JRebel Changelog

What's new in JRebel 2024.2.0

Apr 2, 2024

JRebel Agent:
Feature: added support for Java 22.
Feature: added support for Jetty 12.0.7.
Feature: added support for WebSphere Liberty Profile 24.0.0.02.
Feature: added support for tc Server 5.0.10.
Feature: added support for Byte Buddy 1.14.12.
Feature: added support for Camel 4.4.0.
Feature: added support for Eclipse Krazo 3.0.1.
Feature: added support for Eclipse Vert.x 4.5.7.
Feature: added support for Groovy 4.0.19.
Feature: added support for HK2 3.1.0.
Feature: added support for Jackson 2.17.0.
Feature: added support for Log4j 2.23.1.
Feature: added support for Logback 1.5.3.
Feature: added support for Mockito 5.11.0.
Feature: added support for Scala 2.13.13.
Feature: added support for Spring Boot 3.2.3.
Feature: added support for Spring Framework 5.3.32.
Feature: added support for Spring Integration 6.2.2.
Feature: added support for Spring Security 6.2.2.
Feature: added support for Vaadin 24.3.6.
Feature: added support for ZK 10.0.0.
Improvement: improved the integration with IDE by adding notifications for expiring JRebel licenses.
JRebel for IntelliJ IDEA:
Feature: added support for IntelliJ IDEA 2023.3.6.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with IntelliJ IDEA that could cause the application to hang when started in debug mode.
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2024.2.0.
JRebel for Eclipse Family IDEs:
Feature: added support for Eclipse 2024-03.
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2024.2.0.
JRebel for Visual Studio Code:
Feature: added support for VS Code 1.87.2.
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2024.1.2.
JRebel for NetBeans:
Feature: added support for NetBeans 21.
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2024.2.0.
JRebel for JDeveloper:
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2024.2.0.

New in JRebel 2024.1.2 (Mar 5, 2024)

JRebel Agent:
Feature: added support for GlassFish 7.0.12.
Feature: added support for JBoss EAP 8.0.0.
Feature: added support for Jetty 12.0.6.
Feature: added support for Tomcat 10.1.19.
Feature: added support for WebSphere Liberty Profile 24.0.0.01.
Feature: added support for WildFly 31.0.1.Final.
Feature: added support for Camel 4.0.4.
Feature: added support for Grails 6.1.2.
Feature: added support for Groovy 4.0.18.
Feature: added support for HK2 3.0.6.
Feature: added support for Hibernate ORM 6.4.4.Final.
Feature: added support for Mockito 5.10.0.
Feature: added support for MyFaces 4.1.0.
Feature: added support for Payara Micro 6.2024.2.
Feature: added support for Spring Boot 3.2.2.
Feature: added support for Vaadin 24.3.5.
Feature: added support for AspectJ 1.9.21.1.
Feature: added support for Helidon 3.2.6.
Feature: added support for Kotlin 2.0.0.
Feature: added support for OpenWebBeans 4.0.2.
Feature: added support for Spring Framework 6.1.4.
Improvement: improved reloading of Spring Boot Actuator web endpoint base path from application.properties file.
Improvement: improved the debugger integration by automatically including log files in the Submit a Support Ticket form in JRebel.
Bug fix: fixed an issue with Gemini where classpath scanning was broken causing Spring to throw NoSuchBeanDefinitionException.
JRebel for IntelliJ IDEA:
Feature: added support for IntelliJ IDEA 2023.3.4.
Bug fix: fixed an issue with IntelliJ IDEA that prevented debugging a Java application when IntelliJ was started with Java 19 or newer.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with IntelliJ IDEA debugger that could cause a Cannot evaluate methods after Pause action message during debugging.
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2024.1.2.
JRebel for Eclipse Family IDEs:
Feature: added support for Spring Tools 4.21.1.RELEASE.
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2024.1.2.
JRebel for Visual Studio Code:
Feature: added support for VS Code 1.86.2.
Bug fix: fixed an issue with VS Code where the license activation dialog shows pending status when using an email domain whitelisting.
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2024.1.2.
JRebel for NetBeans:
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2024.1.2.
JRebel for JDeveloper:
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2024.1.2.

New in JRebel 2024.1.1 (Feb 7, 2024)

JRebel Agent:
Feature: added support for Jetty 12.0.4.
Feature: added support for Tomcat 10.1.18.
Feature: added support for WebSphere Liberty Profile 23.0.0.12.
Feature: added support for WildFly 30.0.1.Final.
Feature: added support for tc Server 5.0.9.
Feature: added support for TomEE 9.1.2.
Feature: added support for Camel 4.3.0.
Feature: added support for Helidon 4.0.3.
Feature: added support for Hibernate ORM 6.4.1.Final.
Feature: added support for Logback 1.4.14.
Feature: added support for Mockito 5.9.0.
Feature: added support for OpenWebBeans 4.0.1.
Feature: added support for Payara Micro 6.2023.12.
Feature: added support for Spring Boot 3.2.1.
Feature: added support for Spring Framework 6.1.3.
Feature: added support for MyBatis Spring 3.5.15.
Feature: added support for Struts 6.3.0.2.
Feature: added support for AspectJ 1.9.21.
Feature: added support for Byte Buddy 1.14.11.
Feature: added support for EclipseLink 2.7.14.
Feature: added support for Grails 6.1.1.
Feature: added support for Groovy 4.0.17.
Feature: added support for Jackson 2.16.1.
Feature: added support for Javassist 3.30.2-GA.
Feature: added support for Jersey 3.1.5.
Feature: added support for Kotlin 1.9.22.
Feature: added support for Log4j 2.22.1.
Feature: added support for Swagger 2.2.20.
Feature: added support for Vaadin 24.3.3.
Feature: added support for RESTEasy 6.2.7.Final.
Improvement: improved the speed and reliability of connecting a debugger to a remote process.
Improvement: improved variable expansion speed in the expressions tree when debugging a remote process.
Bug fix: fixed an issue where a deadlock would occur during startup with AspectJ.
Bug fix: fixed an issue with TomEE that could cause JRebel to throw an exception during startup for Jakarta 9 package names.
JRebel for IntelliJ IDEA:
Feature: added support for IntelliJ IDEA 2023.3.2.
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2024.1.1.
JRebel for Eclipse Family IDEs:
Feature: added support for Eclipse 2023-12 (4.30).
Bug fix: fixed an issue with Eclipse that caused the user interface to freeze when opening the JRebel Configuration.
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2024.1.1.
JRebel for Visual Studio Code:
Feature: added support for VS Code 1.85.1.
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2024.1.1.
JRebel for NetBeans:
Feature: added support for NetBeans 20.
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2024.1.1.
JRebel for JDeveloper:
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2024.1.1.

New in JRebel 2023.4.2 (Dec 5, 2023)

New in JRebel 2023.4.1 (Nov 7, 2023)

New in JRebel 2023.4.0 (Oct 3, 2023)

New in JRebel 2023.3.2 (Sep 5, 2023)

New in JRebel 2023.3.1 (Aug 1, 2023)

New in JRebel 2023.2.2 (Jun 6, 2023)

New in JRebel 2023.2.1 (May 2, 2023)

JRebel Agent:
Feature: added support for GlassFish 7.0.3.
Feature: added support for Jetty 11.0.15.
Feature: added support for Liferay 7.4.3.71-ga71.
Feature: added support for Payara 6.2023.4.
Feature: added support for Tomcat 10.1.8.
Feature: added support for WebSphere Liberty Profile 23.0.0.3.
Feature: added support for Byte Buddy 1.14.4.
Feature: added support for Camel 3.20.3.
Feature: added support for Groovy 3.0.17.
Feature: added support for HK2 3.0.4.
Feature: added support for Helidon 3.2.0.
Feature: added support for Hibernate ORM 6.2.1.Final.
Feature: added support for Jackson 2.15.0.
Feature: added support for Jersey 3.0.10.
Feature: added support for Kotlin 1.8.20.
Feature: added support for Logback 1.4.7.
Feature: added support for MyBatis 3.5.13.
Feature: added support for Spring Boot 3.0.6.
Feature: added support for Spring Framework 6.0.8.
Feature: added support for Struts 6.1.2.
Feature: added support for Swagger 2.2.9.
Feature: added support for WebSphere 9.0.5.12.
Improvement: improved performance of reloading EJB classes on WebLogic.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with GlassFish and Payara that could cause NullPointerException during startup.
Bug fix: fixed an issue with WebLogic where JRebel classes were not visible from the ChangeAwareClassLoader.
Bug fix: fixed a bug causing ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException on WebLogic during startup when running on the latest Oracle JDK 8.
JRebel for IntelliJ IDEA:
Feature: added support for IntelliJ IDEA 2023.1.
Bug fix: fixed an issue where the JRebel settings dialog in IntelliJ IDEA 2023.1 would prevent disabling a server in the remote servers table.
Bug fix: fixed an issue with IntelliJ IDEA 2023.1 that could cause an error when recompiling a single file.
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2023.2.1.
JRebel for Eclipse Family IDEs:
Feature: added support for Spring Tool Suite 4.18.0.
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2023.2.1.
JRebel for Visual Studio Code:
Feature: added support for Remote Server.
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2023.2.1.
JRebel for NetBeans:
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2023.2.1.
JRebel for JDeveloper:
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2023.2.1.

