WSO2 Carbon 4.1.0 Release Notes

19 Mar 2013

WSO2 Carbon is the base platform for all WSO2 products, powered by OSGi. It is a lightweight, high performing platform which is a collection of OSGi bundles. All the major features which are included in WSO2 products have been developed as pluggable Carbon components and installed into this base Carbon platform. Carbon base platform includes many key features that are used by all products which runs on top of it.

An open source product, WSO2 Carbon is available under the Apache Software License (v2.0)

What's New In This Release

• Enhanced Deployment Synchronizer
• JDK 1.7 support
• Tomcat 7
• Equinox SDK 3.7
• P2 Repository: Features grouped by product
• Documentation Enhancements
• Various bug fixes(https://wso2.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=10870) & enhancements including stabilizing WSO2 Carbon.

Key Features

• Bundling(OSGi) embedded version of tomcat and making exposing it as standard HTTPService - This new architectural improvement allows web-apps to see carbon server classpath and provides native CXF support etc
• Supporting standard Catalina-server.xml - Carbon now supports standard server.xml file that gets shipped with standalone tomcat-distribution. Users who are already familiar with apache-tomcat configuration find it easy to work with WSO2 carbon products.
• Latest Equinox-SDK - WSO2 carbon now embeds the latest Equinox SDK (3.7) as its OSGi runtime.
• Improvements to feature manager functionality - It now allows you to install feature categories based on products. If you want to make ESB out of Carbon, just install ESB feature category.
• Persistence - Completely re-architected persistence layer that allows convenient artifact management across clusters.
• Coordination: This component which is based on Apache ZooKeeper, bring distributed coordination support to the Carbon Core. It implements features such as distributed queues, barriers, group communication and leader election functionality. This is mainly used in clustering setups for components such as scheduled tasks, data sources and message broker.
• Security related improvements : Carbon user store is supported to operate with AD (Active directory) and AD LDS (Light-weight version of AD) with both read/write mode.
• Registry improvements.

Known Issues

1. All known issues have been recorded at https://wso2.org/jira/browse/CARBON

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