Minimum configuration and prerequisites for Squash TM on a virtual or physical server

May 2021 article: these prerequisites are out of date. For the requirements of the current SquashTM version, see System Requirements and Prerequisites in the documentation.

System requirements:

Prerequisites:

• Operating system: system able to run JVM

• Java execution environment: JRE 8 or JRE 11. Java 11 is not compatible with the SAML plugin. JDK 8 and 11 are compatible and supported with Squash TM. A Hotspot JVM is recommended, OpenJ9 can work in some cases but is not officially supported (from Squash TM 1.17, it is MANDATORY to use Java 8, Java 7 is not supported anymore).
• Application Server: none (Squash TM embeds its own application server: Tomcat)
• Database: MariaDB 10.5, PostGreSQL 9.6+ (Squash TM is delivered with an embedded database (H2) usable for evaluation purposes. We do not recommend its use in a production context)
• Recommended components:
• Debian Buster
• MariaDB 10.5
• Mantis 2.18.x+, Jira 7 (commercial REST plugin)
• Apache (web front-end)