7.0.0-M4

Eclipse GlassFish is an application server, implementing Jakarta EE. This release is corresponding with the upcoming Jakarta EE 10, which is a new feature release. Jakarta EE 10 requires JDK 11 as a minimum, but should also work on JDK 17.

Note: 7.0.0 M4 is a beta release demonstrating not yet final Jakarta EE 10 APIs. Not everything works yet.

GlassFish 7.0.0-M4 compiles and runs on JDK 11 to JDK 18.

This release contains updated versions of the Jakarta EE 10 components.

Specifically new for this milestone release is the Jakarta Servlet 6 and Jakarta Pages 3.1 fully passing and the build not depending on snapshots of components. Several non-Jakarta EE components have been updated as well, and specifically the OSGi version has been bumped from 7 to 8.

The below gives an overview of several of the new Jakarta EE 10 APIs:

• Servlet 6.0
• Pages 3.1
• Faces 4.0
• CDI 4.0
• JAXB 4.0
• Persistence 3.1
• REST 3.1
• Batch 2.1
• Authorization 2.1
• Authentication 3.0
• Security 3.0
• And the implementation projects of these, such as WaSP, Mojarra, Weld, EclipseLink, Exousia etc.

Downloads are available from Maven Central at the coordinates:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.glassfish.main.distributions</groupId>
    <artifactId>glassfish</artifactId>
    <version>7.0.0-M4</version>
</dependency>

Note that the release does depend on milestone builds. When used as a Maven dependency these need to be available. Milestone builds can be used by adding the milestone repository (see parent pom for details).