New in JRebel 2023.2.0 (Apr 4, 2023)

New in JRebel 2023.1.2 (Mar 7, 2023)

New in JRebel 2023.1.1 (Feb 7, 2023)

New in JRebel 2022.4.2 (Dec 6, 2022)

New in JRebel 2022.4.1 (Nov 1, 2022)

New in JRebel 2022.3.2 (Sep 6, 2022)

New in JRebel 2022.3.1 (Aug 2, 2022)

New in JRebel 2022.2.3 (Jul 5, 2022)

New in JRebel 2022.2.2 (Jun 7, 2022)

New in JRebel 2022.2.1 (May 5, 2022)

New in JRebel 2022.2.0 (Apr 5, 2022)

New in JRebel 2022.1.2 (Mar 1, 2022)

New in JRebel 2022.1.1 (Feb 1, 2022)

New in JRebel 2022.1.0 (Jan 6, 2022)

New in JRebel 2021.4.2 (Dec 8, 2021)

New in JRebel 2021.4.1 (Nov 2, 2021)

New in JRebel 2021.4.0 (Oct 5, 2021)

New in JRebel 2021.3.2 (Sep 7, 2021)

New in JRebel 2021.3.1 (Aug 4, 2021)

New in JRebel 2021.3.0 (Jul 6, 2021)

New in JRebel 2021.2.2 (Jun 1, 2021)

New in JRebel 2021.2.1 (May 4, 2021)

New in JRebel 2021.2.0 (Apr 22, 2021)

JRebel Agent:
Feature: added support for Java 16.
Feature: added support for WildFly 23.
Feature: added support for Google App Engine 1.9.87.
Feature: added support for Jetty 9.4.38, 10.0.1 and 11.0.1.
Feature: added support for Payara 5.2021.1.
Feature: added support for Tomcat 7.0.108, 8.5.64, 9.0.44 and 10.0.4.
Feature: added support for tc Server 3.2.27, 4.0.18 and 4.1.6.
Feature: added support for WebSphere 8.5.5-19.
Feature: added support for WebSphere Liberty 21.0.0.3.
Feature: added support for Eclipse MicroProfile on Liberty.
Feature: added support for Eclipse MicroProfile on TomEE.
Feature: added support for Guice 5.
Feature: added support for Apache Camel 3.8.
Feature: added support for RESTEasy 3.15.
Feature: added support for Weld 3.1.7.
Improvement: improved the performance when reloading HK2 services.
Improvement: improved the reload performance on JBoss and WildFly.
Improvement: improved the synchronization speed in Remote Server Support.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Jersey when both Jakarta EE 9 and Java EE 8 dependencies were present.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with RESTEasy that caused freezes during startup.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Spring and Remote Server Setup where resource reloading could fail due to internal folder names starting with a period.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Spring where reloading could cause RMI services to be deregistered.
Bug fix: fixed a regression issue with Remote Server Support where JSPs could fail to reload.
JRebel for IntelliJ IDEA:
Feature: added support for IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with the debugger not showing all fields in Variables inspection view.
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2021.2.0.
JRebel for Eclipse Family IDEs:
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2021.2.0.
JRebel for NetBeans:
Feature: added support for NetBeans 12.3.
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2021.2.0.
JRebel for JDeveloper:
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2021.2.0.

New in JRebel 2021.1.2 (Mar 5, 2021)

New in JRebel 2021.1.1 (Feb 4, 2021)

New in JRebel 2021.1.0 (Jan 15, 2021)

JRebel Agent:
Feature: added support for Jetty 10.
Feature: added support for Tomcat 7.0.107, 8.5.61 and 9.0.41.
Feature: added support for Google App Engine 1.9.84.
Feature: added support for Payara 5.2020.7.
Feature: added support for Jetty 9.4.35.
Feature: added support for TomEE 8.0.5.
Feature: added support for tc Server 3.2.26, 4.0.17 and 4.1.5.
Feature: added support for WebSphere Liberty 20.0.0.12.
Feature: added support for WebSphere 9.0.5-6.
Feature: added support for WildFly 21.0.2.Final.
Feature: Added support for Camel 3.7.
Feature: added support for Log4j 2.14.
Feature: added support for Jackson 2.12.
Feature: added support for RestEasy 3.14.
Feature: added support for Hibernate Validator 6.2.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Grails that would sometimes recompile unchanged classes as well.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Hibernate ORM and GORM causing HibernateException with "Provider is closed" when reloading GORM properties.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Spring Framework causing errors during startup.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Swagger where its UI would not correctly show added or reloaded endpoints.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with WebLogic when using Remote Server Support causing ConnectionClosedException with missing closing chunk when syncing from IDE.
Bug fix: fixed a bug causing IncompatibleClassChangeError when reloading inner classes.
Bug fix: fixed a bug with Remote Server Support on Tomcat causing AccessControlException during startup.
Bug fix: fixed a bug with classes containing lambdas compiled with the Eclipse Compiler throwing StackOverflowError.
Bug fix: fixed a performance regression when reloading classes for the first time.
JRebel for IntelliJ IDEA:
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Gradle that could cause a project reimport on startup.
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2021.1.0.
JRebel for Eclipse Family IDEs:
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2021.1.0.
JRebel for NetBeans:
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2021.1.0.
JRebel for JDeveloper:
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2021.1.0.

New in JRebel 2020.3.2 (Nov 24, 2020)

JRebel Agent:
Feature: added support for Kumuluz.
Feature: added support for Payara Micro.
Feature: added support for WildFly MicroProfile.
Feature: added support for Jetty 9.3.29 and 9.4.33.
Feature: added support for Liferay 7.3.5-GA6.
Feature: added support for Payara 5.2020.5.
Feature: added support for tc Server 3.2.25, 4.0.16 and 4.1.4.
Feature: added support for TomEE 7.0.9 and 7.1.4.
Feature: added support for Tomcat 8.5.59 and 9.0.39.
Feature: added support for WebSphere Liberty 20.0.0.11.
Feature: added support for WildFly 21.0.0.Final.
Feature: added support for Spring Framework 5.3.
Feature: added support for Spring Boot 2.4.
Feature: added support for Camel 3.6.0.
Feature: added support for Jackson 2.12.0.
Feature: added support for ZK 9.5.0.1.
Improvement: added support for Spring WebFlux 5.1+ running on Reactor Netty.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Spring WebFlux causing ClassCastException when Spring MVC was not present.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Spring where changes to the superclass of a @Configuration class would not reload correctly.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with WebLogic that caused slowdowns after reloads.
Bug fix: fixed a bug where extending a class that was previously inaccesible would fail.
Bug fix: fixed a bug where changing hierarchy of a class could cause ClassCastException when used in an added class.
Bug fix: fixed a bug where invoking static methods using MethodHandles could cause IllegalArgumentException.
JRebel for IntelliJ IDEA:
Bug fix: fixed a bug where generation of rebel.xml using external build tool could fail.
Bug fix: fixed a bug with the debugger integration causing error popups when inspecting variables.
JRebel for Eclipse Family IDEs:
Bug fix: fixed a bug where generation of rebel.xml using external build tool could fail.
Bug fix: fixed a bug with the debugger integration causing error popups when inspecting variables.
JRebel for NetBeans:
Bug fix: fixed a bug where generation of rebel.xml using external build tool could fail.
Bug fix: fixed a bug with the debugger integration causing error popups when inspecting variables.
JRebel for JDeveloper:
Bug fix: fixed a bug where generation of rebel.xml using external build tool could fail.
Bug fix: fixed a bug with the debugger integration causing error popups when inspecting variables.

New in JRebel 2020.3.1 (Oct 27, 2020)

New in JRebel 2020.3.0 (Sep 22, 2020)

New in JRebel 2020.2.5 (Aug 27, 2020)

New in JRebel 2020.2.4 (Jul 29, 2020)

New in JRebel 2020.2.3 (Jun 25, 2020)

New in JRebel 2020.2.2 (May 26, 2020)

New in JRebel 2020.2.1 (Apr 30, 2020)

JRebel Agent:
Feature: added support for WebLogic 14.
Feature: added support for WildFly 19.
Feature: added support for JBoss EAP 7.3.
Feature: added support for Jetty 9.4.27.
Feature: added support for Payara 5.201.
Feature: added support for Liferay 7.3.1-GA2.
Feature: added support for Tomcat 7.0.103, 8.5.53 and 9.0.33.
Feature: added support for WebSphere Liberty Profile 20.0.0.4.
Feature: added support for WebSphere 8.5.5-17 and 9.0.5-3.
Feature: added support for tc Server 3.2.20 and 4.0.11.
Feature: added support for Google App Engine 1.9.79.
Feature: added support for Vaadin 15.
Feature: added support for Camel 3.1.
Feature: added support for Grails 4.0.2.
Feature: added support for RestEasy 3.11.
Feature: added support for Javassist 3.27.
Improvement: improved the integration with Spring AOP adding better support for reloading aspects.
Improvement: improved the integration with Spring adding support for reloading addViewControllers methods in WebMvcConfigurer beans.
Improvement: updated the default JRebel temp dir location to be relative to the rebel base folder.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Camel where reloading WebSocket endpoints in applications without HTTP endpoints could fail.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Hybris throwing NoClassDefFoundError when undeploying an application.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with OpenJPA that caused an internal JRebel error during redeployment.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Spring and Kotlin causing exception when adding inner classes.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Spring where lazy Spring bean definitions could be lost during reload.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Vaadin where reloading @Observers methods could result in NullPointerException.
Bug fix: fixed a bug accessing added fields to sub types from a previously non-loaded class.
Bug fix: fixed a bug accessing added static members from a previously non-loaded class.
Bug fix: fixed a bug that caused Class.getSimpleName to return incorrect name after reload.
Bug fix: fixed a bug where changing the order of primitive fields could cause loss of state.
Bug fix: fixed a bug when reloading a class converting an interface to a concrete class.
Bug fix: fixed a bug when changing a static method to be non static.
Bug fix: fixed a bug where changes were not detected in a Remote Server setup if rebel base was sym-linked.
Bug fix: fixed a bug with MethodHandles failing to find members of super types of reloaded classes.
JRebel for IntelliJ IDEA:
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with IntelliJ IDEA causing ClassNotFoundException when generating rebel-remote.xml if the maven plugin was disabled.
Bug fix: fixed a bug causing excessive logging of "Detected changed rebel.xml" for the same file.
JRebel for Eclipse Family IDEs:
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2020.2.1.
JRebel for NetBeans:
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2020.2.1.
JRebel for JDeveloper:
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2020.2.1.

