This Week in OpenNMS: Season 1.6, Episode 57: Release Candidates Come and Go

It's time for This Week in OpenNMS <http://www.opennms.org>. In the last
week, we released 1.8 rc2 (1.7.91), and did a few other bugfixes and such.


  Project Updates

    * *Stable: Current Release is 1.6.11*
      1.6.11 is the current stable release, tagged May 20th. It adds a
      few small features and fixes a few bugs. For a full list, see the
      bugzilla 1.6.11 milestone
      <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/buglist.cgi?target_milestone=1.6.11&bug_status=VERIFIED>.
      This is a non-critical but recommended upgrade for anyone on
      OpenNMS versions older than 1.6.11.
    * *Unstable: Current Release is 1.7.91*
      1.7.91 is the current unstable release, tagged May 26th. Since
      1.7.90, there have been a few bug fixes. A full list of changes is
      in the release notes
      <http://www.opennms.org/documentation/ReleaseNotesUnStable.html#opennms-1.7.91>.
    * *Unstable: Remote Poller Updates*
      The remote poller was updated to handle config changes on the fly,
      and is more resilient to errors on the server or poller side,
      retrying instead of exiting out.
    * *Unstable: Logging Cleanups*
      Seth has fixed up logging in a bunch of different places in the
      code, and I've updated log4j.properties to get some stuff out of
      uncategorized.log and where they belong.
    * *Unstable: SVG Maps*
      Antonio has been doing more bug fixes and a few minor features in
      the SVG maps.
    * *Unstable: Changes to the Page Sequence Monitor*
      The PSM previously followed a 3xx REDIRECT received when POSTing
      as a GET. While this is useful in some cases, in others, it can
      make it hard to tell definitively what's going on when following a
      sequence of pages. The best way to set up a sequence to handle a
      redirect is to first do a page tag which detects the redirect
      (using the "response-range" attribute), and then a second page tag
      which goes to the relevant location. To make this easier, a new
      parameter to the page tag was added: *locationMatch*, which lets
      you perform a regular expression match against the Location:
      specified in the redirect.
      A simple example would look something like this:

          <page path="/foo" method="POST" response-range="300-399" locationMatch="/expected_redirect_url_fragment">
            <parameter key="j_username" value="foo"/>
            <parameter key="j_password" value="bar"/>
          </page>
          <page virtual-host="localhost" path="/expected_redirect_url_fragment.htm"  method="POST" successMatch="monkeys!">

      The old POST -> GET behavior can be enabled by creating a
      parameter in the poller-configuration.xml service entry:

          <parameter key="redirect-post" value="true" />


  Bugs Fixed Since Last Week

    * #2914 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2914>: Add
      ability to search by node id
    * #2980 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2980>: Unable
      to schedule due to null pointer
    * #3413 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3413>: Replace
      JEP with Apache Commons JEXL
    * #3609 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3609>: Remove
      unwanted exceptions from Provisiond log
    * #3732 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3732>: Running
      the early morning report causes NPE
    * #3751 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3751>: Refactor
      SVG Map ContextMenu
    * #3780 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3780>:
      Collection fails to start with Provisiond newSuspectEvents
    * #3785 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3785>: Page
      Sequence Monitor uses configured method instead of GET when
      following redirects
    * #3786 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3786>: vacuumd
      does not fill eventsource column which violates db constraints
    * #3789 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3789>: No way
      to identify a node's requisition/source
    * #3796 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3796>: Need to
      be able to search for a node by foreign source
    * #3801 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3801>:
      gnu-crypto library is required for RadiusAuthenticationProvider
    * #3803 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3803>: log
      statments log wrong values
    * #3809 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3809>: Web UI
      should have more naked women
    * #3810 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3810>:
      repair-sequences could reset sequences to a bad state
    * #3811 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3811>:
      transaction exceptions make it through RMI interfaces


  OpenNMS is Project of the Month at SourceForge!

OpenNMS is Project of the Month
<http://sourceforge.net/blog/potm-201006/> at SourceForge. They did a
nice interview with Tarus, who went over the history of the project all
the way up through our plans for the future. Check it out!


  Upcoming Events

    * June 11th-12th, 2010: Antonio will be speaking at the Conferenza
      Italiana sul Software Libero
      <http://www.confsl.org/confsl10/index.php/opennms>(Italian
      Conference on Free Software)
    * June 11th-13th, 2010: The OpenNMS Group
      <http://www.opennms.com/> is a diamond sponsor of the Southeastern
      Linuxfest <http://www.southeastlinuxfest.org/>to be held in South
      Carolina. Since it's close, we expect a lot of the OpenNMS crew
      will be able to make it.
    * July 7th-9th, 2010: Ben will be speaking at OpenStreetMaps' State
      of the Map 2010 <http://stateofthemap.org/>, in Girona, Spain.
    * July 21st, 2010: Tarus will be giving his "So, You Think You Want
      to Start an Open Source Business?" talk at OSCON
      <http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010/public/schedule/detail/13160>
    * July 26th-30th, 2010: OpenNMS Dev-Jam 2010
      <http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Dev-Jam_2010> will be held at the
      University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN

Also, I'll be at WWDC next week if you feel like saying "hi," just send
me an email and we can meet up.
If you have anything to add to the events list, please let me know
<mailto:[email protected]>.


  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 spare release candidate
or two that you'd like to share, don't hesitate to say hi
<mailto:[email protected]>.

-- 

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

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