[ome-devel] OMERO.server (BETA) 4.0 RC3 announcement

[josh.moore at gmx.de]

Hi again,

despite our best efforts, we are very much bound by Murphy's Law here
on the OME team, and so we'd like to announce that tags are now
available for the OMERO clients & server (BETA) 4.0 RC *3*, fixing at
least one significant issue which our fearless testers found this
afternoon.

Clients:
svn co http://svn.openmicroscopy.org.uk/svn/shoola/tags/Beta4.0-rc3/
 
Server:
svn co http://svn.openmicroscopy.org.uk/svn/omero/tags/omero-4.0-rc3


We're sorry for any inconvenience, but hope you appreciate that this
means fewer bugs that you'll have to deal with! :)


A pleasant Tuesday evening to all of you,
~Josh.


 > RC1 Announcement:
 > http://lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk/pipermail/ome-devel/2009-March/001184.html
 > ==============================================================
 > josh.moore at gmx.de writes:
 >  > 
 >  > Hi everyone,
 >  > 
 >  > as promised, an update on the upcoming release. We've just
 >  > tagged release candidate 1 for internal testing (url below). You
 >  > are welcome to start examining the tag or downloading from
 >  > Hudson, but obviously there is still work to do and changes to
 >  > be made.
 >  > 
 >  > In order to use this pre-docs version, some explanation is necessary:
 >  > 
 >  >  * First, the database has "evolved" as opposed to clearly being
 >  >    versioned during our development, so anyone who has tested
 >  >    the waters will need to re-create their database.
 >  > 
 >  >  * Another important change is how the database gets created. To
 >  >    simplify the distribution, ant has been removed, which means
 >  >    the "ant setup-db" target is gone. For the moment, we are
 >  >    delegating database creation to your tool of choice (probably
 >  >    psql). See below on how to do this.
 >  > 
 >  >  * The logging location has changed. Deployment starts up at
 >  >    least two server instances, one with a lower memory
 >  >    requirement, solely for indexing your database. To prevent
 >  >    confusion from duplications, there are now two files. See
 >  >    var/log/Blitz-0.log and var/log/Indexer-0.log after starting
 >  >    your instance.
 >  > 
 >  >  * Finally, server configuration has changed. Rather than
 >  >    editing local.properties and executing "ant update", Java's
 >  >    Preferences API (e.g. ~/.java/userPrefs on Linux) is being
 >  >    used (see below). This keeps the distribution directory
 >  >    (other than the logs) read-only so it can be installed
 >  >    globally.
 >  > 
 >  > 
 >  > The final workflow, which we will be writing up online for
 >  > release, can be summarized like this: (note this assumes that
 >  > Ice, Java, Python, and Postgres are already installed)
 >  > 
 >  > 
 >  >     svn co \
 >  >       http://svn.openmicroscopy.org.uk/svn/omero/tags/omero-4.0-rc1 \
 >  >       omero-4.0-rc1
 >  > 
 >  >     cd omero-4.0-rc1
 >  >      # Calls "java omero" to prevent memory issues on 64bit
 >  >     ./build.py
 >  >     cd dist
 >  > 
 >  >     #
 >  >     # All default properties are shown in etc/omero.properties
 >  >     # If you would like to change any property, use the
 >  >     # "bin/omero config" command.
 >  >     #
 >  >     bin/omero config set omero.data.dir /opt/OMERO
 >  >     bin/omero config set omero.db.user me
 >  >     bin/omero config set omero.db.name mydb
 >  > 
 >  > 
 >  >     #
 >  >     # To create a password script which also contains your
 >  >     # (OMERO) root user's password, use the "bin/omero db"
 >  >     # command
 >  >     #
 >  >     bin/omero db script    # Asks for root pass and creates OMERO__4.sql
 >  > 
 >  > 
 >  >     #
 >  >     # Postgresql commands:
 >  >     # ==========================
 >  >     # These commands assume the default values as in etc/omero.properties
 >  >     #
 >  >     sudo -u postgres createdb -O omero omero
 >  >     sudo -u postgres createlang plpgsql omero
 >  >     psql -U omero omero < OMERO4__0.sql
 >  > 
 >  > 
 >  >     # Starting your server
 >  >     bin/omero admin start
 >  >     # No deploy needed.
 >  > 
 >  > 
 >  > Once "OMERO.blitz now accepting connections." appears in your
 >  > var/log/Blitz-0.log, you can browse to:
 >  > 
 >  >   http://localhost:8000/webadmin
 >  > 
 >  > and begin adding new users.
 >  > 
 >  > 
 >  > Known issues:
 >  > =============
 >  > 
 >  >  * Server builds on Windows but will not deploy properly.
 >  > 
 >  >  * To get the Eclipse projects to compile, it is necessary to run
 >  >    "ant test-compile".
 >  > 
 >  > 
 >  > Thanks ever so much for your patience and and the upcoming
 >  > feedback. And, as always, we'll keep you posted on the further
 >  > release schedule.
 >  > 
 >  > 
 >  > Best wishes,
 >  > Josh