We’re very happy to announce that ManageIQ Botvinnik is now generally available. This marks the first full release cycle for ManageIQ as an open source project. As mentioned in previous announcements, we name our releases alphabetically after chess world champions. For the “B” release, we selected Mikhail Botvinnik, a Soviet chess champion from the 1950’s. The “C” release cycle is named after Jose Raul Capablanca, a Cuban world chess champion from 1921-1927.

I’m happy to report that we will be having a birds-of-a-feather meetup (aka “BoF”) at Red Hat Summit on Thursday, June 25 at 4pm EDT. A BoF is an informal gathering of people who come together to discuss a particular topic, in this case ManageIQ. We would like to use this opportunity to share some of the community highlights from the previous year, as well as discuss the upcoming roadmap and Capablanca release cycle.

The fourth release candidate for Botvinnik is now available. Download from manageiq.org. This is (hopefully) the final release candidate before going GA later this week. Stand by! If you have issues, please report them at GitHub.

This is a quick reminder that the All About Botvinnik webinar starts at 8am PDT/11am EDT/15:00 UTC today (June 9). You can attend the webinar through our bluejeans.com link.

If you run git pull on your ManageIQ appliance to pull down updates, restart and find that you can’t login in the web UI as the buttons are unresponsive, it’s likely you’re running in production mode, some assets were added or changed and haven’t been precompiled.

RSVP for the Botvinnik webinar!

Every three weeks, we discuss our sprint reports, and you can participate in this process.

Every three weeks, we discuss our sprint reports, and you can participate in this process, as well as take a look at our handiwork with a compiled image from this sprint.

If you’ve been visiting Planet ManageIQ recently, you know we’ve made some additions:

The next Botvinnik release candidate, RC3, is now ready for download. Either use the site’s download workflow or pick what you want from the list of available images. Report issues in this thread and link to the GitHub issue URL.