Developer Release: 1.4.0-B1

[Bryan Kearney]

The RHQ team is proud to announce the first developer build of the RHQ 
1.4.0 platform. This initial developer release, 1.4.0-B1, provides an 
early look at the new features which we are planning for the 1.4.0. This 
release contains many of the plugins which had been available as part of 
the Jopr project, along with the plugins that were included in previous 
RHQ releases.

The message provides details on the release notes, how to download the 
release, and how to get help and contribute to the project.

As with any developer build, it is possible for this build to do bad 
things, like eat your cats. We would advise you to not use this build to 
upgrade existing RHQ or Jopr environments.


Release Notes
=============
The complete release notes can be found at 
http://rhq-project.org/display/RHQ/Release+Notes+1.4.0.B01.

New Features in this release include:

* A new Server Side plugin container which allows server side features 
to be extended without changing core code. You can learn more about this 
feature at http://rhq-project.org/display/RHQ/Server+Plugin+Development.
* Pluggable Alert Senders which allow uses to add their own notification 
senders to the RHQ Engine. Learn more about this at 
http://rhq-project.org/display/RHQ/Design+-+pluggable+alert+senders.
* Several new Alert senders including IRC, Microblogging, and Mobicents
* Improved plugin generator and Annotations to help automate generation 
of plugin descriptors
* New ManualAddFacet for agent plugins that support manual adding of 
resources
* New Perspectives subsystem facilitating customization of regions of 
the RHQ UI. Learn about the design at 
http://rhq-project.org/display/RHQ/Design-Perspectives.

Changes from earlier releases include:

* "Content Source" and "Channel" as content types have been renamed to

"Content Providers" and "Repositories", respectively.
* The SnmpTrapd plugin now uses manual add instead of autodiscovery


Getting the Release
===================
You can access this release in the following ways:

The Tarball binary is available from SourceForge at 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/rhq/files/rhq/rhq-1.4.0.beta1/rhq-server-...

Source code is in the in the git repostiory at Fedora Hosted: 
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/rhq/rhq.git?p=rhq/rhq.git;a=shortlog;h=re....

Instructions for building the code can be found at 
http://rhq-project.org/display/RHQ/Building+RHQ.

You can pull down the bits via maven from the JBoss repostory at 
http://repository.jboss.com/maven2/. Use version 1.4.0.B01 in your pom 
files.



Getting Help
============
If you would like to get in touch with the developers, you can find us 
at #rhq on freenode or on the mailing lists:

Users List: https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/rhq-users
Developers List: https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/rhq-devel

Please use the lists above in favor of the RHQ and Jopr lists and forums 
on rhq-project.org and jboss.org. The old lists will work, but we will 
plan on decomissioning those older lists and forums in the future.

In additon, as mentioned earlier, Bugs can be submitted in Bugzilla at: 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/browse.cgi?product=RHQ%20Project. All 
previous JIRAs have been moved over to Bugzilla.



Contributing
============
If you would like to contribute to the RHQ Project, please join Fedora 
at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/user/new> Once you have done 
that you can start to submit patches on the dev mailing list.

Thank you!

-- bk