(As an Android developer, I’m sure you’re familiar with JCenter. I didn’t expect JCenter to go into sunset.)
JFrog now has some important changes that will affect users of Bintray, JCenter (which is part of Bintray), GoCenter and ChartCenter.
Bintray had previously provided the open source community with a free, universal cloud hosting platform for publishing and distributing binary packages. Bintray is the host of JFrog to support Java OSS libraries, software packages, and JCenter storage, while launching GoCenter and ChartCenter to extend similar services to Go and the cloud native community.
JFrog has been working hard to address new challenges for developers, and many of the services Bintray offers now come from the JFrog platform.
Similarly, the Go and Helm communities have since created their own central repositories, which are direct substitutes.
In order to simplify the productivity of the JFrog platform, JFrog will retire Bintray (including JCenter), GoCenter and ChartCenter services on May 1, 2021.
Users of these services will need to migrate to their required specification repositories, and JFrog will continue to offer free and paid JFrog Platform cloud subscriptions for both services to meet other binary distribution needs. In addition, JFrog is working with centers like Docker to ensure that the infrastructure on which our customers and communities depend is well maintained.
ConanCenter, which we announced last January, will continue to make additional investments to make it better supported for C and C ++ developers who rely on the Conan software package. Expect the ConanCenter developer experience to continue to improve in the coming years.
Changes will occur in the following stages:
What happens when Bintray and JCenter end their service?
May 1, 2021 sunset will affect all existing Bintray users and Bintray users will no longer be able to use the Bintray service, which includes existing software distribution, account management access and downloads via UI and REST apis. After this date, users will only be able to retrieve what they need from other specifications’ repositories (for example, Java packages will be retrieved from Maven Central).
What are the community alternatives to GoCenter and ChartCenter?
The Go team built a module repository for Go developers called PKG.go.dev that can be used as a direct replacement for GoCenter. Similarly, the Helm community has built a library of charts and packages called ArtifactHub that can be used as an alternative to ChartCenter.
I am a Bintray Enterprise or Bintray Pro customer, what help can I get?
JFrog customer representatives are in contact with Bintray Enterprise and some other customers to help ensure their migration goes smoothly. They will provide sufficient support to confirm that the user has successfully retrieved all Bintray data and to confirm that no more content is downloaded before disabling the account and deleting the data.
What happens to my data after Bintray and JCenter sunset
All the data on Bintray is available for download until May 1st and we recommend that you transfer it out. JFrog will begin deleting data a few weeks after the official sunset date and will not retain any Bintray data thereafter.
I configured the Artifactory remote repository to use Bintray, JCenter, GoCenter, or ChartCenter, will this break them?
Installation of Bintray and ArtiFactory, the central remote warehouse, will not be affected. We recommend that JFrog Cloud customers continue to use jcenter.bintray.com, IO and rebo.chartcenter. IO serve as Artifactory remote repositories.
JFrog self-hosted customers can also continue to obtain data from these repositories, but are encouraged to migrate to the canonical repository by May 1.
Who can I contact for additional questions about subscribing to the JFrog platform?
If you need more answers, feel free to contact us on Twitter @JFrog.
Original link: jfrog.com/blog/into-t…