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JFrog is pleased to announce the availability of Artifactory 2.2.4.
This release contains important improvements to Artifactory OSS and Artifactory Pro Power Pack, as well as important maintenance bug fixes.
Notable improvements and changes in this version are:
- Performance Improvements - Lower memory footprint, better overall memory management and better JVM and storage defaults for the OOTB installation.
- Folder & Repository Replication REST API - Rsync-like replication of a remote repository or remote repository folders between two Artifactory servers via Artifactory's REST API (requires Artifactory Pro).
- Build Promotion REST API - Promote (copy/move) a CI server build published artifacts with or without dependencies from selected scopes - all via Artifactory's REST API (requires Artifactory Pro).
- Extended Support for CI server Build Integration - Build info integration supports non-numeric build numbers and better link-back to the CI server (Hudson and TeamCity with Bamboo coming up).
- Improved Code Highlighting - Better support for Gradle scripts and JavaFx code.
- Better Support for Standalone Artifactory Behind Apache - Improved request handling when running Artifactory on standalone Jetty behind Apache.
- Support for Multiple LDAP Servers - Configure authentication and/or group authorization against multiple LDAP instances (requires Artifactory Pro).
- New System Info Page - For tracking system runtime information and serving as a convenient source of information when reporting issues.
- Improved Backups - User-edited files such as artifactory system properties and the mime types are now also part of a system backup.
- Bookmarkable Tree Browser - Artifact tree nodes are fully bookmarkable and can be shared as links (copy the link from the General tab when a node is selected).
- 'Chroot' Support for UI Browsing - Ability to run Artifactory with a 'chrooted' UI browsing limiting browsing the server file system from the UI (e.g. for import/export) to a specified root path.
Artifactory 2.2.4 is available from JFrog's web site or directly from SourceForge.
Artifactory Pro Power Pack 2.2.4 Free Evaluation is also available for immediate download.
Instructions for upgrading to 2.2.4 from previous versions can be found here.
For a complete list of resolved issues in this version please see the JIRA.
Enjoy Artifactory!
The Artifactory Team
Empowering Gradle Builds with Hudson & Artifactory Integration
Following the Hudson and TeamCity plugins releases, JFrog team is now proud to announced the immediate availability of a fully integrated platform between Gradle, Hudson and Artifactory.
Artifactory, the only Repository Manager that offers the development team a full freedom to choose their build technology, now includes a built-in features for Gradle, Maven and Ivy artifacts, as well as a general-purpose binaries management platform.
Using the latest Gradle 0.9 preview release, you can now configure the resolution and deployment of your artifacts in one line of code in your Gradle build.
Furthermore, with a nicely configured Gradle init script you can dynamically control all your remote repository parameters (URL, username, password) without polluting your build scripts.
The Artifactory - Gradle plugin is simple to use and allow you to perform the following:
- Defined default resolution repositories to point to the Artifactory instance used.
- Upload the generated archives (jar, war, ivy, pom, etc...) only after a fully successful build.
- Upload a generated build-info object that represents the build's artifacts and dependencies to Artifactory build-info API (which provides a fully traceable successful build).
With this new Gradle and Artifactory Hudson plugins it is now possible to create a fully reproducible and traceable build process with minimum setup!
For more information about using the Gradle Artifactory plugin please visit this wiki page.
For more information about downloading and installing the Hudson Artifactory plugin visit this Hudson wiki page.
Excitingly, JFrog gathered all these creators into one seminar - Kohsuke Kawaguchi, Hans Dockter, Yoav Landman and Frederic Simon will join the CI and Build seminar on July 1st.
Enjoy your build,
The Artifactory Team
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JFrog CI and Build Seminar
Kohsuke Kawaguchi (Hudson-CI creator) and Hans Dockter (Gradle's project lead), will join Frederic Simon and Yoav Landman (JFrog's founders) to a day packed with all the latest know-how on Continuous Integration and Build technologies!
Due to a limited number of seat, please register TODAY at: info@jfrog.org
Looking forward to seeing you there...
The frogs.
JFrog and JetBrains are excited to announce the immediate availability of the new TeamCity - Artifactory Plugin.
Many development teams have adopted the Artifactory Binary Repository Manager with the TeamCity Continuous Integration Server to control and to improve software build quality.
