Your Sonatype Newsletter: June 2011

June 08, 2011 By Heather Loney

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Catch up on the latest news and product releases from the Sonatype team, with our June 2011 Newsletter. In this issue, Hudson moves to Eclipse, enhancements to Nexus, and June training dates for Maven 101 and 201 open for registration.

Hudson: Move to Eclipse, Sonatype donates enhancements, and more

  • Oracle announces Hudson move to Eclipse Foundation Oracle plans to contribute the Hudson core code to the Eclipse Foundation. Read Jason van Zyl's blog or the stories in ADT, eWEEK, and SD Times.
  • Sonatype launches Sonatype Pro™ for Hudson See our website for more details.
  • Hudson Survey Sonatype and Oracle surveyed over 1,200 Hudson users to see what they’d like to see in future versions. The majority of respondents considered reliability and performance to be most important enhancements. Read a summary blog post or get the full details in this presentation.

Nexus News: Enterprise Enhancements Coming Soon

We've been hard at work on Nexus too - not just Hudson.

  • Enterprise Enhancements Our users tell us they want improved enterprise features. Centralized repository management ranks at the top, followed closely by high availability. We will start rolling out these features this summer, beginning with centralized management. Watch this blog for more details. To try early releases or provide feedback to our engineering team, email us.
  • Nexus 1.9.1 We released the latest version of Nexus last month with lots of important, under-the-hood changes. For the full story check out Brian Fox's blog post.
  • New name You may have noticed that the professional, supported version of Nexus has a new name – Sonatype Pro for Nexus. Only the name has changed, everything else is exactly the same.

Sonatype Training: MVN-101 & MVN-201

Learn the know-how and best practices directly from Apache Maven and Nexus experts.

Upcoming Training Classes:

MVN-101: Maven Mechanics - 1 day virtual class
Enrollment fee: $595 USD
MVN-101 Maven Mechanics comprehensively covers Apache Maven installation and configuration, explains the motivation behind Maven and gives an overview of related development tools. Learn more.

Upcoming MVN-101 Classes
Tuesday, June 14, 2011, 9:00AM - 4:00PM CEST (UTC/GMT + 0200)
Monday, June 27, 2011, 11:AM-7:00PM EDT (UTC/GMT - 0400)

MVN-201 Development Infrastructure Design - 1 day virtual class
Enrollment fee: $795 USD
MVN-201 Development Infrastructure Design covers advanced Apache Maven topics and provides expertise with the structure of a Maven POM and a Maven multi-module project. Learn more.

Upcoming MVN-201 Class
Tuesday, June 28, 2011, 11:00AM - 7:00PM EDT (UTC/GMT - 0400)

 

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Written by Heather Loney

Heather is the Communications and Community Engagement Officer at the Upper Grand District School Board. Prior to her current position, Heather was the Senior Producer for Special Projects at Global News and a Copy Editor at Sonatype. Heather managed a team of digital journalists, covering national and international events, as well as consumer, tech and lifestyle news for GlobalNews.ca. Heather has significant experience in journalism, new media, digital storytelling, SEO and social media best practices, WordPress and other content management systems, photography and research.