Official announcements about events and product releases, alerts and statements from InterSystems Corporation authorities.
February 19, 2025 – Alert: SQL Queries Returning Wrong Results
InterSystems has corrected two issues that can cause a small number of SQL queries to return incorrect results. In addition, InterSystems has corrected an inconsistency in date/time datatype handling that may lead to different, unexpected – yet correct – results for existing applications that rely on the earlier, inconsistent behavior.
DP-436825: SQL Queries with Lateral Join May Return Wrong Results
First, let me wish the developer community a Happy New Year! We hope to bring you many good things this year, and today I'd like to introduce the latest version of the Intersystems Language Server extension to VS Code. Most Language Server improvements are experienced via the ObjectScript extension UI, so you many not be aware of the many improvements in areas like Intellisense and hover overs that were released throughout 2024. Please take a quick read over the Language Server's CHANGELOG and find out what you missed. Most recently, version 2.7.0 brings support for the Windows ARM platform,
The latest extended maintenance releases of InterSystems IRIS, InterSystems IRIS for Health, and HealthShare Health Connect are now available.
Release 2024.1.3 provides bug fixes for any of the previous 2024.1.x releases, including the fix for the following alert recently issued - Alert: Invalid Data Introduced to Database and Journal files with Specific....
You can find the detailed change lists & upgrade checklists on these pages:
It's been a while since I've posted about Embedded Git on the Developer Community, and I'd like to provide an update on the massive amount of work we've done this year and where we're going next.
If you're building solutions on IRIS and want to use Git, that's great! Just use VSCode with a local git repo and push your changes out to the server - it's that easy.
But what if:
InterSystems has corrected a defect that causes invalid database and journal records to be introduced when using a specific $LIST syntax. The likelihood of encountering this defect is very low but the operational impacts can be significant.
Products Affected
We have released IPM 0.9.0. I previously remarked on some of the history and reasoning here; to summarize, this is a big release for two reasons: it represents a long-overdue reunification of our internal and community-driven work around IRIS-centric ObjectScript package management, and it has some backwards incompatibilities. There are several necessary backwards incompatibilities in our roadmap, and we've lumped them together; this will not be some new norm.
InterSystems is announcing an end of maintenance event for Zen Reports beginning in Intersystems IRIS and IRIS for Health 2025.1. This follows the deprecation notice made when InterSystems IRIS was introduced in 2018 and subsequent inclusion of InterSystems Reports in 2020 to provide replacement reporting functionality. An overview of the timeline is:
March 2018. InterSystems IRIS 2018.1: Announcement of Zen Reports deprecation, continued shipment to provide continuity for existing applications
Welcome to the Q4’2024 quarterly platforms update. I hope that your 2024 has been incredible and that 2025 is even better.
If you’re new to these updates, welcome! This update aims to share recent changes as well as our best current knowledge on upcoming changes, but predicting the future is tricky business and this shouldn’t be considered a committed roadmap.
With that said, on to the update…
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
The 2024.3 release of InterSystems IRIS® data platform, InterSystems IRIS® for Health, and HealthShare® Health Connect is now Generally Available (GA).
In this release, you can expect a host of exciting updates, including:
On 4 December 2024, System Alerting and Monitoring (SAM) will be removed from the InterSystems download sites, the container registry, and documentation site.
InterSystems announced last year that it has ceased further development of SAM and simultaneously labelled it as deprecated. InterSystems will continue to support existing customers using the technology in the same manner as product versions beyond the Minimum Supported Version window.
September 24, 2018 – Advisory: VMWare vSAN and Data Integrity
Clients running vSAN 6.6 or later should review a very important article that VMware published on September 21, 2018. The article describes the possibility of file system and database corruption, which can lead to outages and possible data loss, and we believe that some of our clients have encountered this issue. Therefore, we encourage you to act on this as soon as possible.
The VMWare knowledge base article is titled:
Two extended maintenance releases of InterSystems IRIS, InterSystems IRIS for Health, and HealthShare Health Connect are now available.
Release 2023.1.5 provides bug fixes for any of the previous 2023.1.x releases.
You can find the detailed change lists & upgrade checklists on these pages:
Release 2024.1.2 provides bug fixes for any of the previous 2024.1.x releases.
We've recently made available a new version of InterSystems IRIS in the Vector Search Early Access Program, featuring a new Approximate Nearest Neighbor index based upon the Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) indexing algorithm. This addition allows for highly efficient, approximate nearest-neighbor searches over large vector datasets, dramatically improving query performance and scalability.
InterSystems IRIS Adaptive Analytics version 2024.1.3 is now available from the InterSystems Software Distribution page. This release includes AtScale 2024.1.3, and an updated User Defined Aggregate Function (UDAF) file. This release includes and the following new modeling and BI capabilities:
Welcome to the Q3’2024 quarterly platforms update. We have some news on the AIX front to encourage better security, along with our usual round of OS version updates.
