Eclipse GlassFish is an application server, implementing Jakarta EE. This release is corresponding with the Jakarta EE 11 specification, which is a major new feature release. Eclipse GlassFish 8 is production ready and requires JDK 21 or higher.
Formal release notes document with high-level overview of changes: Eclipse GlassFish Release Notes, Release 8
Read about what's new in GlassFish 8.0.0 in this OmniFish blog article.
Breaking Changes
- Compliance with Jakarta EE 11
- Minimal supported version is Java 21
- Removed the Java SE SecurityManager based code level security accoding to JEP 486
- Removed security tests depending on SecurityManager by @dmatej in #25098
- Remove security manager usage from several additional packages by @arjantijms in #25111
- Remove some more usages of the Java SE security manager by @arjantijms in #25418
- Removal of SecurityManager usages by @dmatej in #25898
- Remove policy files in default domains by @OndroMih in #25893
- Refactored out the policy files and their usages by @Ariho-Seth in #25646
New Features
- Virtual thread support
- Jakarta Data support
- Add data api by @arjantijms in #25512
- Add manifest for jakarta data api jar by @arjantijms in #25516
- Initial rough integration of JNoSQL Jakarta Data by @arjantijms in #25587
- A working integration of Data into GlassFish (multiple EM support) by @OndroMih in #25597
- Data tck runner by @arjantijms in #25598
- Execute SQL against JDBC datasources by @arjantijms in #25608
- Improve Data TCK Runner to add a default persistence unit by @OndroMih in #25611
- Patch manifest of hibernate validator to support annotations 4 by @arjantijms in #25439
- Added transaction dependency to data tck runner by @arjantijms in #25614
- Jakarta Data transactional interceptor plus fixes in class scanner by @OndroMih in #25613
- Simplify the Data TCK runner by @OndroMih in #25624
- More on Jakarta Data - respect provider, fix validation by @OndroMih in #25645
- Upgrade JNoSQL to 1.1.10. Move OSGi bundle to GlassFish by @OndroMih in #25647
- Upgrade JNoSQL to 1.1.12 by @OndroMih in #25874
- Trivial smoke test for Jakarta Data by @arjantijms in #25796
- Improvements of Jakarta Data, documentation in app developer guide by @OndroMih in #25694
- Jakarta Data NoSQL support by @OndroMih in #25826
- Some finetuning for closing jar and when undeploying by @arjantijms in #25835
- MP Config tests and cleanup of TCK runners by @OndroMih in #25834
- Update docs for GlassFish 8 and Jakarta Data by @OndroMih in #25850
- Add link to thread pool page in Admin UI by @OndroMih in #25856
- Selected distribution artifacts now use flat poms - so their usages don't have to download "The Universe"
Fixes
- Fix a typo of the WebappClassLoader delegation settings by @dmiya3 in #25257
- Migrate away from deprecated
WeldListenerby @pzygielo in #25306 - Set XML parsing
totalEntitySizeLimitto larger value by @arjantijms in #25314 - Fix web.xml overriding concurrency qualifiers with empty list by @arjantijms in #25392
- Deploy datasource for Jakarta Persistence early by @arjantijms in #25430
- Handle covariant return types in TypeUtil.sameMethodSignature by @arjantijms in #25510
- Destroy on EJB security manager should call destroy on service, not refresh by @arjantijms in #25691
- Fix bug where security policy context was not cleared before policy retranslate by @arjantijms in #25728
- Upgrade dojo.js by @aubi in #25805
- Fixed stopping domain - we have to bound to 4848 before we ask server to stop by @dmatej in #25827
- Start CDI container before MP Config container by @OndroMih in #25831
- Fixes for MP Config by @arjantijms in #25833
- Prevent ClassCastException below by @pzygielo in #25847
- Fix requirement check by @pzygielo in #25848
- Fix --target option of asadmin delete-jdbc-resource command is ignored by @tnagao7 in #25853
- Fix Warning message "Attempt to use non-existent auth token ????" when starting cluster with multiple instances by @tnagao7 in #25888
