It is my pleasure to announce the release of RHQ 4.12. Notable changes are:

• The UI has been updated to follow the PatternFly look and feel (http://www.patternfly.org). This is not totally complete, please give us your feedback!
• Several new Bundle features:
• Ant bundles now support the rhq:handover that can pass content to the plugin for processing, such as native script execution.
• Ant bundles can now use properties defined using property or rhq:property tags in their recipes.
• Ant Bundle rhq:url-archive and rhq:archive tasks now support the destinationDir attribute for exploded archives.
•  The AS7/EAP plugin now supports Versioned Deployments.
• For example, when deploying myapp-1.0.0.war RHQ now gives you resource myapp.war with version 1.0.0.  In this way history is not lost when updating the version, the resource remains the same and only the version changes.
•     Plugin writers can now report MISSING the availability type in their getAvailability() implementations.
• Used when the underlying resource is detected as physically removed, this can result in automatic uninventory or ignore of the resource.
•     An important effort has been made to harden the Postgres plugin.
•     The RHQ Storage Node component continues to mature.
•     The RHQ Server now runs on top of EAP 6.3.alpha (previously it ran on EAP 6.1.Alpha).

Release notes and zip download links are here:

    http://docs.jboss.org/author/display/RHQ/Download+RHQ

If you want to try out RHQ without too much setup, a pre-created Docker image will soon be available here:

    http://index.docker.io/u/gkhachik/rhq-fedora.20/

We look forward to your feedback via:

• The RHQ Users mailing list:  http://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/rhq-users
• The RHQ Developers mailing list: http://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/rhq-devel
• #rhq on irc.freenode.net

For their code contributions to this release, special thanks go to:

• Elias Ross
• Michael Burman