rBuilder Online maintenance is complete, and the following features and bug fixes are now available.

• rBuilder now presents two viewing options for appliance search results: a "Brief" view which is the browser view from previous versions, and a "Detailed" view as a new sortable grid, with rows that can be expanded or collapsed to show descriptions.
• When you are searching for items in the rPath Management Console, you must now enter at least three characters before the list items are filtered. This speeds up search responsiveness dramatically with large data sets, such as those found on Amazon EC2, which is the rPath Management Console target supported on rBuilder Online.
• You can now report a bug from the rBuilder Web interface, automatically creating an issue in the rPath Issue Tracking System (rITS). To access the new feature, right-click anywhere in the interface, click "About rBuilder," and click "Report bug" button. Use the guide text and help in the bug dialog to complete the form and file the bug report.
• The new bug filing dialog includes a checkbox to specify whether you are an rPath customer with a support agreement. When a customer files a bug using this form, rBuilder automatically files it as a support issue so that rPath can follow up appropriately in accordance with customer's support agreement.
• Many right-click context menus provide a "Show Log" option; this has been expanded to allow you to record HTTP traffic by pressing the round red "record" button above the log data.

Your continued feedback is greatly appreciated! Thank you for your interest in rBuilder Online.

rBuilder Online will undergo scheduled maintenance starting Wednesday October 14 at 21:00 EDT (-0400) and ending at 22:00. During this time, rBuilder Online and all rpath.org repositories will not be available.

• rBuilder now presents two viewing options for appliance search results: a "Brief" view which is the browser view from previous versions, and a "Detailed" view as a new sortable grid, with rows that can be expanded or collapsed to show descriptions.
• When you are searching for items in the rPath Management Console, you must now enter at least three characters before the list items are filtered. This speeds up search responsiveness dramatically with large data sets, such as those found on Amazon EC2, which is the rPath Management Console target supported on rBuilder Online.
• You can now report a bug from the rBuilder Web interface, automatically creating an issue in the rPath Issue Tracking System (rITS). To access the new feature, right-click anywhere in the interface, click "About rBuilder," and click "Report bug" button. Use the guide text and help in the bug dialog to complete the form and file the bug report.
• The new bug filing dialog includes a checkbox to specify whether you are an rPath customer with a support agreement. When a customer files a bug using this form, rBuilder automatically files it as a support issue so that rPath can follow up appropriately in accordance with customer's support agreement.

Your continued feedback is greatly appreciated! Thank you for your interest in rBuilder Online.

rBuilder Online has been updated to feature-and-bug-fix parity with rBuilder 5.2.3. The rBuilder 5.2.3 release notes have many specific details about issues that were fixed, most of which are relevant to rBuilder Online, primarily most of those summarized as "Inline Help", "User Interface and Usability Improvements", and "Introductory Deep-linking/API Feature Developments".

rBuilder Online will undergo scheduled maintenance starting Thursday September 10 at 20:00 EDT (-0400) and ending at 23:00. During this time, rBuilder Online and all rpath.org repositories will not be available. Additionally, as previously posted, we may be briefly disabling many rpath.com services including the conary.rpath.com, products.rpath.com, and rap.rpath.com repositories. A message will be posted when the scheduled maintenance period has been completed.

This maintenance window will bring rBuilder Online into parity with the upcoming release of rBuilder Appliance 5.2.3. This includes many updates to rBuilder's new UI, adding new features and fixing bugs. In particular, UI enhancements include easier navigation, additional context-senstive help, and "deep linking" support in which the URL the browser displays changes in different parts of the UI; these URLs are stable and can be bookmarked, exchanged with other users, and used to communicate with more precision when requesting support.

Your continued feedback is greatly appreciated! Thank you for your interest in rBuilder Online.

Since our most recent upgrade of rBuilder Online, the rBuilder Online web site has occasionally stopped responding to your requests. In two non-service-interrupting minor updates this week, we believe that we have resolved the two main causes. Sorry for the inconvenience!

We are aware of one more issue that in a few rare circumstances has caused an rBuilder Online service interruption. In order to address this issue, we may be briefly disabling many rpath.com services including the conary.rpath.com, products.rpath.com, and rap.rpath.com repositories. This upcoming service interruption is currently planned to occur sometime during the week of September 7, 2009. (We will post again later with more precise timing.)