System Requirements

This page describes the hardware and software requirements of codeBeamer 9.5.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 9.5.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 9.5.x versions are tested with OpenShift (OKD 3.11) on AWS instances

Supported Java Runtime Environment (JRE)

Platform	Version	Tested with	Recommended	Platform
Open JDK	1.8.222 or higher	1.8.0_222-4-redhat / 64-Bit		Windows
Open JDK	1.8.222 or higher	1.8.0_221 and 1.8.0_222 / 64-Bit		Linux

Supported Application Servers

codeBeamer is shipped and tested with Apache Tomcat 8.5.45. The windows-based installer has the tomcat application server already included.

It is recommended to upgrade to Apache Tomcat 8.5.45 version because of http://tomcat.apache.org/security-8.html.

codeBeamer 9.5.x Supported Databases

Database	Version	Tested with	Can be used in production
MySql	5.7	5.7.24
Oracle	Oracle 12c Standard and Enterprise Edition	12.2.0.1.0
(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 9.5.x Supported Browsers

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

For Mozilla browsers ( up from non-tested Firefox version 70 ), it might be needed to toggle the value of dom.storage.next_gen to false in case there are page elements fails to load ( i.e. new comment window ) due to a known issue in Firefox as described in https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/some-pages-or-page-elements-fail-load-after-updating

Source Code Management Systems (SCM)

JIRA Integration

Microsoft Office

You can find more details about Office Edit support