#InterSystems Official

The GA release is now published for the 1.5 version of the InterSystems API Manager (IAM).

The container for IAM, including all relevant artifacts to upgrade from earlier versions of IAM can be downloaded from the WRC Software Distribution site in the Components area.

The build number for this release is IAM 1.5.0.9-4.

InterSystems API Manager 1.5 makes it easier to manage your API traffic, integrate with your environment and onboard users of your APIs. It has many new capabilities, including:

• Improved User Experience
• Introducing new Developer Portal tools
• Support for Kafka connectivity

The InterSystems Kubernetes Operation (IKO) version 3.3 is now available via the WRC download page and the InterSystems Container Registry.

IKO simplifies working with InterSystems IRIS or InterSystems IRIS for Health in Kubernetes by providing an easy-to-use irisCluster resource definition. See the documentation for a full list of features, including easy sharding, mirroring, and configuration of ECP.

IKO 3.3 Highlights:

NOTE: we previously found an issue with the 2021.1.1.324.0  builds.   The 2021.1.1 maintenance releases have been removed from the WRC and have been  replaced with 2021.1.2.336.0 builds.  2021.1.2 containers will be available shortly.

Two new sets of maintenance releases are now available: 

• Caché  2018.1.6, Ensemble 2018.1.6, and HSAP 2018.1.6
• InterSystems IRIS 2020.1.2, IRIS for Health 2020.1.2, and HealthShare Health Connect 2020.1.2

This message links to 14 recent advisories that were posted on the InterSystems Product Alerts and Advisories page. All of the items affect HealthShare products, and the first three items affect InterSystems IRIS for Health as well.

UPDATE:  Developer Preview 7 has been released.

Update 7 includes a number of stability improvements over previous updates and support for support for all of the planned 2022.1 features.  If you notice any problems at all, now's the time to let us know.  The docker pull commands below have been updated with the latest build numbers.  Enjoy!

Developer Preview releases are now available for the 2022.1 version of InterSystems IRIS, IRIS for Health, and HealthShare Health Connect.

InterSystems has corrected a defect that can result in an SQL query returning incorrect results.

This defect exists only in the 2021.2 (Continuous Delivery) version of:

            InterSystems IRIS Data Platform

            InterSystems IRIS for Health

            HealthShare Health Connect

InterSystems has replaced existing distributions of these products with new builds that correct the defect. The corrected distributions can be identified by the build number (651) and are available via normal means. Ad Hoc corrections are not available for Continuous Delivery (CD) distributions.

InterSystems has been using a two-stream release cadence with InterSystems IRIS since 2018 (see the original announcement from when we started).   We provide:

It's come to our attention that the built-in license in the InterSystems IRIS and IRIS for Health 2021.1 Community Edition release is incorrectly set to expire on October 30, 2021.  

There is no impact to any production versions (the Community Edition is for development purposes), but developers will find that their instances stop running and should replace them with new ones.   For cases where replacing them is an issue, we have provided an override key.

I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. 

== replacement builds

Preview releases are now available for the 2021.2 version of InterSystems IRIS, IRIS for Health, and HealthShare Health Connect.

As this is a preview release, we are eager to learn from your experiences with this new release ahead of its General Availability release next month. Please share your feedback through the Developer Community so we can build a better product together.

 InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2021.2 makes it even easier to develop, deploy and manage augmented applications and business processes that bridge data and application silos. It has many new capabilities including:

December 13, 2021 - Advisory: Vulnerability in Apache Log4j2 Library Affecting InterSystems Products

InterSystems is currently investigating the impact of a security vulnerability related to Apache Log4j2.

The vulnerability — impacting at least Apache Log4j2 (versions 2.0 to 2.14.1) — was recently announced by Apache and is reported in the United States National Vulnerability Database (NVD) as CVE-2021-44228 with the highest severity rating, 10.0.

Please see this page for more details about the vulnerability and updates on whether InterSystems Products are affected.

November 19, 2021 - Advisory: Apache Web Server provided with InterSystems kits – Vulnerability reports

InterSystems kits include an Apache web server, which provides a convenient way for customers to interact with the Caché/IRIS Management Portal without needing to install an external web server; however, this web server should never be used for production instances, and customers must install a web server that fits their specific needs and security/risk requirements.

InterSystems is very pleased to announce the 2021.1 release of InterSystems IRIS Data Platform, InterSystems IRIS for Health and HealthShare Health Connect, which are now Generally Available to our customers and partners.

The enhancements in this release offer developers more freedom to build fast and robust applications in their language of choice, both server-side and client-side. This release also enables users to consume large amounts of information more effectively through new and faster analytics capabilities.

October 26, 2021 – Alert: Missing Locks after ECP Database Server Restart or Failover

InterSystems has corrected a defect that can violate application locking guarantees in a distributed cache cluster (ECP configuration), which can lead to application integrity issues. This defect affects:

• All major releases and maintenance versions of InterSystems IRIS and InterSystems IRIS for Health, starting with 2020.1.0

The defect can only occur when an application server successfully performs ECP recovery after a restart or failover of the data server, as follows:

InterSystems is pleased to announce a new Developer Download site providing full kit versions of InterSystems IRIS Community Edition and InterSystems IRIS for Health Community Edition.   These are available free of charge for application development use.

You can download directly from the InterSystems Developer Community by selecting Download InterSystems IRIS.

Hey Developers,

We are excited to announce the launch of the InterSystems Partner Directory!

This is the place to go to find commercial services and solutions built on InterSystems products.

Why InterSystems Partner Directory?

