1.4.0.Alpha1

    Release Notes - mod_cluster - Version 1.4.0.Alpha1

Feature Request

• [MODCLUSTER-449] - Implement ramp-up when starting new nodes
• [MODCLUSTER-457] - Expose Tomcat configuration to explicitly specify a connector to register with the proxy
• [MODCLUSTER-479] - Add support for Tomcat 9
• [MODCLUSTER-493] - Add support for Tomcat 8.5
• [MODCLUSTER-531] - Eliminate automagic
• [MODCLUSTER-539] - Support JDK9 build 9-ea+139
• [MODCLUSTER-562] - Support configuring SocketFactory for MCMP to integrate with Elytron-provided SSLContext
• [MODCLUSTER-564] - Introduce configuration builder API
• [MODCLUSTER-574] - Allow custom LoadMetric implementations to put node into error state (load of -1)
• [MODCLUSTER-575] - Create a Load SPI module
• [MODCLUSTER-607] - Support floating-point numerals for decay factor

Bug

• [MODCLUSTER-480] - Tomcat 8 Context#isDistributable implementation needs to consult the underlying context instead of the manager
• [MODCLUSTER-497] - ModClusterConfig#setAdvertiseInterface(java.lang.String) should not have been deprecated as it's used by Tomcat modeller
• [MODCLUSTER-509] - Excluded contexts which are not specific to a host should be excluded on all hosts
• [MODCLUSTER-511] - run-demo.sh script fails in most cases
• [MODCLUSTER-529] - MBeans descriptions are not loaded in JMX for ModClusterListener
• [MODCLUSTER-566] - Exclusion list cannot be pre-populated in init()
• [MODCLUSTER-572] - Normalize hostnames in MCMP messages
• [MODCLUSTER-581] - Session draining with non-positive timeout may wait indefinitely
• [MODCLUSTER-584] - httpd Host header validation check with IPv6 address in MCMP requests
• [MODCLUSTER-585] - mod_cluster excluded-contexts doesn't exclude slash prefixed /contexts; should perform normalization
• [MODCLUSTER-596] - mod_cluster stop/stop-context operations do not send STOP-* in when session draining was unsuccessful
• [MODCLUSTER-612] - Test DefaultMCMPRequestFactoryTestCase#createConfigRequest fails on Windows OS with other than lowercase hostname

Task

• [MODCLUSTER-439] - Overhaul distribution profile
• [MODCLUSTER-482] - Drop Tomcat 6 and JBoss Web support
• [MODCLUSTER-485] - Move CI to Travis
• [MODCLUSTER-494] - Split mod_cluster code base into container integration and native repositories
• [MODCLUSTER-496] - Drop support for legacy JBoss AS 5/6 versions (sar module)
• [MODCLUSTER-498] - Extract Tomcat modeler specific methods from ModClusterConfig into separate Tomcat-specific class
• [MODCLUSTER-516] - Move /container-spi module into /container/spi module
• [MODCLUSTER-518] - Support JDK9 build 9-ea (June 2016)
• [MODCLUSTER-519] - Keep Tomcat dependency versions on latest released versions
• [MODCLUSTER-559] - Support JDK9 build 9-ea+160
• [MODCLUSTER-599] - Update maven-assembly-plugin goal to 'single'
• [MODCLUSTER-611] - Add maven-checkstyle-plugin to the Maven build
• [MODCLUSTER-614] - Disable "Unable to locate Source XRef to link to" warnings in Maven build
• [MODCLUSTER-615] - Fix compiler warnings in demo compilation
• [MODCLUSTER-616] - Fix Javadoc issues
• [MODCLUSTER-617] - Drop legacy "site-mod_cluster" scripting

Component Upgrade

• [MODCLUSTER-517] - Upgrade jboss-parent to 21
• [MODCLUSTER-520] - Upgrade jboss-logging/tools to 3.3.0.Final and 2.0.1.Final respectively
• [MODCLUSTER-560] - Upgrade mockito to 2.5.2
• [MODCLUSTER-561] - Upgrade maven-war-plugin to version compatible with JDK 9-ea+149 and higher
• [MODCLUSTER-586] - Upgrade jboss-parent to 22
• [MODCLUSTER-597] - Upgrade jboss-parent to 24 (to support jdk-9+175)
• [MODCLUSTER-598] - Include building the distribution profile in CI
• [MODCLUSTER-604] - Upgrade jboss-logging to 3.3.1.Final
• [MODCLUSTER-605] - Upgrade jboss-logging-processor to 2.0.2.Final