Today after I threatened to do this since around September or even earlier we released version 1.0.0 of The Marionette Collective. This is quite a big milestone for the RPC framework, I believe it is now ready for prime time as a real time RPC framework accessible from many different systems. Facilitating code reuse and large scale parallel execution.
I started working on the SimpleRPC framework – and the 0.4 series – around 20th of December 2009, 10 releases later its done and that became 1.0.0.
1.1.0 will bring a number of new features – the SimpleRPC framework will be improved with delayed and backgrounded jobs for example. There’s a published roadmap for what is coming – and some things like the Java integration isn’t on this list even.
The EC2 based demo system has also had a much needed refresh upgrading it from 0.4.4 to 1.0.0 so you can go have a play with MCollective using that without all the hassle of deploying stuff.
With the support and extra time afforded by the Puppet Labs acquisition the pace of development will increase but I can also now devote resources to maintaining a production release so there will be a 1.0.x branch that gets bugs and packaging improvements only while we work on the rest of the new and shiny.
