Sonatype Nexus Repository 3.74.0 Release Notes

Sonatype Nexus Repository 3.74.0 Pro now supports highly available and resilient deployments in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This new option leverages Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and offers automated failover and fault tolerance, protecting against outages and ensuring continuous uptime.

This solution is ideal for organizations already using GKE or seeking robust high availability within GCP. Detailed deployment instructions and a Helm chart are available. See our GCP resiliency and high availability help documentation for details.

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Pro customers can now take advantage of native blob store support on GCP. This allows customers running Nexus Repository on GCP to seamlessly store and manage their build artifacts within Google Cloud Storage.

For full details, see our blob store help documentation.

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Nexus Repository 3.74.0 introduces streamlined license management for clustered deployments. Administrators can now install a new license through the UI or REST API on any single node in a clustered deployment, and Nexus Repository will update the entire cluster. Nexus Repository then caches the new license for 7 days so that newly started nodes can automatically compare their existing license with the cached one and self-update if necessary. This eliminates the need to manually update licenses on individual nodes.

For specific instructions related to your deployment pattern, please refer to the license management help documentation.

You can now define a list of custom region names through a new capability, making them readily available in the region drop-down menu during blob store configuration. This enhancement simplifies the use of S3-compatible storage services across diverse environments and regions. See the blob store configuration help documentation for details.

This release enhances high availability deployments with support for S3 failover buckets in alternate AWS regions. This feature ensures business continuity by automatically switching to a designated backup bucket if the primary region becomes unavailable. Upon startup, Nexus Repository selects the appropriate bucket based on its operating region.

It's important to note that Nexus Repository will not automatically set up replication between your S3 buckets. To further strengthen data resilience and ensure your artifacts are synchronized across regions, you'll need to configure bi-directional replication between your primary and failover buckets using the AWS console API. This should include all artifacts, deletions, and redeployments for a truly robust and fault-tolerant storage solution.

See our blob stores help documentation for details.

Secrets management for resilient and highly available deployments is now even simpler when you use an external secrets operator. This enhancement streamlines configuration compared to previous methods like secrets store CSI. This update provides a more user-friendly and efficient way to manage sensitive information in your Nexus Repository deployments.

Existing deployments can easily migrate to this new approach by following the detailed instructions in our documentation.

Sonatype Nexus Repository now supports strict base version matching and expanded search criteria for the Conan format. You can now target specific Conan packages by using the baseVersion.strict field in your searches, ensuring you retrieve only the latest revision for a given base version.

Additionally, leverage detailed search fields derived from your conaninfo.txt settings, including architecture, compiler, operating system, and channel. This granular control allows for more efficient and accurate discovery of the Conan components you need.

To further streamline your workflow, recipe revisions are now displayed as subfolders in the UI, allowing you to easily browse and select the desired version. You can also directly access the latest revision and view CONAN_INFO attributes in a clear tabular format. For added convenience, recipe revisions are now sorted by date in the Browse UI.

See the component search help documentation for full details.

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