Official announcements about events and product releases, alerts and statements from InterSystems Corporation authorities.
In addition to the new supported platforms (Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and RHEL 9), Community Edition limits will soon be updated to:
NOTE: These limits aren't available yet for the latest developer preview build 2022.2.0.322.0. It's expected to the Developer Preview 7, to be released by next week.
This is the fifth in a series of releases that are part of the developer preview program for 2022.2 Future preview releases are expected to be updated biweekly and we will add features as they are ready. Many updates, fixes and enhancements have been added in 2022.2, in SQL management, cloud integration, Kafka and JMS adapters, the SQL Loader, and other areas. Please share your feedback through the Developer Community so we can build a better product together.
This is the fourth in a series of releases that are part of the developer preview program for 2022.2 Future preview releases are expected to be updated biweekly and we will add features as they are ready. Many updates, fixes and enhancements have been added in 2022.2, in SQL management, cloud integration, Kafka and JMS adapters, the SQL Loader, and other areas. Please share your feedback through the Developer Community so we can build a better product together.
This is the third in a series of releases that are part of the developer preview program for 2022.2 Future preview releases are expected to be updated biweekly and we will add features as they are ready. Many updates, fixes and enhancements have been added in 2022.2, in SQL management, cloud integration, Kafka and JMS adapters, the SQL Loader, and other areas. Please share your feedback through the Developer Community so we can build a better product together.
Developer Preview releases are now available for the 2022.2 version of InterSystems IRIS, IRIS for Health, and HealthShare Health Connect.
Developer Preview releases are now available for the 2022.2 version of InterSystems IRIS, IRIS for Health, and HealthShare Health Connect.
This is the first in a series of releases that are part of the developer preview program. Future preview releases are expected to be updated biweekly and we will add features as they are ready. This program allows us to get feedback on capabilities and enhancements as they're available. You'll see below a list of enhancements that are targeted for 2022.2. Some these are not included in the first developer preview. Look for those over the coming weeks.
InterSystems API Manager (IAM) version 2.8.1 is now Generally Available. In addition to a spade of performance improvements and bug fixes, this release adds significant new functionality, including:
This month I announce the release of version 1.8.0 of the VS Code extension, which contains the following enhancements and bug fixes.
The big news is support for server-side project files as some of you old-timers will remember from Studio. If you work client-side, VS Code already has great project management features. You can simply use a folder as a project, or use multi-root workspaces. But if you work server-side, you might appreciate some better artifact management capabilities, and that's what this feature is about. Read more in this new Projects chapter of the documentation.
Release Highlights
Platform Updates
InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2022.1 expands support to include the following new & updated operating systems for production workloads:
Windows Server 2022
Windows 11
AIX 7.3
Oracle
The Data Platforms team is very pleased to announce the 2021.2 release of InterSystems IRIS Data Platform, InterSystems IRIS for Health and HealthShare Health Connect, which are now Generally Available (GA) to our customers and partners.
InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2021.2 makes it even easier to develop, deploy and manage augmented applications and business processes that bridge data and application silos. It has many new capabilities including:
Enhancements for application and interface developers, including:
InterSystems is pleased to announce the release System Alerting & Monitoring (SAM) version 1.1.
SAM marries IRIS’s standards-based Monitoring API and Log Monitor with familiar industry standard tools like Grafana and Prometheus to create a basic monitoring and alerting solution for IRIS clusters.
For more on SAM, see the System Alerting and Monitoring Guide.
This post is part of the HealthShare HS2022-01 Alert communications process. The same information is also distributed:
There are 22 alerts in the HealthShare HS2022-01 Alert communication. The Alert Summary is in the table below, and the detail is contained in the attached document: HS2022-01-Communication
InterSystems has corrected a defect that causes incorrect ObjectScript routine compilation.
This defect exists only in the recently released 2021.1.1 version of:
InterSystems IRIS Data Platform
InterSystems IRIS for Health
HealthShare Health Connect
The GA release is now published for the 1.5 version of the InterSystems API Manager (IAM).
The container for IAM, including all relevant artifacts to upgrade from earlier versions of IAM can be downloaded from the WRC Software Distribution site in the Components area.
The build number for this release is IAM 1.5.0.9-4.
InterSystems API Manager 1.5 makes it easier to manage your API traffic, integrate with your environment and onboard users of your APIs. It has many new capabilities, including:
The InterSystems Kubernetes Operation (IKO) version 3.3 is now available via the WRC download page and the InterSystems Container Registry.
IKO simplifies working with InterSystems IRIS or InterSystems IRIS for Health in Kubernetes by providing an easy-to-use irisCluster resource definition. See the documentation for a full list of features, including easy sharding, mirroring, and configuration of ECP.
IKO 3.3 Highlights:
irisClusteririsClusterNOTE: we previously found an issue with the 2021.1.1.324.0 builds. The 2021.1.1 maintenance releases have been removed from the WRC and have been replaced with 2021.1.2.336.0 builds. 2021.1.2 containers will be available shortly.
Two new sets of maintenance releases are now available:
Installation kits and containers can be downloaded from the WRC Software Distribution site. Container images for the Enterprise Editions of InterSystems IRIS and IRIS for Health and all corresponding components are available from the InterSystems Container Registry.
