports deprecation, continued shipment to provide continuity for existing applications

April 2020.     InterSystems IRIS 2020.

Welcome to the Q4’2024 quarterly platforms update.  I hope that your 2024 has been incredible and that 2025 is even better. 

If you’re new to these updates, welcome!  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

• Previous Updates
  
  • We’ve completed minor OS certification for RHEL 9.4 & 8.10 on IRIS 2024.

InterSystems announces General Availability of InterSystems IRIS, InterSystems IRIS for Health, and HealthShare Health Connect 2024.3

The 2024.3 release of InterSystems IRIS^® data platform, InterSystems IRIS^® for Health, and HealthShare^® Health Connect is now Generally Available (GA).

Release Highlights

In this release, you can expect a host of exciting updates, including:

1. Much faster extension of database and WIJ files
2. Ability to resend messages from Visual Trace
3. Enhanced Rule Editor capabilities
4. Vector search enhancements
5. and more.

On 4 December 2024, System Alerting and Monitoring  (SAM) will be removed from the InterSystems download sites, the container registry, and documentation site.

InterSystems announced last year that it has ceased further development of SAM and simultaneously labelled it as deprecated.  InterSystems will continue to support existing customers using the technology in the same manner as product versions beyond the Minimum Supported Version window.

September 24, 2018 – Advisory: VMWare vSAN and Data Integrity

Clients running vSAN 6.6 or later should review a very important article that VMware published on September 21, 2018.  The article describes the possibility of file system and database corruption, which can lead to outages and possible data loss, and we believe that some of our clients have encountered this issue.  Therefore, we encourage you to act on this as soon as possible.

The VMWare knowledge base article is titled:

Virtual Machines running on VMware vSAN 6.6 and later report guest data consistency concerns following a disk extend operation (58715)

Maintenance Releases 2023.1.5 & 2024.1.2 of InterSystems IRIS, IRIS for Health, & HealthShare HealthConnect are now available

Two extended maintenance releases of InterSystems IRIS, InterSystems IRIS for Health, and HealthShare Health Connect are now available.

✅ 2023.1.5

Release 2023.1.5 provides bug fixes for any of the previous 2023.1.x releases.

You can find the detailed change lists & upgrade checklists on these pages:

• InterSystems IRIS
• InterSystems IRIS for Health
• HealthShare Health Connect

✅ 2024.1.2

Release 2024.1.2 provides bug fixes for any of the previous 2024.1.x releases.

Production Decomposition

Production Decomposition is a new configuration option added to the CCR Client Tools that instead of source controlling the Production class as a single item, considers it a composition of configuration items. This allows different users to edit these distinct items within a Production at the same time Historically, this has been a pain point with source controlling Productions as any work involving the Production class required a check out that prevented other users from making edits.

We've recently made available a new version of InterSystems IRIS in the Vector Search Early Access Program, featuring a new Approximate Nearest Neighbor index based upon the Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) indexing algorithm. This addition allows for highly efficient, approximate nearest-neighbor searches over large vector datasets, dramatically improving query performance and scalability.