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.)

Today, we updated rBuilder Online to bring it in line with the rBuilder 5.2.2 feature set. This update includes the following major improvements:

• Initial support for a new platform: Scientific Linux
• Numerous bug fixes and improvements to the user interface

Although not every issue in the rBuilder 5.2.2 release notes is relevant to rBuilder Online, it is a good place to get an idea of the scope of the changes we've made. You can view the rBuilder 5.2.2 release notes here.

Note that Scientific Linux should be considered beta quality; please give it a try and file issues in our issue tracking system in the Platforms component for any bugs you may find.

Thank you for your interest in rBuilder!

rBuilder Online will undergo scheduled maintenance starting Wednesday August 5 at 21:00 EDT (-0400) and ending at 23:00. 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.

This maintenance window will bring rBuilder Online into parity with rBuilder Appliance 5.2.2. This includes many updates to rBuilder's new UI, adding new features and fixing bugs. Your continued feedback is greatly appreciated!

Thank you for your interest in rBuilder Online.