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This release is a major architectural milestone that moves beyond the limitations of the traditional Jakarta Servlet ecosystem, introducing the aspectran-with-netty module for high-performance non-blocking networking combined with Java 21 Virtual Threads, and comprehensively refactoring the web module architecture into aspectran-web and aspectran-web-servlet.

Aspectran recently achieved #1 among Java web frameworks in the global Web Frameworks Benchmark, proving its industry-leading throughput, efficiency, and architectural resilience to engineers worldwide. Yet Aspectran’s journey of innovation never stands still. The upcoming Aspectran 9.7.0 release is far more than an incremental version bump—it marks a fundamental paradigm shift in Aspectran’s web runtime architecture. Ahead of the official 9.7.0 release, we want to share the architectural philosophy, motivation, and exciting breakthroughs behind this milestone.

Aspectran has officially been registered and evaluated in the open-source Web Frameworks Benchmark project. In the latest benchmark results released today, Aspectran achieved #1 in Average Throughput (Average RPS) and #1 across Concurrency 64 and 256 among all tested Java web frameworks.

The Aspectow v4.1.0 release is a feature-rich minor update that significantly enhances Continuous Integration & Delivery (CI/CD) automation and remote lifecycle operations (Build & Deployment), introduces process-independent safe server restarts (Detached Server Restart), and strengthens enterprise security governance and compliance audit trails (Security & Compliance Audit).

This release marks a major milestone for Aspectow, the foundational framework powering the commercial Aspectow Enterprise edition. Notably, aspectow-console is now bundled by default to deliver the administration control plane for Aspectow Enterprise. Evolving from the legacy aspectow-appmon project, Aspectow establishes a robust modular architecture composed of three core components: Node Manager (aspectow-node) for clustering, AppMon (aspectow-appmon) for application telemetry, and Aspectow Console (aspectow-console) for managing Aspectran-based web applications across distributed environments.

This release focuses on adding dependsOn support for the IoC container, introducing a job locking mechanism for distributed environments, and a complete overhaul of the wildcard matching engine. Various features have been added and the internal architecture improved to enhance stability and operational efficiency in enterprise environments.

This release enhances the framework’s flexibility and performance by introducing a sophisticated frame-based Hint mechanism and intelligent database routing for MyBatis and JPA. Additionally, it strengthens modern architectural standards through the standardization of core interfaces and the adoption of Primary-Replica terminology.

This release introduces a major overhaul of the parsing engine and expands output flexibility with new rendering styles, bringing apon.js into full alignment with the latest APON specification.

This release focuses on adding PostgreSQL support, enhancing the flexibility of the persistence layer, improving chart data accuracy through refined aggregation logic, and a comprehensive overhaul of the configuration structure and operational scripts to strengthen the project’s identity.

This release focuses on improving database performance through native date-time handling, optimizing aggregation queries, and enhancing frontend maintainability by refactoring the chart engine.