This message links to 14 recent advisories that were posted on the InterSystems Product Alerts and Advisories page. All of the items affect HealthShare products, and the first three items affect InterSystems IRIS for Health as well.
Update 7 includes a number of stability improvements over previous updates and support for support for all of the planned 2022.1 features. If you notice any problems at all, now's the time to let us know. The docker pull commands below have been updated with the latest build numbers. Enjoy!
As this is InterSystems' first developer preview release, let's take a moment to describe what these are. The developer preview program enhances the previous IRIS preview program with approximately bi-weekly releases that add features as they are ready. This allows us to get feedback on capabilities and enhancements as they're available. You'll see below a list of enhancements that are targeted for 2022.1, which are not included in the first developer preview. Look for those over the coming weeks.
We are eager to learn from your experiences with this new release ahead of its General Availability release. Please share your feedback through the Developer Community so we can build a better product together.
InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2022.1 is an extended maintenance (EM) release. 2022.1 includes the many important new capabilities and enhancements have been added in 2021.2, the continuous delivery (CD) release, since 2021.1, the previous EM release. Please refer to the release notes for 2021.2 for an overview of these enhancements.
InterSystems has corrected a defect that can result in an SQL query returning incorrect results.
This defect exists only in the 2021.2 (Continuous Delivery) version of:
InterSystems IRIS Data Platform
InterSystems IRIS for Health
HealthShare Health Connect
InterSystems has replaced existing distributions of these products with new builds that correct the defect. The corrected distributions can be identified by the build number (651) and are available via normal means. Ad Hoc corrections are not available for Continuous Delivery (CD) distributions.
InterSystems has been using a two-stream release cadence with InterSystems IRIS since 2018 (see the original announcement from when we started). We provide:
It's come to our attention that the built-in license in the InterSystems IRIS and IRIS for Health 2021.1 Community Edition release is incorrectly set to expire on October 30, 2021.
There is no impact to any production versions (the Community Edition is for development purposes), but developers will find that their instances stop running and should replace them with new ones. For cases where replacing them is an issue, we have provided an override key.
I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
== replacement builds
Preview releases are now available for the 2021.2 version of InterSystems IRIS, IRIS for Health, and HealthShare Health Connect.
As this is a preview release, we are eager to learn from your experiences with this new release ahead of its General Availability release next month. Please share your feedback through the Developer Community so we can build a better product together.
InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2021.2 makes it even easier to develop, deploy and manage augmented applications and business processes that bridge data and application silos. It has many new capabilities including:
December 13, 2021 - Advisory: Vulnerability in Apache Log4j2 Library Affecting InterSystems Products
InterSystems is currently investigating the impact of a security vulnerability related to Apache Log4j2.
The vulnerability — impacting at least Apache Log4j2 (versions 2.0 to 2.14.1) — was recently announced by Apache and is reported in the United States National Vulnerability Database (NVD) as CVE-2021-44228 with the highest severity rating, 10.0.
Please see this page for more details about the vulnerability and updates on whether InterSystems Products are affected.
InterSystems kits include an Apache web server, which provides a convenient way for customers to interact with the Caché/IRIS Management Portal without needing to install an external web server; however, this web server should never be used for production instances, and customers must install a web server that fits their specific needs and security/risk requirements.
InterSystems is very pleased to announce the 2021.1 release of InterSystems IRIS Data Platform, InterSystems IRIS for Health and HealthShare Health Connect, which are now Generally Available to our customers and partners.
The enhancements in this release offer developers more freedom to build fast and robust applications in their language of choice, both server-side and client-side. This release also enables users to consume large amounts of information more effectively through new and faster analytics capabilities.
October 26, 2021 – Alert: Missing Locks after ECP Database Server Restart or Failover
InterSystems has corrected a defect that can violate application locking guarantees in a distributed cache cluster (ECP configuration), which can lead to application integrity issues. This defect affects:
The defect can only occur when an application server successfully performs ECP recovery after a restart or failover of the data server, as follows:
InterSystems is pleased to announce a new Developer Download site providing full kit versions of InterSystems IRIS Community Edition and InterSystems IRIS for Health Community Edition. These are available free of charge for application development use.
You can download directly from the InterSystems Developer Community by selecting Download InterSystems IRIS.
Hey Developers,
We are excited to announce the launch of the InterSystems Partner Directory!
This is the place to go to find commercial services and solutions built on InterSystems products.
Why InterSystems Partner Directory?
July 21, 2021 – Alert: Incorrect Query Results with Non-Standard ‘GROUP BY’ Query
InterSystems has corrected a defect that can cause incorrect query results. This defect affects:
A query block may encounter the defect only if it meets all the following conditions:
June 16, 2021 - Advisory: Discontinued Technologies and Features
Note: A previous version of this advisory listed Caché Server Pages as a deprecated technology. Caché Server Pages is not deprecated and is fully supported.
From time to time, InterSystems discontinues development of a technology when newer and better options are available. However, product support for these capabilities continues in the same way that it does for products beyond our Minimum Supported Version.