Release Date: April 27, 2023
Features included in this release:
Support for Redis configuration options on service instances of VMware GemFire for Tanzu Application Service. For more information about these options, see Service Instance Configuration Parameters in Using the VMware GemFire for Redis Apps Add-on.
This version of VMware GemFire for Tanzu Application Service runs GemFire 9.15.5.
This release supports VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs (TAS) versions 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12, 2.13 (partial), 3.0 (partial), and 4.0 (partial).
Support for TAS 2.13, TAS 3.0, and TAS 4.0 is partially compatible. TAS 2.13, TAS 3.0, and TAS 4.0 contain a breaking change (described in the the TAS 2.13 Release Notes, with the following recommended workaround:
“Service instance metrics will not be not retrievable unless users deselect the Enable Log Cache Syslog Ingestion checkbox in the System Logging pane of the Tanzu Application Service for VMs tile in Ops Manager.”
For VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs and Ops Manager version compatibility, see Product Snapshot and Version Compatibility.
Release Date: February 22, 2023
Features included in this release:
This version of VMware GemFire for Tanzu Application Service runs GemFire 9.15.4.
This release supports VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs (TAS) versions 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12, 2.13 (partial), and 3.0 (partial).
Support for TAS 2.13 and TAS 3.0 is partially compatible. TAS 2.13 and TAS 3.0 contain a breaking change (described in the the TAS 2.13 Release Notes, with the following recommended workaround:
“Service instance metrics will not be not retrievable unless users deselect the Enable Log Cache Syslog Ingestion checkbox in the System Logging pane of the Tanzu Application Service for VMs tile in Ops Manager.”
For VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs and Ops Manager version compatibility, see Product Snapshot and Version Compatibility.
Release Date: December 14, 2022
Features included in this release:
Addition of the PCC_CLUSTER-READ-ONLY security role. This role has CLUSTER:READ, DATA:READ permissions.
This version of VMware GemFire for Tanzu Application Service runs GemFire 9.15.3.
This release supports VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs (TAS) versions 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12, 2.13 (partial), and 3.0 (partial).
Support for TAS 2.13 and TAS 3.0 is partially compatible. TAS 2.13 and TAS 3.0 contain a breaking change (described in the the TAS 2.13 Release Notes, with the following recommended workaround:
“Service instance metrics will not be not retrievable unless users deselect the Enable Log Cache Syslog Ingestion checkbox in the System Logging pane of the Tanzu Application Service for VMs tile in Ops Manager.”
For VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs and Ops Manager version compatibility, see Product Snapshot and Version Compatibility.
Release Date: August 11, 2022
Features included in this release:
VMware GemFire for TAS supports use of the VMware GemFire for Redis Apps add-on. For more information, see Using the VMware GemFire for Redis Apps Add-on.
Support for Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3.
Support for platform tags. For more information, see Configure Platform Tags in Installing and Configuring VMware Tanzu GemFire.
Underlying JDK updated to 8u342.
This version of VMware GemFire for Tanzu Application Service runs GemFire 9.15.1.
Supports VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs (TAS) versions 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12, and 2.13 (partial).
Support for TAS 2.13 is partially-compatible. TAS 2.13 contains a breaking change (as outlined in the TAS 2.13 release notes), with the following recommended workaround:
“Service instance metrics will not be not retrievable unless users deselect the Enable Log Cache Syslog Ingestion checkbox in the System Logging pane of the Tanzu Application Service for VMs tile in Ops Manager.”
For VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs and Ops Manager version compatibility, see Product Snapshot and Version Compatibility.
VMware GemFire for TAS v1.14.5 resolves the following issue:
Note: Jump upgrades to VMware GemFire for TAS v1.14.5 requires multiple steps. For example, if you are on 1.10.9, you must first JUMP upgrade to 1.14.3, then you can upgrade to 1.14.5.
Release Date: March 18, 2022
Version 1.14.4 of VMware GemFire for TAS runs Apache Geode v1.14.4.
VMware GemFire for TAS v1.14.4 resolves the following issue:
GEODE-10093, GEM-3541: Fixed an issue in which the DeltaSession getAttribute method logs an NPE and returns an unserialized value when called on an attribute with a null value.
Release Date: January 28, 2022
Version 1.14.3 of VMware GemFire for TAS runs Apache Geode v1.14.3.
VMware GemFire for TAS v1.14.3 resolves the following issues:
GEODE-9060, GEM-3488: Cleaned up replicates list for the GII (Get Initial Image) provider to improve restarts.
GEODE-9905, GEM-3490: Upgraded log4j to v2.17.1 to address CVE-2021-44832 and CVE-2021-45105.
GEM-3237: Addresses CVE-2021-29153, deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability in JMX over RMI and REST APIs, by configuring process-wide serialization filtering when the system property --J=-Dgeode.enableGlobalSerialFilter=true is supplied.
Release Date: December 16, 2021
Version 1.14.2 of VMware GemFire for TAS runs Apache Geode v1.14.2.
VMware GemFire for TAS v1.14.2 resolves the following issues:
Release Date: December 11, 2021
Version 1.14.1 of VMware GemFire for TAS runs Apache Geode v1.14.1.
VMware GemFire for TAS v1.14.1 resolves the following issues:
GEODE-9888, GEM-3478: Upgraded log4j to address CVE-2021-44228.
GEODE-9825, GEM-3444: Fixed network buffer handling problem (when TLS was deactivated, and cluster members used disparate socket-buffer-size settings) that could result in hangs.
Release Date: September 28, 2021
Version 1.14.0 of VMware GemFire for TAS runs Apache Geode v1.14.0.
Features included in v1.14.0:
Jump upgrades to v1.14 are supported from the following versions:
Upgrading to GemFire for TAS 1.14 from any version other than those shown requires multiple steps. For example, if your current version is v1.10.5, you must first upgrade to v1.10.7, from which you can then jump upgrade to 1.14.
If your application connects via the Services Gateway feature, there are additional prerequisites.
For details on these and other upgrade issues, see Upgrading VMware GemFire.
GemFire for TAS supports VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs versions 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, and 2.11.
Upgrades to current versions of VMware GemFire for TAS may require multiple steps. For example, to upgrade from v1.10.9 to v1.14.5, you must first jump upgrade to v1.14.3, then upgrade to v1.14.5.
For more information about upgrading, see Upgrading VMware GemFire.
GemFire Native Client applications must be upgraded to at least version 10.3.0 before upgrading to GemFire for TAS v1.14.5, due to a protocol alignment/client-server handshake fix in GemFire v9.15.
