[ANN] SonarQube 6.1 RC1 is now available

[Fabrice Bellingard]

Hi SonarQube Community,

Here is the first public release candidate of SonarQube 6.1.

The main features and noteworthy of this 6.1 version are:

• Redesign of the Settings pages and new Web Services
• Global and Project Settings pages have been fully rewritten
• They are backed by a brand new set of Web Services that advantageously replace the (now deprecated) old Properties Web Services: they are consistent with other Web Services, well documented, they correctly manage inheritance and default values, multi-value and property sets are handled more easily.
• More actionnable Leak information on Project Home page 
• Everything displayed in the Leak area is now clickable to get exact details of what's happening on a project during this period (duplications have been added).
• First steps towards clustering capabilities of SonarQube
• This point is not yet a usable feature per se: it consists of the first steps (stateless web sessions, remove web caches, ... etc) that must be achieved before reaching a real end-user clustering feature. Still this is worth being mentioned in this announcement as this is invisible but heavy work that's currently being done for SonarQube.com.

And obviously as usual, this version comes with lots of bug fixes and other small improvements.


To help us test this new version, here's all what you need to know:

• Download: https://sonarsource.bintray.com/Distribution/sonarqube/sonarqube-6.1-RC1.zip 
• Release notes: https://jira.sonarsource.com/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10930&version=13287
  
• Staging Documentation: http://docs.sonarqube.org/display/SONARNEXT/Documentation
• Upgrade notes: http://docs.sonarqube.org/display/SONARNEXT/Release+6.1+Upgrade+Notes 

Any feedback is highly appreciated.
Enjoy!

Best regards,

Fabrice BELLINGARD | SonarSource SonarQube & SonarLint Product Manager http://sonarsource.com