Official announcements about events and product releases, alerts and statements from InterSystems Corporation authorities.
Welcome to the Q3’2024 quarterly platforms update. We have some news on the AIX front to encourage better security, along with our usual round of OS version updates.
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.
Alert: Database Corruption with Multi-Volume Databases after Truncation
InterSystems has corrected a defect that can cause database corruption or <DISKHARD> errors with multi-volume databases under extremely rare circumstances. Only databases that have been truncated are at risk.
The defect exists in the following products and any InterSystems offerings based on them:
The first developer preview of InterSystems IRIS 2024.3 and InterSystems IRIS for Health 2024.3 has been posted to the WRC developer preview site. Containers can be found on our container registry and are tagged latest-preview.
This is a very early build in the release cycle and there aren’t any “highlight” worthy features that are complete. They’ll start to arrive in future preview releases.
Initial documentation can be found at these links below.
Availability and Package Information
InterSystems API Manager (IAM) versions 2.8.4.11 and 3.4.3.11 are now Generally Available. These are the latest versions of the two long-term supported versions of IAM. These releases contain important fixes, and all customers are encouraged to upgrade.
Customers on IAM 3.0 or 3.2 are encouraged to upgrade to 3.4.3.11 as support for those versions will soon come to an end.
RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS
2024.2 is a Continuous Delivery (CD) release. Many updates and enhancements have been added in this release:
Enhancing Developer Experience
The 2024.1.1 extended maintenance release of InterSystems IRIS, InterSystems IRIS for Health, and HealthShare Health Connect is now available. It provides bug fixes for the previous 2024.1.0 release.
You can find the detailed change lists / upgrade checklists on these pages:
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 webpage.
InterSystems API Manager (IAM) versions 2.8.4.10 and 3.4.3.10 are now Generally Available. These are the latest versions of the two long-term supported versions of IAM. These release contain important fixes and all customers are encouraged to upgrade.
Customers on IAM 3.0 or 3.2 are encouraged to upgrade to 3.4.3.10 as support for those versions will soon come to an end.
As of October 15, 2024, support for Caché & Ensemble on MacOS will be Deprecated.
Caché & Ensemble 2018.1.9 will continue to be supported, however there will be no further maintenance releases for MacOS. This means Caché & Ensemble 2018.1.9 will be the final version of these products on MacOS.
As a reminder, maintenance releases for Caché and Ensemble on the other supported platforms will come to an end on March 31, 2027. More details on that can be found in last year’s announcement.
InterSystems Reports version 24.1 is now available from the InterSystems Software Distribution site in the Components section. The software is labeled InterSystems Reports Designer and InterSystems Reports Server and is available for Mac OSX, Windows and Linux operating systems.
This new release brings along some great enhancements from our partner, insightsoftware. InterSystems Reports 24.1 is powered by Logi Report Version 24.1SP2 and includes:
InterSystems and Red Hat are working together to add IRIS-specific alerts to Red Hat Insights.
Red Hat Insights is a service to predict and recommend remediations for system risks in Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments. Insights is free with nearly every RHEL, OpenShift, or Ansible subscription. You can learn more about Insights at Red Hat’s site.
Swappiness Recommendation
The first recommendation “Apply swappiness recommendation for better performance of InterSystems IRIS” has been activated.
Note: this was originally posted on June 5, 2024 but presented as being posted on May 9, 2024 so this re-post fixes the date.
Recent updates to the Intersystems Language Server introduce many significant enhancements aimed at improving developer experience and productivity. I'll talk about some of the key ones here, while the complete list, including numerous bug fixes, can be found in the Language Server's CHANGELOG.
Beginning with the release of InterSystems IRIS® data platform 2022.3, InterSystems corrected the license enforcement mechanism to include REST and SOAP requests. Due to this change, environments with non-core-based licenses that use REST or SOAP may experience greater license utilization after upgrading. To determine if this advisory applies to your InterSystems license, follow the instructions in the FAQ linked below.
This table summarizes the enforcement:
Here’s our Q2’2024 quarterly platforms update. 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…
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
InterSystems is pleased to announce the general availability of:
This release adds support for the Ubuntu 24.04 operating system. Ubuntu 24.04 includes Linux kernel 6.8, security improvements, along with installer and user interface improvements. InterSystems IRIS IntegratedML is not yet available on Ubuntu 24.04.
