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InterSystems Kubernetes Operator (IKO) 3.6 is now Generally Available.  IKO 3.6 adds significant new functionality along with numerous bug fixes.  Highlights include:

• Easily include Web Gateway sidecars for compute and data nodes.
• Kubernetes secret for Web Gateway authentication
• Define Databases in the Data section
• Define Namespaces in the Data section
• Ephemeral Web Gateways for cases where everything you need is in the container image
• Upgrade Horizontal Pod Autoscaler support to version 2 of the HPA spec

The 2023.2 releases of InterSystems IRIS Data Platform, InterSystems IRIS for Health, and InterSystems IRIS Studio are now Generally Available (GA).

RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS

2023.2 is a Continuous Delivery (CD) release. Many updates and enhancements have been added in 2023.2:

Private Web Server

Starting with this release:

InterSystems announces its seventh preview, as part of the developer preview program for the 2023.2 release.  This release will include InterSystems IRIS and InterSystems IRIS for Health.

Discontinuation of the Private Web Server (PWS)

A major topic in this release is the discontinuation of the Private Web Server (PWS) from the installers.  This feature has been announced since last year and it's removed from InterSystems installers, starting with this developer preview.

See this note in the documentation. Additional information related to this topic can be found here.

InterSystems has corrected two defects.

The first defect can cause an ECP application server to hang. This defect is only relevant to ARM and IBM Power processors; it is present in version 2022.1.2 and 2022.1.3 of InterSystems IRIS®, InterSystems IRIS for Health™, and HealthShare® Health Connect. The correction is identified as DP-423661. The defect is addressed in all future versions. 

InterSystems announces its sixth preview, as part of the developer preview program for the 2023.2 release.  This release will include InterSystems IRIS and InterSystems IRIS for Health.

Highlights

Many updates and enhancements have been added in 2023.2 and there are also brand-new capabilities, such as Time-Aware Modeling, and enhancements of Foreign Tables (but still as an experimental feature). Note that some of these features or improvements may not be available in this current developer preview.

As previously announced at Global Summit 2022, InterSystems will discontinue shipping or installing an Apache-based web server (often referred to as the private web server or PWS); this change is currently planned for InterSystems IRIS 2023.2. 

The extended maintenance releases of InterSystems IRIS, InterSystems IRIS for Health, and HealthShare Health Connect 2023.1.1 are now available. This release provides bug fixes for the previous 2023.1.0 releases.

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

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

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 announces its fifth preview, as part of the developer preview program for the 2023.2 release.  This release will include InterSystems IRIS and InterSystems IRIS for Health.

Highlights

Many updates and enhancements have been added in 2023.2 and there are also brand-new capabilities, such as Time-Aware Modeling, and enhancements of Foreign Tables (but still as an experimental feature). Note that some of these features or improvements may not be available in this current developer preview.

InterSystems IRIS Cloud SQL is a fully managed cloud service that brings the power of InterSystems IRIS relational database capabilities used by thousands of enterprise customers to a broad audience of application developers and data professionals. InterSystems IRIS Cloud IntegratedML is an option to this database-as-a-service that offers easy access to powerful Automated Machine Learning capabilities in a SQL-native form, through a set of simple SQL commands that can easily be embedded in application code to augment them with ML models that run close to the data.

Today, we announce the Developer Access Program for these two offerings. Application developers can now self-register for the service, create deployments and start building composable applications and smart data services, with all provisioning, configuration and administration taken care of by the service.

InterSystems announces its fourth preview, as part of the developer preview program for the 2023.2 release.  This release will include InterSystems IRIS and InterSystems IRIS for Health.

Highlights

Many updates and enhancements have been added in 2023.2 and there are also brand-new capabilities, such as Time-Aware Modeling, enhancements of Foreign Tables, and the ability to use Ready-Only Federated Tables. Note that some of these features or improvements may not be available in this current developer preview.

