[opennms-announce] OpenNMS 15 Released

[Tarus B. <ta...@op...>]

Gang:

Today OpenNMS 15 was released. It was a year and a half between the
release of OpenNMS 1.12 and OpenNMS 14, but only three months between
OpenNMS 14 and OpenNMS 15.

As we move forward this year we are trying to adhere more to the open
source mantra of "release early, release often", and thus the new major
release. There have been 1177 new commits since 14.0.3

You'll also notice that this version of OpenNMS has a new name -
Horizon. We've always thought that OpenNMS represents the best network
management platform available and the name is meant to reflect that. We
hope to make as many improvements we can, as fast as we can, without
sacrificing quality, thus keeping OpenNMS out on the "horizon" from the
competition.

The main improvement for the 15 release is in the webUI. Although you
might not notice it at first, we've spent months migrating the whole
interface to a technology called Bootstrap. The Bootstrap framework
allows us to create a responsive UI that should look fine on a computer,
a tablet or a phone. This should allow us a lot more freedom to modify
the style sheet and we hope to be able to add "skinable" theme options soon.

A cool feature that can be found in this new UI is the ability to
automatically resize resource graphs. If you have a particular set of
resource graphs displayed and then you shrink the window, you'll note
that the menu turns into a dropdown and the graphs themselves now fit
the more narrow window. Cool, huh?

There are a number of bug fixes and other new features in OpenNMS, and a
complete list can be found in our Jira instance:

http://issues.opennms.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10001&version=12521

(but for some reason you have to be logged in to see it) or on my blog
post about the release:

http://www.adventuresinoss.com/?p=4215

I am happy to say that there was no need for major security fixes in
this release. (grin)

-T
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