8.0.4

Eclipse GlassFish is an application server, implementing Jakarta EE and MicroProfile. This release corresponds with the Jakarta EE 11 specification. Eclipse GlassFish 8 is production ready, commercially supported by OmniFish, and requires JDK 21 or higher.

Release Overview

Version 8.0.4 focuses on the upgrade path from GlassFish 7, on Embedded GlassFish, and on CDI integration.

Domains created by GlassFish 7.0.x now have their legacy JKS/JCEKS security stores migrated to PKCS12, upgrading a domain that contains a cluster works again, and the migrated domain-passwords.p12 is synchronized to the instances.

Embedded GlassFish propagates deployment failures, deletes its temporary directories through a JVM shutdown hook and restricts them to the current user, and ships real javadoc and sources Maven artifacts.

Jakarta REST artifacts can be injected with @Inject out of the box now that jersey-cdi-rs-inject is bundled, @Transactional rollbackOn/dontRollbackOn carried by CDI stereotypes are resolved, and the thread-context-classloader hack in the Weld bean deployment archive has been replaced by the per-BDA ResourceLoader SPI.

Upgrading from GlassFish 7.0.x

Upgrading a domain from GlassFish 7.0.x migrates its legacy JKS/JCEKS security stores to PKCS12, so no manual conversion of the domain keystore and truststore is needed. Domains that contain a cluster upgrade correctly again, and the resulting domain-passwords.p12 is synchronized to the instances.

• Migrate legacy JKS/JCEKS security stores to PKCS12 when upgrading from 7.0.x by @renatsaf in #26109
• Fix upgrade if the domain contains a cluster by @OndroMih in #26151
• Sync domain-passwords.p12 to instances after PKCS12 migration by @renatsaf in #26103

Fixes

• Propagate deployment failures and fix CDI/assembly issues in GlassFish Embedded by @renatsaf in #26070
• Restore support of domain lib/ext jars by adding them to the server classpath (Fixes #26058) by @renatsaf in #26060
• Resolve @transactional rollbackOn/dontRollbackOn carried by CDI stereotypes by @renatsaf in #26059
• Fix JNDI validation failure for app-scoped resources on server restart by @renatsaf in #26145
• Guard ManagedConnection cleanup against a torn-down physical connection by @renatsaf in #26104
• Fixed hostname autodetection - resolvable by @dmatej in #26037
• Fixed #26000 - config.bat issues by @dmatej in #26158
• Remove superfluous parameter from Admin GUI downloads by @pdudits in #26081

Improvements

• Bundle jersey-cdi-rs-inject to allow @Inject of Jakarta REST artifacts by @renatsaf in #26079
• Delete embedded GlassFish temporary directories via a JVM shutdown hook and restrict them to the current user by @renatsaf in #26069
• Generate real javadoc and sources Maven artifacts for embedded distributions (#24278) by @renatsaf in #26099
• Improve diagnostics for unresolved ejb-ref JNDI lookups by @renatsaf in #26101
• Switch from legacy JVM diagnostic logging to unified logging by @renatsaf in #26056
• Remove thread-context-classloader hack in Weld BDA; rely on per-BDA ResourceLoader SPI by @renatsaf in #26090
• Autodeployer and FileArchive improvements by @dmatej in #26154

Optimizations

• Allocate ServletRequestAttributeEvent lazily in Request by @BalusC in #26147

Component Upgrades

• Updated parent, plugins and dependencies by @dmatej in #26156
• Upgrade Jackson 2.22.0 -> 2.22.1 by @OndroMih in #26141

Maintenance

• Replace deprecated new URL constructors by @renatsaf in #26051
• Issue #25903 Removal of the CachedPermission - dead code by @dmatej in #26159
• Avoid going through Optional by @pzygielo in #26138
• Use default value for .publish by @pzygielo in #26139
• Include ORB repositories by @pzygielo in #26140
• Fixed #26004 - Felix plugin knows well what to do by @dmatej in #26157
• Reducing amount of occupied disk space for PRs by @dmatej in #26125
• Resolving problems with Jenkins by @dmatej in #26155
• Fixed pattern for hostname - unit test failed in docker container by @dmatej in #26161

Documentation

• Remove outdated OSGi Web Console instructions from the Administration Guide by @renatsaf in #26080
• Document that add/remove-library for domain/lib doesn't require restart by @OndroMih in #26110
• Document class loader delegation exceptions and the useBundledJsf property by @renatsaf in #26091
• Formatting in "The Server Lifecycle Event Context" section by @pzygielo in #26122
• Avoid dummy and duplicates in docs-pdfs archive by @pzygielo in #26123

New Contributors

• @pdudits made their first contribution in #26081

Full Changelog: 8.0.3...8.0.4