rBuilder Online's unscheduled maintenance is now complete. The problems related to newly-created product versions should now be fixed. Please report any problems at http://issues.rpath.com.

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We are having some issues with some code that was deployed yesterday evening. Estimated downtime is unknown. We'll update this blog post as we find out more.

The following changes have been made to rBuilder Catalog for EC2™:

Note: Please press the shift key and click your browser's reload button to ensure the latest version of the rBuilder Catalog for EC2™ is being used.

• Catalog load times have decreased by as much 50% in some cases.
• Improvements have been made to the way user selections are handled.
• A number of improvements and bugfixes have been made to playlists.

The complete list of changes in this update can be found at the rBuilder Online wiki page under the section Recent Changes to rBuilder Online.

Do Your Part

Help us make rBuilder Online better. We welcome your feedback on the rBuilder Online forum. If you find any bugs, please file an issue.

Thank you for your interest in rBuilder Online.

UPDATE: the maintenance window has been moved to 5PM-6PM EDT.

rBuilder Online will undergo scheduled maintenance starting Wednesday, August 27th at 17:00 EDT (-0400) and ending at 18:00. During this time, rBuilder Online and all rpath.org repositories will not be available. A message will be posted when the scheduled maintenance period has been completed.

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The latest version of Appliance Creator has been enhanced to support the addition of already-existing packages to the appliance. Previously, it was only possible to add a package to the appliance by uploading a binary archive and creating a new package from that archive.

Additionally, the workflow has been modified to accommodate this change to the package selection process.

Note: In some circumstances, the new package selection page can cause Internet Explorer 6 and 7 to hang. rPath is actively working to resolve this issue.

An updated version of the rBuilder Catalog for EC2™ is also available. This version includes support for "is not" and "contains" filters for user-defined playlists.

Note: Please press the shift key and click your browser's reload button to ensure the latest version of the rBuilder Catalog for EC2™ is being used.

The complete list of changes in this update can be found at the rBuilder Online wiki page under the section Recent Changes to rBuilder Online.

Do Your Part

Help us make rBuilder Online better. We welcome your feedback on the rBuilder Online forum. If you find any bugs, please file an issue.

Thank you for your interest in rBuilder Online.

rBuilder Online will undergo scheduled maintenance starting Tuesday, August 19th at 16:00 EDT (-0400) and ending at 17:00. During this time, rBuilder Online and all rpath.org repositories will not be available. A message will be posted when the scheduled maintenance period has been completed.

Thank you for your interest in rBuilder Online.

An updated version of the rBuilder Catalog for EC2™ is now available on rBuilder Online.

Note: Please press the shift key and click your browser's reload button to ensure the latest version of the rBuilder Catalog for EC2™ is being used.

Overview

rBuilder Catalog for EC2™ is a tool that simplifies the management of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) generated by rBuilder Online. Using it, an rBuilder Online user can quickly launch an AMI on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), access the running AMI's rPath Appliance Platform Agent management interface, and terminate the running AMI when desired.

Refer to http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/rBuilder_Online:Catalog_EC2 for more information on getting started with rBuilder Catalog for EC2™.

New Features

The rBuilder Catalog for EC2™ will now automatically create a default security group called "catalog-default" if it does not already exist. Access will be granted to ports 80, 443 and 8003 for your IP address, so you can connect to the appliance's rPath Appliance Platform Agent and/or web service.

The shutdown and manage workflows now support the selection of multiple appliances.

When a running appliance is selected, a "Connect" button now appears. Clicking it will start a browser session directed to port 80 on the selected appliance.

User-defined playlists are now supported. To create a playlist, click the "+" button at the bottom of the sidebar. User-defined playlists can be deleted by clicking the "-" button.

The complete list of changes in this update can be found at the rBuilder Online wiki page under the section Recent Changes to rBuilder Online.

Do Your Part

Help us make rBuilder Online better. We welcome your feedback on the rBuilder Online forum. If you find any bugs, please file an issue.

Thank you for your interest in rBuilder Online.

The scheduled maintenance of rBuilder Online has been completed.

What's New: Appliance Creator

rBuilder Online's latest version introduces a preview of Appliance Creator. Appliance Creator can be used to create an appliance based on rPath Linux, using imported packages that are uploaded and built with rBuilder Online's Package Creator feature.

As noted, this is a preview version of Appliance Creator. Future versions will further refine its workflow, and will allow users to select software that had been previously packaged to be included as part of each appliance.

Bug Fixes and Miscellany

In addition to the introduction of Appliance Creator, a number of other changes have been made, including:

• Adding packages to Group Builder now properly works with Firefox 3 (RBL-3066)
• Tar files generated when creating some image types are now compatible with many Windows-based archivers (RBL-3168)
• Versions of special troves used when generating image CDs (e.g. anaconda-custom, anaconda-templates, media-template) are now displayed in the build information page (RBL-2600)
• Updated branding for Microsoft Virtual Server images

The complete list of changes in this update can be found at the rBuilder Online wiki page under the section Recent Changes to rBuilder Online.

Do Your Part

Help us make rBuilder Online better. We welcome your feedback on the rBuilder Online forum. If you find any bugs, please file an issue.

Thank you for your interest in rBuilder Online.

rBuilder Online will undergo scheduled maintenance starting Tuesday, August 12th at 16:00 EDT (-0400) and ending at 17:00. During this time, rBuilder Online and all rpath.org repositories will not be available. A message will be posted when the scheduled maintenance period has been completed.

Thank you for your interest in rBuilder Online.

The scheduled maintenance of rBuilder Online has been completed. For more information, visit:

http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/rBuilder_Online

The "Recent Changes to rBuilder Online" section of this page contains an overview of what's changed.

If you have any questions or comments regarding rBuilder Online, the rPath Forum now contains a dedicated rBuilder Online board:

rBuilder Online board

Thank you for your interest in rBuilder Online.

UPDATE -- The maintenance window have been rescheduled to start Tuesday, August 5th at 21:00 EDT, and will end at 22:00.

rBuilder Online will undergo scheduled maintenance starting Tuesday, August 5th at 16:00 EDT (-0400) and ending at 17:00. During this time, rBuilder Online and all rpath.org repositories will not be available. A message will be posted when the scheduled maintenance period has been completed.

Thank you for your interest in rBuilder Online.