New in JRebel 2020.2.0 (Mar 24, 2020)

JRebel Agent:
Feature: added support for Java 14, including records.
Feature: added support for GraalVM used as JVM.
Feature: added support for Tomcat 7.0.100, 8.5.51 and 9.0.31.
Feature: added support for WebSphere Liberty 20.0.0.2.
Feature: added support for Resin 4.0.64.
Feature: added support for RESTEasy 3.10.
Feature: added initial support for Wicket 9.0-M.
Feature: added initial support for Jakarta EE 9 with renamed packages.
Feature: added support for using VarHandles on added and reloaded fields in classes.
Feature: added support for using Unsafe direct access on added and reloaded fields in classes.
Improvement: improved the integration with Spring to support reconfiguration of beans declared as inner classes in @Configuration classes.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with CDI where properties were not correctly injected when the super type was reloaded.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with EclipseLink causing naming conflicts when multiple EntityManagerFactories share the same persistence unit.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Spring Framework where properties were not correctly Autowired when the super type was reloaded.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with TomEE 8 that caused excessive memory allocation.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with WebLogic that caused a potential deadlock during JNDI lookup.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with WildFly that failed to load the JBoss Log Manager during startup.
Bug fix: fixed a bug where accessing protected members of a reloaded class could throw IllegalAccessError.
Bug fix: fixed a bug where reloading an Enum could cause state on the enum to be lost.
JRebel for IntelliJ IDEA:
Feature: added support for IntelliJ IDEA 2020.1.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue where facet and plugin settings would revert to default.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue where the debug launcher would attach an incompatible agent to Liferay servers.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue where the debugger did not break on breakpoints.
JRebel for Eclipse Family IDEs:
Feature: added support for Eclipse 2020-03.
JRebel for NetBeans:
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2020.2.0.
JRebel for JDeveloper:
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2020.2.0.

New in JRebel 2020.1.1 (Feb 13, 2020)

JRebel Agent:
Feature: added support for WebSphere Liberty 20.0.
Feature: added support for Liferay 7.3.0.
Feature: added support for Tomcat 7.0.99, 8.5.50 and 9.0.30.
Feature: added support for Jetty 9.4.26.
Feature: added support for Payara 5.194.
Feature: added support for TomEE 7.0.7, 7.1.2 and 8.0.1.
Feature: added support for Resin 4.0.63.
Feature: added support for WebSphere 9.0.5-2.
Feature: added support for WebSphere Liberty 19.0.0.12.
Feature: added support for tc Server 3.2.19 and 4.0.10.
Feature: added support for Google App Engine 1.9.78.
Feature: added support for Groovy 3.0.
Feature: added support for ZK 9.0.
Feature: added support for Jersey 2.30.
Improvement: improved the integration with WebLogic and the handling of prefer-application-packages in weblogic.xml to allow adding modules with new dependencies.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with OpenWebBeans that could cause ConcurrentModificationException during reload.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Spring and OSGi containers that could cause a NoClassDefFoundError during startup.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with WildFly that could cause NoClassDefFoundError when accessing classes in an added package.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with WildFly that would fail to start on Azul Zulu 8-232.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with WildFly that could cause the application to fail to deploy.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Java GSS-API that would cause NoClassDefFoundError during startup.
Bug fix: fixed a bug with OpenJ9 where using StackWalker could result in a NullPointerException.
JRebel for IntelliJ IDEA:
Improvement: updated the name, description, and icon of the plugin to include XRebel as well.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue where automatic path variables were not passed correctly to Run Configurations.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with the Services tool window where the Run/Debug with Rebel could use the wrong Run Configuration.
JRebel for Eclipse Family IDEs:
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2020.1.1.
JRebel for NetBeans:
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2020.1.1.
JRebel for JDeveloper:
Updated embedded JRebel agent to 2020.1.1.

New in JRebel 2019.2.2 (Nov 26, 2019)

New in JRebel 2019.2.1 (Oct 29, 2019)

New in JRebel 2019.2.0 (Sep 24, 2019)

JRebel Agent:
Feature: added support for Java 13.
Feature: added support for Tomcat 8.5.45 and 9.0.24.
Feature: added support for WebSphere Liberty 19.0.0.8.
Feature: added support for Jetty 9.4.20.
Feature: added support for Payara 5.193.
Feature: added support for tc Server 3.2.17 and 4.0.8.
Feature: added support for Hybris 1905.
Feature: added support for KumuluzEE.
Feature: added support for RestEasy 3.9.
Feature: added support for DeltaSpike 1.9.1.
Feature: added support for MyBatis-Spring 1.3.3.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Jersey 2.4 that caused container initialization error.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with MyBatis-Spring used together with an older version of MyBatis.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with WebSphere and OpenWebBeans where changing @Named on a bean was not correctly reloaded.
Bug fix: fixed a bug that caused VerifyError when reloading classes compiled for Java 7 but running on Java 8 or newer.
JRebel for IntelliJ IDEA:
Feature: added support to the Remote Server integration to reflect rebel.xml changes immediately.
Improvement: improved the rebel-remote.xml generation to use the groupId and artifactId for the module, if present.
Improvement: improved the JRebel launch from IDE to disable Class Data Sharing for Java 11, circumventing a JVM bug.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with IntelliJ IDEA 2019.3 EAP where the JRebel plugin was using a deprecated method marked for removal.
JRebel for Eclipse Family IDEs:
Feature: added support for Remote Server integration to share settings across workspaces.
Feature: added support for automatic path variables to expand correctly when launching from command line.
Feature: added support to the Remote Server integration to reflect rebel.xml changes immediately.
Improvement: improved the rebel-remote.xml generation to use the groupId and artifactId for the module, if present.
Improvement: improved the JRebel launch from IDE to disable Class Data Sharing for Java 11, circumventing a JVM bug.
JRebel for NetBeans:
Feature: added support to the Remote Server integration to reflect rebel.xml changes immediately.
Improvement: improved the rebel-remote.xml generation to use the groupId and artifactId for the module, if present.
Improvement: improved the JRebel launch from IDE to disable Class Data Sharing for Java 11, circumventing a JVM bug.
JRebel for JDeveloper:
Feature: added support to the Remote Server integration to reflect rebel.xml changes immediately.
Improvement: improved the rebel-remote.xml generation to use the groupId and artifactId for the module, if present.
Improvement: improved the JRebel launch from IDE to disable Class Data Sharing for Java 11, circumventing a JVM bug.

New in JRebel 2019.1.6 (Sep 3, 2019)

New in JRebel 2019.1.5 (Aug 8, 2019)

JRebel Agent:
Feature: added support for WildFly 17.0.1.
Feature: added support for Jetty 9.4.19.
Feature: added support for TomEE 7.0.6 and 7.1.1.
Feature: added support for WebSphere 9.0.5.0.
Feature: added support for WebSphere Liberty Profile 19.0.0.6.
Feature: added support for Google App Engine 1.9.76.
Feature: added support for Jersey 2.29.
Feature: added support for RestEasy 3.8.
Feature: added support for Camel 2.24.
Feature: added support for MyFaces 2.3.
Feature: added support for Spring MyBatis 2.0.1.
Feature: added support for Velocity 2.1.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with EclipseLink and TomEE not correctly identifying data source declarations.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Hibernate that caused registered services not to be destroyed in a timely manner.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Hibernate where entities created during runtime were dropped on reload.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with JBoss 5.1 that caused VerifyError due to incompatibilities with Java 7 compiled classes.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with JBoss and WildFly where EJB applications could fail to undeploy after a reload.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with WebLogic that caused concurrency issues throwing NameNotFoundException while a reload was in progress.
Bug fix: fixed an issue that could cause NullPointerException during reload of classes with static fields.
Bug fix: fixed a bug on Windows where usage of short filenames (8.3) could cause changes to not reload.
JRebel for IntelliJ IDEA:
Bug fix: fixed an issue that caused the JRebel plugin to not support IDEs running on Java 6.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with IntelliJ IDEA 2019.2 that caused the IDE to freeze when trying to activate JRebel.
JRebel for Eclipse Family IDEs:
Feature: enabled the Setup Guide to all users.
Improvement: improved the rebel.xml generation, improving generating using relative project path variables.
Bug fix: fixed an issue that caused the JRebel plugin to not support IDEs running on Java 6.
JRebel for NetBeans:
Bug fix: fixed an issue that caused the JRebel plugin to not support IDEs running on Java 6.
JRebel for JDeveloper:
Bug fix: fixed an issue that caused the JRebel plugin to not support IDEs running on Java 6.

New in JRebel 2019.1.4 (Jul 8, 2019)

New in JRebel 2019.1.3 (Jun 10, 2019)

New in JRebel 2019.1.2 (May 20, 2019)

Feature: added support for Tomcat 7.0.94, 8.5.40 and 9.0.19.
Feature: added support for Jetty 9.2.28, 9.3.27 and 9.4.17.
Feature: added support for WebSphere 9.0.0.11.
Feature: added support for WebSphere Liberty Profile 19.0.0.4.
Feature: added support for Google App Engine 1.9.73.
Feature: added support for Wicket 7 and 8.
Improvement: improved integration with JBoss and WildFly reducing memory overhead.
Improvement: improved integration with CXF adding support for reloading @WebServices with interceptors.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with WebLogic and JAX-RS that caused NullPointerException during deployment.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Spring and OSGi finding duplicate resources during classpath scanning.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Jetty that caused StackOverflowError when multiple mappings for DefaultServlet are present.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with WebSphere when JMX remote management is enabled.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with ATG that caused IllegalArgumentException for non-existing ATG-Config-Path entries.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with OpenWebBeans on TomEE that caused deployment failures when using exploded deployment.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with WebLogic where resource lookup from shared .war library could fail when using a Remote Server setup.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with BVal that caused ClassCastException to be thrown.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Weld where resolution of a specialized bean could result in null after reload.
Bug fix: fixed a bug that caused the static initialization of a class to not run if the class was reloaded before having been initialized.
Bug fix: fixed a bug that caused NoSuchMethodError when adding fields to a nested class compiled with Java 11.
Bug fix: fixed a bug that could cause JRebel to throw MethodTooLargeException during class loading.
Bug fix: fixed a bug that could cause NullPointerExceptions after removing a lambda.

