Nexus Maven Repository Manager 1.1 Released

November 05, 2008 By Brian Fox

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We would like to announce the release of Nexus 1.1. This release was primarily focused on architecture improvements in the form of ExtJs and Restlet framework upgrades as well as improvements aimed at allowing the introduction of plugins. It also marks the first release of Nexus that is available as a War.

The War has been successfully tested on Resin, Tomcat and Jetty but is considered Beta. It is currently known to not work on Glassfish due to that container's conflict with Log4j. You can find more information regarding the war support at Nexus-58 and Nexus-1055. Please report any issues to the nexus-user list or Jira.

Also included are several enhancements aimed at improving the user experience:

Index Browsing

Previously the browse repository screens only included items already cached by Nexus. The new screen allows you to browse the tree view for a remote repository when the remote index has been downloaded:

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Log Viewing

Tail functionality has been added to the log screen:

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Admin can directly set a user password

It is now possible to set a password directly without requiring an SMTP server:

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Many other improvements and bug fixes are included. The full list can be retrieved from Jira.

Download your copy of Nexus here.

Tags: Nexus Repo Reel, Sonatype Says, Everything Open Source

Written by Brian Fox

Brian Fox is a software developer, innovator and entrepreneur. He is an active contributor within the open source development community, most prominently as a member of the Apache Software Foundation and former Chair of the Apache Maven project. As the CTO and co-founder of Sonatype, he is focused on building a platform for developers and DevOps professionals to build high-quality, secure applications with open source components.