# Sonatype Nexus Repository 3.64.0-04 - Product: Sonatype Nexus Repository (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/nexus-repository) - Vendor: Sonatype - Date: 2024-01-15 - Version: 3.64.0-04 - Original notes: https://github.com/sonatype/nexus-public/releases/tag/release-3.64.0-04 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/nexus-repository/releases/3.64.0-04 What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **added** — Support for use of Java 21 as the JVM runtime environment - **added** — Ability to configure Nexus Repository as an S3 backend datastore using AWS SDK 2 - **added** — Ability to define IP Allow and Deny rules through the UI and REST API - **added** — New admin REST API endpoints for managing component retention policies - **changed** — RHEL 9 and CentOS 9 are now supported as host operating systems - **changed** — Upgraded embedded Apache Tomcat to version 9.0.84 - **changed** — Improved search performance with a redesigned search result caching mechanism - **fixed** — Resolved issues with blob store migrations when configured with S3 backend datastores - **fixed** — Corrected handling of Maven artifacts with special characters in filenames during repository mirroring - **deprecated** — Java 8 runtime environment support is deprecated and will be removed in a future release https://help.sonatype.com/repomanager3/product-information/release-notes/2024-release-notes/sonatype-nexus-repository-3.64.0-release-notes