Sonatype is happy to announce the availability of Nexus 1.6. We’ve cut a new release for both Nexus Open Source and Nexus Professional. This post walks through the changes introduced to both Nexus Open Source and Nexus Professional.  Nexus Open Source now supports auto block/unblock for remote repositories which may become unavailable, and Nexus Professional adds some new configuration fields for the Staging Suite.  In addition to these new features, Nexus has now completed the transition to Guice, and we are providing 100% documentation coverage of the Nexus REST API. Continue reading →