- startserv script didn't work if path contained spaces by @OndroMih in #25889
- Fix: nadmin correctly identifying itself by @joestr in #25894
- Fixed missing curly brace - fixes issue #25897 by @dmatej in #25899
- Avoid JAR file locking in
WebappClassLoaderby @avpinchuk in #25904
Maintenance
- Removed jar files committed by mistake by @dmatej in #24975
- Add missing license header by @OndroMih in #25101
- Split up build pipeline some more by @arjantijms in #25376
- Streamline and somewhat update MP TCKs by @arjantijms in #25403
- Remove doc of missing params by @pzygielo in #25849
- SPARC support was already removed (but Solaris still lives) by @dmatej in #25879
- Multirelease tests updated from 11+17 to 21+25 by @dmatej in #25886
- Document that Admin Console shouldn't be enabled in production by @OndroMih in #25907
- Update references to Jakarta EE tutorial by @OndroMih in #25909
- Updated references to Jakarta EE and GlassFish versions by @dmatej in #25906
Updates
- Integrate Jakarta Authorization M4 API and other updated EE 11 APIs by @arjantijms in #24890
- Fixed package name of the Audit class by @dmatej in #24921
- Continue to remove references to the security manager by @arjantijms in #24981
- Even more security manager removals by @arjantijms in #24983
- Remove @secure annotation which was used for SE SecurityManager checks by @arjantijms in #24986
- Remove some more instances of access controller (Security manager) by @arjantijms in #24994
- Update Authorization TCK to 3.0.0 by @arjantijms in #24998
- Update Authentication TCK to 3.1.0 by @arjantijms in #24996
- Fix the JWT authentication mechanism. TCK passes. by @arjantijms in #25035
- Fix running of the authentication TCK. by @arjantijms in #25070
- Fix JWT TCK not running fully on non-default base URL by @arjantijms in #25829
- MicroProfile JWT injection as Jakarta Security authentication mechanism by @OndroMih in #25880
- Update runner pom for Concurrency TCK for new 3.1.0 version by @arjantijms in #24797
- Concurro 3.1.0 and Tyrus 2.2.1 by @arjantijms in #25761
- Fix microprofile config again by @arjantijms in #25629
- MicroProfile Config instance always scoped per application by @OndroMih in #25818
- MP Config: Fix a concurrency issue in a recent change by @OndroMih in #25825
- Helidon updates
- Update various versions in pom.xml to their latest in 8.0 by @arjantijms in #24892
- Integrate Epicyro 3.1.0 by @arjantijms in #24945
- Updated TCK to Servlet 6.1 by @arjantijms in #24958
- Update various versions by @arjantijms in #24948
- Concurrency for GlassFish 8 by @dmatej in #24954
- Update Concurrency TCK to 3.1.1 by @arjantijms in #25006
- Integrate Concurro 3.1.0-M5 by @arjantijms in #25375
- Update Pages TCK to 4.0.0 by @arjantijms in #24988
- 8 0 cdi 4 1 0 tck by @arjantijms in #24989
- Fixed for CDI 4.1 TCK. Now passes all tests. by @arjantijms in #24991
- Update Faces TCK to 4.1.0 by @arjantijms in #24995
- Fix run of faces TCK by @arjantijms in #24999
- Add profiles to Faces TCK to run subsets by @arjantijms in #25081
- Integrate Mojarra 4.1.2 and WaSP-M2 by @arjantijms in #25108
- Fix #25260 Deprecated settings in Admin Console by @dmiya3 in #25261
- Update Faces to 4.1.1 by @arjantijms in #25040
- Jakarta Persistence
- Cherrypick Inject EntityManager changes from 8.0-JDK17 by @arjantijms in #25213
- Support injecting entity manager factory, and some utils from it by @arjantijms in #25267
- Fix download of javatest and tsharness from Autorization TCK archive by @arjantijms in #25001
- Update several versions in poms by @arjantijms in #25002
- Update REST TCK to 4.0.0 by @arjantijms in #25007
- Update client libs for REST TCK by @arjantijms in #25010
- Update WebSocket TCK to 2.2.0 by @arjantijms in #25011
- Fixed CDI TCK signature test by @dmatej in #25023
- Bump OpenMQ version by @pzygielo in #25000
- Weld updates
- Update Weld to 6 beta 4 by @arjantijms in #25040
