[Announce] WSO2 Carbon Kernel 4.3.0 is Released !!!

[Kishanthan Thangarajah]

Hi Folks,

WSO2 Carbon team is pleased announce the release of the Carbon Kernel 4.3.0.

*What is WSO2 Carbon*

WSO2 Carbon redefines middleware by providing an integrated and
componentized middleware platform that adapts to the specific needs of any
enterprise IT project - on premise or in the cloud. 100% open source and
standards-based, WSO2 Carbon enables developers to rapidly orchestrate
business processes, compose applications and develop services using WSO2
Developer Studio and a broad range of business and technical services that
integrate with legacy, packaged and SaaS applications.

WSO2 Carbon kernel, the lean, modular, OSGi-based platform, is the base of
the WSO2 Carbon platform. It is a composable server architecture which
inherits modularity and dynamism from OSGi framework. WSO2 Carbon kernel
can be considered as a framework for server development. All the WSO2
products are composed as a collection reusable components running on this
kernel. These products/components inherits all the core services provided
by Carbon kernel such as Registry/repository, User management, Transports,
Caching, Clustering, Logging, Deployment related features.

You can download the released distribution from the product home page :
http://wso2.com/products/carbon/

*How to Contribute *

   - WSO2 Carbon Kernel code is hosted in GitHub.
   - The GIT repository is https://github.com/wso2/carbon4-kernel/
   - Carbon 4.3.0 release *tag* is
   https://github.com/wso2/carbon4-kernel/releases/tag/4.3.0


*What's New In This Release*

   - Simplified logging story with pluggable log provider support.
   - Upgraded versions of Hazelcast, Log4j, BouncyCastle.
   - Improved Composite application support.


*Key Features*

   - Composable Server Architecture - Provides a modular, light-weight,
   OSGi-based server development framework.
   - Carbon Application(CApp) deployment support.
   - Multi-Profile Support for Carbon Platform - This enable a single
   product to run on multiple modes/profiles.
   - Carbon + Tomcat JNDI Context - Provide ability to access both carbon
   level and tomcat level JNDI resources to applications using a single JNDI
   context.
   - Distributed Caching and Clustering functionality - Carbon kernel
   provides a distributed cache and clustering implementation which is based
   on Hazelcast- a group communication framework
   - Pluggable Transports Framework - This is based on Axis2 transports
   module.
   - Registry/Repository API- Provide core registry/repository API for
   component developers.
   - User Management API  - Provides a basic user management API for
   component developers.
   - Logging - Carbon kernel supports both Java logging as well as Log4j.
   Logs from both these sources will be aggregated to a single output
   - Pluggable artifact deployer framework - Kernel can be extended to
   deploy any kind of artifacts such as Web services, Web apps, Business
   processes, Proxy services, User stores etc.
   - Deployment Synchronization - Provides synchronization of deployed
   artifacts across a product cluster.
   - Ghost Deployment - Provides a lazy loading mechanism for deployed
   artifacts</li>
   - Multi-tenancy support - The roots of the multi-tenancy in Carbon
   platform lies in the Carbon kernel. This feature includes tenant level
   isolation as well as lazy loading of tenants.


*Fixed Issues*

   - https://wso2.org/jira/issues/?filter=12100


*Known Issues*

   - https://wso2.org/jira/issues/?filter=12099


*Contact Us*

WSO2 Carbon developers can be contacted via the mailing lists:

   - Carbon Developers List: dev at wso2.org
   - Carbon Architecture List: architecture at wso2.org


*Reporting Issues*
You can use the Carbon JIRA <https://wso2.org/jira/browse/CARBON> issue
tracker to report issues, enhancements and feature requests for WSO2 Carbon.

Thank for you interest in WSO2 Carbon Kernel.

*--The WSO2 Carbon Team--*
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