Dear NUT users and developers, As usual now, here is my end of the year announcement. This year has been very overloaded on my side, and full of major changes in the UPS world. First, with MGE buying APC through Schneider (MGE's mother firm). Then with MGE being disbanded, and partly sold to Eaton (the mother firm of Powerware), and reborn under the name MGE Office Protection Systems. Those of you that have followed this story already know that I've gone with the latter... * The good news, that I've not had time to announce officially on this list yet, is that I'm still there, and MGE Office Protection Systems will continue to support NUT and the Free Software community in general ^_^ I will now have more time to dedicate to various NUT subjects I would have liked to push before (HAL, packaging standardization, doc, website, testing and QA, lobbying, ...). It is still not 100 % of my time, so I just hope that I will have your help to succeed more quickly with all these things... * Then, you should have seen the 2.2.1 release announcement. It's not a major release, but it fixes many issues and add support for a bunch of new models. * Next is the long awaited MGE XML driver (mge-xml). I've started to work on this driver, which will soon fill the lack for the newer MGE (both UPS and OPS) network cards. It will have more features than snmp-ups (using "mibs = mge"). This driver should appear in the trunk * Now, I would like to thanks the whole NUT Development Team for their huge dedication and support to the project. Without their work, this project would not be as active and good as it is! And as always, a big thank to MGE (Office Protection Systems now) which gives me time to work on NUT and which widely support the Free Software world. This should be promoted as an example for other manufacturers. * Now, the tasks for 2008 will be: 1) NUT 2.4 (and possibly 2.6), including: * the new configuration format and tools integration, * the completion of the HAL integration (the command channel to allow settings and UPS poweroff, along with the Policy Kit integration), knowing that we already have something better than what Windows and Mac OS X propose. * the documentation rewrite, using Restructured Text (RST), and its use within the website, * the NUT Packaging Standard (aka NPS) to break to NUT packaging scattering. 2) the website rewrite (using RST and PHP) to improve maintainability, 3) solve the various remaining trackers (bugs, patches and features) and tasks. This should keep us busy for some time, and improve a lot our users / developers / packagers experience ;-) Finally, I'm currently working hardly to have some more great news to announce. But that will have to wait for January ;-) I will be unreachable until Jan. 2nd, so I wish you all a Merry Christmas and an happy New Year. May the nut be with you... Arnaud -- Linux / Unix Expert R&D - MGE Office Protection Systems - http://www.mgeops.com Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/ Debian Developer - http://people.debian.org/~aquette/ Free Software Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/