Nexus Professional: Staging Suite

If you release artifacts to users or customers, you will often need to test these releases before deploying them to externally accessible repositories. Nexus Staging Suite allows an organization to create a staging repository and to manage the promotion of artifacts from a staging repository to a release repository. Nexus Staging Suite provides an organization with a workflow for controlling releases. For more information, read the Staging Chapter in Repository Management with Nexus.

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Improvements to the Staging Plugin in Nexus 1.4 - The staging plugin had numerous improvements in the 1.4 release to increase usability and provide new functions for staging artifact bundle and verifying that staging repositories follow user configurable rule sets.

Support for Staging Rulesets: Nexus Professional 1.4 provides administrators with the ability to define a set of rules to apply to staging repositories before they can be promoted. The 1.4 release can validate that staging repositories contain valid POMs, valid PGP signatures, javadocs, and sources for all artifacts. The rules are pluggable and we expect to add more rules in the near future to support the Apache repository and our OSS hosting repository
Support for Uploading Artifact Bundles: The staging plugin now accepts artifact bundle uploads. Artifact bundles are archives which contain one or more associated artifacts, they are used to publish artifacts to the Central Maven repository, and you can use Artifact bundles to validate artifacts uploaded to Nexus.
General Usability Improvements in the Staging Plugin: This release of the Staging plugin focused on usability, the Staging plugin is full of improvements that make the user interface more intuitive and easier to use.

Customer Testimonials

"We have adopted Nexus Professional to better manage not only our own repositories but also the depending repositories on the net. And with the support for Staging and Artifact procurement we have more controle over the artifacts produced and used by Marvelution projects. Another nice feature is the Maven Settings templates, it allows users to configure the repositories easier and quicker. Overall Nexus is the perfect platform to manage all your required repositories, being hosted or proxied, it is easy to use and allows for fast searching and uploading of artifacts."
Mark Rekveld, Marvelution

"We have adopted Maven for all our software development projects and have started using Nexus to better support our development processes. The support for promotion and procurement workflows in Nexus Professional now expands Nexus with a robust set of additional features which make it easier for us to maintain consistency between our development, testing and production environments."
Chris Maki, Principal Software Engineer, Overstock.com

"At Intuit, we recognize that as builds grow and the teams who create them change over time, swift, accurate repository management becomes critical. Nexus provides a comprehensive, easy-to-use open source solution that lets teams and developers track, search, organize and access build components."
Kaizer Sogiawala, Software Configuration Management Engineer, Intuit.