The Nexus 1.0.0-beta-3.1 release brings several new features and enhancements to the already stable beta-2:
- Maven 1 proxy capability with the ability to group Maven 1 repositories along with Maven 2 in the same group.
- Connection and Validation error handling in the UI.
- Checksum search to identify unknown jars.
- Deployment security
- Many bug fixes and other enhancements
See more details here.
The source for Nexus is also available in a public Subversion repository.
If you wish to build the source yourself, use the following profile definition in your settings.xml and be sure to activate it when building Nexus:
<profiles> <profile> <id>sonatype</id> <repositories> <repository> <id>forge</id> <url>http://repository.sonatype.org:8081/ nexus/content/groups/maven-eclipse</url> <snapshots> <enabled>true</enabled> </snapshots> <releases> <enabled>true</enabled> </releases> </repository> </repositories> <pluginRepositories> <pluginRepository> <id>forge</id> <url>http://repository.sonatype.org:8081/ nexus/content/groups/maven-eclipse</url> <snapshots> <enabled>true</enabled> </snapshots> <releases> <enabled>true</enabled> </releases> </pluginRepository> </pluginRepositories> </profile> </profiles>
Written by Brian Fox
Brian Fox is a software developer, innovator and entrepreneur. He is an active contributor within the open source development community, most prominently as a member of the Apache Software Foundation and former Chair of the Apache Maven project. As the CTO and co-founder of Sonatype, he is focused on building a platform for developers and DevOps professionals to build high-quality, secure applications with open source components.
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