What's Changed

• Integrate Activation+Mail API 2.1.0-RC2 + Angus-Activation+Mail 1.0.0-M1 by @lukasj in #23695
• Changed version number to 7.0.0-SNAPSHOT by @dmatej in #23727
• Synced branch 6.x to master by @dmatej in #23728
• Cleanup in Jersey EJB Component Provider by @dmatej in #23731
• Add versions 6.2.3 and 6.2.1 to the download page by @OndroMih in #23732
• Remove parent nucleus-parent for docs pom.xml to fix the build by @OndroMih in #23733
• Fix Jenkins docs build which attempted to delete files under a link in git repo by @OndroMih in #23735
• Fix Jenkins docs build (a follow up to #23735) by @OndroMih in #23738
• Remove unused fields by @pzygielo in #23740
• Explicit configuration for LGTM build by @pzygielo in #23742
• Allow tuning of the interval for monitoring concurrent tasks by @11rx4f in #23744
• Issue 23739 Fixed documentation syntax, using only Asciidoctor, JBake removed by @dmatej in #23741
• Issue #23739 Updated website links by @dmatej in #23746
• Add property to choose frequency of logging once or repeatedly by @11rx4f in #23748
• Initial update of dependencies to Jakarta EE 10 versions. by @arjantijms in #23729
• Bump OpenMQ version by @pzygielo in #23755
• Integrated jakarta.faces-api 4.0.0-M2 by @arjantijms in #23765
• Webservices 4.0.0 m2 by @arjantijms in #23766
• Sync 6.x to master by @dmatej in #23767
• Fix #23772 The create-file-user subcommand with passwordfile option isn't usable in embedded glassfish. by @kosakak in #23773
• Integrate Tags 3.0.0-RC1/M1. by @arjantijms in #23783
• Next version is 6.2.6-SNAPSHOT by @arjantijms in #23806
• Merge 6.2.5 branch by @arjantijms in #23803
• Sync 6.x to master220213 by @dmatej in #23804
• Integrate Expressly by @arjantijms in #23808
• Integrate Weld 5.0.0-Beta1 by @arjantijms in #23809
• Update JSON components by @arjantijms in #23810
• Intergate WebSocket API 2.1.0 by @arjantijms in #23811
• Update JAXB to M3/4.0.0 by @arjantijms in #23813
• Update various maven plug-ins by @arjantijms in #23814
• Integrate Woodstox 6.2.8 by @arjantijms in #23815
• Add EE 10 schemas by @OndroMih in #23816
• Organise nucleus pom by @arjantijms in #23817
• Integrate ExpressLy 5.0.0-M1 by @arjantijms in #23818
• Consistent appserver pom by @arjantijms in #23819
• Integrate Jakarta Connectors 2.1.0-RC1 by @arjantijms in #23820
• Jakarta API updates by @arjantijms in #23821
• Fixed nightly and weekly builds which use gfbuild.sh by @dmatej in #23824
• Integrate Faces 4.0.0-M3 by @arjantijms in #23823
• Update Jakarta dependencies by @arjantijms in #23825
• Jakarta update3 by @arjantijms in #23826
• Add parent for snapshots by @arjantijms in #23827
• Fixed nightly and weekly builds which use gfbuild.sh by @pzygielo in #23832
• Bump OpenMQ version by @pzygielo in #23833
• Bump jakarta.resource-api by @pzygielo in #23834
• Bump OpenMQ version by @pzygielo in #23836
• Let snapshots use settings.xml for Jenkinsfile by @arjantijms in #23838
• Integrate Authentication 3.0.0-RC2 by @arjantijms in #23839
• Bump OpenMQ version by @pzygielo in #23840
• Implementation of new Jakarta Authentication methods by @arjantijms in #23841
• Enhanced runtests.sh and reenabled another block of tests by @dmatej in #23842
• Integrate Jakarta Security 3.0.0-RC1 by @arjantijms in #23844
• Integrate Jersey 3.1.0-M3 by @arjantijms in #23845
• Restore JSON support for REST by @arjantijms in #23846
• Update Jakarta Tags API & IMPL to 3.0.0 by @volosied in #23847
• Integrate Soteria 3.0.0-M2 by @arjantijms in #23848
• Integrate Jakarta Authentication 3.0.0 by @arjantijms in #23849
• Integrate Jakarta Authorization 2.1.0 by @arjantijms in #23850
• Integrate HK2 3.0.3 by @arjantijms in #23851
• Integrate Faces 4.0.0 and Mojarra 4.0.0-M6 by @arjantijms in #23852
• Integrate EclipseLink 4.0.0-M2 by @arjantijms in #23853
• update Servlet and JSP Spec Number Internally. by @gurunrao in #23854
• Integrate Jakarta Security 3.0.0-RC3/Soteria M4 by @arjantijms in #23858
• Integrate Tyrus 2.1.0-M2 by @arjantijms in #23859
• Integrate Eclipse Link 4.0.0-M3 by @arjantijms in #23860
• Integrate Jackson 2.13.2 by @arjantijms in #23861
• Merge 6.x to master by @dmatej in #23843
• Integrate jaxb-impl 4.0.0-M4 by @arjantijms in #23863
• Integrate Jakarta Security 3.0.0-RC4 and impl Soteria/Weld by @arjantijms in #23864
• Fixes 16587 - support custom principal in Jakarta Authentication by @arjantijms in #23865
• Using grizzly 4.0.0-M1 instead of a snapshot by @dmatej in #23867
• Bump jackson-databind from 2.13.2 to 2.13.2.1 in /nucleus/parent by @dependabot in #23869
• Integrate Tyrus 2.1.0-M3 by @arjantijms in #23866
• Updates for Felix components by @arjantijms in #23870
• Integrate Jakarta Security 3.0.0 by @arjantijms in #23868
• Updated links to snapshot repositories jersey and shoal by @dmatej in #23871
• Integrate Shoal 3.0.0-M1 by @arjantijms in #23874
• Fixed compatibility with latest metro-wsit snapshot by @dmatej in #23875
• Integrate Jersey 3.1.0-M4 by @arjantijms in #23876
• Patch for jersey-hk2.jar to fix OSGi error by @arjantijms in #23877
• Jna511 by @arjantijms in #23879
• Latest updates by @dmatej in #23880
• Update various version in pom.xml by @arjantijms in #23881
• Update to Jakarta Transactions 2.0.1 by @tomjenkinson in #23882
• Using released hibernate-validator 8.0.0.Alpha3 by @dmatej in #23883
• Integrate Metro 4.0.0-M4 by @arjantijms in #23885
• Change the dependency on jackson-module-jaxb-annotations to jackson-module-jakarta-xmlbind-annotations by @hs536 in #23887
• Fixed compatibility of OpenDJ with JDK17 by @dmatej in #23890
• Add external pages TCK and start update to EE 10 by @arjantijms in #23888
• Update glassfish.org README and Downloads Page for 6.2.4 and 6.2.5 Releases by @gerdogdu in #23891
• Integrate WaSP 3.1.0-M2 by @arjantijms in #23894
• Integrate ASM 9.3 by @arjantijms in #23895
• Fix remaining Servlet 6 TCK failures by @arjantijms in #23896
• Enable the CDI Lite LiteExtensionTranslator by @starksm64 in #23897
• Implement getRequestId() and related by @arjantijms in #23898

New Contributors

• @kosakak made their first contribution in #23773
• @volosied made their first contribution in #23847
• @dependabot made their first contribution in #23869

Full Changelog: 7.0.0-M3...7.0.0-M4