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-1.4...

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=refs/.... 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%3E Once you have done that you can start to submit patches on the dev mailing list.

Thank you!

-- bk