[cacti-announce] 1.2.0 Beta 1 Available for Evaluation and Team Grows!

[Tony R. <tr...@ca...>]

### Development Team Grows

The Cacti Group would like to welcome netniV@Github to the development 
team. In a short period of time he has made considerable contributions 
to the functionality of Cacti all the while helping the members of the 
community. Welcome to the team!

### Open Beta

Cacti 1.2 Beta is here and been in development for little more than a year!

We have been focused on enhancing Cacti and fixing a lot of issues all 
over the last year.  While we did not get all the enhancements we wanted 
into 1.2, only somewhere around 150+ enhancements and fixes, we believe 
it is time to release it into the wild.

As always we want to thank the people that use Cacti, participate on the 
Forums, submit issues and pull requests! We encourage people to get 
involved and help make Cacti better!  This beta would not be possible 
without the efforts of the community members who have activity helped in 
testing, reporting issues and submitting fixes!

Thank You!

If you are interested in participating in the 1.2 Beta please visit the 
Community Forums Beta Section [1] for more information.

#### Cacti 1.2.0 Beta Enhancements

- Extensive update to the installation process making new installations 
and upgrading easier.  Also includes a new command line upgrade script 
for those who want to use command line only.

- Additional data collection debugging.

- System notification to let you know when things are going wrong in Cacti.

- User interface enhancement, not limited to but including, updated 
dialog boxes and form controls.

- Database connection now supports SSL configuration.

- Data input method whitelisting to mitigate potential malicious activities.

- Graph trees can now be bookmarked once again!  YAH!

- Enhanced remote polling capabilities primarily around performance and 
offline functionality.

#### Download the Beta

https://www.cacti.net/downloads/beta/cacti-1.2.0-beta1.tar.gz
https://www.cacti.net/downloads/beta/cacti-1.2.0-beta1.zip
https://www.cacti.net/downloads/beta/cacti-spine-1.2.0-beta1.tar.gz

### Translations

We need some help with translations!  If you willing and able to help 
please consider helping out.  Check out the contributing to translations 
section [2].

### Documentation

Going forward there are considerable efforts being made to make sure we 
have an easy and effective way to create, managed and distribute 
documentation. In the 1.2 Beta you may notice that documentation has now 
been included and is accessible directly from the user interface making 
it more visible than it has ever previously been. If you are interested 
in helping make the documentation excellent then please do not hesitate 
to get involved and contribute on the Cacti Documentation repository [3].

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[1] https://forums.cacti.net/viewforum.php?f=27

[2] 
https://github.com/Cacti/documentation/blob/develop/Contributing-Translations.md

[3] https://github.com/Cacti/documentation