The NCache team is excited to announce the release of NCache 5.0 Service Pack 4! This latest version provides new enhancements to NCache along with some important bug fixes. All NCache users are recommended to upgrade to NCache 5.0 SP4. The latest edition provides more configuration options for WAN Replication and support for the latest version of EF Core (3.1). Alongside new additions added to our Professional Edition, NCache 5.0 SP4 supports Server-Only licensing, includes monthly feature usage reporting, and provides PowerShell Cmdlet for evaluation and extension. We are also excited to announce that in this release NCache Cloud Service is offered in Azure and AWS, where all editions of NCache can now be installed in both.
To learn more about the changes and improvements in NCache 5.0 Service Pack 4, you can read our release notes here.
What’s New in 5.0 SP4
Along with significant performance optimizations, NCache 5.0 SP4 has several feature enhancements which will provide you with the in-memory speed and massive scalability capabilities that your business needs for its mission critical applications.
You can take advantage of the following new features with NCache 5.0 SP4:
- More configuration options for WAN Replication
WAN Replication can now be customized further to have more control over how frequently data is replicated between two data centers. Here are the configurations;- Bridge Replication Interval
- Replication Interval is the intermediate delay interval in milliseconds between two consecutive replications. Its default value is set at 3000 milliseconds (3 seconds). Users can change this interval as per their requirement by adjusting the value of the ‘NCacheServer.BridgeReplicationInterval’ tag in the NCache service configuration file.
- Bulk Threshold Size
- The cache sends operations to the bridge in bulk of provided threshold size. The default size is 500 KB. Users can configure this size by changing the value of tag ‘NCacheServer.BridgeBulkOperationSize’ in the NCache service configuration file.
- Support for EF Core 3.1
- Support for the latest version of EFCore is provided in this release.
- Server-Only Licensing
- Server-Only licensing is supported in this new release where only server licenses are purchased. In this type of licensing, one cache server requires a minimum of 4 licenses.
- Additions in Professional Edition
- Following features are added to NCache professional edition.
- Professional editions can communicate with Enterprise servers.
- Support for JSON API.
- Auto-start caches at startup
- Support for EFCore
- Support for ASP.NET Core SignalR
- Support for Full text searching
- Support for Output Caching
- Feature Usage Reporting
- NCache sends a feature usage report once a month to Alachisoft server. This is done to improve the product based on the data received from customers. Following information is part of this report;
- Cluster size and topology
- Number of clients that connect with this cluster
- NCache Features used
- PowerShell Cmdlet for Evaluation and Extension
- A new PowerShell cmdlet ‘Register-NCacheEvaluation’ is provided to register NCache for free evaluation using the evaluation key received from Alachisoft. This cmdlet can also be used to extend the evaluation period.NCache Open Source can be registered using Register-NCacheOpenSource cmdlet.
- Support for NCache Cloud Service
- This release of NCache supports NCache Cloud offering. NCache Cloud Service is offered in Azure and AWS.
- Installation in Azure and AWS
- All editions of NCache can now be installed in Azure and AWS but it is recommended that NCache’s marketplace image is used instead of installing NCache.
- NCache sends a feature usage report once a month to Alachisoft server. This is done to improve the product based on the data received from customers. Following information is part of this report;
- Following features are added to NCache professional edition.
- Bridge Replication Interval
List of Bugs Fixed:
- 744194 FIX: Remove cache PowerShell command does not remove client cache associated with cache that causes issues when recreating cache and client cache.
- 744195 FIX: Cache item metadata is lost on fetching data from one client cache after updating it from the other client cache
- 744196 FIX: L1 is not initialized when the configuration is provided in config of install directory and is missing from local configs in application bin folder.
- 744197 FIX: Cache host process is consuming high memory with Pub/Sub.
Get Started with NCache 5.0 Service Pack 4
You can start evaluating a free 60-day trial for the latest NCache 5.0 SP4 release with the latest features of NCache Enterprise that can help you build highly scalable and performance-optimized .NET/.NET Core applications.
