The last webinar in our series, Build Promotion with Nexus Professional, was a huge success.  Thank you to all who participated! Sonatype is happy to announce another free webinar will be held this Thursday at 6:00 am PDT, 3:00 pm Europe Summer Time (GMT+02:00).

This webinar is an introduction to the Build Promotion capabilities of Nexus Professional, the industry leading repository manager to help companies acquire, manage, and report on open source software artifacts in their software development projects.

If you release software, you will often need to test a release before deploying it to a production system or an externally accessible repository. For example, if you are developing a large, enterprise web application you may want to stage a release candidate to a production system and perform a series of rigorous tests before a release manager makes a decision to either return a system to development or deploy a system to production.

The Build Promotion feature in Nexus Professional allows an organization to create a temporary staging repository and to manage the promotion of artifacts from a staging repository to a release repository. This ability to create an isolated, release candidate repository that can be discarded or promoted makes it possible to support the decisions that go into certifying a release.

To register for this webinar, please click here.

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Sonatype is pleased to announce version 1.5 of the Nexus Migration Plugin. This version contains an updated implementation of our Artifactory to Nexus migration tool. If you are currently running Artifactory and you want to migrate to Nexus, all you need to do is:

1. Create a System Export from Artifactory
2. Install Nexus with the Nexus Migration Plugin
3. Import Your Artifactory System Export to Nexus
4. Configure the Artifactory Bridge to seamlessly serve artifacts to existing clients

You can use the Nexus Migration Plugin with Nexus Open Source or Nexus Professional. To get started, download Nexus Open Source or Nexus Professional, then download the Nexus Migration Plugin. Read Appendix A of the Nexus Book and learn how to:

• Install the Nexus Migration Plugin
• Create a System Export in Artifactory
• Import an Artifactory System Backup into Nexus
• Configure Repository Mapping and Import Settings
• Map Legacy Artifactory URLs to Nexus

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Thanks to all who attended Thursday’s webinar on Build Promotion with Nexus Professional.  To access a recording of this webinar, please click here.

If you missed this week’s webinar, the next Nexus Professional webinar will be held on Thursday August 26, at 6:00 am PDT, 3:00 pm Europe Summer Time (GMT+02:00).

This webinar is an introduction to the Build Promotion capabilities of Nexus Professional, the industry leading repository manager to help companies acquire, manage, and report on open source software artifacts in their software development projects.

To register or learn more, please click here.

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Sonatype is hosting a free webinar this week on Build Promotion with Nexus Professional.  The webinar is hosted by Blaine Mincey, Senior Systems Engineer at Sonatype, and will be held on Thursday August 19 at 10:30 am PDT, 1:30pm EST.

The webinar is an introduction to the Build Promotion capabilities of Nexus Professional, the industry leading repository manager to help companies acquire, manage, and report on open source software artifacts in their software development projects.

If you release software, you will often need to test a release before deploying it to a production system or an externally accessible repository. For example, if you are developing a large, enterprise web application you may want to stage a release candidate to a production system and perform a series of rigorous tests before a release manager makes a decision to either return a system to development or deploy a system to production.

The Build Promotion feature in Nexus Professional allows an organization to create a temporary staging repository and to manage the promotion of artifacts from a staging repository to a release repository. This ability to create an isolated, release candidate repository that can be discarded or promoted makes it possible to support the decisions that go into certifying a release.

Register today!

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The Nexus 1.7.2 release offers an improved search interface making it even easier to locate the libraries and artifacts you need in Nexus.  Sonatype has published a version of Nexus 1.7.2 on http://repository.sonatype.org which contains some dramatic improvements to the search interface.   Download the new Nexus Open Source or Nexus Professional release and start searching for artifacts.

What is new in the Nexus 1.7.2 search interface?

• Search results now link directly to the latest version of a matching artifact.
• Selecting a search result immediately displays information about the matching artifact.  You can browse artifact information from the search interface.
• (Nexus Professional) Archive browsing and artifact metadata are available from the search interface.
• Matching artifacts of different types (pom, jar, war, zip, etc.) can be downloaded from the search results page.

This release takes the effort out of searching for artifacts in Nexus.  Here are some sceenshots of the new interface now available on http://repository.sonatype.org and soon to be available in the 1.7.2 release of Nexus Open Source and Nexus Professional.

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