New in JRebel 2019.1.1 (Apr 15, 2019)

New in JRebel 2019.1.0 (Mar 26, 2019)

New in JRebel 2018.2.7 (Mar 7, 2019)

New in JRebel 2018.2.6 (Feb 14, 2019)

New in JRebel 2018.2.5 (Jan 28, 2019)

Feature: added support for Wildfly 15.0.0.Final.
Feature: added support for WebSphere 9.0.0.10.
Feature: added support for WebSphere Liberty Profile 18.0.0.4.
Feature: added support for tcServer 3.2.13 and 4.0.4.
Feature: added support for Tomcat 9.0.14.
Feature: added support for Resin 4.0.59.
Feature: added support for Google App Engine 1.9.71.
Improvement: improved integration with OpenWebBeans, added support for converting an existing class to a managed bean.
Bug fix: fixed a performance regression in the Hybris integration causing slowdowns during reload.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Tomcat that caused proxy settings defined in server.xml to be ignored.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Tomcat that caused deadlock during reload.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Springfox when run on application servers with Servlet API 2.5.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with WebSphere that caused NullPointerException during reload of EJBs.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Weld that caused adding a @Specializes bean to not be registered correctly.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Weld that caused a @Named bean with the same name as a previously existing named bean to not work.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Apache CXF that caused NullPointerException during reload.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Apache Log4j 2 that caused the configuration to be sporadically reconfigured.
Bug fix: fixed a bug where using BitSet caused NoSuchMethodError on Java 11.
Bug fix: fixed a bug where instanceof checks on lambdas and arrays could give incorrect results.
Bug fix: fixed a bug with reflection where the wrong method could be returned if an overloaded method with different return type was present.
Bug fix: fixed a bug where reloading a class with a broken static initializer could limit access to static members on the class.
Bug fix: fixed a bug where reloading the class hierarchy of a class could fail invoking methods in the new superclass.

New in JRebel 2018.2.4 (Dec 19, 2018)

New in JRebel 2018.2.2 (Nov 6, 2018)

New in JRebel 2018.2.1 (Oct 18, 2018)

New in JRebel 2018.2.0 (Oct 2, 2018)

New in JRebel 2018.1.7 (Sep 6, 2018)

New in JRebel 2018.1.6 (Aug 17, 2018)

New in JRebel 2018.1.5 (Jul 27, 2018)

New in JRebel 2018.1.4 (Jul 5, 2018)

Feature: added support for Payara 5.182.
Feature: added support for Jetty 9.2.25, 9.3.24 and 9.4.11.
Feature: added support for Google App Engine 1.9.64.
Feature: added support for ModelMapper.
Feature: added support for PowerMock.
Improvement: improved the performance of the Jersey integration on requests.
Improvement: improved the performance of the ADF integration.
Improvement: improved the startup performance of the Spring and Hibernate ORM integrations when classpath scanning with package filters are used.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Spring Boot 2.1.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Spring that could cause excessive log lines of the same bean being added multiple times.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Spring ORM that could cause FileNotFoundException on resource lookups.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Weld 2 and 3 where reloading a @Producer method would not reinject the bean.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with WildFly that could cause the server to freeze after a reload.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Undertow.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with JBoss 4 that could cause SkipPageException when reloading .jsp files.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Liferay that caused .jsp files to not reload in a Remote Server setup.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with WebSphere that caused NullPointerException in a Remote Server setup using HTTPS.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with WebSphere that could cause failure when looking up newly added resources.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with WebSphere where a new @EJB field would not be injected during a remote EJB invocation.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with EclipseLink that attempted to execute an operation on a closed EntityManagerFactory.
Bug fix: fixed a performance issue with EclipseLink when using java.util.logging.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Jersey CDI that could cause multiple service locators to be detected when reloading.
Bug fix: fixed a bug in JRebel that could cause crash during JVM shutdown.
Bug fix: fixed a bug in JRebel that could cause ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when reloading.

New in JRebel 2018.1.3 (Jun 14, 2018)

New in JRebel 2018.1.2 (May 24, 2018)

Feature: added support for Tomcat 7.0.86, 8.0.52, 8.5.31, and 9.0.8.
Feature: added support for WebSphere 7.0.0.45 and 8.0.0.15.
Feature: added support for tc Server 3.1.14, 3.2.10, and 4.0.1.
Feature: added support for Resin 4.0.56.
Feature: added support for Liferay 7.0.5.GA6.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Spring and Hibernate that caused IllegalStateException because the Persistence unit was already obtained.
Bug fix: fixed a reloading issue when changing the hierarchy of a class.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Spring that caused a NullPointerException during the reload of beans depending on other beans.
Bug fix: fixed a StackOverflowError caused by resource-names containing certain unicode characters located on case-insensitive file systems.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Kotlin that caused an IllegalAccessError to be thrown.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with EclipseLink that caused the resolution of persistence.xml relative jar-file entries to fail.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with EclipseLink that caused EntityManagers shared between multiple applications to appear closed.
Bug fix: fixed and integration issue with Tomcat that failed to look up a web resource from a jar file if its parent folder was not explicitly listed in the jar file’s index.
Bug fix: fixed a ClassLoader integration issue that caused a NullPointerException when reloading a Proxy.
Bug fix: fixed an issue with reloading types implementing multiple interfaces declaring the same method.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Camel that caused a CamelExecutionException due to a race condition during the reload of a class.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issued with Spring where @Configuration beans were not proxied correctly after reload.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with OpenWebBeans when reloading an interceptor changing the target method.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with WildFly that caused undeploying applications to get stuck after the EJB beans had been reloaded.
Bug fix: fixed a VerifyError when adding a static method to a child type of a super type containing a method with the same name.

New in JRebel 2018.1.1 (May 7, 2018)

ure: added support for WebSphere Liberty Profile 18.
Feature: added support for Payara 5.
Feature: added support for tc Server 4.
Feature: added support for WebSphere 9.0.0-7.
Feature: added support for Jetty 9.3.23 and 9.4.9.
Feature: added support for Tomcat 8.5.29 and 9.0.6.
Feature: added support for Dozer 6.2.0.
Improvement: improved overall performance for Spring Boot when using Java 9 or Java 10.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Spring that caused destroy() method not to be invoked for anonymous inner beans.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Spring that could cause deadlocks when reloading a bean.
Bug fix: fixed a VerifyError when trying to reload classes with dead code on bytecode level.
Bug fix: fixed a bug with IBM JDK that caused start failure when multiple -Xverify JVM options were present.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with WildFly that caused exceptions during shutdown or undeploy.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with WebLogic that caused SecurityHelper to throw a ConcurrentModificationException during deploy.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with JBoss 5 that caused a deadlock during startup.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with WebLogic that caused the server to freeze during reload.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Spring when different versions of the spring jars were present.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with GlassFish 3 that caused a deadlock when reloading an EJB bean.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Hibernate ORM 5 that caused a NullPointerException to be thrown during startup.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with JBoss 7 where recreating an EJB using @RemoteHome failed with an IllegalStateException.
Bug fix: fixed an Integration issue with ByteBuddy 1.2.1.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Weld 1 when reloading an interceptor changing the target method.
Bug fix: fixed various issues when reloading classes with a changed class hierarchy.
Bug fix: fixed an issue which caused NoSuchMethodError for default interface methods.
Bug fix: fixed an issue that caused a VerifyError when reloading a class that has a non-static and static method with the same signature in the hierarchy.

New in JRebel 7.1.7 (Mar 1, 2018)

New in JRebel 7.1.6 (Feb 6, 2018)

New in JRebel 7.1.5 (Jan 18, 2018)

New in JRebel 7.1.4 (Dec 20, 2017)

Feature: added support for Tomcat 8.5.24 and 9.0.2.
Feature: added support for Jetty 9.4.8.
Feature: added support for Resin 4.0.55.
Feature: added support for Liferay 7.0.4.GA5.
Feature: added support for Spring Boot 2.0.0.M7.
Feature: added support for IBM Java 8 Service Refresh 5 Fix Pack 5.
Feature: added support for Struts 2.5.14.
Feature: added support for Spring Data JPA 2.0.
Improvement: improved Tomcat startup performance when using signed JAR files on Tomcat 8.0.x.
Improvement: improved the Spring MVC integration to support renaming @Controller beans.
Improvement: improved the Spring MVC integration to support adding @Validated to existing controllers.
Improvement: improved EJB integration on GlassFish 3.x, WebSphere Liberty Profile and WebSphere to support adding new EJBs as JAX-RS endpoints.
Bug fix: fixed the CodeSource location for classes loaded from JARs using Tomcat WebappClassLoader.
Bug fix: fixed custom JSF @FacesComponent components getting lost after a reload.
Bug fix: fixed an issue that in some cases prevented stepping over lines during a debug session.
Bug fix: fixed a small change in a Spring configuration file causing the reinitialization of the whole CamelContext.
Bug fix: fixed adding new JAX-RS resource classes when using the ResteasyBootstrap listener.
Bug fix: fixed property placeholders not being expanded after reloading a Spring bean definition on Hybris.
Bug fix: fixed a VerifyError when using a finalize interface method in Scala 2.12.
Bug fix: fixed a rare case where debugger failed to reconnect with the IBM JVM.
Bug fix: fixed a startup error when -Duser.home property was set to an empty directory on IBM Java 1.6, released after July 2011.
Bug fix: fixed an issue where the standalone activation dialog left hanging indefinitely while displaying "Checking license status…".
Bug fix: fixed reloading Spring @Configuration class conditional bean definitions that use the same bean name.
Bug fix: fixed an IllegalAccessError when calling getEntityPersisters on SessionFactoryImpl on Hibernate 5.2+.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Tapestry 5 versions older than 5.3.0.
Bug fix: fixed application startup with some OpenL Ruleservice configurations.
Bug fix: fixed an issue with injecting a Guice non-singleton bean after changing the signature of its constructor.
Bug fix: fixed an IllegalAccessException thrown by Hibernate when accessing private fields of a reloaded entity.
Bug fix: fixed an UnsupportedOperationException when a static or default interface method is evaluated via a debugger.
Bug fix: fixed an IllegalArgumentException: Invalid method error when when a reloaded method is evaluated via a debugger.

