Official announcements about events and product releases, alerts and statements from InterSystems Corporation authorities.
InterSystems has corrected a defect that can result in data integrity problems in environments that use InterSystems mirroring in conjunction with parallel dejournaling. This problem exists for currently released Caché and Ensemble versions beginning with 2017.2 and for InterSystems IRIS Data Platform version 2018.1.
Your system is at risk only if you have a mirroring environment that supports parallel dejournaling for mirrored database catchup.
Breaking news!
InterSystems just announced the availability of the InterSystems IRIS for Health™ Data Platform across the Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure marketplaces.
With access to InterSystems unified data platform on all three major cloud providers, developers and customers have flexibility to rapidly build and scale the digital applications driving the future of care on the platform of their choice.
To learn more please follow this link.
InterSystems has completed the verification process for OpenJDK 8.
Customers now have the option to either use the Oracle JDK, or the OpenJDK with all InterSystems products and versions that support Java 8.
Support for future versions will continue to be supported on both of these Java Development Kits.
The preview release of InterSystems HealthShare Health Connect 2019.1 is now available!
Kits and container images are available via WRC's preview download site.
InterSystems HealthShare Health Connect version 2019.1 is the first version of InterSystems HealthShare Health Connect synchronized with InterSystems IRIS, and includes many new features and capabilities, most notably:
These are detailed in
The preview release of InterSystems IRIS for Health 2019.1 is now available - try it out!
Kits and container images are available via WRC's preview download site.
InterSystems IRIS for Health 2019.1 is the second major version of InterSystems IRIS for Health. It has many new capabilities including:
The preview release of InterSystems IRIS 2019.1 is now available - give it a try!
Kits and container images are available via WRC's preview download site.
InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2019.1 is the third major version of InterSystems IRIS. It has many new capabilities including:
These are
Caché 2018.1.1 and Ensemble 2018.1.1 maintenance releases are now available!
Full product installation kits can be downloaded from the WRC Software Distribution site.
For information about the corrections in this release, refer to the release notes.
This release is supported on the same platforms as Caché and Ensemble 2018.1. You can see details in this Supported Platforms document.
Note: there are more recent updates, see https://community.intersystems.com/post/updates-our-release-cadence
InterSystems is adopting a new approach to releasing InterSystems IRIS. This blog explains the new release model and what customers should expect to see. We laid this out at Global Summit at the end of the InterSystems IRIS roadmap session and have received a lot of positive feedback from customers.
With this new model we offer two release streams:
1) An annual traditional release that we call EM (for Extended Maintenance)
2) A quarterly release that is tagged CD (for Continuous Delivery) and will be available only in a container format.
The Atelier 1.3 stable release update site (https://atelier.artifactoryonline.com/atelier/updates/stable/1.3/) has been updated to 1.3.117.
For the best upgrade experience, InterSystems suggests that you install Eclipse Photon fresh before installing Atelier 1.3.
New Features
Enhancements & Fixes
InterSystems IRIS Data Platform™ version 2018.2 is now available as a preview release. This is the first release in our new quarterly continuous-delivery (CD) release stream. (Check out the announcement about InterSystems’ new release cadence for InterSystems IRIS)
October 12, 2018 – Advisory: VMWare vSphere and Data Integrity
Clients running vSphere 5.5 or later should review a very important article that VMware published on October 9, 2018. The article describes the possibility of file system and database corruption, which can lead to outages and possible data loss. We have confirmed that this has caused data integrity problems for InterSystems clients. Therefore, we encourage you to act on this as soon as possible.
The VMWare knowledge base article is titled:
Virtual Machines running on an SEsparse snaposhot may report guest data inconsistencies
October 12, 2018 – Alert: Ordering of XML Sibling Elements
InterSystems has corrected a defect that can cause a reordering of sibling elements in an XML document. This issue is limited to sibling elements that are represented in the database as objects in a relationship.
This problem exists on all platforms for the following products:
Note: HealthShare functionality has been reviewed and is not impacted by this
InterSystems Atelier currently supports Java 8 with Eclipse Photon. We have started to look into supporting Java versions beyond 8 and what options we can offer for JDKs. We will update you all with new development on this subject.
Click here for additional information on downloading InterSystems Atelier.
InterSystems is pleased to announce that InterSystems Caché and Ensemble 2018 are now released!
New in these releases are features that improve security and operations, including:
· Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) support
· Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) integration
· Integrated Windows Authentication support for HTTP
· SSH enhancements
InterSystems is pleased to announce availability of a field test version of Caché and Ensemble 2018.1
These kits can be downloaded from the Field Test portal page.
There are hundreds of bug fixes, and several new features, including:
All platforms are available, except Oracle Solaris 10, 11 for x86-64.
We expect to update the field test kits about once a week, until release.
InterSystems is pleased to announce the availability of HealthShare Health Connect v15.032 on 2017.2.2
The platforms for this maintenance release are the same as for HealthShare Health Connect v15.03 on 2017.2.1.
