8.0.1

Eclipse GlassFish is an application server, implementing Jakarta EE. This release is corresponding with the Jakarta EE 11 specification, which is a major new feature release. Eclipse GlassFish 8 is production ready and requires JDK 21 or higher.

New Features and Improvements

• Moved JNA Library to dedicated module by @avpinchuk in #25927
• Deployment performance and resource usage optimizations by @OndroMih in #25935
• Refactoring of utilities to make them usable outside of GlassFish by @dmatej in #25951

Fixes

• Improved logging for inconsistent attributes in the context.xml by @avpinchuk in #25912
• Fix MP JWT integration by @OndroMih in #25938
• Fixed missing new line in the output. by @dmatej in #25944
• Fix for 'WELD-001409: Ambiguous dependencies for type EntityManager' when persistence.xml contains more than one persistence-unit by @bvfalcon in #25936

Maintenance

• Updated website data and howto by @dmatej in #25917
• Remove unused BaseGlassFishClassScanner.isDataRepositoryInterface by @pzygielo in #25925
• Remove unused Util.getNameAndSuffix by @pzygielo in #25924
• Fixed pom schemaLocation by @dmatej in #25929
• Switched to parent 2.0.0 by @dmatej in #25843

Documentation

• Add news piece to the website about 8.0.0 release by @OndroMih in #25928
• Fix documentation about GF 8 by @OndroMih in #25931
• Add Arquillian Containers section to documentation page by @OndroMih in #25937
• Add info about Embedded GlassFish maven plugin to website (and disable tests on docs changes) by @OndroMih in #25942

Updates

• Bump com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core from 2.21.0 to 2.21.1 in /nucleus/parent by @dependabot[bot] in #25940
• New gmbal and Metro by @dmatej in #25926
• Updated Helidon to 4.4.0 by @dmatej in #25956
• Bump eclipselink from 5.0.0-B13 to 5.0.0 by @pzygielo in #25957
• Updated dependencies before release by @dmatej in #25959

New Contributors

• @bvfalcon made their first contribution in #25936

Full Changelog: 8.0.0...8.0.1