New in JRebel 7.1.0 (Sep 28, 2017)

New in JRebel 7.0.15 (Sep 11, 2017)

New in JRebel 7.0.14 (Aug 29, 2017)

New in JRebel 7.0.13 (Aug 1, 2017)

New in JRebel 7.0.12 (Jul 15, 2017)

New in JRebel 7.0.10 (Jun 27, 2017)

New in JRebel 7.0.9 (May 23, 2017)

New in JRebel 7.0.8 (May 2, 2017)

New in JRebel 7.0.7 (Apr 11, 2017)

Feature: added support for WebSphere 9.0.0.3 and 8.5.5.11.
Feature: added support for Payara 4.1.1.171.1.
Feature: added support for Tomcat 8.5.12, 8.0.42, 7.0.76 and 6.0.51.
Feature: added support for reloading OSGi bundles when MANIFEST.MF changes on Felix.
Feature: added support for Liferay DXP.
Improvement: improved reloading use cases related to accessing originally private or package private members from a new class.
Improvement: improved the Weld 2.x integration on GlassFish to support adding new beans into implicit CDI archives.
Bug fix: fixed a VerifyError when calling a new constructor, while the constructed object is passed as argument to another method.
Bug fix: fixed BeanDefinitionParsingException while reloading context with the element.
Bug fix: fixed a potential ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException on WebLogic 12.x when JRebel caused some additional JARs to be scanned for EJBs.
Bug fix: fixed recovering from a Spring bean constructor signature change with a missing bean when the bean is added later on.
Bug fix: fixed reloading WEB-INF/lib/*.jar/META-INF/resources on WildFly when the application is deployed to root context.
Bug fix: fixed a potential TimeoutException when connecting to the debugger.
Bug fix: fixed finding Spring Data custom repository implementation.
Bug fix: fixed a potential deadlock on WebSphere startup.
Bug fix: fixed handling ServletContext::getResource for resource names without a leading slash.
Bug fix: fixed a potential ClassCastException from Axis2 integration.
Bug fix: fixed a compatibility issue with Serp.
Bug fix: fixed using a class that was changed to an interface from an unchanged class.
Bug fix: fixed the Hibernate “EntityManagerFactory is closed” exception after reloading Spring configuration.
Bug fix: fixed a VerifyError on WebLogic 12.2.x and Oracle JDK 8u121.
Bug fix: fixed a compatibility issue with Weld 2.2.8.
Bug fix: fixed JRebel not honoring beans.xml exclude entries on Weld 2.x.
Bug fix: fixed Enum::valueOf failing for added enum constants.

New in JRebel 7.0.6 (Mar 23, 2017)

Feature: added support for Jetty 9.4.2.
Feature: added support for Google App Engine (GAE) 1.9.50.
Feature: added support for Resin 4.0.51.
Feature: added support for Tomcat 9.0.0.M17.
Feature: added support for Spring Boot 1.5.2.
Improvement: improved the handling of large methods in updatable classes to avoid “Method code too large” exceptions.
Improvement: improved performance when rebel.xml classpath directory contains a lot of *.xml and *.properties files.
Improvement: improved the Spring Boot integration by adding support for reloading application.properties values that are injected directly into a bean
Bug fix: fixed Spring MVC integration not working when Spring Web was loaded in a parent classloader of Spring MVC.
Bug fix: fixed the JBoss classloader integration when modules.jar is in boot classpath.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with Jersey 1.0.3.
Bug fix: fixed EclipseLink not recognizing data sources declared in TomEE configuration (./conf/tomee.xml).
Bug fix: fixed AmbiguousResolutionException when rescanning beans in WildFly 10.1.0.
Bug fix: fixed an integration issue with WebLogic 12.1.3 with PSU 23744018.
Bug fix: fixed using a custom scoped bean as a DelegatingFilterProxy target potentially leading to exceptions when reloading any Spring bean.
Bug fix: fixed an IllegalAccessError upon calling the constructor with a package private argument.
Bug fix: fixed ClassCastException when using EclipseLink composite JPA units and runtime weaving.
Bug fix: fixed MyBatis XML mapping files not reloading when a custom implementation of SqlSessionFactory was used.
Bug fix: fixed an UnsupportedOperationException when using spring-web with TomEE.
Bug fix: fixed an issue with removing and adding inner classes.
Bug fix: fixed an issue with WebLogic 12.1.1 native EclipseLink initialization.
Bug fix: fixed an issue with a Weld CDI extension that alters bean metadata.
Bug fix: fixed new static field being null when initialized from a lambda expression.
Bug fix: fixed duplicate SessionBeans being created on rescanning beans in WildFly 10.1.0.
Bug fix: fixed a race condition in Tapestry4 integration that would cause templates not being reloaded.

New in JRebel 7.0.5 (Mar 3, 2017)

New in JRebel 6.5.1 (Sep 30, 2016)

New in JRebel 6.5.0 (Sep 13, 2016)

New in JRebel 6.4.8 (Aug 19, 2016)

New in JRebel 6.4.7 (Aug 1, 2016)

Added support for Tomcat 8.5.3 and 7.0.70.
Added support for WebLogic 12.2.1.1.
Added support for Jetty 9.3.10.
Added support for tc Server 3.1.5.
Added support for Azul Zulu JVM.
Added support for adding @WebServlets and @WebFilters on Jetty.
Added support for reloading OSGi bundles when MANIFEST.MF changes on Equinox.
Added support for reloading Jersey endpoints that are registered as OSGi services on Equinox.
Added support for reloading Liferay friendly-url-routes configuration files.
Added support for reloading portlet properties files on Liferay.
Improved ATG reloader, so it can reload request based Nucleus.
Improved ATG reloader to reload components when .properties file is changed.
Fixed potential startup slowdown on JBoss AS 7.x when using Spring Data.
Fixed reloading lists defined in Spring beans xml file.
Fixed a Grails 3 startup when used with Hibernate 5.
Fixed an integration issue with early CXF 2.0.x incubator releases.
Fixed a potential NPE on deploy with Hibernate 5.
Fixed a potential ClassNotFoundException in JRebel Legacy agent when method descriptors of a parent class contained classes that were not accessible.
Fixed an integration issue with Hybris 4.8.7.
Fixed a ConcurrentModificationException in Mojarra when a bean’s hashcode method caused recursive bean initialization.
Fixed a ClassCastException that occurred when autowiring a collection with generic type.
Fixed a NoSuchBeanDefinitionException when a Spring bean was overridden by a bean in parent beanfactory using alias.
Fixed Package.getImplementationVersion and similar methods returning null on JBoss 7.x.
Fixed a NPE on GlassFish 4.x that occurred when rebel.xml mapped location contained a jar that was not packed into WEB-INF/lib.
Fixed an AccessControlException when running Wicket on Google App Engine.
Fixed an issue with WebLogic taglib handling where JRebel caused them to be recompiled on every request.
Fixed an issue with JRebel Spring integration where having the same configuration file on multiple rebel.xml paths caused duplicate beans on reload.
Fixed an integration issue with Hibernate 4.1.1.Final.
Fixed JBoss AS 7.x losing EJB injection after JAX-RS resource reload.
Fixed JRebel Legacy agent returning wrong results when accessing method parameters via reflection.

New in JRebel 6.4.6 (Jun 28, 2016)

New in JRebel 6.4.5 (Jun 2, 2016)

New in JRebel 6.4.4 (May 31, 2016)

New in JRebel 6.4.3 (Apr 29, 2016)

New in JRebel 6.4.2a (Apr 9, 2016)

New in JRebel 6.4.2 (Apr 5, 2016)

New in JRebel 6.4.1 (Mar 17, 2016)

New in JRebel 6.4.0 (Mar 2, 2016)

Added support for Jetty 9.3.7.
Added support for WildFly 10.0.0.Final.
Added support for Resin 3.1.15.
Added support for Liferay 6.2.5 GA6.
Added support for tc Server 3.0.6 and 3.1.3.
Improved Spring integration to inject added beans into existing @Autowired bean collection fields.
Improved handling duplicate rebel-remote.xml module IDs by notifying the user about these situations.
JRebel now notifies you when you’re on a nightly build and a newer stable release is available.
Fixed an issue with an application failing to start when using MyFaces and when ApplicationFactory was wrapped.
Fixed the MyFaces version detection when MyFaces 2 is provided by the application server, but MyFaces 1 used by the application.
Fixed an issue in the JRebel 6 native agent that failed to start when certain verbose JDK logging options were enabled.
Fixed a potential NoClassDefFoundError from precompiled JSPs when switching the JRebel version.
Fixed an issue with custom AutowireCandidateResolver getting lost while reloading Spring beans, causing re-injection failures.
Fixed an issue where the application failed to deploy when using Vaadin CDI on the WebSphere Liberty profile.
Fixed an AbstractMethodError that could happen when reloading classes on Gemini.
Fixed a NoSuchMethodError that occurred when AspectJ tried to process its own generated classes when running with JRebel.
Fixed a NPE in the debugger integration that could occur when debugging on IntelliJ IDEA.
Fixed an issue in the debugger integration that caused the local variables view to sometimes fail with a VMMismatchException in IntelliJ IDEA.
Fixed an issue where the application failed to start, throwing the exception com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.exceptions.FatalError when using JBossJTS.
Fixed an AbstractMethodError in MyBatis integration that occurred when using it with Spring 4.x.
Fixed a NoSuchMethodError in the JRebel 6 Agent that occurred after changing the signature of a method on a super-type when invoked via a sub-type.
Fixed an issue where the GWT compiler could not find some JDK classes when running with the JRebel 6 Agent.
Fixed an issue with OpenWebBeans not being able to find the beans when the rebel.xml mapped path itself did not contain rebel.xml.
Fixed a potential deadlock in the RESTEasy integration.

