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InterSystems is pleased to announce the availability of the following maintenance releases:

• Caché and Ensemble 2017.1.1
• HealthShare Health Connect v15.021 on core technology 2017.1.1

Caché and Ensemble are available on the same platforms as 2017.1.0, except as noted below

• The full list of corrections can be found in the release notes.
• The version number of the kits for these releases is 2017.1.1.111.0
• Oracle Solaris 10, 11 for SPARC-64 and Oracle Solaris 10, 11 for x86-64 are not yet approved.

HealthShare HealthConnect v15.021 on core technology 2017.1.1.111.

InterSystems is pleased to announce the availability of the following maintenance releases:

• Caché and Ensemble 2016.2.2
• HealthShare Health Connect v15.021 on two core technology releases, 2016.2.2 and 2017.1.0

Caché and Ensemble 2016.2.2 are available on the same platforms as 2016.2.1

• The full list of corrections can be found in the release notes.
• The build corresponding to these releases is 2016.2.2.853.0
• For complete platform details, please refer to the 2016.2 Supported Platforms document.

HealthShare Health Connect v15.021 for core technology 2016.2.2.853.

InterSystems is pleased to announce the simultaneous release of 2017.1.0 of Caché, Ensemble, and HealthShare Health Connect v15.02 

Some notes for Caché and Ensemble, including highlights, are:

• Enhanced OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect
• FIPS 140-2 Validated Cryptography for database encryption
• iKnow REST API
• Improved DocBook Search and efficiency of Ensemble Message Search
• For complete technical details of what’s changed, review the Caché release notes and the Ensemble release notes.
• The version number for these kits is 2017.1.0.792.

I am pleased to announce that Caché and Ensemble 2017.1 Release Candidate versions are now available for all platforms.

We appreciate the many customers who have downloaded, tried it, and given us feedback over the past few months.

Some things not in the original field test that you may want to check out include:

• Ubuntu is now a full production platform.
• OpenID Connect now supports JWKS with OpenID Connect Discovery and OpenID Connect Dynamic Client Registration.

There have been over 300 additions and corrections since the beginning of Field Test.

InterSystems is pleased to announce that Caché and Ensemble 2016.1.3 are now available as maintenance releases.

For a complete list of the corrections in 2016.1.3, please review the release notes.

Caché and Ensemble 2016.1.3 are available on the same platforms as 2016.1.2.  The complete set of supported platforms, including specific point releases and patches, is detailed in the Supported Platforms document.

The HealthShare team will announce availability of its products separately.

The build corresponding to this release is 2016.1.3.306.0

November 22, 2016 – Alert: Database Integrity on UNIX^® and Linux Platforms

InterSystems has corrected a defect that may, in rare circumstances, result in database degradation on UNIX and Linux platforms.

This defect affects Caché, Ensemble, and HealthShare distributions beginning with Caché version 2012.1. It is only a possible risk on UNIX and Linux platforms that are using asynchronous I/O for database writes. The following table specifies if asynchronous I/O is always on or optional for the affected platforms and releases:

I am pleased to announce the field test of Caché and Ensemble 2017.1, including many new improvements.

The product team at InterSystems looks forward to your participation in the field test and feedback over the coming months.

Some of the more significant changes in 2017.1 are the new RESTful APIs for iKnow, FIPS 140-2 validated cryptography for Caché database encryption, and improved DocBook search.  As always there are a host of scalability and performance improvements to the core database and SQL.  And hundreds of smaller improvements and corrections.

InterSystems is pleased to announce that Caché and Ensemble 2016.2.1 are now available as maintenance releases.

For a complete list of the corrections in 2016.2.1, please review the release notes.

Caché and Ensemble 2016.2.1 are available for the same platforms as 2016.2.0.  The complete set of supported platforms, including specific point releases and patches, is detailed in the Supported Platforms document.

The HealthShare team will announce availability of its products separately.

The build corresponding to this release is 2016.2.1.803.0

InterSystems is pleased to announce that Caché and Ensemble 2015.2.5 are now available as maintenance releases.

For a complete list of the corrections in 2015.2.5, please review the release notes .

Caché and Ensemble are available for the same platforms as 2015.2.4.  The complete set of supported platforms, including specific point releases and patches, is detailed in the Supported Platforms document .

The HealthShare team will announce availability of its products separately.

The build corresponding to this release is 2015.2.5.953.0

InterSystems has corrected a defect that may result in missing updates when utilizing Caché online backup.

This defect is present in all Caché and Ensemble versions 2015.1.x, 2015.2.x and 2016.1.x, and all HealthShare distributions based on those versions.  It affects all platforms and operating systems except backups of OpenVMS cluster databases.

The risk does not exist for Mirror Catchup applied to mirrored databases restored from Caché online backup.

The risk only exists when restoring from Caché online backup and applying journal files.

InterSystems is pleased to announce that Caché and Ensemble 2016.1.2 are now available as maintenance releases.

For a complete list of the corrections in 2016.1.2, please review the release notes.

Caché and Ensemble 2016.1.2 are available for the same platforms as 2016.1.1.  The complete set of supported platforms, including specific point releases and patches, is detailed in the Supported Platforms document.

The HealthShare team will announce availability of its products separately.

The build corresponding to this release is 2016.1.2.206.0

InterSystems is pleased to announce that Caché and Ensemble 2015.2.4 are now available as maintenance releases.

For a complete list of the corrections in 2015.2.4, please review the release notes. 

Caché and Ensemble 2015.2.4 are available for the same platforms as 2015.2.3, with this exception:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 for Power System-64 has been dropped.

The complete set of supported platforms, including specific point releases and patches, is detailed in the Supported Platforms document.

The build corresponding to this release is 2015.2.4.903.0

InterSystems is pleased to announce that Caché and Ensemble 2016.1.1 are now available on all supported platforms.

This followup announcement adds all the OpenVMS versions that were excluded in the announcement last week.

InterSystems is pleased to announce that Caché and Ensemble 2016.1.1 are now available as maintenance releases.

For a complete list of the corrections in 2016.1.1, please review the release notes.

Caché and Ensemble 2016.1.1 are available now for the same platforms as 2016.1.0, with the following exceptions:

• OpenVMS is not available yet.  It will be announced separately.

• Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 for Power System-64 is now dropped. 

The complete set of supported platforms, including specific point releases and/or patches, is detailed in the Supported Platforms document.

At the end of this year support for OpenSSL 1.0.1 will end. InterSystems has started the process to move to OpenSSL 1.0.2 and use the 1/28/2016 release (1.0.2f) for verification and product inclusion. I will update this post once InterSystems  decided which versions will receive  support for OpenSSL 1.0.2.

I am happy to announce the immediate availability of  Caché and Ensemble 2016.1.

The highlights of 2016.1 are

• Significant improvements in JSON support
• Continued advances in SQL performance
• Database scalability improvements
• New REST services for DeepSee

These and other new features are summarized in this video introduction to 2016.1

For complete technical details of what’s changed in 2016.1, review the Caché release notes and the Ensemble release notes.