On 9/28/2016 5:38 AM, SebA wrote:

Hi list, Xymon 4.4 Alpha was released at the beginning of April, virtually 6 months ago (although I do not think it was ever announced, except via the subversion commits and changes- that is all I can find). It was great to watch so many commits coming in leading up to that and Xymon really seemed to havegood momentum. But it seems to have been losing it since then. Has anyone been using or testing this version? Have you got any bug reports, or has it all been working fine for you? If so, any messages saying so may encourage others to try it and help progression towards a stable release. If you didn't know about it, and want to try it, I think that would be great! (Browse here: https://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/HEAD/tree/branches/4.x-master/ or checkout of subversion with this command: svn co https://svn.code.sf.net/p/xymon/code/branches/4.x-master/ xymon-4.4-alpha) BTW, a 4.4-alpha folder was created on SourceForge on 1st April (and I do not think it was an April Fool's joke!), but no file is visible there. Kind regards, SebA

Well, it wasn't intended as an April Fool's joke, that's for sure!

Development on 4.x hit the classic 90/10 issue, where the first 90% takes 90% of the time, and then the final 10% takes the next 90% of the time. The primary unexpected outstanding issue has been around the TCP connection code's integration with compression and SSL. I know both of those were (two of) the major features that people were looking forward to in 4.4, so I'd wanted to ensure both of those were working before a "real" announcement had been made. Unfortunately, integrating those parts of the code that were working in 4.3 into the new 4.4 version is more complex than I'd expected.

I think for areas not involving those two features, the code base may be sufficient for an alpha. A generated tarball would help get more eyes on it certainly.

Regards, -jc