April Payara Release Overview Webinar
Originally published on 27 Apr 2021
Last updated on 27 Apr 2021

In this Release Overview Webinar, Rudy De Busscher discusses the recent updates and enhancements to the Payara Platform in the latest release.
Release Notes are available from our Documentation page:
https://docs.payara.fish/community/docs/5.2021.1/release-notes/release-notes-2021-2.html
The April Payara Community Edition release provides improvements for running Jakarta EE 9 applications, mainly the Web profile specifications. Use the Payara Community Edition to run Jakarta EE 9 applications on Payara Platform 5. The Community Release includes 1 new feature, 20 bug fixes and 6 improvements.
Agenda:
- Community Release
- Jakarta EE 9 Support improvements
- Cleanup JBatch execution history
- Payara Server Clustering in Kubernetes (preview)
- Enterprise Release
- Notification API ported
- Upgrade Tool
- Future plans
- Monthly Theme : Payara Server Administration
- Questions / Discussions
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