Official announcements about events and product releases, alerts and statements from InterSystems Corporation authorities.
A releases are now published for the 2020.1 version of HealthShare Health Connect!
Kits and Container images are available via the WRC's WRC Software Distribution site.
The build number for these releases is 2020.1.0.215.0.
HealthShare Health Connect 2020.1 has many new capabilities including:
Starting in March 2020, Microsoft plans to release a series of security updates that will cause Windows Active Directory (AD) servers to reject unencrypted simple binds. For more details on the changes to Active Directory, see Microsoft’s Security Advisory ADV190023.
Dear HealthShare Customer:
This post is part of the HealthShare HS2020-03 Alert communications process. The same information is also distributed:
There are 7 alerts in the HealthShare HS2020-03 Alert communication, including the previously posted "March 25, 2020 Alert: Possible Data Integrity Issues after Compaction or Defragmentation." The summary is in the table below, and the detail is contained in the attached document: HealthShare HS2020-03.
InterSystems has corrected two defects that, in rare circumstances, can result in data integrity corruption after running global compaction, database compaction, or database defragmentation. InterSystems recommends avoiding these utilities until after applying the corrections listed below.
This message contains three recent HealthShare Advisories, which are available below.
These advisories are also on the InterSystems Product Alerts and Advisories page
The 2019.4 versions of InterSystems IRIS, InterSystems IRIS for Health, and InterSystems IRIS Studio are now Generally Available!
These releases are available from the WRC Software Distribution site, with build number 2019.4.0.383.0.
InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2019.4 has many new capabilities including:
In light of the COVID-19 situation worldwide, InterSystems is working to ensure continuous support for our customers, promote the health and well-being of our employees, and protect the communities where we live and work. Please view our statement and frequently asked questions.
In addition, we have also established a special email address, COVID-19@InterSystems.com, should you have any questions or concerns.
As we have for 41 years, we stand by our commitment to customers and are prepared to support you during this challenging time.
Sincerely,
John Paladino
Vice President, Client Services
This message contains five recent HealthShare Advisories, which are available below.
These advisories are also on the InterSystems Product Alerts and Advisories page
Last week at the InterSystems BeNeLux Symposium, we announced the publication of the InterSystems iKnow Natural Language Processing technology to Open Source. This enables developers and researchers to take advantage of this unique technology at any level of their application stack, workflow or experiment.
Preview releases are now available for the 2020.1 version of InterSystems IRIS and IRIS for Health!
Kits and Container images are available via the WRC's preview download site.
The build number for these releases is 2020.1.0.199.0. (Note: first release was build 197, updated to 199 on 2/12/20)
InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2020.1 has many new capabilities including:
Preview releases are now available for the 2020.1 version of HealthShare Health Connect!
Kits, Container images, and evaluation keys are available via the WRC's preview download site.
The build number for these releases is 2020.1.0.199.0. (Note: first release was build 197, updated to 199 on 2/12/20)
HealthShare Health Connect 2020.1 has many new capabilities including:
*** Update 2/11/20 2:15pm ***
*** 2017.2.1 version is NOT affected ***
InterSystems has corrected a defect that can cause the CSP Gateway to forward a response to the wrong web client. This defect is not present in the Web Gateway.
The CSP Gateway is distributed as a component of a full instance installation and also as a standalone installer. Both distributions are affected by the defect. The CSP Gateway installed with the private Apache web server for the Management Portal is also vulnerable. The affected versions of the CSP Gateway are associated with Caché or Ensemble:
InterSystems has corrected a defect that can result in skipping a transaction rollback. This can only occur after activation or addition of a mirrored database on a primary mirror member.
This problem exists for:
The conditions necessary for this defect to be triggered are quite specific. All of the following must apply:
Updated 1/30/2020
*** The affected product versions have changed ***
*** The affected versions are Caché and Ensemble beginning with 2016.2.0. ***
*** Caché and Ensemble 2016.1.0 is not at risk for this defect ***
InterSystems has corrected a defect that can cause database degradation in extremely rare circumstances. Associated problems may include, but are not limited to, incorrect or missing application data and system hangs.
This defect affects:
Beginning with InterSystems IRIS 2020.1, the minimum required version for AIX is AIX 7.1 TL4.
The InterSystems IRIS installer will detect if the required IBM XL C filesets are installed before continuing
with the installation.
InterSystems has corrected a defect that can cause shadowing to fail with an access violation. In rare cases, the defect can cause memory corruption, leading to unpredictable behavior.
