This release is required for EAP 5.0 Beta testing. It may be that during the EAP testing cycle, further fixes will be required to JGroups.

Here are the fixes which are so far logged against this release:
Release Notes - JGroups - Version 2.6.11

• • Bug
• JGRP-912 - Failed to parse the jgroups.xml file
• JGRP-984 - JGroups can not parse IPV6 literals in TCPPING protocol configuration
• JGRP-985 - Flush and join problems during constant node failures and constant joins
• JGRP-986 - FLUSH: relax event sequencing for a joining member
• JGRP-997 - AUTH: incorrect matching of src against memberList
• JGRP-1000 - COMPRESS corrupts some messages
• JGRP-1006 - Shared transport: shunned multiple channels can not reconnect
  • Task
• JGRP-982 - Extend linux method of creating multicast socket to HP-UX
• JGRP-1004 - GroupRequest: don't ignore InterruptedException

Over and above these issues, this release needs to be throughly tested against IPv6 and this will require changes to the testsuite, as were applied to 2.4.6 (JGRP-951).

There are other IPv6-related issues which also should be addressed, in particular JGRP-956.