[opennms-announce] This Week in OpenNMS: Season 1.6, Episode 43: Release Time Again

[Benjamin R. <ra...@op...>]

It's time for This Week in OpenNMS.  This last few weeks, we've been
pretty busy on a number of projects, including reporting, maps, and 2
releases.


Project Updates
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- Stable: Current Release is 1.6.8

1.6.8 is the current stable release, tagged December 10th.  It adds a
few small features and fixes a few bugs, as well as adding a new
web-based "easy installer" UI.  For a full list, see the bugzilla 1.6.8
milestone.  This is a non-critical but recommended upgrade for anyone on
OpenNMS versions older than 1.6.8.

    http://tinyurl.com/opennms-168

- Unstable: Current Release is 1.7.8

1.7.8 is the current unstable release, tagged December 8th.  Since
1.7.7, there have been quite a few bug fixes.  A 1.7.x overview is
available in the release notes on the site.

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

- Unstable: Reporting

Jason Aras started working on the specification for a new built-in
reporting engine.  Additionally, Jonathan Sartin has been working on the
reporting scheduling daemon some more.

- Unstable: Map and Link Updates

Antonio and Donald have been doing more work on the map code, fixing
bugs and adding a bit more polish.


Upcoming Events
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* January 25th-29th, 2010:
   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

* February 19th-21st, 2010:
   OpenNMS will be attending the Southern California Linux Expo.

   For more information, go to:
     http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale8x/


Until Next Week...
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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 automated release
scripts you'd like to share, don't hesitiate to say hi.



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