InterSystems is committed to providing a high quality developer experience including a great IDE (Integrated Developer Experience). For the past several years we have been evolving Visual Studio Code's ObjectScript tooling in parallel with our long-standing IDE, InterSystems Studio. There have been over 46,000 downloads of the VSCode-ObjectScript plugin, and the feedback from developers is that this is a great developer experience, and now superior to InterSystems Studio.

InterSystems has corrected a defect that causes increased process memory usage.

Specifically, the increased consumption of local process partition memory occurs when executing $Order,  $Query, or Merge on local variables.  While this will have no detrimental impact for most running environments, environments that support a large number of processes or closely limit Maximum Per-Process Memorycould be impacted.  Some processes may experience <STORE> errors.

We often get questions about recent and upcoming changes to the list of platforms and frameworks that are supported by the InterSystems IRIS data platform.  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 announces its third preview, as part of the developer preview program for the 2023.2 release.  This release will include InterSystems IRIS and InterSystems IRIS for Health.

Highlights

Many updates and enhancements have been added in 2023.2 and there are also brand-new capabilities, such as Time-Aware Modeling, enhancements of Foreign Tables, and the ability to use Ready-Only Federated Tables. Note that some of these features or improvements may not be available in this current developer preview.

InterSystems announces its second preview, as part of the developer preview program for the 2023.2 release.  This release will include InterSystems IRIS and InterSystems IRIS for Health.

Highlights

Many updates and enhancements have been added in 2023.2 and there are also brand-new capabilities, such as Time-Aware Modeling, enhancements of Foreign Tables, and the ability to use Ready-Only Federated Tables. Note that some of these features or improvements may not be available in this current developer preview.

InterSystems announces its first preview, as part of the developer preview program for the 2023.2 release.  This release will include InterSystems IRIS and InterSystems IRIS for Health.

Highlights

Many updates and enhancements have been added in 2023.2 and there are also brand-new capabilities, such as Time-Aware Modeling, enhancements of Foreign Tables, and the ability to use Ready-Only Federated Tables. Some of these features or improvements may not be available in this current developer preview.

InterSystems is putting more emphasis on promoting our Early Access Program (EAP), in which users volunteer to work with new software before it becomes generally available. In fact, we will once again be promoting the program at Global Summit.  

The software could be a full InterSystems IRIS release, but is usually focused on a new capability about which we want to collect feedback. The terms and requirements for joining an Early Access Program vary with the the software being evaluated.

Signing up is really simple. Go to this link and fill out the form.

InterSystems has corrected a defect that can cause corruption of databases and journal files on AIX systems with IBM POWER8 or later POWER processors. This defect can be triggered only when database or journal encryption is in use.

 To trigger this defect, the following conditions are required:

• The environment uses database or journal encryption
• The environment also uses data-element encryption
• An encryption key used for data-element encryption has been deactivated

InterSystems is pleased to announce the 2023.1 release of InterSystems IRIS Data Platform, InterSystems IRIS for Health, HealthShare Health Connect, and InterSystems IRIS Studio are now Generally Available (GA).

2023.1 is an Extended Maintenance (EM) release. Many updates and enhancements have been added in 2023.1.

InterSystems Kubernetes Operator (IKO) 3.5 is now Generally Available.  IKO 3.5 adds significant new functionality along with numerous bug fixes.  Highlights include:

InterSystems is pleased to announce that the extended maintenance release of InterSystems IRIS, InterSystems IRIS for Health, and HealthShare Health Connect 2022.1.3 is now available. This release provides a few selected features and bug fixes for the previous 2022.1.x releases.

You can find additional information about what has changed on these pages:

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

Please share your feedback through the Developer Community so we can build a better product together.

How to get the software

InterSystems has corrected a defect that can result in Enterprise Cache Protocol (ECP) client instability under rare conditions.

The defect exists in the following products and any InterSystems offerings based on them.

