In review of the previous quarter, several notable developments were highlighted that remain relevant for this quarter’s report.
Welcome to the 2025 third quarter update.
Last quarter, we had a few important announcements that are worth reiterating this quarter.
If you’re new to these updates, welcome!
InterSystems is pleased to announce that the following products are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
This release adds support for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 operating system. RHEL 10 includes Linux kernel 6.12.0, security improvements, performance optimizations, and improved developer tools.
How to get the software
Installation packages are available from the WRC's Extended Maintenance Releases page.
InterSystems Kubernetes Operator (IKO) 3.8 is now Generally Available. IKO 3.8 adds new functionality along with numerous bug fixes and security updates. Highlights include:
Follow the Installation Guide for guidance on how to download, install, and get started with IKO. The complete IKO 3.
We have a big update this quarter.
Welcome to the Q1’2025 quarterly platforms update.
If you’re new to these updates, welcome! The big news this quarter is the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 release. Read on for more on that. 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.
Welcome to the Q4’2024 quarterly platforms update. I hope that your 2024 has been incredible and that 2025 is even better.
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
On 4 December 2024, System Alerting and Monitoring (SAM) will be removed from the InterSystems download sites, the container registry, and documentation site.
InterSystems announced last year that it has ceased further development of SAM and simultaneously labelled it as deprecated. InterSystems will continue to support existing customers using the technology in the same manner as product versions beyond the Minimum Supported Version window.
Two extended maintenance releases of InterSystems IRIS, InterSystems IRIS for Health, and HealthShare Health Connect are now available.
Release 2023.1.5 provides bug fixes for any of the previous 2023.1.x releases.
You can find the detailed change lists & upgrade checklists on these pages:
Release 2024.1.2 provides bug fixes for any of the previous 2024.1.x releases.
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.
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.
IAM is an API gateway between your InterSystems IRIS servers and applications, providing tools to effectively monitor, control, and govern HTTP-based traffic at scale.
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.
RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS
2024.2 is a Continuous Delivery (CD) release. Many updates and enhancements have been added in this release:
Enhancing Developer Experience
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.
IAM is an API gateway between your InterSystems IRIS servers and applications, providing tools to effectively monitor, control, and govern HTTP-based traffic at scale.
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.
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:
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.
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…
As a reminder, we announced that InterSystems IRIS will start to have minimum required CPU functionality for Intel/AMD-based systems starting with IRIS 2024.
InterSystems Kubernetes Operator (IKO) 3.7 is now Generally Available. IKO 3.7 adds significant new functionality along with numerous bug fixes. Highlights include:
Follow the Installation Guide for guidance on how to download, install, and get started with IKO. The complete IKO 3.
IAM 3.4 Release
InterSystems API Manager (IAM) version 3.4.2 is now Generally Available. In additional to bug fixes and minor improvements IAM 3.4 includes several features that might be of interest to IRIS customers.
Embedded Python is about to get a whole lot more powerful, and we’re looking for a few volunteers to give it a try.
The Flexible Python Runtime option allows you to use a Python runtime of your choosing with Embedded Python. Previous to this, you could only use the operating system's default Python, which was limiting especially for customers using the latest and greatest AI & ML tools close to their data.
When InterSystems introduced Embedded Python in InterSystems IRIS in 2021.
It’s hard to believe that this wraps up our first year of quarterly platform updates. Thank you for making this a great first year. Today’s update talks about the planned Minimum Supported CPU list, OpenSSL 3.0 for AIX reaching GA, and a bit more. We’ll be back for 2024!
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.
InterSystems has decided to stop further development of SAM (System Alerting & Monitoring) and label it as deprecated as of today. InterSystems will continue to support existing customers using the technology, but it is no longer recommended for new deployments.
We’ve found that most customers who are interested in the type of observability provided by SAM have chosen to connect IRIS’s metrics API & structured logs to their organization’s existing observability platform in order to have a more complete view of their operational platform.