If you’re new to these updates, welcome! This update aims to share recent changes as well as our best current knowledge on upcoming changes, but predicting the future is tricky business and this shouldn’t be considered a committed roadmap.
Alert: Database Corruption with Multi-Volume Databases after Truncation
InterSystems has corrected a defect that can cause database corruption or <DISKHARD> errors with multi-volume databases under extremely rare circumstances. Only databases that have been truncated are at risk.
The defect exists in the following products and any InterSystems offerings based on them:
The first developer preview of InterSystems IRIS 2024.3 and InterSystems IRIS for Health 2024.3 has been posted to the WRC developer preview site. Containers can be found on our container registry and are tagged latest-preview.
This is a very early build in the release cycle and there aren’t any “highlight” worthy features that are complete. They’ll start to arrive in future preview releases.
Initial documentation can be found at these links below.
Availability and Package Information
InterSystems API Manager (IAM) versions 2.8.4.11 and 3.4.3.11 are now Generally Available. These are the latest versions of the two long-term supported versions of IAM. These releases contain important fixes, and all customers are encouraged to upgrade.
Customers on IAM 3.0 or 3.2 are encouraged to upgrade to 3.4.3.11 as support for those versions will soon come to an end.
RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS
2024.2 is a Continuous Delivery (CD) release. Many updates and enhancements have been added in this release:
Enhancing Developer Experience
The 2024.1.1 extended maintenance release of InterSystems IRIS, InterSystems IRIS for Health, and HealthShare Health Connect is now available. It provides bug fixes for the previous 2024.1.0 release.
You can find the detailed change lists / upgrade checklists on these pages:
How to get the software
The software is available as both classic installation packages and container images. For the complete list of available installers and container images, please refer to the Supported Platforms webpage.
InterSystems API Manager (IAM) versions 2.8.4.10 and 3.4.3.10 are now Generally Available. These are the latest versions of the two long-term supported versions of IAM. These release contain important fixes and all customers are encouraged to upgrade.
Customers on IAM 3.0 or 3.2 are encouraged to upgrade to 3.4.3.10 as support for those versions will soon come to an end.
As of October 15, 2024, support for Caché & Ensemble on MacOS will be Deprecated.
Caché & Ensemble 2018.1.9 will continue to be supported, however there will be no further maintenance releases for MacOS. This means Caché & Ensemble 2018.1.9 will be the final version of these products on MacOS.
As a reminder, maintenance releases for Caché and Ensemble on the other supported platforms will come to an end on March 31, 2027. More details on that can be found in last year’s announcement.
InterSystems Reports version 24.1 is now available from the InterSystems Software Distribution site in the Components section. The software is labeled InterSystems Reports Designer and InterSystems Reports Server and is available for Mac OSX, Windows and Linux operating systems.
This new release brings along some great enhancements from our partner, insightsoftware. InterSystems Reports 24.1 is powered by Logi Report Version 24.1SP2 and includes:
InterSystems and Red Hat are working together to add IRIS-specific alerts to Red Hat Insights.
Red Hat Insights is a service to predict and recommend remediations for system risks in Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments. Insights is free with nearly every RHEL, OpenShift, or Ansible subscription. You can learn more about Insights at Red Hat’s site.
Swappiness Recommendation
The first recommendation “Apply swappiness recommendation for better performance of InterSystems IRIS” has been activated.
Note: this was originally posted on June 5, 2024 but presented as being posted on May 9, 2024 so this re-post fixes the date.
Recent updates to the Intersystems Language Server introduce many significant enhancements aimed at improving developer experience and productivity. I'll talk about some of the key ones here, while the complete list, including numerous bug fixes, can be found in the Language Server's CHANGELOG.
Beginning with the release of InterSystems IRIS® data platform 2022.3, InterSystems corrected the license enforcement mechanism to include REST and SOAP requests. Due to this change, environments with non-core-based licenses that use REST or SOAP may experience greater license utilization after upgrading. To determine if this advisory applies to your InterSystems license, follow the instructions in the FAQ linked below.
This table summarizes the enforcement:
Here’s our Q2’2024 quarterly platforms update. If you’re new to these updates, welcome! This update aims to share recent changes as well as our best current knowledge on upcoming changes, but predicting the future is tricky business and this shouldn’t be considered a committed roadmap.
With that said, on to the update…
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
InterSystems is pleased to announce the general availability of:
This release adds support for the Ubuntu 24.04 operating system. Ubuntu 24.04 includes Linux kernel 6.8, security improvements, along with installer and user interface improvements. InterSystems IRIS IntegratedML is not yet available on Ubuntu 24.04.
Additionally, this release addresses two defects for all platforms:
As most of you have heard already, InterSystems announced the deprecation of Studio with the release of IRIS 2023.2. A detailed deprecation plan was revealed in November, and we are now hitting the first milestone in that plan. Starting with 2024.2 preview kits, Windows kits will no longer contain Studio. This means that new installations using this kit will not install Studio, and upgrading an existing instance to version 2024.2 (or later) will remove Studio from the instance’s bin directory.