New in JRebel 6.3.3 (Feb 5, 2016)

Added integration with Swagger 1.3 or newer
Added support for reloading JAX-RS method signatures using GlassFish 4.x
Added option to suppress warnings about invalid directories that are mapped in rebel.xml
Improved the WebSphere 8.x reload speeds
Fixed re-configuring certain Spring Beans even when those were not changed
Fixed the NameNotFoundException: Name "comp/websphere/UserWorkArea" not found in context "java:” after reload using WebSphere 8.x
Fixed an issue with JRebel potentially causing some resources to be not found when URLs were added to a URLClassLoader during runtime
Fixed a bug with GWT array serialization
Fixed an issue with Spring Security anonymous beans disappearing after reloading beans.xml
Fixed applications using the APDPlat framework not being able to start up when run with JRebel
Fixed a potential NoClassDefFoundError that could occur when the Eclipse Mars compiler generated a faulty LocalVariableTypeTable
Fixed an AmbiguousResolutionException that could happen with Solder TypedMessageLoggerProducer
Fixed an integration issue with WebSphere 8.5.0.0
Fixed Spring finding duplicate resources when using WebLogic
Fixed an integration issue with EclipseLink 1.x
Fixed RESTEasy potentially throwing a RuntimeException: Unable to find a public constructor for class when loading a class with JRebel
Fixed creating duplicate DeltaSpike proxy beans on reload
Fixed a NPE in the JRebel 6 Agent that could occur when the type of a field was not provided on the classpath
Fixed JRebel 6 Agent not picking up changes to classes when a custom system class loader was used
Fixed an issue with accessing public static fields from package private superclasses with the JRebel 6 Agent
Fixed a VerifyError that occurred when running JRebel 6 Agent together with the ws-javaagent using WebSphere Liberty Profile
Fixed a VerifyError that occurred when running JMockit unit tests with the JRebel 6 Agent
Fixed JRebel 6 Agent potentially losing state when reloading a class containing more than 200 fields
Fixed JRebel 6 Agent potentially picking the wrong case when switching over a reloaded enum in a class compiled with Eclipse
Fixed JRebel 6 native agent failing to start up when passing main arguments starting with -X (e.g. with GWT)
Fixed an IllegalAccessException with JRebel Legacy Agent regarding changing a static final field via reflection

New in JRebel 6.3.2 (Jan 14, 2016)

New in JRebel 6.3.1 (Dec 21, 2015)

New in JRebel 6.3.0 (Nov 30, 2015)

New in JRebel 6.2.7 (Nov 17, 2015)

New in JRebel 6.2.6 (Oct 21, 2015)

Added support for Tomcat 8.0.27.
Added support for Resin 4.0.45.
Added support for Pivotal tc Server 3.0.5 and 3.1.2.
Added support for Hibernate 5.0.
Added support for Spring Framework 4.2.
Improved JBoss EAP 6.x and WildFly startup time.
Improved Spring rescanning speed.
Improved Struts 2 rescanning speed.
Made the JRebel 6 native agent use a dynamic DLL base.
Made JRebel Remote start listening on the port right at startup when -Drebel.remoting_port is specified.
Licensing for JRebel instances with License Server licenses running on a virtual machines has been improved.
Fixed regression regarding removing JMX beans when adding regular Spring beans.
Fixed NoSuchMethodErrors that occurred when changing @Bean annotated methods in Spring @Configuration classes.
Fixed an issue with additional resources defined in Tomcat context.xml not being found when using JRebel Remote.
Fixed an issue with JRebel not receiving file system events from exFAT file systems.
Fixed a PersistenceException that occurred after reload when using Hibernate with custom scanners.
Fixed a potential deadlock in WildFly 8.x EJB integration when multiple EJBs referenced each other.
Fixed a potential IllegalStateException from Jersey 1 that could happen after reload.
Fixed a compatibility issue between the JRebel 6 agent and the Spring-Instrument agent.
Fixed a potential ArrayStoreException on the JRebel 6 agent with Arrays of a reloaded type.
Fixed a non-fatal IllegalAccessException when accessing reloaded lambdas with the JRebel 6 agent.
Fixed an issue with the JRebel 6 agent potentially corrupting an array when using System.arraycopy when source and destination overlapped.
Fixed a NoSuchFieldError in the JRebel 6 agent when adding a static field and then using it later from a reloaded class.
Fixed a IllegalAccessException with JRebel 6 agent regarding changing a static final field via reflection.
Fixed the JRebel 6 agent potentially calling the old method of a class with a changed hierarchy when the method called is present in both old and new class hierarchies.
Fixed an issue where the RichFaces component stopped working after reloading on JSF facelets versions older than 1.1.12.
Fixed an issue in Metro with reloading @WebService classes even though they were not changed.
Fixed a potential deadlock in the EclipseLink integration regarding load-time weaving.

New in JRebel 6.2.5 (Oct 9, 2015)

New in JRebel 6.2.4 (Sep 15, 2015)

New in JRebel 6.2.3 (Aug 25, 2015)

JRebel Agent:
JBoss AS 7.1+ integration has been improved to the full coverage for Java EE specifications.
Support for reloading Spring @Scope(“request”) @Controllers has been added.
WebSphere 8.5.5.x JSF integration has been improved to allow injecting new EJBs into ManagedBeans.
Adding new Spring components in packages scanned by WebApplicationInitializer is now supported.
Fixed an integration issue with Hibernate 4.3.
Fixed a redirect loop after reload when using MyFaces Extensions CDI project.
Fixed a NullPointerException in Liferay integration when running on a non-root context path.
Fixed an integration issue with Spring Data REST 2.4.0.RC1.
Fixed an issue with Spring @Configuration classes being reloaded just once.
Fixed an integration issue with Spring Boot Actuator 1.3.0.M2.
Fixed an issue with static resources within a JAR META-INF/resources folder that were not reloaded without a link in a parent WAR rebel.xml on WildFly.
Fixed an integration issue with WildFly when started via Arquillian.
Fixed a FileNotFoundException when trying to load a class with URLClassloader from an URL like file://localhost/C:/….
Fixed an issue with TomEE 1.7.x where apps using Spring WebApplicationInitializer failed to deploy.
Fixed a VerifyError with the JRebel 6 Agent reloading Java 8 default methods when class redefinition is disabled.
Fixed an issue when configuring Hibernate with mappingDirectoryLocations caused duplicate class/entity mappings on WebSphere and Virgo.
Fixed an issue with the debugger integration where outer class breakpoints were not hit after reloading an inner class on IntelliJ.
JRebel for Eclipse Family IDEs:
Unified product name and messaging across IDE plugins.
Removed Remoting Console Logging widget from JRebel Configuration.
Improved icons consistency in JRebel for Eclipse GUI.
Fixed an issue with missing scrollbar in Plugins tab in JRebel Configuration.
Fixed an issue where JRebel nature was not cleaned up during plugin uninstall.
Fixed an issue where jrebel-eclipse.log was growing excessively.
Fixed an issue with Remoting Standalone instructions missing parameters.
Fixed an issue where very short paths throw errors on remoting synchonization.
Fixed an issue where remote user error messages were not informative enough.
JRebel for IntelliJ:
Unified product name and messaging across IDE plugins.
Unified JRebel license information rendering across IDE plugins.
Added the “About” tab.
Fixed an issue where very short paths throw errors on remote server synchronization.
Fixed an issue where remote user error messages were not informative enough.
JRebel for NetBeans:
Unified product name and messaging across IDE plugins.
Unified JRebel license information rendering across IDE plugins.
Removed an excessive IDE notification related to remote servers.
Fixed an issue where IDE hanged when clicking support email in About tab without mail client configured.
Fixed an issue where very short paths throw errors on remoting synchonization.
Fixed an issue where remote user error messages were not informative enough.

New in JRebel 6.2.2 (Jul 30, 2015)

Added support for Wildfly 9.0.0.
Added support for Tomcat 7.0.63 and 8.0.24.
Added support for Google App Engine 1.9.23.
Added support for Pivotal tc Server 3.0.4 and 3.1.1.
Added support for Jetty 9.3.0.
Added support for WebSphere 8.5.5.6.
Added support for Grails 2.5.
Added support for reloading @Named beans in Servlets on TomEE.
Improved EJB support for WebLogic 12.1.x.
Performance improvements on startup for WildFly.
Fixed a few issues related to shutting down WildFly after reload.
Fixed an issue with reloading ADF jspx/jsff files.
Fixed an issue with running Grails 2.x using the run-war command.
Fixed an issue with Grails 2.x not loading static resources from plugins.
Fixed a NotSerializableException when running TomEE via the IntelliJ plugin.
Fixed an issue with ATG where JRebel caused duplicate lines in the log.
Fixed an issue with having an EJB with multiple names on JBoss 7.2.
Fixed an issue with AxonFramework registering double listeners after reloading Spring beans.
Fixed an issue with Hibernate entity listeners not being called.
Fixed an issue with using interfaces for RESTEasy endpoints.
Fixed an issue with the JRebel 6 agent reloading lambdas initialized from the static initializer.
Fixed an issue with the JRebel 6 agent handling reflective calls to retrieve changed type parameters.
Fixed an issue with the JRebel 6 agent concerning invalid lambda de-serialization.
Fixed an issue with the JRebel 6 agent reloading lambdas in default methods.
Fixed an issue with using Guice @Inject in RESTEasy resources.
Fixed an integration error with Guice 4.0.
Fixed an issue with reloading in Spring Boot when eager class loading was configured.
Fixed an integration issue with Spring MVC 4.2 RC1.
Fixed an AmbiguousResolutionException on WebLogic 12.1.x when using an @Decorator injected via producer.
Fixed an integration issue with JRuby 1.7.21.
Fixed an integration issue with Jersey 2.19.
Fixed an issue with Liferay CSS reloading when the filesystem notifications did not work.
Fixed an issue with missing the SASS load path in Liferay themes.

