First community release

David Jorm djorm at redhat.com
Wed Nov 30 00:16:31 UTC 2011


> Hi All,
> Not sure where we stand with the first release but I think we should
> take into account the jboss version we use before releasing.
> 
> We currently deploy on jboss as 5, but we started working on
> deployment
> on jboss as 7.
> Releasing on AS 5 and then moving to AS 7 might require some upgrade
> path and it is a time consuming task to do that.
> 
> Since we already started working on the deployment on jboss AS 7, I
> think it might worth holding back first 'formal' release until it is
> done. It will help us avoiding upgrade support and get all the
> benefits
> of using as7 (startup time, memory/cpu foot-print etc.) - get better
> reviews?

Please note that JBoss AS 5 has not been updated with any async security patches since it was released in 2009. There are multiple known high impact security flaws that affect it. I would prefer we only ship against AS 7, as it incorporates fixes for these flaws.

David



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