Note: The defect does not affect mirroring.
This defect affects:
InterSystems has corrected several critical defects that can result in data integrity issues. These defects were identified and corrected within a short time, so InterSystems has simplified the upgrade process by consolidating them into a single package. The effects of encountering these defects may not always be visible. These defects affect InterSystems IRIS, IRIS for Health, Health Connect, Caché, Ensemble, and HealthShare products. All of these defects relate to the application of journal data.
The 2019.3 versions of InterSystems IRIS, InterSystems IRIS for Health, and InterSystems IRIS Studio are now Generally Available!
These releases are available from the WRC Software Distribution site, with build number 2019.3.0.311.0.
InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2019.3 has many new capabilities including:
The 2019.1.1 version of HealthShare Health Connect 2019.1.1 is now Generally Available!
This release includes maintenance updates in a number of areas, as described in the online documentation here.
It also includes two new features, described in the online documentation here:
The 2019.1.1 versions of InterSystems IRIS and IRIS for Health are now Generally Available!
These are maintenance releases in the EM (Extended Maintenance) stream. The changes are reflected in the 2019.1 documentation, which is available online and features a new look including a card-style TOC layout.
The build number for these releases is 2019.1.1.612.0. A full set of kits and containers for both products are available from the WRC Software Distribution site, including community editions of InterSystems IRIS and IRIS for Health.
Caché 2018.1.3 and Ensemble 2018.1.3 maintenance releases are now available.
Full product installation kits can be downloaded from the WRC Software Distribution site.
This is a maintenance release with many updates across a wide variety of areas.
For information about the corrections in this release, refer to the release notes.
This release also adds support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, in addition to the previously supported platforms detailed in the 2018.1 Supported Platforms document.
The build number for this release is 2018.1.3.414.0.
Preview releases are now available for the 2019.4 version of InterSystems IRIS, IRIS for Health, and IRIS Studio!
Container images are available via the WRC's preview download site.
The build number for these releases is 2019.4.0.379.0.
InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2019.4 has many new capabilities including:
InterSystems Atelier has been tested with OpenJDK 8. The InterSystems Eclipse plug-in is currently available for Eclipse Photon (4.8), which requires and works with Java 8.
With the recent release of macOS 10.15, Apple has tightened its control mechanism , called Gatekeeper, so that it now requires executables to be notarized. InterSystems products are not currently supported for use on macOS 10.15 and the executables have not been notarized. (As a reminder, InterSystems products are supported on macOS as a development platform only.)
InterSystems has corrected a defect in applications that use Unicode character 223 (ß). This defect can result in incomplete query results, class compilation errors, and removal of custom SQL privileges.
This problem occurs on systems that are running or have previously run on:
InterSystems has corrected a defect that could lead to invalid backups on Windows platforms. The defect causes upgrades to disable the EnableVSSBackup setting. By default, EnableVSSBackup is enabled (value set to 1) and the upgrade sets its value to 0. Windows VSS backups taken with this setting disabled may contain invalid CACHE.DAT files.
This problem is limited to Windows platforms on the following versions:
Preview releases are now available for the 2019.3 version of InterSystems IRIS and IRIS for Health!
Container images are available via the WRC's preview download site.
The version number for these releases is 2019.3.0.302.0
Public announcements will be made shortly, with separate announcements for each product.
InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2019.3 is a CD (continuous delivery) release of InterSystems IRIS. It has many new capabilities including:
The Atelier team is excited to announce the promotion of Atelier 1.3.144 to the beta channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. This new release contains two major enhancements - a new error message for incompatible encoding schemes and an improved parser. Please head to the Release Notes to learn more.
For the best upgrade experience, InterSystems suggests that you install Eclipse Photon (4.8) fresh before installing Atelier 1.3. Find out how here.
As always, we look forward to your feedback!
The 2019.2 version of InterSystems IRIS Studio is now Generally Available!
InterSystems IRIS Studio 2019.2 is the first release of our cross-product Studio development tool. It can connect to InterSystems IRIS servers and also to Caché/Ensemble servers, and behaves appropriately for each. This helps developers that want to work across both sets of products as well as those that want do develop against containerized IRIS using Studio.
InterSystems has corrected a memory leak in applications that pass by reference to a formal parameter that accepts a variable number of arguments.
This problem exists for:
If this defect occurs, the process partition will eventually be exhausted, resulting in a <STORE> error.