This Week in OpenNMS: Season 1.6, Episode 49: The Road to 1.8

It's time for This Week in OpenNMS.  In the last week, we spent more
time fixing bugs, and working on the remote monitor maps.


Project Updates
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- Stable: Current Release is 1.6.10

1.6.10 is the current stable release, tagged March 9th.  It adds a few
small features and fixes a few bugs.  For a full list, see the bugzilla
1.6.10 milestone. This is a non-critical but recommended upgrade for
anyone on OpenNMS versions older than 1.6.10.

    http://tinyurl.com/opennms-1610

- Unstable: Current Release is 1.7.10

1.7.10 is the current unstable release, tagged March 9th.  Since 1.7.9,
there have been quite a few bug fixes, and a few new features, including
allowing the remote monitor to phone home over HTTP, pushing data
collection to a TCP daemon, and integration of the Jasper reporting
engine.  A full list of changes is in the release notes.

     http://tinyurl.com/opennms-1710

- Unstable: More Cleanup

Seth spent more time cleaning up code for 1.8.  If you know of a
particular bug that is vexing you, please vote for it in bugzilla.  We
can't close everything for 1.8.0, but we can try to get to as many of
the top hits as possible before release.

- Unstable: New Remote Monitoring UI

Donald and I did a bunch more work on the new GWT-based Remote
Monitoring UI.  It's to the point of a tech preview now, and what's
finished so far has been merged to master and is in the latest 1.7 snapshot.


Bugs Fixed Since Last Week
--------------------------

Something a number of folks have asked about is what bugs have been
fixed when I say "also, so-and-so fixed more bugs this week."  So,
without further ado:

* #2234 Map controllers do not like ampersands in node labels
  http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2234
* #3188 Force map image size
  http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3188
* #3231: Upgrade examples/ dir contents to conform with 1.8
  best-practices
  http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3231
* #3261: Shutdown issue (due to WMI filehandle leak)
  http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3261
* #3334: NPE in provisioning web UI when deleting a group with no nodes
  defined
  http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3334
* #3527: Deleting all alarms on a node will not reset the status and
  severity on the map
  http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3527
* #3629: Snmp Poller does not upgrade the snmpinterface status on stop
  http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3629
* #3649: Install on unbuntu 9.10 fails
  http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3649
* #3651: INS Proxy translate wrong ifindex
  http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3651
* #3657: ArraOut Bound in getIfAlias in Ins Proxy
  http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3657
* #3660: The intefaceOperUp-Down and interfaceAdminUp-Down events use
  special character = in logmsg
  http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3660


1.8 is Coming (Really?)
-----------------------

Just an FYI, barring explosions, the heat death of the universe, or some
other thing that pushes it back, we are planning on doing a 1.8 release
candidate (1.7.90) on April 19th.  We'll do a slushy freeze on April
5th, and then spend 2 weeks doing some intense testing and release the
week of the 19th. Fingers crossed!


Goof-Up of the Week
-------------------

Jay was having all kinds of trouble with his build...  Turns out he had
at one point run the build under sudo, and so some of his local maven
repository was owned by root. ;)


Upcoming Events
---------------

* March 30th, 2010:
    10th anniversary of the OpenNMS SourceForge project!

* April 10th, 2010:
    Jeff Gehlbach will be speaking at the Texas Linux Fest on using
    OpenNMS in enterprise environments.

    http://www.texaslinuxfest.org/

* April 19th-23rd, 2010:
    OpenNMS training will be available through The OpenNMS Group at the
    OpenNMS training facility in Pittsboro, NC.

    http://www.opennms.com/training

* May 6th-7th, 2010:
    The second annual OpenNMS Users Conference will be held in
    Frankfurt, Germany, thanks again to Nethinks.

    For more information, go to:
      http://www.opennms-conference.info/

* May 18th-20th, 2010:
    David Hustace, Craig Gallen, and Tarus Balog will be attending the
    TeleManagement Forum's ManagementWorld conference in Nice, France.
    If you use or are interested in OpenNMS and will be at the
    conference, please let them know, they'd love to meet.

    http://www.tmforum.org/ManagementWorld2010/7867/home.html

* June 12th-13th, 2010:
    The OpenNMS Group is a platinum sponsor of the Southeastern
    Linuxfest to be held in South Carolina.  Since it's close, we
    expect a lot of the OpenNMS crew will be able to make it.

    http://www.southeastlinuxfest.org/


Until Next Week...
------------------

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 super-superuser
permissions you'd like to share, don't hesitiate to say hi.


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

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