This feature allows user to configure the preferred cluster primary when starting a cluster by configuring an election priority for the store as follows.

When 2 members connect and either instance is equally eligible to assume the primary role this knob gives priority to the member with the lowest configured priority

This release introduces the setting inactiveMessageTypeStatsInclusionFrequency to XVM heartbeat configuration. This setting can be used to control how frequently message type stats are reported for message types without any activity. By default this value is set to 1 meaning that inactive types are included in every heatbeat, but it can be set to 0 to exclude inactive types in heartbeats, or set to a value N, greater than 1 so that every Nth heartbeat inactive message type stats are included.

This improvement changes when the affinity dump trace is printed (when nv.aep.config trace is enabled) to be printed after messaging is started or when an engine enters the cluster backup role rather than earlier in the engine startup so that bus related threads are created and affinitized when the trace is emitted.

As a consequence an application that comes up as a Backup then transitions to primary will have affinity trace dump at both points in its lifecycle

This milestone changes the name of 'nv.sma.treatemptykeyasnull' introduced in the last milestone as part of XPLATFORM-1839 to 'nv.sma.treatemptykeyfieldasnull' to be more consistent with the existing property name 'nv.sma.allowemptykeyfield'

This release removes the (experimental) ADM annotation processor. It is expected that this processor will be added back in a later release after being revamped.