Release Notes - Payara Platform Community 5.2021.8

Supported APIs and Applications

• Jakarta EE 8
• Java EE 8 Applications
• Jakarta EE 9
• MicroProfile 4.1

Breaking Changes

Client Certificate Validation Checks

After upgrading to Payara Community 5.2021.8, a certificate that was accepted in earlier versions might be rejected now. It is no longer enough that the client certificates are included within the Payara Keystore. See Certificate Expiration Validation :: Payara Community Documentation

Improvements

[FISH-5687] Integrate HotSwap Agent in Payara Platform

[FISH-5686] Log Warning When Not Running on a Supported LTS JDK Version

[FISH-5658] Add Placeholder for Instance Names in Custom Vendor Metrics

[FISH-5645] Add Validity Checks on Client Certificates in the Trust Store

[FISH-5636] Performance Optimizations to Remote EJB Tracing Feature

[FISH-1467] Reload the Web Application Container and Deployer

[FISH-376] Allow Configuration Details of HTTP GZIP Compression

Security Fixes

[FISH-5697] Upgrade H2 Database Engine to 1.4.200

Bug Fixes

[FISH-5768] Clustered CDI Events Not Being Received

[FISH-5736] Fix Unknown Exclude Field Provided Warning on Startup

[FISH-5734] Recursive Update Exception when Reading a MicroProfile Config Value After Server Restart

[FISH-5724] Deployment Failure Due to 'The lifecycle method [postConstruct] Must Not Throw a Checked Exception'

[FISH-5678] Jakarta Named Properties in 'persistence.xml' Are Not Recognized

[FISH-5675] (Community Contribution - phillipross) Full State Saving with Mojarra Results in ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException

[FISH-470] NullPointerException when Deploying MDB into a Customized MDB Pool

Component Upgrades

[FISH-5776] Upgrade to Mojarra 2.3.14.payara-p3

[FISH-5751] Upgrade ASM to 9.1

[FISH-5750] Upgrade Felix to 7.0.1

[FISH-5698] Upgrade Apache Commons IO to Version 2.11

[FISH-261] Upgrade 'tini' to 0.19.0 in Docker Images