July 21, 2021 – Alert: Incorrect Query Results with Non-Standard ‘GROUP BY’ Query

InterSystems has corrected a defect that can cause incorrect query results. This defect affects:

• All major releases and maintenance versions of InterSystems IRIS and InterSystems IRIS for Health, starting with 2019.1.0

A query block may encounter the defect only if it meets all the following conditions:

June 16, 2021 - Advisory: Discontinued Technologies and Features

Note: A previous version of this advisory listed Caché Server Pages as a deprecated technology. Caché Server Pages is not deprecated and is fully supported.

From time to time, InterSystems discontinues development of a technology when newer and better options are available.  However, product support for these capabilities continues in the same way that it does for products beyond our Minimum Supported Version.

The GA release is now published for the 2.3 version of the InterSystems API Manager (IAM).

The container for IAM, including all relevant artifacts to upgrade from earlier versions of IAM can be downloaded from the WRC Software Distribution site in the Components area.

The build number for this release is IAM 2.3.3.2-1. 

This release is based on Kong Enterprise version 2.3.3.2.

InterSystems API Manager 2.3 makes it easier to deploy in a secure manner and for high-availability scenarios  It has many new capabilities including:

• Introduction of hybrid mode
• Broader support for Docker Secrets

I am pleased to announce the availability of InterSystems Container Registry. This provides a new distribution channel for customers to access container-based releases and previews. All Community Edition images are available in a public repository with no login required. All full released images (IRIS, IRIS for Health, Health Connect, System Alerting and Monitoring, InterSystems Cloud Manager) and utility images (such as arbiter, Web Gateway, and PasswordHash) require a login token, generated from your WRC account credentials.

Java Business Host is now retired

With the release of PEX in InterSystems IRIS 2020.1 and InterSystems IRIS for Health 2020.1, customers have a better way to build Java into productions than the Java Business Host. PEX provides a complete set of APIs for building interoperability components and is available in both Java and .NET.

The Java Business Host has been removed from InterSystems IRIS and InterSystems IRIS for Health as of their 2020.4 releases.  Customers using the Java Business Host are encouraged to migrate to PEX.

Advantages of PEX

Preview releases are now available for the 2021.1 version of InterSystems IRIS, IRIS for Health and HealthShare Health Connect.

As this is a preview release, we are eager to learn from your experiences with this new release ahead of its General Availability release next month. Please share your feedback through the Developer Community so we can build a better product together.

GA releases are now available for the 2020.4 version of InterSystems IRIS, InterSystems IRIS for Health and InterSystems IRIS Studio.

InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2020.4 makes it even easier to develop, deploy and manage augmented applications and business processes that bridge data and application silos. It has many new capabilities including:

Enhancements for application and interface developers, including:

Preview releases are now available for the 2020.4 version of InterSystems IRIS, IRIS for Health and IRIS Studio. As this is a preview release, we are eager to learn from your experiences with this new release ahead of its General Availability next month.

Three new sets of maintenance releases are now available: 

• Caché  2018.1.5, Ensemble 2018.1.5, and HSAP 2018.1.5
• InterSystems IRIS 2019.1.2, IRIS for Health 2019.1.2, and HealthShare Health Connect 2019.1.2
• InterSystems IRIS 2020.1.1, IRIS for Health 2020.1.1, and HealthShare Health Connect 2020.1.1

Installation kits and containers can be downloaded from the WRC Software Distribution site.

Dear HealthShare Customer:

This post is part of the HealthShare HS2021-03 Alert communications process.  The same information is also distributed:

• By Email to HealthShare customers
• On the Product Alerts & Advisories page
• On the WRC Distribution Page InterSystems Documents

March 23, 2021 – Alert: Potential Data Integrity Issue with Mirror Dejournaling

InterSystems has corrected a defect that can cause data inconsistency issues on non-primary mirror members in extremely rare circumstances. This defect affects all released versions of InterSystems products.

InterSystems has identified an issue with product distributions containing Certificate Authority certificates that expire at the end of 2020. This issue does not affect system operation or system security in any way, although it does generate alerts about expiring certificates in the cconsole.log or messages.log files. The messages may be ignored and there are instructions below to eliminate them.

The issue affects the following versions:

February 11, 2021 – Advisory: Incomplete Query Results with ‘ORDER BY <row ID field> DESC’ – HealthShare

InterSystems has corrected a defect that can cause incomplete query results.  This defect affects the platforms underlying HealthShare and HealthShare Health Connect:

• InterSystems IRIS and InterSystems IRIS for Health 2019.1.0, 2019.1.1, and 2020.1.0

See Alert: Incomplete Query Results with ‘ORDER BY <row ID field> DESC’ for further detail

February 11, 2021 – Alert: Incomplete Query Results with ‘ORDER BY <row ID field> DESC’

InterSystems has corrected a defect that can cause incomplete query results. This defect affects:

• InterSystems IRIS and InterSystems IRIS for Health 2019.1.0, 2019.1.1, 2019.2, 2019.3, 2019.4, 2020.1.0, 2020.2, and 2020.3
• HealthShare Health Connect 2019.1.0, 2019.1.1, 2020.1.0
• HealthShare Products 2019.2, 2020.1 and 2020.2

Dear HealthShare Customer:

This post is part of the HealthShare HS2020-09 Alert communications process.  The same information is also distributed:

• By Email
• On the Product Alerts & Advisories page
• On the WRC Distribution Page InterSystems Documents

There are 3 alerts in the HealthShare HS2020-09 Alert communication.  The Alert Summary is in the table below, and the detail is contained in the document: HS2020-09-Communication