Para

API Development

A scalable, multitenant backend server/framework for object persistence and retrieval that speeds up application development

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Java Latest 1.54.6 · 12h ago Security brief →

Features

RESTful JSON API with Amazon Signature V4 authentication
Database‑agnostic support for DynamoDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc.
Full‑text search via Lucene/Elasticsearch and distributed caching

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1.54.6 New feature 12h

Batch emails + config utils + keys + LDAP +

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1.54.5 Feature 29d

Notable features

Mermaid diagrams can now be rendered in Markdown using Flexmark

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6034f723 [maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration
540645dd [maven-release-plugin] prepare release 1.54.5
22226199 Release 1.54.5.
7e7e72c8 added Mermaid support in Markdown (via Flexmark)
f8e9d0fd [maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration

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1.54.3 Feature 1mo

Notable features

ParaClient now supports fire‑and‑forget hybrid async requests where calling async methods sends a sync request to Para but does not wait for completion

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b3f01b46 [maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration
f4f6bbcf [maven-release-plugin] prepare release 1.54.3
57455fac added new capability to ParaClient - fire-and-forget feature with hybrid async requests where calling async methods sends a sync request to Para but doesn't wait for it to finish
83f5769e [maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration

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1.54.1 Bug fix 1mo

Notable features

Executor service now uses virtual threads

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5bead5d8 [maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration
d54678fe [maven-release-plugin] prepare release 1.54.1
24110c32 changed Para's executor service to use virtual threads
593fafc3 updated logback.xml
68f812dc fixed 400 error when chunkSize=0 and readAll() called with 1000+ keys (URL length limit exceeded)
102b55ac updated App.setSettings() to prevent exception
6b3faa44 [maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration

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1.54.0 Breaking risk 1mo

Breaking changes

Renamed `ParaMCPServer` to `MCPResources`

Notable features

Added MCP server implementation based on Spring AI
Automatic MCP listing of all available tools

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da54db9a added MCP server implementation based on Spring AI, fixed all javadoc

a7929618 fixed minor issues around javadocs and tests
1aa0d4db updated reachability-metadata.json
403d6d81 updated plugins
ab3e019d updated captcha verification to log scores
ba983abe minor edits to ParaConfig docs
69e7f799 added automatic MCP listing of all available tools
8437b591 refactoring - renamed ParaMCPServer to MCPResources
bdc9ae3d fixed one potential NPE and one ConcurrentModificationException
f086a969 minor fix when checking for empty file in form submission