Apache Archiva

Apache Archiva helps developers manage personal or enterprise artifact repositories.

An artifact repository is a central hub where information about software binaries and adjacent files is stored in the form of metadata.

This data can be used by various clients (Maven, Mercury, or Ivy) to retrieve binaries during the build process or distribution phase.

Archiva is such a tool, written in Java, targeting Java developers.

Unlike most software libraries the Apache Foundation provides, Archive is one of the few that actually comes with a (Web-based) graphical user interface, which developers can use to manage their projects and adjacent artifacts.

Features:

• Manage project information
• Built-in artifact search
• Remote proxying cache
• Easy artifact upload
• Administration panel
• Virtual repositories
• RSS feeds
• Role-based security
• Reports centers
• Audit logs
• Maintenance tools
• Works with any JDBC database
• Extendable via plugins

What is new in this release:

• New Feature:
• Adding a find jar by checksum functionality to the REST API
• Improvement:
• Generic metadata should be searcheable in Archiva search
• Allow LDAP groupOfNames

What is new in version 2.0.0:

• Added remote repository health check.

What is new in version 1.3.6:

• defaultStack requires a stronger blacklist of parameter names in the param interceptor.

What is new in version 1.4-M3:

• There is now a new webapp UI based on JavaScript (legacy webapp is still distributed).

What is new in version 1.4-M2:

• Repositories group can now return a merged index in path .indexer.
• Jetty bundle is now based on jetty 7.x (note you must take care if you use a jetty.xml file from previous versions).

What is new in version 1.4-M1:

• It is now possible to create a staging repository for any managed repository and later merge the results.
• Can now use REST services to control Archiva or search for artifacts. See REST Services for more information.
• Database storage for repository metadata has been replaced with a JCR repository based on Apache Jackrabbit by default (other options such as a flat-file storage may be made available in the future).
• The search interface provide now the capability to search on OSGI metadata (based on the update of the Apache Maven Indexer library).
• Can now download Maven index content from remote repositories to include artifacts which are not present locally in your search results.

What is new in version 1.3.5:

• CPU usage 100%.
• Archiva does not start up on Solaris 64-bit.
• Uploading large artifacts is dreadfully slow.
• Better Layout for Artifact Download Box.
• Upgrade Archiva to Redback 1.2.8.
• Fix cross-site scripting vulnerability in Archiva.

What is new in version 1.3.4:

• This is primarily a security and bug fix release.