JFrog and JetBrains development teams joined efforts to provide Maven users with seamless integration between Artifactory and TeamCity, which allows TeamCity users to manage fully traceable and reproducible build artifacts.
Specifically, the plug-in provides:
- Automatic deployment of build artifacts into Artifactory for a complete control over your artifacts management.
- Capturing information about deployed artifacts, resolved dependencies and environment data associated with each build and attaching this information to the binaries stored in Artifactory for efficient artifacts promotion and management.
- Bi-directional navigation from the builds in TeamCity to artifacts build information in Artifactory and from any artifact in Artifactory to its related builds in Team City.
The TeamCity Artifactory Plug-in supports almost all build runner types, including: Maven, Ant, NAnt, MSBuild, FxCop and Ipr.
For more information about downloading and installing the plug-in please visit this wiki page .
Enjoy!
Continuous Integration - The Full Monty!
JFrog and Zenika will hold a build technology seminar on May 6th in Paris, Club Confair – Don’t miss out!
The event will be focused around the Continuous Integration process.
Frederic Simon, JFrog's Chief Architect and Gregory Boissinot, Zenika's Consultant and Trainer, will provide demo-based presentations covering the Gradle build tool and the Artifactory repository manager.
The presentations will detail the main concepts of Gradle and its implementation when building a Java application.
Furthermore, the first session will show how Gradle is capable of fitting into an enterprise infrastructure based on Ant or Maven and extend these two tools. The full CI process will be covered by demonstrating how to configure a complete integration of VCS tools, Hudson, Grdale and Artifactory, while retaining the flexibility of Agile Development.
The two companies which recently announced their collaboration, offer this event free of charge but it requires registration in advance.
In addition, free prizes are included: 1 free seat in the Certified Gradle Training delivered by Hans Docter (founder of Gradle) and 1 full Artifactory Pro Power Pack license.
JFrog also grants all of the participants in this evening a 20% discount coupon for the Artifactory Pro Power-Pack!
This event is a French based, the presentations (English soft-copy) will be available online following the event.
For more information please contact us info@jfrog.org
Meet us there,
The Frogs.
JFrog team is pleased to announce the availability of Artifactory 2.2.3!
This is a maintenance release for 2.2.2, containing bug fixes and small improvements.
Notable changes in this version are:
- Fixed a problem with trusted server checksums, leading to checksum errors.
- Fixed a regression with Maven metadata not being merged correctly for virtual repositories.
- Mime types are now configurable, allowing more file types to be viewed with syntax highlighting (requires index rebuilding).
- Source of class files can be viewed not only when the sources jar is available but also when sources are contained within the same jar.
Artifactory 2.2.3 is available for immediate download from JFrog's web site or directly from SourceForge.
Instructions for upgrading to 2.2.3 from previous versions can be found here.
For a complete list of resolved issues in this version please see our JIRA.
Enjoy,
The Artifactory Team
JFrog's technical leaders visited the (California, USA) bay area on March 2010. We had the privilege to meet the SV and JavaFX JUG members and to hold a demo-based presentation about release management full cycle. Video of this session is now available on Parleys.com. Enjoy ;)
Gradle Inc. and JFrog-Artifactory collaborative - community wins!
Hans Dockter, Gradle Inc. CEO; project manager of the Gradle build system and Shlomi Ben-Haim, JFrog CEO - announced a new collaborative relationship between Gradle and JFrog.
The two organizations are coming together to collaborate on a series of technical solutions, that will enable users to work better, faster and be more productive.
Gradle is an enterprise-grade build system. Gradle allows you to describe your build using a rich, extensible build language based on Groovy. It comes with build-by-convention support for Java, Groovy, Scala, OSGi, and web projects. Gradle provides exciting solutions for the big pain points that exist with current build systems.
JFrog Ltd. is the home of Artifactory which is the world's most advanced binaries repository manager. Artifactory offers powerful enterprise features and is available in OSS, Profesional and Cloud-based versions.
Artifactory is the only repository manager offering built-in features for Gradle, Maven and Ivy artifacts, as well as a general-purpose binaries management platform.
Gradle Inc. and JFrog road-maps already include the following near-future plans:
- A plugin for Gradle that will make it very easy to connect to Artifactory servers for artifacts resolution and deployment.
- An Artifactory plugin for Hudson that will provide an easy way to upload artifacts produced by a Gradle build to an Artifactory repository. JFrog will support the Gradle open source project with Artifactory Online infrastructures for internal use and as a location for distributing Gradle plugins.
