WSO2 Carbon 4.2.0 Released !
02 September 2013

WSO2 Carbon redefines middleware by providing an integrated and
componentized middleware platform that adapts to the specific needs of any
enterprise IT project - on premise or in the cloud. 100% open source and
standards-based, WSO2 Carbon enables developers to rapidly orchestrate
business processes, compose applications and develop services using WSO2
Developer Studio and a broad range of business and technical services that
integrate with legacy, packaged and SaaS applications.

WSO2 Carbon kernel, the lean, modular, OSGi-based platform, is the base of
the WSO2 Carbon platform. It is a composable server architecture which
inherits modularity and dynamism from OSGi framework. WSO2 Carbon kernel
can be considered as a framework for server development. All the WSO2
products are composed as a collection reusable components running on this
kernel. These products/components inherits all the core services provided
by Carbon kernel such as Registry/repository, User management, Transports,
Caching, Clustering, Logging, Deployment related features.

An open source product, WSO2 Carbon is available under the Apache Software
License (v2.0) <http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html>
What's New In This Release

   - New Distributed Caching implementation based on Hazelcast.
   - New Clustering implementation based Hazelcast.
   - Synchronous deployment of CApp artifacts to ensure the atomicity of a
   CApp.
   - Improved Patches and Service packs installation model
   - Multi-profile support at the Carbon platform which enables a Carbon
   based product to behave in multiple modes/profiles
   - Feature Categorization
   - Various bug fixes &
enhancements<https://wso2.org/jira/browse/CARBON/fixforversion/10781#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Aversion-issues-panel>including
stabilizing WSO2 Carbon Kernel.

Key Features

   - Composable Server Architecture - Provides a modular, light-weight,
   OSGi-based server development framework.
   - Carbon Application(CApp) deployment support.
   - Multi-Profile Support for Carbon Platform - This enable a single
   product to run on multiple modes/profiles.
   - Carbon + Tomcat JNDI Context - Provide ability to access both carbon
   level and tomcat level JNDI resources to applications using a single JNDI
   context.
   - Distributed Caching and Clustering functionality - Carbon kernel
   provides a distributed cache and clustering implementation which is based
   on Hazelcast- a group communication framework
   - Pluggable Transports Framework - This is based on Axis2 transports
   module
   - Registry/Repository API- Provide core registry/repository API for
   component developers
   - User Management API - Provides a basic user management API for
   component developers
   - Logging - Carbon kernel supports both Java logging as well as Log4j.
   Logs from both these sources will be aggregated to a single output
   - Pluggable artifact deployer framework - Kernel can be extended to
   deploy any kind of artifacts such as Web services, Web apps, Business
   processes, Proxy services, User stores etc.
   - Deployment Synchronization - Provides synchronization of deployed
   artifacts across a product cluster.
   - Ghost Deployment - Provides a lazy loading mechanism for deployed
   artifacts
   - Multi-tenancy support - The roots of the multi-tenancy in Carbon
   platform lies in the Carbon kernel. This feature includes tenant level
   isolation as well as lazy loading of tenants.

*Fixed Issues in This Release*
WSO2 Carbon 4.2.0 release comes with number of bug fixed and improvements
on Carbon framework,

   - Fixed issues on WSO2
Carbon<https://wso2.org/jira/browse/CARBON-14098?filter=11284>

*Known Issues*
All known issues on WSO2 Carbon have been recorded at,

   - Known issues on WSO2
Carbon<https://wso2.org/jira/browse/CARBON-14406?filter=11299>

*Reporting Problems*
Issues can be reported using the public JIRA available at
https://wso2.org/jira/browse/CARBON

*Contact us*
WSO2 Carbon developers can be contacted via the mailing lists:
*Carbon Developers List:* [email protected]
*Carbon Architecture List:* [email protected]
For details on subscriptions see http://wso2.org/mail
*Wiki:*
http://docs.wso2.org/wiki/display/Carbon420/WSO2+Carbon+Documentation

*Support*
WSO2 Inc. offers a variety of development and production support programs,
ranging from Web-based support up through normal business hours, to premium
24x7 phone support.
For additional support information please refer to http://wso2.com/support/

For more information on WSO2 Carbon, visit WSO2 Carbon Home
Page<http://wso2.com/products/carbon>

Thank you for your interest in WSO2 Carbon

*- The WSO2 Carbon Team -*

Best Regards..

Manoj Kumara
Software Engineer
WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com

Twitter:  http://twitter.com/ManKuma
Mobile: +94713448188
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