*WSO2 Carbon kernel 4.3.0 Beta is Released!!!*

WSO2 Carbon team is pleased to announce the beta release of the Carbon
kernel 4.3.0.

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 of reusable components running on
this kernel. These products/components inherit all the core services
provided by Carbon kernel such as Registry/repository, User management,
Transports, Caching, Clustering, Logging, Deployment related features.

The Kernel was tested extensively in an EC2 based environment, with Worker
Manager Carbon 4.3.0 based WSO2 Application Server cluster. Following are
the scenarios tested.

   - DepSync
   - Clustering
   - Patching and Service Packs
   - Registry Mounting
   - Caching
   - Feature Management Core

You can download the Beta pack from the following location.

   - wso2carbon-4.3.0-SNAPSHOT.zip
   
<http://svn.wso2.org/repos/wso2/people/aruna/work/distributions/wso2carbon-4.3.0-SNAPSHOT.zip>

*How to Contribute *

   - WSO2 Carbon kernel code is hosted in GitHub.
   - The GIT repository is  https://github.com/wso2/carbon4-kernel/
   - Carbon 4.3.0 release work is carried out in "*release-4.3.0*" branch
   of this GitHub project.
   - Carbon 4.3.0 Beta release *tag* is
   https://github.com/wso2/carbon4-kernel/releases/tag/v4.3.0-beta
   - Please report issues at Carbon JIRA
   <https://wso2.org/jira/browse/CARBON>.


*What's New In This Release*

   - Simplified logging story with pluggable log provider support.
   - Upgraded versions of Hazelcast, Log4j, BouncyCastle.
   - Improved Composite application support.


*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</li>
   - 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*

   - https://wso2.org/jira/issues/?filter=12058


*Known Issues*

   - https://wso2.org/jira/browse/CARBON/fixforversion/11487


*Contact us*

WSO2 Carbon developers can be contacted via the mailing lists:

   - Carbon Developers List: [email protected]
   - Carbon Architecture List: [email protected]


Thank for you interest in WSO2 Carbon Kernel.

*--The WSO2 Carbon Team--*

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*Aruna Sujith Karunarathna* | Software Engineer
WSO2, Inc | lean. enterprise. middleware.
#20, Palm Grove, Colombo 03, Sri Lanka
Mobile: +94 71 9040362 | Work: +94 112145345
Email: [email protected] | Web: www.wso2.com
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