The companies also agreed on a business cooperation model which will ignite technical services, sales and marketing collaboration in order to promote Artifactory and Gradle as a coherent build solution.
Hans Dockter says: "There is a lot of innovation going on in the build arena these days. Finally there are now solutions that will allow users to fully reap the benefits of project automation."
"Gradle is one of the most promising build systems, we believe that this cooperation will provide our users with an innovative and powerful solution for their build environment" said Yoav Landman-JFrog CTO.
Both JFrog and Gradle are excited by this cooperation, and see it as a great opportunity for improving users' experience and advancing build technologies and tools.
This forth major release of Artifactory is focused around significant performance improvements, resource usage optimizations, and bug fixes.
Please see important update notes for this version.
This release also brings a couple of new important features to Artifactory:
- Open REST API - Artifactory's RESTful resources are now public and documented. Using the REST documentation or the auto-generated WADL file, Artifactory can be controlled and automated from external tools or frameworks.
- Enterprise-grade LDAP Groups Synchronization - this new Power Pack add-on lets you manage permissions in based on you existing LDAP groups. It offers fast caching of LDAP data (which is a must for an organization with hundreds or thousands of users), flexible group synchronization strategies, multiple settings, and tight integration and feedback about LDAP users and groups throughout all security-related management screens in Artifactory.
- Support for running Artifactory under GlassFish 3
- Support for queueing concurrent downloads of the same remote resource.
- Ability to annotate repositories with administrative comments.
- Improved UI branding.
The LDAP Groups add-on joins the existing set of commercial Artifactory Power Pack add-ons, that complete Artifactory professional version with:
- Build Integration: Integrate with your CI server (currently, Hudson - more coming) to have fully traceable builds including information about used modules and dependencies.
- Smart Searches: search and aggregate artifacts, obtained from multiple search results, that can be promoted or manipulated together in one go.
- Properties: define sets of custom, structured properties in the UI and use them (via the UI or REST API) to tag artifacts and folders and to query them through a special property-search UI.
- Watches: watch selected repository items for events (add, delete, or modify), and receive focused email notifications on changes that are interesting to you and that you are allowed to see.
- WebStart & Jar Signing: have requested artifacts and their dependencies automatically signed upon request. Use JFrog's OSS JavaFX Maven plug-in to deploy your Maven projects as fully modular WebStart/JavaFX applications with reusable, auto-signed dependencies.
- Single Sign-on: reuse existing, HTTP-based, enterprise SSO integrations such as the powerful authentication schemes provided by the Apache HTTP server (mod_auth_ldap, mod_auth_ntlm, mod_auth_kerb, etc.).
The Add-ons Power Pack includes yearly maintenance and bug fixes, and all future releases of new add-ons.
You might find the following comparison table helpful for comparing the open source version to the add-ons version.
Artifactory 2.2 is available for immediate download from JFrog's web site or directly from SourceForge.
Instructions for upgrading to 2.2 from previous versions can be found here.
Subscribers of Artifactory Online, JFrog's Artifactory cloud-based services, are already upgraded to this latest version.
For a complete list of resolved issues in this version please see the JIRA.
Artifactory 2.2 is released under the LGPL v3 License.
Enjoy!
JFrog's Artifactory Team
JFrog's founders Yoav Landman (Artifactory creator) and Frederic Simon (JFrog chief architect) in a demo-centric session, speaks about new methods for managing your build artifacts and third-party dependencies using Artifactory's unique features.
We are pleased to announce the availability of Artifactory 2.1.3!
The major features and changes in this release are:
- Hudson integration - Use the Hudson Artifactory Plugin to deploy builds to Artifactory from Hudson together with build-time information:
View builds in Artifactory with information about the deployed artifacts and dependencies (all scopes) and runtime environment per build, and link back to Hudson to obtain fully-reproducible builds.
Via paid add-on: Visual artifact/dependency views per build; Promote or export all build artifacts and dependencies; See where specific artifacts are used and receive warnings when required build dependencies are removed .
- Automatic cleanup of remote repositories declared in POMs - A virtual repository can now be configured to auto- clean up rogue remote repositories declared in POM files, causing dependency resolution issues.
- UI branding - customize your Artifactory UI with your own logo (uploaded or URL linked) and footer.