This release is based on core technology version 2017.2.2.865.0.18321 with the following HealthShare module:
The version number of the HealthShare Health Connect kits for this release is 2017.2.2HS.9685.0
InterSystems products (InterSystems IRIS, Caché and Ensemble) support AIX on Power 9 chips starting with:
Caché/Ensemble 2017.1.3
InterSystems IRIS 2018.1.1
InterSystems is pleased to announce the availability of Caché and Ensemble 2017.2.2
There are many corrections in these releases. Please find a full list of the corrections in the release notes.
The version number of the kits is 2017.2.2.865.0.
The list of platforms is the same as for 2017.2.1. For complete platform details please refer to the 2017.2 Supported Platforms document.
HealthShare Health Connect based on Ensemble 2017.2.2 is not yet available, but will be announced soon.
June 25, 2018 – Alert: Outer Join Query Results
InterSystems has corrected two defects that can cause SQL outer joins to return incorrect results. These defects can also impact DeepSee in Caché and Ensemble, as well as InterSystems Business Intelligence in InterSystems IRIS; in these cases, building and synchronizing some analytic models may result in build errors.
These issues exist on all platforms for the following released InterSystems Data Platform products:
InterSystems is pleased to announce that InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2018.1.0 is now released.
This press release was issued this morning.
InterSystems IRIS is a complete, unified data platform that makes it faster and easier to build real-time, data-rich applications. It mirrors our design philosophy that software should be interoperable, reliable, intuitive, and scalable.
For information about InterSystems IRIS, please visit our website here. You'll find out why InterSystems IRIS is the first complete data platform suitable for transactional, analytic, and hybrid transactional-analytic
InterSystems is pleased to announce the availability of these maintenance releases
· Caché and Ensemble 2017.1.3
· HealthShare Health Connect v15.03 for 2017.1.3
For Caché and Ensemble
· Oracle Solaris 10, 11 for SPARC-64 and Oracle Solaris 10, 11 for x86-64 platforms are now approved for release. They were not available for earlier 2017.1 releases.
· The full list of corrections can be found in the release notes
· The version number of the kits is 2017.1.3.317.0
HealthShare Health Connect v15.03 on core technology 2017.1.3.317.0
· Contains the
Effective immediately InterSystems will no longer support Health Connect on Solaris. Previously released products starting with 2017.1 will also no longer offer this combination. This is in line with InterSystems HealthShare, which is not available on this platform.
As previously announced, 2017.1 on VSI OpenVMS 8.4-1H1 is the final major version of Caché and Ensemble. 2017.1 will not be available for VSI OpenVMS versions beyond 8.4-1H1.
Maintenance releases of 2017.1 on VSI OpenVMS may be announced but only to deliver critical corrections. 2017.1 on VSI OpenVMS will be the Minimum Supported Version from July 1, 2019 through December 31, 2020. After December 31, 2020, no further maintenance releases will be made available.
As stated on the Minimum Supported Version page, Technical Assistance will continue to be available for all products and versions,
InterSystems has performed various system and application benchmarks to determine the potential performance impact after the corrections for Meltdown have been applied.
Overall our tests have shown at worst a performance degradation of less than 2% and in some cases slightly better performance, but within the margin of error of testing. All tests confirm that the specific performance impact to a deployed application is directly related to how this application is using system resources. Specifically, this means that in certain cases (e.g. a query) a larger performance impact is possible.
While
Stable Releases of the Atelier plugin are now available from the Eclipse Marketplace. Just search for Atelier on the Eclipse website (https://marketplace.eclipse.org) or - even better - in the Eclipse IDE.
This is an convenient way to install this plugin, because you no longer have to enter the URL.
InterSystems is pleased to announce the availability of these maintenance releases:
· Caché and Ensemble 2017.2.1
· HealthShare Health Connect v15.03 for 2017.2.1
Caché and Ensemble 2017.2.1 details:
· Platforms are the same as for 2017.2.0, with the addition of:
o Oracle Solaris 10, 11 for SPARC-64
o Oracle Solaris 10, 11 for x86-64
· The version number of the kits for these releases is 2017.2.1.801.0
· The full list of corrections can be found in the release notes
HealthShare Health Connect v15.03 on core technology 2017.2.1.801.0:
· Contains the HealthShare
InterSystems is pleased to announce the availability of the following maintenance releases:
Caché and Ensemble 2016.2.3 are available on the same platforms as 2016.2.2
The full list of corrections can be found in the release notes.
HealthShare Health Connect v15.021 for core technology 2016.2.3.903.0 contains the following HealthShare module:
InterSystems is pleased to announce the availability of these maintenance releases:
Caché and Ensemble are available on the same platforms as 2017.1.1
HealthShare Health Connect v15.03 on core technology
InterSystems is pleased to announce the release of Caché, Ensemble, and HealthShare Health Connect v15.03
Some highlights for Caché and Ensemble are: