Release Notes for ModeShape 4.0.0.Final

This document outlines the changes that were made in ModeShape 4.0.0.Final. We hope you enjoy it!

What's new

4.0.0.Final provides a fast, elastic, distributed hierarchical database that clients work with via the standard JCR 2.0 (JSR-283) API. ModeShape 4 is a major upgrade over 3.x and offers significant improvements in clustering, performance, query, and events. All JCR 2.0 features are supported, and ModeShape 4 has complete integration with Wildfly 8, allowing deployed applications to simply lookup and use repositories managed by ModeShape's service.

ModeShape 4.0.0.Final is licensed under the Apache Software License, 2.0.

This version incorporates many new features and bug fixes. Some of these include:

Features

ModeShape 4.0.0.Final has these features:

All of the JCR 2.0 features previously supported in 2.x are currently supported:

Accessing the Repository

Namespaces

Reading Repository Content

Writing Repository Content

Query / Search

Importing/Exporting Repository Content

Node Types

Repository Metadata under System Node

Other JCR Optional Features

Content Storage Options

Binary Storage Options

ModeShape also has features that go beyond the JCR API:

ModeShape Federation Connectors

ModeShape Sequencers

ModeShape Deployment/Access Models

Other ModeShape features

Bug Fixes, Features, and other Issues

The following are the bugs, features and other issues that have been fixed in the 4.0.0.Final release:

Bug

Enhancement

Feature Request

Task