- Ivy dependencies for POMs - copy Ivy dependency declarations from the POM view.
- Generic artifact deployment support - Improved upload screen with ability to deploy artifacts to any path without Maven's layout constraints.
- Include/exclude patterns on virtual repositories - that supersede the pattens of sub-repositories.
- Limit search to specific repositories
- Faster searches
Enjoy!
The Artifactory Team @ JFrog
We are pleased to announce the availability of Artifactory 2.1.2.
The major features and changes included in this release are:
- Initial Ivy support - Preview Ivy modules and Ivy dependency declaration, XPath search in ivy.xml files, auto-guess Ivy modules properties when uploading ivy.xml files from the UI.
- Sharing of remote repository definitions - You can import and reuse remote repository definitions exposed by other Artifactory instances (new Import button in Admin:Repositories:Remote Repositories)
- Optimized binaries storage - Including configurable blobs caching and support for storing binaries as regular files (instead of as database blobs)
- Exporting search results - Search results can now be exported to disk (add-on)
- Browser compatibility fixes
Simple upgrade instructions can be found here.
For a complete list of resolved issues please see our JIRA.
The latest Artifactory user guide is available here.
Artifactory 2.1.2 is available for immediate download from JFrog's web site or directly from SourceForge.
Enjoy!
The Artifactory Team @ JFrog
JFrog is pleased to announce the availability of Artifactory 2.1.
Artifactory 2.1 is an advanced Maven/binaries repository manager that offers powerful enterprise features behind an intuitive, easy-to-use user interface.
In this third major release Artifactory offers many new features and improvements plus an Add-ons Power Pack, which is a set of paid-for add-ons bundled on top of the open-source version.
Among the new features offered by Artifactory 2.1:
The new Artifactory Add-ons Power Pack offers the following add-ons on top of Artifactory:
- Smart Searches: search and aggregate artifacts, obtained from multiple search results, that can be promoted or manipulated together in one go.
- Properties: define sets of custom, structured properties in the UI and use them (via the UI or REST API) to tag artifacts and folders and to query them through a special property-search UI.
- Watches: watch selected repository items for events (add, delete, or modify), and receive focused email notifications on changes that are interesting to you and that you are allowed to see.
- WebStart & Jar Signing: have requested artifacts and their dependencies automatically signed upon request. Use JFrog's OSS JavaFX Maven plug-in to deploy your Maven projects as fully modular WebStart/JavaFX applications with reusable, auto-signed dependencies.
- Single Sign-on: reuse existing, HTTP-based, enterprise SSO integrations such as the powerful authentication schemes provided by the Apache HTTP server (mod_auth_ldap, mod_auth_ntlm, mod_auth_kerb, etc.).
The add-ons power pack includes yearly maintanance and bug fixes, and all future releases of new add-ons.
You might find the following comparison table helpful for comparing the open source version to the add-ons version.
Artifactory 2.1 is available for immediate download from JFrog's web site or directly from SourceForge.
The Artifactory User Guide and Online Demo contain all the information you need.
Artifactory 2.1 is released under the LGPL v3 License.
Artifactory 2.1 is another revolutionary step for the Artifactory Maven repository manager that is now available to its users as a Cloud-Based service or as a powerful, local repository.
Enjoy!
JFrog's Artifactory Team
The JFrog team is proud to announce the availability of a new cloud-based Maven Repository Manager service - Artifactory Online!
Artifactory Online allows small and medium-size organizations to effortlessly set up their own private Maven repository on the cloud and start using it in a couple of minutes!
There is no need to customize a dedicated machine, set-up HTTP access rules, install the software, configure common accessed public remote repositories, maintain and monitor the service, manage backups, and so on.
Artifactory Online is based on the upcoming 2.1 major upgrade release of the Artifactory open source Maven Repository Manager, which includes many new features and improvements. Apart from being able to use the latest and greatest release of Artifactory, the service also offers, as part of every package, a selected set of commercial add-ons for Artifactory, such as:
- Smart search based promotion – the ability to search and collect artifacts by building a "shopping cart" of found artifacts (based on any type of searches) that you can later manipulate in one go.
- Property-based artifact tagging – annotate artifacts and folders with fully-searchable properties. Define your own sets of structured properties, and use them from the UI or REST API to tag artifacts and locate them.