New in JRebel 6.2.1 (Jun 22, 2015)

Added support for TomEE 1.7.2.
Added support for Tomcat 6.0.44, 7.0.62 and 8.0.23.
Added support for Jetty 7.6.17, 8.1.17 and 9.2.11.
Added support for JBoss EAP 6.4.
Added support for Resin 4.0.44.
Added support for Google App Engine 1.9.21.
Added support for reloading JPA named queries that are defined in the mapping-file.
Added support for reloading EJB @TransactionAttribute values on Weblogic 12.1.3.
Added support for using newly added @Entity fields from @Stateful EJBs.
Added support for reloading changes to properties files used via @PropertySource in Spring.
Several performance fixes to the JBoss 7 plugin.
Added support for reloading static resources configured in ibm-web-ext.xml on WebSphere.
Improved the reloading of Guice configuration.
Fixed a memory leak in Hibernate integration.
Fixed a possible ClassCircularityError when adding new Resteasy resources.
Fixed an issue with using added methods via OGNL in Tapestry 4.
Fixed a LinkageError when running Jetty via the Maven Jetty plugin.
Fixed an issue with WebSphere 6.1 where JRebel caused a redirect to welcome files and discarded the query parameters.
Fixed an issue with reloading @WindowScoped JSF beans in Apache DeltaSpike.
Fixed an issue with reloading named filter chains in Spring Security.
Fixed an issue where Apache Camel routes did not pick up changes in properties files.
Fixed an issue where using HikariCP with JRebel caused an illegal type at constant pool entry.
Fixed a CannotCompileException that was caused by having Spring MVC JAR without Spring Web JAR on the classpath.
Fixed an issue with GWT where the domain method could not be resolved when the method signature contained generics.
Fixed an issue where JRebel tried to to execute an operation on a closed EntityManagerFactory in EclipseLink after reload.
Fixed an issue with the JRebel 6 agent where changing a class to an interface caused an IncompatibleClassChangeError.
Fixed an issue with the JRebel 6 agent where a bean reload caused clone() to produce null fields.
Fixed an issue with the JRebel 6 agent where reloading interfaces or abstract classes could result in ClassFormatError.
Fixed an issue with the JRebel 6 agent where the presence of other javaagents could cause NoSuchMethodErrors.
Fixed an issue with the JRebel 6 agent where reloading a proxy class multiple times – without using the instance in between – resulted in NoSuchMethodError.
Fixed an issue with the JRebel 6 agent on WebLogic 8 with its Health Center functionality enabled.
Fixed a NullPointerException on WildFly 8.2 when deploying an EAR.
Fixed an issue with the debugger integration where method entry breakpoints did not hit on Eclipse.
Fixed an integration issue with Hibernate Validator 4.3.0.Beta1 that caused IncompatibleClassChangeError on reload.
Fixed an issue with OpenEJB where reloading app containing TomEE resources.xml caused an UnsupportedOperationException.
Fixed a CannotCompileException no such class: Field on GlassFish.
Fixed a performance issue with Equinox 4.4.
Fixed an issue with @PostConstruct methods running multiple times for JSF managed beans on WebLogic 10.3.6.
Fixed an issue with Spring Beans integration where anonymous beans were not reconfigured when descriptor changed.
Fixed an issue where CXF Features were lost after class reload.

New in JRebel 6.2.0 (May 21, 2015)

New in JRebel 6.1.3 (May 5, 2015)

New in JRebel 6.1.2 (Apr 8, 2015)

New in JRebel 6.1.1 (Mar 13, 2015)

New in JRebel 6.1.0 (Feb 27, 2015)

Added support for Grails 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4.
Added support for Tomcat 8.0.17.
Added support for Jetty 9.2.7.
Added support for Liferay 6.2.2 GA3.
Added support for Struts 2.3.20.
Added support for reloading static web resources served by CachingResourceResolver in Spring 4.1.
Added support for reloading Spring Data @RestResource and @RepositoryRestResource annotations.
Improved Wildfly integration with full Java EE specifications coverage.
Fixed an issue where XRebel would not function properly with JRebel.
Fixed an issue where JRebel would fail to reload classes containing a great amount of inner classes.
Fixed an issue where JRebel reloading would fail with Jersey 1.1.4 and 2.16.
Fixed an issue where JRebel reloading would fail with Stripes 1.5.0.
Fixed an issue where FreeMarker templates were not reloaded.
Fixed a Spring issue where adding a Bean dependency got passed through the constructor and was declared in XML, causing NoSuchMethodException.
Fixed an issue with YourKit and JRebel compatibility.
Fixed an issue where RESTEasy threw RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate InjectorFactory implementation.
Fixed an issue which became apparent when adding a new interface and then overriding the default method.
Fixed a StackOverflowError caused by having an annotated method being annotated again.
Fixed an issue where a REBEL_BASE directory was not correctly created on Linux.
Fixed an issue where AVAST antivirus reported JRebel as a virus.
Fixed an issue where ObjectMapperCBP was applied even though Jackson core was not used.
Fixed an issue where GWT running on Google Application Engine threw a NoClassDefFoundError: org/eclipse/jetty/webapp/Descriptor.
Improved handling paths with spaces when configured with -agentpath.
Improved passing configuration arguments when configured with -agentpath on WAS.
Fixed an issue where JRebel configured with -agentpath on Windows XP would fail in some cases.
Fixed an issue where SBT could not compile when JRebel was configured with the -agentpath argument

New in JRebel 6.0.3 (Jan 30, 2015)

New in JRebel 6.0.2 (Dec 23, 2014)

Added support for Tomcat 7.0.57.
Added support for Tomcat 8.0.15.
Added support for Jetty 9.2.5.
Added support for TomEE 1.7.1.
Added support for reloading languages.properties in Liferay portlets.
Improved JRebel 6 Agent reload speed.
Fixed an issue where the JRebel 6 Agent was unable to start when the JRebel installation path included bracket symbols ( ).
Fixed an issue where a javassist.NotFoundException: getFurthestParentTemp(..) is not found in org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.AbstractVFSContext was logged with JBoss 5.
Fixed an issue where Spring Beans registered through @Configuration did not reload property values in some cases.
Fixed an issue where an NPE was thrown when inspecting a class with fields of type “short” or “char” while debugging.
Fixed an issue where after an EJB reload with JMSContext jmsContext.createProducer() was null in some cases on WildFly.
Fixed an issue where Spring ResourceHttpRequestHandler could not serve resources outside of webroot.
Fixed an issue where a WELD-001408 Unsatisfied dependencies for type [FacesContext] with qualifiers [@Default] at injection point [[field] @Inject was thrown for Weld applications in some cases.
Fixed an issue where a javassist.CannotCompileException: no such class: EntityManagerFactory was thrown for ‘org.springframework.orm.jpa.AbstractEntityManagerFactoryBean’ when using Sprint ORM without javax.persistence classes on classpath.
Fixed an issue where classes loaded by Tomcat 8 InstrumentableClassLoader were not reloaded by JRebel.
Fixed an issue where an ERROR ContextLoader: Context initialization failed was thrown with java.util.NoSuchElementException when running Spring 4 on JBoss 5 in some cases.
Fixed an issue where a deadlock would occur with Spring applications in very specific cases.
Fixed an issue where a ClassCastException was thrown for com.google.gwt.dev.javac.CompilationState during startup when running GWT 2.7.
Fixed an issue where a NoClassDefFoundError: javax/servlet/http/HttpServletRequest was thrown during startup of Liferay EE 5.2.6. running on GlassFish 3.1.2.2.
Fixed an issue where Primefaces-Extensions importEnum and importConstants tags were not reloaded properly.
Fixed an issue where a java.io.FileNotFoundException: ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/classes/spring/] cannot be resolved exception was thrown when deploying a WAR file without directory entries (ant filesonly=true) to WebLogic.
Fixed an issue where a ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException could be thrown when JRebel happened to reload classes that had not finished compiling.
Fixed an issue where a javassist.NotFoundException: loadSerializationPolicy(..) was thrown for com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RemoteServiceServlet when running GWT 1.5.3.
Fixed an issue where a java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: /path/to/file was thrown during the startup of Jetty 8 in some cases.
Performance and stability improvements.

