JBoss Release Notes

General Source

The Release Notes for JBoss are generally published as change notes on Sourceforge. They are located in the documentation section on Sourceforge, and now on JBoss Jira under the Change Log of each project.

Wiki-documented features

Some of the addtional features may have corresponding Wiki-pages. They can be linked from here.

JBoss 3.2.4

• StatisticsCollector

JBoss 3.2.6

• CMPCallEjbStoreOnClean

• batch-commit-strategy (see cmp2.x jdbc2 pm)

• XMBeanAttributePersistenceService

JBoss 3.2.7

• Release notes summary

• DeploymentService

• JBossXB

JBoss 3.2.8

• Release notes summary

General 3.2.x to 4.0.x Migration Notes

JBoss 4.0 Upgrade Guide

JBoss 4.0.2

• 4.0.2 Upgrade Issues

• Security Patch

• JBossJCADatabaseFailover

• Barrier Controller Service

JBoss 4.0.3

• 4.0.3 Upgrade Issues

• JBossLoggingMonitor

• TimerService

• ActiveAlarmTable

• ScriptingListener

• Periodically logging MBean attributes to files

• See ConfigDataSources for the query timeout feature for DataSources

JBoss 4.0.4

• Release notes summary

• Using EJB3 with 4.0.4.GA

• 4.0.4 Upgrade Issues

• FIELD granularity session replication

• Simplified Clustered Service Configuration

• QuartzSchedulerIntegration

JBoss 4.0.5

4.0.4 -> 4.0.5 Changelog

• Buddy replication for web sessions

• See ConfigDataSources for the background-validation feature for DataSources

JBoss 4.2.0

4.0.5 -> 4.2.0 Changelog

• Tomcat 6

• New transaction manager: JBossTransactions

• Programmatic web authentication

• lib-directory support in EARs

• Default JSF implementation switched to RI (Mojarra), but MyFaces still useable

• Optional Apache Portable Runtime Support added, which gives you native (non-Java) HTTP connectors

• Also check the JBoss 4.2 FAQ

JBoss 4.2.1

4.2.0 -> 4.2.1

JBoss 4.2.2

4.2.1 -> 4.2.2

Updating this document

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