- Integrate Weld 6.0.0.Final by @arjantijms in #25328
- Update Weld and remove unnecessary patch file by @arjantijms in #25385
- Parsson now supports Annotations 3.0, no need for patch anymore. by @arjantijms in #25045
- Update Expression Language TCK to 6.0.0 by @arjantijms in #25041
- Integrate Exousia 3.0.0 by @arjantijms in #25721
- Integrate Exousia 3.0.1 by @arjantijms in #25793
- Integrate Expression Language API 6.0.1 by @arjantijms in #25051
- Integrate Expessly 6.0.0-M2 by @arjantijms in #25071
- Integrate Expressly 6.0.0 by @arjantijms in #25511
- Integrate Tyrus 2.2.0 by @arjantijms in #25072
- Update Jakarta Validation TCK to 3.1.1 by @arjantijms in #25077
- Integrate Tags (JSTL) API 3.0.2 by @arjantijms in #25112
- Integrate PFL 5.0.0 by @arjantijms in #25105
- Integrate WaSP 4.0.0 by @arjantijms in #25299
- Jersey and REST updates
- Fix restclient by @arjantijms in #25327
- Integrate Jersey 4.0.0-M3 by @senivam in #25684
- integrate Jersey 4.0.0 by @senivam in #25767
- Add required dependency to pass REST tests by @arjantijms in #25743
- Integrate Soteria, JWT and Nimbus in updated versions by @arjantijms in #25425
- Fix custom principal via Soteria by @arjantijms in #25741
- Soteria 4.0.2 and EclipseLink 5.0.0-B11 by @arjantijms in #25742
- Bump eclipselink from 5.0.0-B12 to 5.0.0-B13 by @pzygielo in #25845
- Bump eclipselink from 5.0.0-B11 to 5.0.0-B13 by @pzygielo in #25844
- Integrate ASM 9.9.1 by @arjantijms in #25885
- Update derby and asm by @arjantijms in #25434
- Updated Derby to 10.17.1.0 by @dmatej in #25739
- Use final 6.6.0 OpenMQ release by @pzygielo in #25528
- Update various versions in poms by @arjantijms in #25622
- Fixed MicroProfile Rest TCK by @arjantijms in #25637
- Add comment and fix import by @arjantijms in #25638
- Add MVC TCK and a patch for Krazo by @arjantijms in #25839
- Add copy class command for Krazo jar by @arjantijms in #25840
- Update TCK Arquillian container to 2.1.1 by @arjantijms in #25682
- Update command security plugin to 1.0.20 by @arjantijms in #25683
- Upgrade Woodstock to 6.0.3 with a security fix for prototype by @OndroMih in #25878
- Update versions in pom by @arjantijms in #25513
- Update various Maven plugins and remove unused one by @arjantijms in #25049
- Update various dependencies by @arjantijms in #25050
- Update various versions in pom.xml by @arjantijms in #25168
- Update versions of dependencies and increase timeouts in OSGi tests by @arjantijms in #25192
- Increase more versions in pom.xml by @arjantijms in #25196
- Various updates, specifically to enhance JDK 24 support by @arjantijms in #25317
- Add OSGI profiles / settings for JDK 24 and 25 by @arjantijms in #25311
- Update several dependencies and plugins by @arjantijms in #25720
- 8.0 Update versions in pom, specifically Hibernate Validation by @arjantijms in #25814
- Explicit version of o.g.hk2:osgiversion-m-p by @pzygielo in #25821
- Update various versions in pom by @arjantijms in #25902
- Updated Junit, Ant, Postgres and Checkstyle and few maven plugins by @dmatej in #25910
Build
- Update runner pom for Concurrency TCK for new 3.1.0 version by @arjantijms in #24797
- Fixed runtests.sh script after switching to Java 21 by @dmatej in #24882
- Testing 8.0 branch + reenabled tests by @dmatej in #25483
- Add release profile to pom by @arjantijms in #25717
- Fix TestNG execution for the MP TCKs by @arjantijms in #25820
- Do not set fixed values for MP TCKs via Arquillian XML by @arjantijms in #25823
- Fixed URLS to TCK by @dmatej in #25824
- Fix MP TCK arquillian override by @arjantijms in #25828
- Add exclusions for EE 12 versions by @arjantijms in #25832
- Update documentation building for 8.x by @arjantijms in #25838
- Trigger workflows for PRs that target new default branch by @pzygielo in #25857
- Website updates for docs and downloads to align with existing versions by @OndroMih in #25871
- Website: Add links to docs for older versions by @OndroMih in #25873