New in JRebel 6.0.1 (Dec 23, 2014)

Added support for Wildfly 8.2.
Improved the performance of resource lookups in big applications.
Fixed an issue wherein org.zeroturnaround.bundled.javassist.NotFoundException: oracle.adf.JrDefinitionManager.
at org.zeroturnaround.bundled.javassist.ClassPool.get(JRebel:450) was thrown for ADF applications.
Fixed an issue wherein java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/faces/lifecycle/JrLifecycle at org.zeroturnaround.jrebel.adf.faces.cbp.LifecycleImplCBP.process(LifecycleImplCBP.java:18) was thrown for ADF applications.
Fixed an issue wherein added MyBatis XML mappings were not detected in some cases.
Fixed an issue wherein org.zeroturnaround.bundled.javassist.CannotCompileException: [source error] no such class: YamlPropertiesFactoryBean at org.zeroturnaround.bundled.javassist.CtNewMethod.make(SourceFile:79) was thrown for applications using Spring Boot 1.2.
Fixed an issue wherein the following exception was thrown on a TomEE 1.7.1 application using OpenWebBeans: org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader loadClass. INFO: Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped already. Could not load $CLASS_NAME. The eventual following stack trace is caused by an error thrown for debugging purposes as well as to attempt to terminate the thread which caused the illegal access, and has no functional impact. java.lang.IllegalStateException.
Fixed an issue wherein Class ‘org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl’ could not be processed by org.zeroturnaround.javarebel.integration.hibernate.cbp.SessionFactoryImplCBP@org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader@2c2e61f0: org.zeroturnaround.bundled.javassist.CannotCompileException: [source error] no such class: serviceRegistry was thrown on an application with both hibernate 3 and 4 jars present.
Fixed an issue wherein Class ‘weblogic/corba/cos/naming/NamingContextAny_WLStub’ could not be processed by ‘com.zeroturnaround.javarebel.rH@175f175′: org.aspectj.apache.bcel.classfile.ClassFormatException: weblogic.corba.cos.naming.NamingContextAny_WLStub is not a Java .class file.
Fixed an issue wherein JRebel Spring integration would reload unrelated beans when using annotation-based configuration.
Fixed an issue wherein Could not redefine class $CLASS_NAME:: com.zeroturnaround.javarebel.support.WrongClassNameException while removing an inner class with Wicket 6.
Fixed an issue wherein JRebel incorrectly set the charset of resources served by the server to platform default instead of what was configured for the server.
Fixed an issue wherein did not work properly on WebSphere 8.
Various other stability fixes

New in JRebel 6.0.0 (Nov 11, 2014)

Added support for reloading class hierarchies (adding/swapping superclasses, implemented interfaces).
Added support for initializing new instance fields.
Added support for Tomcat 8.0.14.
Added support for JBoss EAP 6.3.0.
Added support for Glassfish 4.1.
Added support for Spring Boot.
Added support for EclipseLink MOXy 2.3.2, 2.4.2, 2.5.0.
Improved the performance of JBoss 7 / JBoss EAP 6 EJB.
Improved the handling of anonymous inner classes.
Fixed an issue wherein Hibernate, configured with hbm2ddl.auto=”create-drop” caused an “Auto-commit cannot be set while enrolled in a transaction” error during reload.
Fixed an issue wherein java.lang.ClassCastException: org.jboss.as.ee.component.BasicComponent cannot be cast to org.jboss.as.webservices.injection.WSComponent were thrown on JBoss 7 in some cases.
Fixed an issue wherein java.lang.NullPointerException was thrown at org.jboss.as.weld.injection.WeldManagedReferenceFactory.getReference() in some cases.
Fixed an issue where processing some lambdas caused a Processing Lambda failed: -1: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: -1 to occur.
Fixed an issue wherein javax.ejb.EJBException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Named query not found was thrown if a JBoss EJB module had a bean annotated with @WebService.
Fixed an issue wherein java.lang.NullPointerException at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp.getServletContextName was thrown when running Liferay on WAS.
Fixed an issue wherein javax.servlet.ServletException: PWC1232: Exceeded maximum depth for nested request dispatches: 20 was caused by JRebel Stripes integration in some cases.
Fixed an issue wherein java.lang.NullPointerException was thrown for JAXBContextImpl.equals() in some cases.
Fixed an issue wherein java.lang.NullPointerException at net.sourceforge.stripes.controller.UrlBindingFactory.removeBinding would occur during Stripes action bean reload.
Fixed an issue wherein JSF/Mojarra composite components were not reloaded from the JAR.
Fixed an issue wherein JRebel enabled server VMs did not correctly respect the HTTP Accept-Ranges header.
Fixed an issue wherein the Spring bean @Value annotated properties were not correctly reloaded when the property changed.
Fixed an issue wherein the Spring bean @Autowired annotated properties of List type were not populated with the beans implementing the List type.
Fixed an issue wherein java.lang.NullPointerException was thrown when executing Hibernate Criteria API query in some cases.
Fixed an issue wherein reloading Spring Batch factory beans crashed with a CannotCompileException: [source error] no such class: serviceRegistry in some cases.
Fixed an issue wherein java.lang.NegativeArraySizeException was thrown from org.springframework.core.AttributeAccessorSupport.copyAttributesFrom() during concurrent access.
Fixed an issue wherein JRebel Spring integration threw an exception if ApplicationContext was accessed before initialization.
Fixed an issue with reloading Spring BeanNameAware beans.
Fixed an issue wherein Metro JAX-WS endpoints were not registered and generated 404 errors in some cases.
Fixed an issue wherein @NotNull annotation on entity superclass did not work on WildFly.
Fixed an issue wherein org.apache.camel.component.bean.MethodNotFoundException was thrown for a Camel route when breaking and fixing it.
Fixed an issue wherein java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.webbeans.context.CustomContextImpl incompatible with org.zeroturnaround.jrebel.myfaces.util.JrFlowDefinitionContext was thrown using OpenWebBeans with MyFaces in some cases.
Fixed an issue wherein java.lang.IllegalStateException: CDI BeanManager cannot find an instance of requested type org.apache.myfaces.cdi.view.ApplicationContextBean was thrown using OpenWebBeans with MyFaces.
Fixed an issue wherein Simpleframework XML processing was extensively delayed when running with JRebel.
Fixed an issue wherein JRebel Axis2 WAS8 integration would cause problems with previous versions of WAS.
Fixed an issue wherein CannotCompileException was thrown during startup when using Spring Date 1.0.2.
Fixed an issue wherein Mojarra XHTML files were not found from nested modules if JRebel Mojarra integration was disabled.
Fixed an issue wherein java.lang.NullPointerException at org.zeroturnaround.javarebel.webobjects.WebObjectsPlugin.preinit() was thrown when using WebObjects.
Removed support for the deprecated perpetual license type.
Overhauled the JRebel Activation GUI.

New in JRebel 5.6.3 (Sep 11, 2014)

New in JRebel 5.6.2 (Sep 9, 2014)

Added support for new Reflection API methods in Java 8
Fixed an issue where a ‘java.lang.VerifyError: Bad method call from inside of a branch’ was thrown with JDK version 7u67 (and higher) and 8u11 (and higher)
Fixed an issue where a ‘java.lang.VerifyError: Operand stack overflow’ was thrown in some cases when a class contained unreachable code
Fixed an issue where a ‘CannotCompileException: cannot find constructor org.jboss.ejb3.vfs.impl.vfs2.VirtualFileWrapper’ was thrown on JBoss 5.2 EAP
Fixed an issue where a deadlock would occur during startup with OpenJPA applications in some cases.
Fixed an issue where EJB beans where not injected into WebServices on WAS 8.0.0.5
Fixed an issue where a ‘WELD-001318 Cannot resolve an ambiguous dependency’ was thrown for applications using picketlink
Fixed an issue where a ‘WELD-001318 Cannot resolve an ambiguous dependency’ was thrown for type MappingMetaData on Wildfly
Fixed an issue where a ‘java.lang.NoSuchFieldException: fieldCache’ was thrown for applications using HK2 v2.3.0
Fixed an issue where Magnolia MappedBean property definitions were not properly updated in some cases
Fixed an issue where a ‘ClassCastException: org.icefaces.impl.application.ReloadAfterNavigationFix’ for applications using portletfaces-bridge 2.0.2
Fixed an issue where a ‘NotFoundException: org.codehaus.jackson.type.JavaType’ was thrown for Jackson applications with missing jackson-core
Fixed an issue with Weld2 where calling ObserverMethodImpl.getReceiver would return a concrete instance of the bean instead of a proxy, leading to missing aspects (transactions etc.)
Fixed an issue with JRebel Remoting where a ‘Could not regenerate proxy class ‘$Proxy133′: java.lang.NegativeArraySizeException’ would be thrown in some cases during synchronization
Fixed an issue where adding a service method to a Jersey 2.10 resource endpoint would not work on Grizzly2 server
Fixed an issue where a StackOverflowError was thrown during EJB loading in some cases on Weblogic 12.1.2
Fixed an issue where language.properties hooks were not reloading on Liferay
Fixed an issue where Spring’s EhCacheManagerFactoryBean was reloaded incorrectly and this lead to ‘Could not open Hibernate Session for transaction: org.hibernate.service.UnknownServiceException’ to be thrown

New in JRebel 5.6.1 (Jul 24, 2014)

New in JRebel 5.6.0 (Jun 26, 2014)

Added support for Java 8 (lambdas, default methods, static interface methods etc.)
Added support for EJBs on Wildfly
Added support for Weld 2
Added support for JSF 2.2 Faces Flows
Added support for JSF 2.2 Resource Library Contracts
Added support for Spring Security 3.2
Added support for HK2
Added support for Magnolia 5.1
Added initial support for JBoss EAP 6.3.0-beta1
Updated Hibernate support to version 4.3.5
Updated Jackson support to version 1.8.10
Various stability improvements for JBoss 6 EAP/JBoss 7/Wildfly EJB integration
Fixed an issue where deploying multiple war applications in a single ear would not deploy on JBoss 7
Fixed an issue where Axis2 Webservice endpoints were not reloaded on WAS
Fixed an issue where META-INF/resources in rebel.xml did not work properly
Fixed an issue where using Guice ServletModule for initialization threw a com.google.inject.ConfigurationException
Fixed an issue on Alfresco where changing alfresco-global.properties caused org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException to occur during reload
Fixed an issue where java.lang.NullPointerException at java.util.prefs.FileSystemPreferences$1.run() could occur in rare cases during starup
Fixed an issue with Grails 2.2.3 where the application would hang after a grails controller reload
Fixed an issue where reloading EJBs on WAS 8.0.0.6 would cause the application to crash in rare cases
Fixed an issue where a com.ibm.ws.asynchbeans.exception.AsynchBeanException:ASYN0064E would be thrown for WAS 8.5.5.1
Fixed an issue where Struts session scoped objects were not reloaded on configuration change
Fixed an issue where Spring property-placeholder properties were not reload correctly
Fixed an issue where a CannotCompileException was thrown for log4j-over-slf4j-1.7.6.jar
Fixed an issue where JSF @PostConstruct was called on already created instance when reloading class
Fixed an issue where JRebel did not clean up its temporary directories properly after shutdown
Fixed an issue where Akka 2.3.2 breaks CDI in GlassFish