Nexus Book Update: Now Available from Lulu
By Tim OBrien
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Lulu is an on-demand printing service so orders will take around 3-5 days to complete. We've decided to start distributing the book at the lowest price possible to make sure that anyone can get their hands on a copy. Let us know if having a printed version is important to you, and also contact us if you have any requests or comments about the printed product.
Read on for a list of changes in the latest Nexus Book release.
The following changes were introduced in Edition 1.7.1 on November
2, 2009:
- Updated version of Nexus and Nexus Pro to 1.4.0
The following changes were introduced in Edition 1.7 on September
28, 2009:
- Updated Information about Roles and Privileges. (NXBOOK-290)
- Updated Figure , “Managing Security Privileges”
- Updated Figure , “Managing Security Privileges”
- Updated Figure 5.23, “Create, Delete, Read, and Update Privileges Created”
- Updated Figure 5.26, “Managing Security Roles”
- Updated Figure , “Managing Security Roles”
- Updated Figure , “Managing Security Roles”
- Updated Figure 5.29, “Managing Security Roles”
- Added Figure 5.30, “Managing Users”
- Added Figure 5.31, “Nexus User Role Tree”
- Added Figure 5.32, “Nexus User Privilege Trace”
- Updated Section 5.1.6.4, “Managing Users”
- Updated Section 5.1.6.3, “Managing Security Roles”
- Updated Section 5.1.6.1, “Managing Privileges”
- Updated repository configuration section
- Udpated Figure 5.9, “Repository Configuration Screen for a Proxy Repository”
- Updated Figure 5.10, “Repository Configuration Screen for a Proxy Repository”
- Added information about the Publish URL setting to Section 5.1.2, “Managing Repositories”. (NXBOOK-291)
- Added Figure 5.11, “Proxy Configuration Access Settings for a Hosted
Repository” - Added information about "Deployment Policy" to Section 5.1.2, “Managing Repositories”. (NXBOOK-292)
- Updated the SMTP settings screenshot to include the Test
Settings button. (NXBOOK-326)
- Added a section about the automated error reporting feature
(NXBOOK-294)- Added Figure 5.5, “Configuring the Automated Error Reporting”
- Added Figure 5.6, “The Sonatype Issue Tracker”
- Added Figure 5.7, “Signing Up for a Sonatype Issue Tracker Account”
- Added documentation of feature to Section 5.1.1.1, “Configuring Automated Error Reporting Settings”
- Added a section about the Repository Summary Panel (NXBOOK-297)
- Added Figure 5.14, “Repository Summary Panel for a Hosted Repository”
- Added Figure 5.15, “Repository Summary Panel for a Proxy Repository”
- Added Figure 5.16, “Repository Summary Panel for a Virtual Repository”
- Added documentation of feature to Section 5.1.2.3, “Viewing Repository Summary Panel”
- Added a section about Staging Rulesets (NXBOOK-303)
- Added Figure 9.8, “Creating a Staging Ruleset”
- Added documentation of feature to Section 9.6.1, “Managing Staging Rulesets”
- Updated Section 9.3.3, “Configuring Staging Profiles” to
include information about associating Rulesets with Staging
Profiles - Added Figure , “Associating a Staging Ruleset with a Staging Profile”
- Added instructions for associating rulesets to profiles in
Section 9.6.2, “Defining Rulesets for Promotion”
- Added information about browsing a repository index
- Updated text in Section 4.2, “Browsing Repositories”
- Added Figure 4.3, “Browsing a Nexus Repository Index”
- Updated Figure 4.2, “Browsing a Nexus Repository”
- Updated text in Section 4.3, “Browsing Groups”
- Added Figure 4.5, “Browsing a Nexus Group Index”
- Updated Figure 4.4, “Browsing a Nexus Group”
- Document new version notification settings (NXBOOK-325)
- Added Figure 5.8, “New Version Notification Settings”
- Added documentation for feature to Section 5.1.1.2, “New Version Notification”
- Added a new chapter Chapter 17, Nexus Best Practices. (NXBOOK-64)
- Added Chapter 14, User Account Plugin (NXBOOK-305)
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Added Chapter 15, Nexus Atlassian Crowd Plugin. (NXBOOK-313)
- Added Chapter 16, Artifact Bundles. (NXBOOK-309)
- Added a new chapter Chapter 13, Deploying Sites to Nexus. (NXBOOK-306)
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Added a new chapter Chapter 18, Developing Nexus Plugins. (NXBOOK-336)
- Updated Figure 5.4, “Configuring PGP Keyserver Preferences”, to
include an updated list of keyservers. (NXBOOK-316) - Updating Screenshots in Chapter 9, Nexus Staging Suite. (NXBOOK-308)
- Updated Figure 9.3, “.*Enterprise Menu after Staging Suite Installation”.
- Updated Figure 9.6, “Editing a Staging Profile”.
- Updated Figure 9.7, “Uploading a Staged Deployment in Nexus”.
- Removed the list of Application Privileges from Section 5.1.6.1, “Managing Privileges”.
- Added a clarification about the SASL Realm option to Section 7.3, “Connection and Authentication”. (NXBOOK-307)
- Fixed a problem with a label in Section 1.1, “Introduction”. (NXBOOK-219)
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Added Linux trademark attribution to Copyright. (NXBOOK-321)
- Changed all references to Linux to GNU/Linux. (NXBOOK-322)
- Documented the new RSS feed for Errors and Exceptions in Section 4.6, “Browsing System Feeds”. (NXBOOK-287)
- Fixing typos from proofread of the Edition 1.6 PDF:
- Fixed various spelling and grammar errors on page 78 in
Section 4.3, “Browsing Groups” and Section 4.4, “Searching for Artifacts”. (NXBOOK-221) - Fixed sentence structure issue on page 77 in Section 4.2, “Browsing Repositories”. (NXBOOK-222)
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Fixed a hyphenation issue in the first sentence of the
first paragraph of Section 4.2, “Browsing Repositories” on page 76. (NXBOOK-223) - Removed extra comma from third sentence of first paragraph
of Section 3.5, “Adding a Repository to a Group” on page 72.
(NXBOOK-224) - Fixed a that/which in fourth sentence of first paragraph
of Section 3.4, “Adding a New Repository” on page 71. Fixed a
spelling issue in the last sentence of the same paragraph.
(NXBOOK-225) - Separated sentence in the
conf/
entry,indexer/
entry, andlogs/
entry on page 61 in Section 2.10.1, “Sonatype Nexus Work Directory”. (NXBOOK-232) - Fixed a grammar issue in the first sentence of the note on
page 57 in Section 2.8, “Installing the Nexus WAR”. (NXBOOK-233) -
Fixed grammar issues in the last paragraph of Section 2.6.1.1, “Add Nexus as a Service on Redhat, Fedora, and CentOS” on page 55.
- Fixed various spelling and grammar errors on page 78 in
Written by Tim OBrien
Tim is a Software Architect with experience in all aspects of software development from project inception to developing scaleable production architectures for large-scale systems during critical, high-risk events such as Black Friday. He has helped many organizations ranging from small startups to Fortune 100 companies take a more strategic approach to adopting and evaluating technology and managing the risks associated with change.
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