There's been a new release of Sonatype Nexus Repository version 1.0.0-beta-4.
We've also updated the Nexus chapter in the online version of the book to coincide with this release. Changes include a post-install checklist, scheduled services, and coverage of other new features. Including...
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A Post-install Checklist: Run through this post-install checklist to make sure that your proxied repositories are downloading the remote indexes.
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Scheduled Services: Nexus now has support for scheduled services which can run on arbitrary schedules. These services are used for such things as publishing indexes or clearing caches.
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Expanded Coverage of Using Nexus: Browsing Repositories, Groups, and searching for Artifacts.
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A section on the System Feeds: Nexus publishes a set of RSS feeds which track system events.
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Reading Nexus logs and configuration files from the Nexus UI.
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Instructions for using the new deployment user to conduct secure deployments to hosted repositories.
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Modifying your Maven settings to work with the deployment user security.

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