Brooklyn 0.6.0-M2 Available.

[David Toy]

Hello,

Brooklyn 0.6.0-M2 (a milestone release of Brooklyn 0.6.0) is now available.

This milestone release includes many additions and fixes, and brings us much closer to a 0.6.0 release.

It incorporates a lot of improvements and feedback from you, the Brooklyn community. Thank you!

What's New?

• Better Chef support, particularly for Windows machines. 
  
  
• GUI Improvements:
• Better visibility of detailed tasks - drill down further into what's going on, and what went wrong.
• Tree view shows element status, and auto updates - so you can see application status at-a-glance, in near real time. 
• GUI performs better on slow connections.
  
  
• A Hazelcast datagrid has been implemented, and this allows storing information about starts and stops of locations and applications, accessible via the REST API.
  

• A Maven Archetype of a sample project has been created, making it really easy to create a sample app / app template for getting started.
  
  
• A new PostgreSQL entity, better Google Compute Engine support, better documentation for HP Cloud and SoftLayer, and a couple of other small things.
  

What Changed

• Locations in brooklyn.properties should now be specified as 'brooklyn.location. ...'. 
  
  
• Logging has been updated and existing custom logback.xml configuration may no longer work.
  
  
• EntitySpecs.spec( ... ) is now deprecated; use EntitySpec.create( ... ) instead.
  
  
• JcloudsLocationCustomizer: method signatures have changed. For those extending BasicJcloudsLocationCustomizer as recommended, existing code will work but should be changed to use the new signatures.
  
  
• Deprecated new BasicConfigKey(key, defaultValue). Use ConfigKeys.newConfigKeyWithDefault(key, defaultValue).
  
  
• A couple of other minor changes. Details in the javadocs.

The release notes cover changes in detail and contain backward compatibility notes:

http://brooklyncentral.github.io/start/release-notes.html

Download the latest version of Brooklyn from brooklyn.io, Maven Central, or from GitHub.

I look forward to hearing your experiences of using Brooklyn.

David