Impacted versions are 2022.1.x, 2022.2, and 2022.3:

InterSystems IRIS®

InterSystems IRIS for Health™

HealthShare® Health Connect

Impacted version is 2022.2 (only for customers deploying ECP):

InterSystems HealthShare®

InterSystems announces its fifth developer preview, as part of the developer preview program for the 2023.1 release. Many updates and enhancements have been added in 2023.1 and there are also brand-new capabilities, such as production-ready support for Columnar Storage, ability to use Bulk FHIR, and support to MacOS 13 Ventura. Additionally, a new feature to provide the ability to use Foreign Tables is being released as "experimental" and will be accessible through an Early Access Program (EAP). Some of these features or improvements may not be available in this current developer preview.

InterSystems has corrected a defect that can cause an SQL query to return incorrect results.

The defect exists in the following products and any InterSystems offerings based on them.

Impacted versions are 2021.2, 2022.1.x, 2022.2, and 2022.3:

InterSystems IRIS®

InterSystems IRIS for Health™

HealthShare® Health Connect

Impacted version is 2022.2:

 InterSystems HealthShare®

IAM 3.2 Release

InterSystems API Manager (IAM) version 3.2.1 is now Generally Available.  In additional to bug fixes and minor improvements IAM 3.2 adds new plug-ins that might be of interest to IRIS customers.

• OAS Validation (oas-validation)
  
  • Validate HTTP requests and responses based on an OpenAPI 3.0 or Swagger API Specification.
• SAML (saml)
  
  • Provides SAML v2.0 authentication and authorization between a service provider (Kong Gateway) and an identity provider (IdP).
• XML Threat Protection (xml-threat-protection)
  
  • This new plugin allows you to reduce the risk of XML attacks by checking the structure of XML payloads. This validates maximum complexity (depth of the tree), maximum size of elements and attributes.
• AppDynamics (app-dynamics)
  
  • Integrate Kong Gateway with the AppDynamics APM Platform.
• JWE Decrypt (jwe-decrypt)
  
  • Allows you to decrypt an inbound token (JWE) in a request.

InterSystems is committed to providing high quality product support to customers for all products, new and old.   As products age – Caché is now 25 – that support will evolve.

InterSystems IRIS was released in 2018 and it is the successor to Caché and Ensemble.  Many Caché/Ensemble customers have migrated to IRIS or have plans to do so in the next few years.  Customers continuing to use Caché or Ensemble should be aware of the following important announcement:

InterSystems announces its fourth developer preview, as part of the developer preview program for the 2023.1 release. Many updates and enhancements have been added in 2023.1 and there are also brand-new capabilities, such as production-ready support for Columnar Storage, ability to use Bulk FHIR, and support to MacOS 13 Ventura. Additionally, a new feature to provide the ability to use Foreign Tables is being released as "experimental" and will be accessible through an Early Access Program (EAP). Some of these features or improvements may not be available in this current developer preview.

InterSystems announces the Maintenance Release (MR) of Caché, Ensemble and HSAP 2018.1.8. This is a maintenance release with many updates across a wide variety of areas.

Caché and Ensemble

Full product installation kits can be downloaded from the WRC Software Distribution website:

• Caché
• Ensemble

For information about the corrections in this release, refer to the Release Changes Notes. The documentation for Caché and Ensemble includes these as well as the Supported Platforms document, the Class Reference, and a full set of guides, references, tutorials, and articles.

InterSystems is happy to announce the availability of our newest Data Platforms release: Caché and Ensemble 2016.2

The highlights of 2016.2 are:

• Server support for Atelier, the new Eclipse-based IDE
• Support for OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect
• SQL syntax has been enriched with support for JSON
• SQL improvements and performance enhancements

For complete technical details of what’s changed in 2016.2, review the Caché release notes and the Ensemble release notes.  Additional materials have been posted to the InterSystems Developer Community. 

InterSystems announces its third developer preview, as part of the developer preview program for the 2023.1 release. Many updates and enhancements have been added in 2023.1 and there are also brand-new capabilities, such as production-ready support for Columnar Storage, ability to use Bulk FHIR, and support to MacOS 13 Ventura. Some of these features or improvements may not be available in this current developer preview.