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

• Simplified setup of TLS across the Web Gateway, ECP, Mirroring, Super Server, and IAM
• The ability to run container sidecars along with compute or data nodes – perfect for scaling web gateways with your compute nodes.
• Changes to the CPF configmap and IRIS key secret are automatically processed by the IRIS instances when using IKO 3.5 with IRIS 2023.1 and up.

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.

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®

The issue can only occur on ECP client systems. When this issue is triggered, processes may experience a <SYSTEM> or <DATABASE> error.

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®

The issue can be triggered when SQL Runtime Plan Choice (RTPC) is enabled (the default) and the query contains a "truth value" WHERE ? = ?

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:

Caché/Ensemble maintenance releases will continue for the next 4 years - through Q1 of 2027.

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.

Future preview releases are expected to be updated biweekly and we will add features as they are ready.

InterSystems is pleased to announce the 2022.3 release of InterSystems IRIS Data Platform, InterSystems IRIS for Health, HealthShare Health Connect, and InterSystems IRIS Studio are now Generally Available (GA).

2022.3 is a Continuous Delivery (CD) release. Many updates and enhancements have been added in 2022.3, in SQL management, cloud integration, Kafka and JMS adapters, the SQL Loader, and other areas. The new FHIR SQL Builder and enhancements to Columnar Storage are included, but both are still experimental features (not for production, with an active Early Access Program in place).

Hello Community,

As you may know, the next release FHIR R5 is currently published in "beta". Right now, it is undergoing a quality review. And we'd like to invite YOU to participate in this process! 

Your task, if you wish to accept it 😉, is to check text descriptions, copy editing, and grammar. To facilitate this quality review, ClinFHIR is being used, which is a web tool used for developer education on FHIR and to help developers to visualize FHIR data and to plan out the building of FHIR applications. For instructions on how to do the quality review of FHIR R5 read this short document. The application you will use to do the quality review is here.

This is how ClinFHIR looks in action for this FHIR R5 Quality Review:

InterSystems is pleased to announce that the extended maintenance release of InterSystems IRIS, InterSystems IRIS for Health, and HealthShare Health Connect 2021.1.3 is now available. This release provides a few selected features and bug fixes for the previous 2021.1.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.

InterSystems announces its second 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.

Future preview releases are expected to be updated biweekly and we will add features as they are ready.

InterSystems periodically updates our software release policies and practices to adjust to customer needs.

We're now changing our maintenance release cadence in order to be more predictable for customers and partners, and tweaking a few other areas.

This article summarizes the release cadence for our Data Platforms products and recent changes to it, and announces a few new updates.

Why change?

• Our customers are taking our new releases more quickly.
• Our customers are adopting new platforms versions (operating systems and orchestrators) more quickly.

InterSystems Supported Platforms Update Feb-2023

Welcome to the very first Supported Platforms Update!  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.

We’re planning to publish this kind of update approximately every 3 months and then re-evaluate in a year.  If you find this update useful, let us know!  We’d also appreciate suggestions for how to make it better.

With that said, on to the update…

InterSystems has corrected an issue that can cause InterSystems IRIS® and Caché to not take advantage of large pages for shared memory on Windows, even though these products report that large pages are allocated. This can have detrimental effects on system performance.

The issue results from a change in Windows 10 that requires modification of InterSystems IRIS® and Caché. Note that this issue also affects all InterSystems products that are based on InterSystems IRIS® or Caché.

InterSystems announces its first developer preview, as part of the developer preview program for 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.

Future preview releases are expected to be updated biweekly and we will add features as they are ready.

Early Access Program (EAP) is a way to to deliver specific features early to a group of people who will test and provide feedback on that feature.

One of those EAPs is about the the discontinuation of the Apache web server installation (a.k.a. NoPWS) from IRIS product installers. If you're interested in this topic and want to test it, the way to register is to send an email to nopws@intersystems.com. Use this same email for any other feedback.

Once you get a confirmation email, you'll see the EAPs you have access in the Evaluation Services website. You must log in to see the content.

At InterSystems, we believe in the responsible disclosure of recently discovered security vulnerabilities.  We provide timely information to our customers, while keeping it out of the hands of people that may misuse it. We also understand each customer has different requirements related to the resolution of security issues.

InterSystems announces another developer preview release, as part of the developer preview program for the 2022.3. Many updates and enhancements have been added in 2022.3 and there are also brand new capabilities, such as the new FHIR SQL Builder, improvements for Columnar Storage, and adds support to SUSE 15 SP4 and Oracle Linux 9. Some of these features or improvements may not be available in this current developer preview.

Future preview releases are expected to be updated biweekly and we will add features as they are ready.

InterSystems announces another developer preview release, as part of the developer preview program for the 2022.3. Many updates and enhancements have been added in 2022.3 and there are also brand new capabilities, such as the new FHIR SQL Builder, improvements for Columnar Storage, and support to SUSE 15 SP4 and Oracle Linux 9. Some of these features or improvements may not be available in this current developer preview.

Future preview releases are expected to be updated biweekly and we will add features as they are ready.

InterSystems is pleased to announce that the extended maintenance releases of InterSystems IRIS, InterSystems IRIS for Health, and HealthShare Health Connect 2022.1.2 are now available. These releases provide a few selected features and bug fixes for the 2022.1.0 and 2022.1.1 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.

InterSystems announces another developer preview release, as part of the developer preview program for the 2022.3. Many updates and enhancements have been added in 2022.3 and there are also brand new capabilities, such as the new FHIR SQL Builder, improvements for Columnar Storage, and support to Oracle Linux 9. Some of these features or improvements may not be available in this current developer preview.

Future preview releases are expected to be updated biweekly and we will add features as they are ready.

We have just released a minor update to the package manager, which has been renamed from ZPM to IPM as I explained in November.  It purely a bug fix release, properly interpreting ROBOCOPY return codes and fixing a regression that prevented installation of certain packages.

Get it here:

https://github.com/intersystems/ipm/releases/tag/v0.5.2

IAM 3.0 Release

InterSystems API Manager (IAM) version 3.0.2 is now Generally Available.  IAM 3.

Overview

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. 
With this new approach, you have full control to choose which web server best suits your purposes, and how you configure, maintain, and update it. A key benefit of this change is that you will no longer have to wait for an updated kit from InterSystems to get the latest version, which is important especially in security vulnerability situations.

InterSystems announces another developer preview release, as part of the developer preview program for the 2022.3. Many updates and enhancements have been added in 2022.3 and there are also brand new capabilities, such as the new FHIR SQL Builder, improvements for Columnar Storage, and support to Oracle Linux 9. Some of these features or improvements may not be available in this current developer preview.

Future preview releases are expected to be updated biweekly and we will add features as they are ready.

Announcing the InterSystems Container Registry web user interface

InterSystems is pleased to announce the release of the InterSystems Container Registry web user interface. This tool is designed to make it easier to discover, access, and use the many Container images hosted on ICR.

The InterSystems Container Registry UI is available at: https://containers.intersystems.com/contents

Community Edition Containers

When you visit the ICR user interface, you’ll have access to InterSystems' publicly available containers, including the IRIS community edition containers.