- Updated links from Java 17 to Java 21 by @dmatej in #25890
- Removed generated files by @dmatej in #25901
- Rebuild documentation just if the docs directory changed. by @dmatej in #25905
- Replace hard-coded version references in docs with existing properties defined in pom.xml by @OndroMih in #25908
Synchronization with Master/Main branch
- Merge master into 8.0 - attempt 2 by @arjantijms in #24777
- Merge master into 8.0 by @arjantijms in #24779
- Latest 8.0 updates from own branch by @arjantijms in #24795
- Merge master to 8.0 by @dmatej in #24927
- Merge master into 8.0 by @arjantijms in #24799
- 8.0 by @arjantijms in #24818
- Sync of the master branch to 8.0.0 by @dmatej in #24819
- Merge latest changes from master into 8.0 by @arjantijms in #24836
- Merge latest 8.0 updates and changes from master by @arjantijms in #24856
- Latest 8.0 updates and commits from master by @arjantijms in #24862
- Post M3 merges from master by @arjantijms in #24865
- Merge latest changes from master into 8.0 by @arjantijms in #24878
- Another sync with master by @dmatej in #24885
- 8.0 by @arjantijms in #24899
- Merge master into 8.0 by @arjantijms in #24904
- Merge master to 8.0 by @dmatej in #24927
- GF8 merge by @dmatej in #24936
- Merge main branch and local updates by @arjantijms in #24950
- Remove duplicate nimbus by @arjantijms in #24952
- Fixed version references + added check to avoid repeating by @dmatej in #24953
- Merge of master branch to branch 8.0 by @dmatej in #24979
- Merge of master to 8.0 by @dmatej in #25024
- Merge of master to 8.0 by @dmatej in #25036
- Merge master 21-07 into 8.0 by @arjantijms in #25057
- Merge from master to 8.0 + fixed nucleus/parent/pom.xml by @dmatej in #25060
- Merge from master to 8.0 by @arjantijms in #25068
- Merge master into 8.0 by @arjantijms in #25069
- Merge of master by @dmatej in #25091
- Syncing with master by @dmatej in #25095
- Merge master into 8.0 by @arjantijms in #25104
- Merge master into 8.0 by @arjantijms in #25109
- Sync with master by @dmatej in #25127
- Merging master to 8.0 by @dmatej in #25150
- Merge master into 8.0 by @arjantijms in #25167
- Merge from master to 8.0 by @dmatej in #25178
- Merge master into 8.0 by @arjantijms in #25191
- Merge master into 8.0 by @arjantijms in #25265
- Merge master into 8.0 by @arjantijms in #25266
- Merge master into 8.0 by @arjantijms in #25329
- Merge master into 8.0 by @arjantijms in #25359
- Merge master after 7.0.22 into 8.0 by @arjantijms in #25363
- JDK 24 changes and merge master by @arjantijms in #25309
- Merge master 4ef1e79 into 8.0 by @arjantijms in #25379
- Merge again into 8.0 by @arjantijms in #25380
- Merge master into 8.0 by @arjantijms in #25395
- Merge main into 8.0 by @arjantijms in #25431
- Merge main into 8.0 by @arjantijms in #25435
- Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into 8.0 by @arjantijms in #25440
- Merge main into 8.0 by @arjantijms in #25480
- Merge more main into 8.0 by @arjantijms in #25481
- Merge main into 8.0 by @arjantijms in #25482
- Merge of current master to 8.0 by @dmatej in #25506
- Merge master to 8 by @dmatej in #25640
- Merge from master to 8.0 by @dmatej in #25711
- Fixed JDBC tests after merge from master branch by @dmatej in #25712
- Merge 7.1 into 8.0 branch by @arjantijms in #25719
- 8M13 was released, merge the branch by @dmatej in #25722
- Merge from master by @dmatej in #25733
- Merge from master by @dmatej in #25738
- Merge master into 8.0 by @arjantijms in #25753
- Merge main into 8.0 by @arjantijms in #25755
- Merge master into 8.0 by @arjantijms in #25760
- Merge branch 'master' into 8.0 by @arjantijms in #25792
- merge master in 8.0 by @arjantijms in #25808
- merge main in 8.0 by @arjantijms in #25810
- Merge master into 8.0 by @arjantijms in #25812
- Merge master into 8.0 by @arjantijms in #25822
- Merge main into 8.0 by @arjantijms in #25830
- Merge 8.0 in master by @arjantijms in #25841
New Contributors
Full Changelog: 7.1.0...8.0.0