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Nexus 1.0 Beta-4 Released

The 4th installment of the Nexus Maven Repository Manager has been released today. Download it from the Nexus Site.

Enhancements / New Features:

  • Ability to Define Base URL for hosting behind Apache/Proxy
  • Artifact Upload via the UI
  • Scheduled Services
    • Service to Evict unused artifact from Proxy Repositories
    • Snapshot Removal Services
    • Reindex / Clear Caches / Publish Group Index services
  • Group Browsing
  • Left Nav menu optimization and cleanup
    • Search Box added to Left Nav
    • Logs and Config screens combined
    • Maintenance and Configuration Sections collapsed
    • Online help section added
    • RSS Feeds combined into a new UI, new Feeds added
  • Search Result Paging

You can read more and download the bundle from the Nexus Project. And you can read more about Nexus in the Nexus Chapter of Maven: The Definitive Guide.

Next up is Beta-5 with a complete rework of the Authorization / Authentication to support Role based access.

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Posted by Brian Fox on July 8, 2008 12:02:04 PM EDT #


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Re: Nexus 1.0 Beta-4 Released

Comment from Anonymous on July 9, 2008 9:21:30 AM EDT #
Previous nexus releases have had upgrade instructions / bundles ? How are upgrades with beta-4 supposed to be handled?

btw -- i've used most of the maven repository/proxies that are out there, and nexus blows them all away.  Thanks for the great product.
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Re: Nexus 1.0 Beta-4 Released

Comment from Brian Fox on July 9, 2008 9:22:34 PM EDT #
First, thanks for the compliments.

The upgrade is the same as it was for 3.1. We made more changes to the platform so a bundle for upgrade won't work.

To upgrade, unpack the new nexus, copy your /runtime/work/nexus folder and /runtime/apps/nexus/conf/*.* to the new location and fire up the new one.

I usually setup my system so that the work folder is separate from the app tree so that i don't have to move it and just copy the config.

We are making changes in beta-5 to have the config be externalized as well for even easier upgrades in the future.