Webinar Replay Now Available: Nexus 2.0 Sneak Preview
Thank you to everyone who made it to our Nexus 2.0 Sneak Preview webinar last week! We had a fantastic turnout and received tremendous interest from our users in the features that are coming in Nexus Pro 2.0, including:
- Integrated security and licensing reports to discover problematic components
- Improved availability with our new Nexus Availability Architecture
- Ability to manage both Java and .NET components from a single repository
The webinar recording is now available here.
Special pre-release pricing is available for Nexus Pro 2.0. Check out the webinar or contact a representative for more information.
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Nexus Gets a Stop Button
We’ve enhanced the leading repository manager to help you develop better software faster. Nexus 1.9.2, recently released, adds a number of new features.
Stop Running Tasks
You can stop running processes immediately and no longer have to wait for them to complete. This is quite useful for recovering from high load situations. Stopping a running process is easy — just select the process and click on the cancel button (see Figure 1). You can also delete tasks without waiting for them to finish. Delete will automatically stop the process and then delete it.
Improved Maven 2 Support
You’ll get improved support for environments with both Maven 2 and Maven 3 clients. Nexus now suppresses Maven 3 metadata automatically when communicating with Maven 2 clients. This improvement allows you to use such mixed environments successfully.
Enhanced User Information
Sonatype Pro for Nexus customers can better audit who uses each Nexus server with usage information that includes userid and user agent.
Download Nexus Today
So what are you waiting for, download the latest version of Nexus OSS or the professional version from our support site. Learn more about Sonatype Pro for Nexus.
Figure 1. Stop running processes easily with the new cancel button
Video: Nexus Basics in 110 Seconds
If your build relies on Maven Central, and you’re not using a repository manager, you are wasting valuable time and bandwidth by continually downloading the same artifacts, over and over again.
But the good news is, with a Nexus repository manager you don’t need to worry about this ever again.
This video gives a quick overview of the benefits of using a Nexus to proxy Maven Central. It also goes over how to store third party libraries, and host artifacts.
Watch the video below:
Nexus Tips and Tricks: Backup Nexus
Sonatype is looking through the archives and re-posting popular articles for those new to Sonatype tools.
The first blog in the series is by Sonatype software developer Juven Xu, on backing up Nexus.
Nexus is the industry leading repository manager that helps reduce build times and increase your control of open source artifacts by managing software artifacts required for development, deployment, and provisioning. Nexus greatly simplifies the maintenance of your own internal repositories and access to external repositories such as Maven Central. With Nexus you can completely control access to, and deployment of, every artifact in your organization from a single location.
If you are already using Nexus, this article will teach you how to back up your repository manager (if you don’t use Nexus, you can click here for more information).
Why Backup
To backup Nexus simply means to make a copy of your Nexus files for safekeeping. The copy should be stored on different hardware, other than the original one. For example, you might want to copy your Nexus settings in the sonatype-work/nexus/config folder to a removable hard disk.
It is important to backup your Nexus files because sometimes things fail. Hard disk might crash, files might be deleted by other programs, even ourselves might delete important files by mistake. With a backup, you will be protected from these frustrating events.
