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General information for codeBeamer 9.4.0-RC3

codeBeamer is shipped with the latest version of Apache Tomcat (8.5.40).
Several originally shipped Java libraries were removed from installation package:
- codeBeamer is shipped with MariaDB JDBC Driver by default but it is not supported, it is highly recommended to upgrade to the supported MySQL JDBC Driver: Replacing MariaDB JDBC driver to MySQL JDBC Driver
- iText - PDF generator and converter
- ostermiller - MD5 hash generator
- snipsnap jar - including Horizontal, Vertical, Directed Acylic, Explorer Graph and Mindmap - codeBeamer Wiki Imagegen Plugin is now Opensource and available: https://github.com/intlandsupport/codebeamer-imagegen-plugin

General information for codeBeamer 9.4.0-RC2

Please note that after codeBeamer 9.4.0 successfully started a background process will automatically start to collect all necessary data for Historical Search ability. Depending on the amount of data, for 1-2 hours CPU usage will be higher than normally.

System Requirements

This page describes the hardware and software requirements of codeBeamer 9.4.x. For general requirements, please refer to the wiki page titled System Requirements.

Operating Systems

Windows, Linux and Mac-OS on 64-bit x86 architectures with at least 8 GB memory. 32-bit operating systems are no longer supported.

The amount of memory required depends on the number of concurrent users, and the data in the system.

Virtual Systems

codeBeamer 9.4.x versions are tested with VMware ESXi 5.0, ESX 6.5.0, ESX 6.7.0 and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).

Docker

Docker image is changed, please note the following changes

centos 7.6.1810 is used as a base image
additional environment variables are added
hosted SCMs are removed from the image
codeBeamer is available on http://localhost/ without /cb

Docker image is tested with 18.06.1-ce version of Docker

Docker with OpenShift

Docker and OpenShift configurations are automatic, please follow the installation instructions.

codeBeamer 9.4.x versions are tested with OpenShift (OKD 3.11) on AWS instances

Supported Java Runtime Environment (JRE)

Platform	Version	Tested with	Recommended
Oracle JRE	1.8.201 or higher	1.8.0_191 and 1.8.0_201 / 64-Bit
Open JDK	1.8.201 or higher	1.8.0_191 and 1.8.0_201 / 64-Bit

Supported Application Servers

codeBeamer is shipped and tested with Apache Tomcat 8.5.40. The windows-based installer has the tomcat application server already included.

It is recommended to upgrade to Apache Tomcat 8.5.40 version because of http://tomcat.apache.org/security-8.html

codeBeamer 9.4.x Supported Databases

Database	Version	Tested with
MySql	5.7	5.7.21
Oracle	Oracle 12c Standard and Enterprise Edition	12.1.0.2.0
MariaDb	10.1 MariaDB-1~wily	10.1.13-MariaDB-1~wily
*(our tests show that MariaDB is stable but right now we do not recommend to use this on production environments)*
Derby (only for evaluation)	10.14.x	10.14.2.0

codeBeamer 9.4.x Supported Browsers

In all browsers, JavaScript must be enabled to use the full functionality of codeBeamer.

Browser	Version	Tested with
Internet Explorer	11 (compatibility mode must be switched off)	11.674.15063.0
Firefox	66.0.x	66.0.5
Chrome	74.0.x	74.0.3729.131

Internet Explorer is tested with Windows 10 using built in Internet Explorer 11. Windows 7,8 Operation Systems with shipped IE11 are also supported but not tested.

Source Code Management Systems (SCM)

Git	2.11 or higher	tested with Git 2.11
Mercurial (requires special support contract)	3.0.1 or higher	tested with 3.7.3
Perfroce (requires special support contract)	7.0 or higher	tested with 7.0.16.1930
Subversion	1.7.x, 1.8.x, 1.9.x	tested with 1.8.8, 1.9.1

JIRA Integration

JIRA Server version	Tested with
JIRA 7.2.6 or higher	JIRA 7.2.6 and 7.5.1.

Microsoft Office

Windows 7,10
	Office 2013	IE11
		Chrome (latest)
		Firefox (latest)
	Office 2016	IE11
		Chrome (latest)
		Firefox (latest)

You can find more details about Office Edit support

There are known problems with Office 365 in this version are not supported.
Office edit / Webdav have problems with Office 365 additionally Mac Office 2016 does not work with Office edit.