- Artifact Watches – Set watches on selected artifacts, folders, or repositories for add, delete, or modify events, and receive focused email notifications on repository changes that are interesting to you.
- Automatic Jar Signing and WebStart support – import JKS key-pairs into Artifactory, have requested artifacts and their dependencies automatically signed upon request, and deploy fully-modular WebStart/JavaFX applications with reusable, signed dependencies (using the OSS JavaFx Maven plug-in).
All account-related aspects are controlled via a super-easy to use, web-based Dashboard, which is a new addition to the simple and clean Artifactory web UI.
Artifactory Online is a subscription-based service, starting at $77 per month for a base package that includes:
* A hosted Artifactory private repository with:
o Selected commercial add-ons
o SLA-based hosting
o 24x7 monitoring
o Backups and support by JFrog's Artifactory team
* 4GB of storage space and 10GB of monthly data transfer
From our experience, the base package should cover the repository needs of most medium to small organizations.
The Artifactory Online cloud-based repository manager is offered with a 30-day, completely free trial period, so you are welcome to give it a go.
You can try out Artifactory Online and learn more about the service at: http://www.artifactoryonline.com
The JFrog Artifactory Team
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) is set to be among the first sites in the world to install and test the latest version of Artifactory.
JFrog announced earlier this week that the IAF, alongside two startup companies, had been approved to become a beta site of Artifactory 2.1.
Lt. Galansky of the IAF’s Computing Division has confirmed that the IAF is planning to set up and use Artifactory.
Artifactory, an advanced repository manager,offers powerful enterprise features with fine-grained permission control behind a sleek, easy-to-use web UI.
Artifactory 2.1, the next major release, is expected to be open source and commercially available in July 2009 and will include new features and enterprise add-ons.
Galansky said that the IAF is currently exploring the option of using Maven with Artifactory on several sites.
Yoav Landman, JFrog's Co. Founder and Development Lead, said: "Mission critical Java projects make one of the world's finest air forces, a unique vantage point and source of experience to provide JFrog with expert-level feedback and advice."
Throughout this collaborative process, JFrog will continue to provide the IAF with the best technology and support.
The Froggers will go to JavaOne 2009 to present a clean development process for JavaFX applications.
We will show a demo of TwitterFX development using Maven2, JavaFX, JNLP, Artifactory and WebStart.
Come meet us at The Server Side Java Symposium, March 18-20, Las Vegas, to see what makes Artifactory so great and what's coming up in the next version of Artifactory, making it even greater!
Our live demo is on Thursday, March 19, on 5 PM, Main Ballroom.
We are pleased to announce the availability of Artifactory 1.3.0-RC1.
Major Features and Changes in this Release
- Flexible validation for remote checksums: Generate if absent (the default), Fail, Ignore and generate and Pass-through (please see the UI for description of each policy).
- Many bug fixes and stability improvements.
- Better MySql support.
- Improved support for Safari.
- Artifactory and artadmin are now under a single downloadable distribution.
- Better overall performance.
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We are pleased to announce the availability of Artifactory 1.2.5u1 release.
This is a maintenance, bug fixes and performance improvements update for 1.2.5.
The complete release notes are available here.
The new Artifactory User Guide is now hosted under our new Confluence.
Upgrading from earlier versions
Please see the instructions.
Artifactory is available for download here.
Enjoy!
The Artifactory Team
We are pleased to announce the availability of Artifactory 1.2.2 final release.
This release contains bug-fixes and minor improvements for 1.2.1.
Major changes in this release
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- Ability to read Read 'artifactory.home' property from the
environment variable 'ARTIFACTORY_HOME' and default to
'${user.home}/.artifactory' instead of '${user.dir}' as the home
directory
- Ability to download more file types from the UI
- Better handling of deployed artifacts resulting file name
- Improved JCR foundations
- Improved documentation
- Other bug fixes and minor improvements
The complete release notes are available here:
https://www.jfrog.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10070&styleName=Html&version=10200
Upgrading from 1.2.2-rcX
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Shutdown Artifactory and simply remove and replace the following
folders/files under $ARTIFACTORY_HOME:
libs/
webapps/
artifactory.jar
Upgrading from older versions
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Please see the site documentation at
http://www.jfrog.org/sites/artifactory/latest/1.2.2.html
Artifactory is available for download here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=175347
Enjoy!
The Artifactory Team
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