Additionally, this release addresses two defects for all platforms:
As most of you have heard already, InterSystems announced the deprecation of Studio with the release of IRIS 2023.2. A detailed deprecation plan was revealed in November, and we are now hitting the first milestone in that plan. Starting with 2024.2 preview kits, Windows kits will no longer contain Studio. This means that new installations using this kit will not install Studio, and upgrading an existing instance to version 2024.2 (or later) will remove Studio from the instance’s bin directory.
An updated developer preview of InterSystems IRIS 2024.2 and InterSystems IRIS for Health 2024.2 has been posted to the WRC developer preview site. This release contains a few noteworthy changes:
InterSystems has corrected an issue that can cause a small number of SQL queries to return incorrect results. See below for the specifics on impacted queries.
This issue exists in the listed versions of the following products:
As well as:
Impacted versions:
Two extended maintenance releases of InterSystems IRIS, InterSystems IRIS for Health, and HealthShare Health Connect are now available.
✅ 2022.1.5
Release 2022.1.5 provides bug fixes for any of the previous 2022.1.x releases.
You can find the detailed change lists & upgrade checklists on these pages:
✅ 2023.1.4
Release 2023.1.4 provides bug fixes for any of the previous 2023.1.x releases.
The first developer preview of InterSystems IRIS 2024.2 and InterSystems IRIS for Health 2024.2 has been posted to the WRC developer preview site. Containers are not available for this preview, but we’ll be sure to post them next time.
This is the earliest in the release cycle that we’ve ever posted a developer preview and there aren’t any “highlight” worthy features that are complete. I’ll list them as they get closer to done in future preview releases.
Initial documentation can be found at these links below.
Availability and Package Information
The 2024.1 release of InterSystems IRIS® for HealthTM, and HealthShare® Health Connect is now Generally Available (GA).
❗This announcement does not apply for InterSystems IRIS®
In this release, you can expect a host of exciting updates, including:
Please share your feedback through the Developer Community so we can build a better product together.
InterSystems has encountered a defect that causes some upgrades of HealthShare® Health Connect to fail. This only affects instances that are not licensed for the use of FHIR® and that have interoperability-enabled namespaces. Under these conditions, the upgrade fails with an <HSFHIRErr> error.
This defect only impacts upgrades to version 2024.1 of HealthShare Health Connect.
The affected version, 2024.1.0.263.0, has been removed from distribution. A new Point Release is available:
| Original posting | Point Release |
| 2024.1.0.263.0 | 2024.1.0.264.1 |
The InterSystems PKI is for testing purposes only. Do not use it in a production setting.
As of today March 26, 2024, the InterSystems PKI is now deprecated.
The product documentation has been updated and now states:
Are you using HealthShare® Health Connect? You should know that starting with version 2024.1, a private web server (PWS) will no longer be included in installations.
It is recommended that you migrate to an external production-grade web server to ensure security. Benefits include:
See how to migrate to an external web server(video series, 10m).
Learn more in this FAQ post in the Developer Community.
In evaluating an IBM Support notification, InterSystems has determined a potential impact for our customers. The notification in question is:
This issue affects versions 2022.x and 2023.x of
It also affects other InterSystems products based on the InterSystems IRIS family of products.
The 2024.1 release of InterSystems IRIS Data Platform is now Generally Available (GA).
In this release, you can expect a host of exciting updates, including:
Given the number of new features in this release, InterSystems has decided to add this fifth preview as part of the 2024.1 developer preview program. This extended developer preview release only includes InterSystems IRIS® for HealthTM, and HealthShare® Health Connect.
❗This announcement does not apply for InterSystems IRIS®
In this release, you can expect a host of exciting updates, including:
InterSystems announces its fourth preview, as part of the developer preview program for the 2024.1 release. This release will include InterSystems IRIS®, InterSystems IRIS® for HealthTM, and HealthShare® Health Connect.
Welcome to the first quarterly platform update of 2024. 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…
I recently realized it's been far too long since I talked about the latest features in the InterSystems ObjectScript Extension for Visual Studio Code.
I'm pleased to announce version 2.12.1 of the ObjectScript extension, containing a number of enhancements that make a developer's life easier. Some highlights are described below, including the #1 requested feature from Global Summit -- XML import!
As always, find the full list of modifications in the CHANGELOG, including many bug and vulnerability fixes.
InterSystems announces its second preview, as part of the developer preview program for the 2024.1 release. This release will include InterSystems IRIS®, InterSystems IRIS® for HealthTM, and HealthShare® Health Connect.