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This Week in OpenNMS: When It’s Ready

by Benjamin Reed: April 13, 2010

It’s time for This Week in OpenNMS. This week, we’ve continued work on what will become OpenNMS 1.8.

Project Updates

• Stable: Current Release is 1.6.5
  1.6.5 is the current stable release, released May 16th. It fixes a number of bugs, and adds a few features. For a full list, see the bugzilla 1.6.5 milestone. This is a non-critical but recommended upgrade for anyone on OpenNMS versions older than 1.6.5.
• Unstable: Current Release is 1.7.3
  1.7.3 is the current unstable release, released May 3rd. It fixes a number of 1.7.2 bugs, and is the first public release including the new ACL code. A 1.7.x overview is available in the release notes on the site.
• Unstable: Database Schema Management
  The new LiquiBase implementation for database upgrade/install is now live and integrated into the opennms `install` command. It’s working in the test conditions I’ve been able to set up, but please, give it a shot and let us know if you run into any issues with it.
• Unstable: ACL UI Work
  Massimiliano Dessì has been tooling along on the ACL/Custom View UI webapp. Hopefully this will be finished up before 1.8 goes final, but if not, it will probably be included in a later 1.8.x release.
• Unstable: Provisiond Updates
  Donald has been running into some strange issues with Dhcpd trying to get the DHCP detector working. Matt is continuing his work on refactoring and finishing up Provisiond. Right now there’s an issue with interfaces sticking around even if they’ve been removed that’s holding up further development.
• Unstable: JDBC Monitor
  Jason Aras has been working on a proper JDBC monitor (which lets you do data collection and run arbitrary queries) in a branch.
• Unstable: Ackd
  David and Matt did some more work on getting Ackd finished up.

OpenNMS 1.8 Timeline

Unofficially, we’ve been shooting for a 1.8 beta before June. Well, here we are at June, and clearly we don’t have a 1.8 beta yet. =)
Some interesting corner cases, bugs, and other things have gotten in the way of release, but the luxury of open source is that we don’t have to push out a broken release just for the sake of meeting shareholder and marketing timelines. That said, we do have our eye on the prize and want to get 1.8 out as soon as possible.
We plan to get a 1.7.4 release out the door, which will fix a number of annoying bugs (including the dreaded event/alarm/notification acknowledgement UI bug) and then go from there. Keep on the lookout for that hopefully by the end of the week, and 1.8 on the horizon!

Upcoming Events

• August 12, 2009: Tarus will be giving a talk at OpenSourceWorld: DM4: The Open Source Management Stack.
• September 21st-25th, 2009: OpenNMS training will be available through The OpenNMS Group at the OpenNMS training facility in Pittsboro, NC.

If you have anything to add to the events list, please let me know.

Speaking of Timelines…

…Another TWiO out the door, on time!
As always, if there’s anything you’d like me to talk about in a future TWiO, or you just have a comment, criticism, or network management fanfic you’d like to share, don’t hesitiate to say hi. Also, we’ve still got room for more Order of the Blue Polo members
if you’d like to send your own testimonial. (Of course you would!)

Tags: 1.8, ackd, acls, jdbc, liquibase, opensourceworld, provisiond, training