ModeShape 5.0.0.Final is available

The ModeShape community is proud to announce the immediately availability of our latest stable release, ModeShape 5.0.0.Final. This is the first major release from the 5.x series, and addresses 52 bug fixes, new features, and improvements.

ModeShape 5.0 has a number of very significant changes and features, including:

• Improved consistency – ModeShape 5 no longer uses Infinispan and provides instead its own persistence stores. We suggest reading this forum post for an in depth explanation of this decision.
• JDK 8 support – ModeShape 5 is compiled with and runs on Java 8.
• Wildfly 10 support – ModeShape 5 fully integrates with Wildfly 10, while still supporting Wildfly 9. Note that starting from this release ModeShape will no longer support Wildfly 8 or earlier.
• Simplified configuration – Because ModeShape 5 no longer uses Infinispan, the additional cache configuration files that users of ModeShape 3 and ModeShape 4 are familiar with are no longer required. The entire repository configuration is self-contained in either the JSON or Wildfly files (with the exception that in certain clustering cases a separate JGroups configuration is required).
• Storage options – ModeShape 5 provides out-of-the-box support for storing content either in-memory, relational databases (via JDBC), or the file system. Each store provides different benefits, so be sure to learn about them from our new persistence documentation.
• Storage SPI – The new storage SPI means you always have the option of implementing additional stores, as long as they are transactional and support a key-value storage model.

You can migrate from ModeShape 3 and ModeShape 4 by following our migration guide. If you’re starting to use ModeShape for the first time, make sure you read the getting started guide.

The JARs and other artifacts are already available in the JBoss Maven repository and in our downloads area, and will make it to Maven Central soon. See our Getting Started guide for details, and the release notes for specifics of the changes in this release.

Thanks to our whole community for the work that’s gone into this release! Give it a try and let us know what you think!

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