This Week in OpenNMS: Season 1.6, Episode 21: When It's Ready

It's time for This Week in OpenNMS. This week, we've continued work on
what will become OpenNMS 1.8.


Project Updates
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- Stable: Current Release is 1.6.5

1.6.5 is the current stable release, released May 16th.  It fixes a
number of bugs, and adds a few features.  For a full list, see the
bugzilla 1.6.5 milestone.  This is a non-critical but recommended
upgrade for anyone on OpenNMS versions older than 1.6.5.

   http://tinyurl.com/opennms-165

- Unstable: Current Release is 1.7.3

1.7.3 is the current unstable release, released May 3rd.  It fixes a
number of 1.7.2 bugs, and is the first public release including the new
ACL code.  A 1.7.x overview is available in the release notes on the site.

   http://tinyurl.com/opennms-17x

- Unstable: Database Schema Management

The new LiquiBase implementation for database upgrade/install is now
live and integrated into the opennms `install` command.  It's working in
the test conditions I've been able to set up, but please, give it a shot
and let us know if you run into any issues with it.

- Unstable: ACL UI Work

Massimiliano Dessì has been tooling along on the ACL/Custom View UI
webapp.  Hopefully this will be finished up before 1.8 goes final, but
if not, it will probably be included in a later 1.8.x release.

- Unstable: Provisiond Updates

Donald has been running into some strange issues with Dhcpd trying to
get the DHCP detector working.  Matt is continuing his work on
refactoring and finishing up Provisiond.  Right now there's an issue
with interfaces sticking around even if they've been removed that's
holding up further development.

- Unstable: JDBC Monitor

Jason Aras has been working on a proper JDBC monitor (which lets you do
data collection and run arbitrary queries) in a branch.

- Unstable: Ackd

David and Matt did some more work on getting Ackd finished up.


SourceForge Community Choice Awards
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Last week, SourceForge opened nominations for the 2009 Community Choice
Awards.  These annual awards provide a chance for the larger open source
community to recognize the projects that they get the most out of.  The
OpenNMS project has made a strong showing in past years in the "Best
Project for the Enterprise" category: a crowded field to be sure, but we
think the most appropriate for a product that spans so many of the other
categories.

If you use and love OpenNMS, you can help by nominating the project
yourself -- just click below, then select "Best Project for the
Enterprise" from the drop-down list.  Thanks in advance!

   http://tinyurl.com/opennms-cca2009


Upcoming Events
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August 12, 2009: Tarus will be giving a talk at OpenSourceWorld: DM4:
The Open Source Management Stack.

   http://tinyurl.com/open-source-network-stack

September 21st-25th, 2009: OpenNMS training will be available through
The OpenNMS Group at the OpenNMS training facility in Pittsboro, NC.

For more information on training, go to:
   http://www.opennms.com/training.html

If you have anything to add to the events list, please let me know.


Speaking of Timelines...
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...Another TWiO out the door, on time!

As always, if there's anything you'd like me to talk about in a future
TWiO, or you just have a comment, criticism, or network management
fanfic you'd like to share, don't hesitiate to say hi.  Also, we've
still got room for more Order of the Blue Polo members if you'd like to
send your own testimonial.  (Of course you would!)

   http://www.opennms.org/index.php/OBP


-- 
Benjamin Reed
The OpenNMS Group
http://www.opennms.org/

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