What’s New for Apprenda 6.5¶

Oracle 12c Support¶

Guest applications can now leverage Oracle 12c through the Apprenda Platform’s storage infrastructure. In addition, Platform Operators have the option to move Oracle 12c data partitions to specially prepared off-Platform 12c PDBs.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7/CentOS 7 Support¶

RHEL/CentOS 7 have been added as supported operating systems for Apprenda Platform Linux Servers.

Support for Custom Versions of Tomcat and JBoss¶

In addition to the versions of Tomcat 6 and Tomcat 7 that ship with the Apprenda Platform, Apprenda now supports custom versions of Tomcat and JBoss (as configured by the Platform Operator).

Enhanced JMX Support for Java Applications¶

Improvements have been made to the functionality of JMX Monitoring:

*A new securable has been added to control which Developers have the ability to enable JMX Monitoring for an application component. *Static JMX Connections are now available for Developers to access JMX Monitoring Subscription properties independent of an application component’s instance location.

Audit Logs for Apprenda Platform Operations¶

Platform Operators may now configure the Platform (as an install-time decision or using the “modify” workflow in the Apprenda Installer) to store auditing logs of key Apprenda Platform operations such login failures, password changes, and user/role changes.

Ability to Export Logs from the System Operations Center¶

Platform Operators can export selected log messages as a CSV file through the System Operations Center.

Optional TLS Encryption of Internal Platform Traffic¶

Platform Operators may now configure the Platform (as an install or upgrade-time decision) to enforce TLS encryption for all internal Platform traffic.

Reserved/Maintenance Mode State for Apprenda Nodes/Servers¶

Apprenda nodes/servers can be placed in a “Reserved” or “Maintenance” state. This functionality allows Platform Operators greater control over automatic workload deployment, especially when adding nodes/servers to or removing nodes/servers from the Platform.

Stability and Performance Improvements¶

In addition to general performance and stability optimizations made to Platform services and user portals, the following improvements have been introduced in 6.5.0:

Improved stability and predictability in concurrent application promotion scenarios.¶

Routing has been improved for on-Platform components.