Eclipse GlassFish is a Jakarta EE compatible implementation sponsored by the Eclipse Foundation.
The first release of 2025 is here; GlassFish 7.0.22!
A smaller release while the OmniFish team is working on perfecting SSH in a separate feature branch. Still, a few important dependencies have been updated; notably Concurrō (Concurrency), EclipseLink (Persistence) and Jersey (REST). Furthermore, GlassFish has received a few security improvements: the admin flow login was improved by Alexander Pinčuk, and the OmniFish team improved the command logger, which now hides passwords in logged messages.
Download links are available from the GlassFish Download page.
We’re over the moon to present you our first release of 2025: GlassFish 7.0.21!
This release was all about hunting down a few nasty bugs reported by GlassFish users: restart hanging on fast machines (including ephemeral ports appearing when stopping GlassFish), random 403 responses for authenticated sessions and Faces that was failing to initialize on GlassFish embedded. We’re proud to announce that after a lot of research and a lot of work, we were able to squash them all. A special thanks to our users for reporting these and helping us to narrow them down!
Download links are available from the GlassFish Download page.
All of us from GlassFish are joyful with the release of GlassFish 7.0.20!
While working on GlassFish 7.1.0 and GlassFish 8, we didn’t leave the stable 7.0.x series in the dark. In this release we updated a lot of our dependencies to their latest versions and did a large amount of testing to ensure everything worked as required. We also improved stability again by squashing a number of outstanding bugs.
Download links are available from the GlassFish Download page.
The full GlassFish team is happy to present you another great GlassFish release; Eclipse GlassFish 7.0.19!
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This release is mostly just maintenance. It contains some updates, some code cleanup, few very important bug fixes and few new features to make your life easier.
The full GlassFish team is happy to present you another great GlassFish release; Eclipse GlassFish 7.0.18!
Download links are available from the GlassFish Download page.
This release is all about an exciting new feature that allows running GlassFish Embedded from the command line using java -jar glassfish-embedded.jar. It supports configuration via command line arguments and/or config files in the current directory, such as setting the HTTP port, deploying applications passed as arguments and running arbitrary AsAdmin commands at boot. Aside of that we did a large amount of maintenance for the internal modules nucleus-admin and glassfish, and fixed various issues that were reported by users.
Another great release, Eclipse GlassFish 7.0.17, is here.
Download links are available from the GlassFish Download page.
In this summer 2024 release of GlassFish we did a lot of maintenance in which we will continue in future releases. We fixed several security issues and the build now passes also in Java 23. We welcome feedback - if you notice that something doesn’t work as expected, feel free to create an issue or even better create your own pull request.
With much joy we present you Eclipse GlassFish 7.0.16.
Download links are available from the GlassFish Download page.
In this summer 2024 release of GlassFish we added several new features. Specifically new is an admin command logger, which logs graphical interactions with the admin UI for usage in scripts. GlassFish now also allows resource references in persistence.xml, and we added a great new feature where we are creating temporary snapshots of the external application libraries during application startup, so any update of these is not longer system dependent. We also did a major refactoring of the aging TLS code and optimized the GJULE logging.
We are very happy to bring you Eclipse GlassFish 7.0.15.
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In this release we updated and thoroughly tested a lot of important components, including Exousia (Security), Mojarra (Faces), Jersey (REST) and Yasson/Parsson (JSON).
Testing has been improved by fixing a number of issues within the tests itself.
Finally, we fixed a number of errors in the documentation.
Download links are available from the GlassFish Download page.
We are very happy to bring you Eclipse GlassFish 7.0.14.
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This release features among others an important NPE fix for the SSHLauncher and is highly recommended for our users who make use of this launcher.
The thread safety of transactions was improved, and the JDBC connection pool sizing logic was also improved, fixing an annoying bug.
To maintain future quality of GlassFish, many fixes to the internal TCKs tests were done.
As a new feature, command completion is now enabled in the OSGi interactive console.
Download links are available from the GlassFish Download page
We are very happy to bring you Eclipse GlassFish 7.0.13.
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In the release for this month we replaced many synchronized blocks by reentrant locks (to accommodate JDK 21 virtual threads).
We also looked at SSO between clusters, and fixed a long standing bug there.
A long running investigation into potential resource leaks finally came to a conclusion, and resulted in many fixes throughout the code base. The admin console also saw various improvements, specifically with respect to loading.
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We are very happy to bring you Eclipse GlassFish 7.0.12.
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This release we focused on finding and fixing the root cause of several “strange” WebSocket related bugs that we witnessed in the past. We also did a similar thing related to several issues with running apps on the default context root, especially where after authentication redirects happened to another URL.
Furthermore we looked into problems with authentication and SSO in a cluster and did some initial fixes. Handling and processing of logging was looked at once again, something we have been improving a lot step by step through various iterations of releases.
Finally but not least a nasty ConcurrentModificationException was fixed, and a memory leak (via HK2) was solved.
Download links are available from the GlassFish Download page.