Cayenne 4.0 Beta 1 Released
Jun 12, 2017

Apache Cayenne team is glad to announce a beta release of Cayenne 4.0. What this means for our users is that now the API is frozen and it is safe to try it out even if you are not usually comfortable living on the bleeding edge of unstable releases. We’d like to hear from you about your upgrade experiences. And of course we’ll strive to fix any remaining bugs before 4.0 goes final. To give you more confidence, we’d like to mention that most of the Cayenne developers have been using 4.0 in production for years.

From now on the 4.0 branch will concentrate on bug fixes, Modeler improvements, documentation, web site and other such things.

We are planning to publish a more detailed 4.0 comparision with 3.1 shortly. For now let’s take a look at things that have changed since the late milestone - M5:

  • A native Gradle Plugin.
  • Fresh Modeler design (along with many small UI improvements and bug fixes).
  • A switch from commons-logging to SLF4J API
  • Optional HMAC in crypto module
  • Numerous bug fixes, updated docs, etc.

Cayenne can be downloaded from here. Make sure to consult UPGRADE.txt file before updating.

BTW, here is an example of the Gradle plugin use :

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath group: 'org.apache.cayenne.plugins', name: 'cayenne-gradle-plugin', version: '4.0.B1'
    }
}

apply plugin: 'org.apache.cayenne'

cayenne.defaultDataMap 'datamap.map.xml'

dependencies {
    compile cayenne.dependency('server')
    compile cayenne.dependency('java8')
}
  • CAY-1873 Move DataDomain cache configuration from the Modeler and into DI
  • CAY-1891 Modeler: Add To-Many Warning
  • CAY-1892 Modeler: Add Relationship Data Type Warning
  • CAY-2057 Modeler: Clean up OS X version
  • CAY-2109 cayenne-crypto: add value authentication (HMAC)
  • CAY-2210 Query cache: incorrect cache key for queries with custom value objects
  • CAY-2255 ObjectSelect improvement: columns as full entities
  • CAY-2258 DI: type-safe binding of List and Map
  • CAY-2259 QueryCache: support for referencing type-safe caches
  • CAY-2261 Replace NamedQuery with MappedXYZ in *datamap.vm
  • CAY-2262 Module auto-loading
  • CAY-2266 Move EventBridge implementations into autoloadable modules
  • CAY-2267 Contribute lifecycle events listeners via DI
  • CAY-2268 DI: Refactor ListBuilder API ambiguities for before() / after() bindings
  • CAY-2269 Add support for date/time components extraction in expression functions
  • CAY-2270 Update function support in expression parser
  • CAY-2271 ColumnSelect: support for prefetch and limit
  • CAY-2272 ColumnSelect: methods to manually control DISTINCT clause
  • CAY-2274 Modeler: Validate case when dependent PK is marked as “generated”
  • CAY-2277 Create ClientRuntime with ClientRuntimeBuilder just like ServerRuntime
  • CAY-2278 Extract cayenne-postcommit module from cayenne-lifecycle
  • CAY-2280 Switch from commons-logging to slf4j
  • CAY-2295 “Sync ObjEntity with DbEntity” and “View related DbEntity” buttons aren’t disabled, if DbEntity doesn’t have ObjEntity
  • CAY-2296 cayenne-crypto: Get java type for DbAttribute bound to ObjAttributes with the same type
  • CAY-2300 Modeler: New icons and design improvements
  • CAY-2302 Rename postcommit module and its content to commitlog

Bug Fixes:

  • CAY-2021 cdbimport: detect when same FK constraint is defined twice
  • CAY-2077 Bug in CayenneRuntimeException using wrong specified string in Formatter
  • CAY-2094 SelectById query doesn’t work from ROP client
  • CAY-2161 ‘Not for Client Use’ option is ignored at Class Generation
  • CAY-2171 Modeler: Undo db Entity Sync throws error
  • CAY-2208 SQLTemplate: LEFT JOIN to a subset of a table returns nulls for entries that don’t have a match in the subset
  • CAY-2230 Error using connection to postgresql with db schema in DB URL
  • CAY-2240 Modeler: issue with cursor rendering for EJBQL query
  • CAY-2243 ObjectContext.getGraphManager().unregisterObject() inconsistencies
  • CAY-2250 Remove: Incorrect text in Confirm Remove message when cursor is set on attribute row
  • CAY-2256 Cannot Save/Insert an Object With null Flattened (complex) toOne Relationship (see also CAY-2146)
  • CAY-2265 ServerRuntime.builder() fails to set default runtime name when a the project file doesn’t follow recognized pattern
  • CAY-2273 Modeler: default suggested cgen location is rooted in subpackage
  • CAY-2275 Documentation: tutorial is out of sync with 4.0.M5 version
  • CAY-2276 PrePersist listener registered as PostPersist in LifecycleCallbackRegistry.addListener(Class<?>, LifecycleListener)
  • CAY-2279 cdbimport: skip PK comparison for VIEWs
  • CAY-2281 ObjEntity attribute overrides are never deleted
  • CAY-2284 Expression likeIgnoreCase can’t handle unicode chars in in-memory evaluation
  • CAY-2286 Filter out inherited ObjEntities from sync with DbEntity
  • CAY-2326 DI: can’t override List/Map elements from another Module
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