Official announcements about events and product releases, alerts and statements from InterSystems Corporation authorities.
Beginning with the next release after 2017.1, InterSystems products will no longer be offered on macOS (OS X) as a Server platform. This platform has been re-classified and will be available as a Development platform in future releases.
November 22, 2016 – Alert: Database Integrity on UNIX® and Linux Platforms
InterSystems has corrected a defect that may, in rare circumstances, result in database degradation on UNIX and Linux platforms.
This defect affects Caché, Ensemble, and HealthShare distributions beginning with Caché version 2012.1. It is only a possible risk on UNIX and Linux platforms that are using asynchronous I/O for database writes. The following table specifies if asynchronous I/O is always on or optional for the affected platforms and releases:
I am pleased to announce the field test of Caché and Ensemble 2017.1, including many new improvements.
The product team at InterSystems looks forward to your participation in the field test and feedback over the coming months.
Starting with 2017.1, InterSystems has moved macOS from being a server platform to a development platform. 2017.1 will only support macOS 10.12 and will no longer be available as dmg kits.
Verification of macOS 10.12 has not been completed at this time and Field Test kits for this platform are not yet available.
InterSystems is pleased to announce that Caché and Ensemble 2016.2.1 are now available as maintenance releases.
For a complete list of the corrections in 2016.2.1, please review the release notes.
Caché and Ensemble 2016.2.1 are available for the same platforms as 2016.2.0. The complete set of supported platforms, including specific point releases and patches, is detailed in the Supported Platforms document.
The HealthShare team will announce availability of its products separately.
The build corresponding to this release is 2016.2.1.803.0
InterSystems is pleased to announce that Caché and Ensemble 2015.2.5 are now available as maintenance releases.
For a complete list of the corrections in 2015.2.5, please review the release notes.
Caché and Ensemble are available for the same platforms as 2015.2.4. The complete set of supported platforms, including specific point releases and patches, is detailed in the Supported Platforms document.
The HealthShare team will announce availability of its products separately.
The build corresponding to this release is 2015.2.5.953.0
InterSystems has corrected a defect that may result in missing updates when utilizing Caché online backup.
This defect is present in all Caché and Ensemble versions 2015.1.x, 2015.2.x and 2016.1.x, and all HealthShare distributions based on those versions. It affects all platforms and operating systems except backups of OpenVMS cluster databases.
The risk does not exist for Mirror Catchup applied to mirrored databases restored from Caché online backup.
InterSystems is pleased to announce that Caché and Ensemble 2016.1.2 are now available as maintenance releases.
For a complete list of the corrections in 2016.1.2, please review the release notes.
Caché and Ensemble 2016.1.2 are available for the same platforms as 2016.1.1. The complete set of supported platforms, including specific point releases and patches, is detailed in the Supported Platforms document.
The HealthShare team will announce availability of its products separately.
The build corresponding to this release is 2016.1.2.206.0
August 24, 2016 – Alert: Database Compaction
This is an addendum to the Alert published on October 14, 2015 – Alert: Database Defragmentation.
That alert indicated that the database defragmentation utility in 2014.1 and higher, on all platforms except OpenVMS, could cause database degradation and the correction JO2871 is available to clients upon request and would be included in future releases. The correction was included in 2015.1.3, 2015.2.2 and 2016.1.
InterSystems is pleased to announce that Caché and Ensemble 2015.2.4 are now available as maintenance releases.
For a complete list of the corrections in 2015.2.4, please review the release notes.
Caché and Ensemble 2015.2.4 are available for the same platforms as 2015.2.3, with this exception:
The complete set of supported platforms, including specific point releases and patches, is detailed in the Supported Platforms document.
The build corresponding to this release is 2015.2.4.903.0
InterSystems is pleased to announce that Caché and Ensemble 2016.1.1 are now available on all supported platforms.
This followup announcement adds all the OpenVMS versions that were excluded in the announcement last week.
InterSystems is pleased to announce that Caché and Ensemble 2016.1.1 are now available as maintenance releases.
For a complete list of the corrections in 2016.1.1, please review the release notes.
Caché and Ensemble 2016.1.1 are available now for the same platforms as 2016.1.0, with the following exceptions:
OpenVMS is not available yet. It will be announced separately.
Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 for Power System-64 is now dropped.
The complete set of supported platforms, including specific point releases and/or patches, is detailed in the Supported Platforms document.
At the end of this year support for OpenSSL 1.0.1 will end. InterSystems has started the process to move to OpenSSL 1.0.2 and use the 1/28/2016 release (1.0.2f) for verification and product inclusion. I will update this post once InterSystems decided which versions will receive support for OpenSSL 1.0.2.
I am happy to announce the immediate availability of Caché and Ensemble 2016.1.
The highlights of 2016.1 are
These and other new features are summarized in this video introduction to 2016.1
For complete technical details of what’s changed in 2016.1, review the Caché release notes and the Ensemble release notes.
This advisory concerns the recently announced vulnerability CVE-2016-0800, aka DROWN, which is due to weaknesses in SSLv2. For more information, see https://drownattack.com. This vulnerability may be relevant to InterSystems customers as InterSystems products have the capability to utilize SSLv2.
InterSystems will support this Operating System version with Caché and Ensemble 2016.1.