Nexus 1.4.0 Released !!!

[Damian Bradicich]

Nexus 1.4.0 has been released.

 

This was a rather substantial release, and contains a lot of new functionality and bug fixes.

 

Including:

 

* You can now disable redeployment on a per repository basis, no longer need to define a confusing privilege scheme to achieve this.  Can simply set repository to Read only, Deploy Once or Allow Redeploy.

 

* New security tools: the Role browser allows you to browse the tree of roles assigned to a user, and find the privileges each role is granting.  Also, the new Privilege Trace alls you to find from where a user is getting privileges.

 

* Repository View Privilege: there is a new set of privileges (1 per repository) called a view privilege, if a user doesn't have the view privilege to a particular repository (or group) the privilege will not be seen in the UI (or over rest API calls)

 

* New Plugin Model:  The new plugin model has been implemented and is ready for use !!  The book updates will have information about the extension points available as well as information about the new Nexus Plugin Archetype to make it easy to get started with your own plugins.  You can also read some more details in the blog posts that tamas put together a little while back http://www.sonatype.com/people/2009/07/writing-plugins-for-nexus-part-2/

 

For some of the more pertinent issues, see here http://nexus.sonatype.org/change-history.html (you will also find the FULL list of jira tickets resolved on the link at that page)
  
Nexus OSS can be downloaded here
 
http://nexus.sonatype.org/downloads/
 
Nexus Pro 1.4.0 ( as it is built off of OSS nexus ) contains same list of tasks implemented, along with some new plugins and enhancements to old plugins.  Here are some highlights

 

* Site Plugin: This plugin gives the ability to deploy web sites to nexus professional, and have them served up to users

 

* User Account Plugin: Non registered users can now create new accounts in nexus on their own.  Administrators can configure which role(s) will get assigned to these users upon signing up

 

* Atlassian Crowd Plugin: provides seamless integration between Nexus and Atlassian’s Crowd server, a versatile user and directory management system.

 

* Staging Plugin: a number of improvements here, including, staging rulesets (only allow artifacts that have signatures, or javadocs, etc.), staging bundle upload, and numerous user interface improvements

 
Nexus Pro can be evaluated/purchased here http://www.sonatype.com/products/nexus

 

Enjoy !!
 
Thanks,
Damian