What's New in the Payara Platform November Release?

We're happy to announce that Payara Platform Community 5.2020.6 (direct download here) and Payara Platform Enterprise 5.23.0 (request here) Editions are out !

With this major release of Payara Platform Enterprise, we're introducing OpenAPI Refactor and some further improvements to Payara InSight.  Meanwhile, the Payara Community Edition adds support for Payara Micro in the Eclipse IDE and a number of useful MicroProfile enhancements.

Read more below to find out the details, and don't miss our Release Overview virtual event next week, which is now open for registrations on Meetup here. 

Payara InSight Improvements in Payara Server Enterprise 

Following the first release of Payara Insight into Payara Platform Enterprise Edition last month (find out more here) , further quality of life improvements have been added, including an overhaul of the main content Data Widget and the creation of a unified Alert Centre. More information will be coming soon in a dedicated blog post, so watch this space! 

Open API Refactor in Payara Platform Enterprise

In this Payara Platform Enterprise release we added a stable and secure version of the MicroProfile OpenAPI implementation - the one we already provided in Payara Platform Community 5.2020.3. The original blog, detailing some of these features, can be found here. 

The newly introduced changes to OpenAPI in Payara Platform Enterprise include:

• Multi document definition support
• Document processing improvements
• OpenAPI scanner for packaged archive

Eclipse MicroProfile Enhancements in Payara Platform

• MicroProfile Health Improvements

We’ve added the ability to monitor any metrics exposed in the Metrics API via Payara Health. We’ve also added the ability to expose any Payara Health checks to the MicroProfile Health API. This allows you to monitor a broader variety of metrics from Payara Health, and use these to inform smarter MicroProfile readiness checks.

• MicroProfile Database Config Sources

We've added extra MicroProfile config sources to access SQL and DynamoDB databases. You can configure a ‘key’ and ‘value’ column name to fetch data from a selected table.

• MicroProfile Cloud Vault Config Sources

We've added extra MicroProfile config sources to access data from the secrets managers of three cloud providers: GCP, AWS and Azure. This allows secure access keys to be stored in the cloud provider key vaults and accessed using the MicroProfile Config API. A good example of using this would be when configuring a MP REST Client to make a secure request.

Eclipse Payara Micro Support in Payara Platform Community

Some more information on this enhancement will be published soon our blog so make sure you come back to check it out in the next few days!

Other Useful Improvements

• Removing Expired Certificates During Domain Creation

A QoL feature, when creating a domain, the certificate and trust stores used by Payara Server are now cleared of expired certificates. As many of you know, Payara Server makes use of its own certificate stores rather than directly relying upon the JDK ones. During creation of a domain, these certificate stores get the default Payara certificates generated and added to them (e.g. the s1as certificate for the DAS), and also copies the entries from the JDK trust store. The cert stores themselves, however, are already pre-filled with some defaults which expire over time since they don't get overwritten by the newer certificates coming in from the JDK. These expired certificates should now be removed upon creation of a domain, saving you (and us!) some legwork in making sure that all of the trusted certificates in the cert store are valid. This feature applies to both Payara Server Community & Enterprise Editions. 

• Marking Applications as "Unavailable" as Soon as They are Disabled

Release Notes

The Enterprise Release (request here) includes 13 bug fixes, 5 improvements and 1 component upgrade; while the Community Release (direct download here) includes 5 new features, 5 bug fixes and 5 improvements.

See more detailed overview of the fixes and improvements in the Release Notes:

• Payara Platform Community Edition 5.2020.6
• Payara Platform Enterprise Edition 5.23.0

Download The Latest Payara Platform Release

Don't forget to update your Payara Platform to the new version! You can Download the Payara Community Edition here, or request the Payara Enterprise Edition via this form.

As usual - if you have any questions, feedback or suggestions, please post them in the comments below or email us at community@payara.fish