We will be releasing Cacti 1.2.16 shortly. This Cacti version is the 67th release of the Cacti 1.x major release branch, and 67 releases in less than 3 years! For nearly a decade, I thought Cacti would never reach 1.0, which I always intended would be a milestone release for Cacti. But now with over 67 Cacti 1.x releases behind us and the introduction of well over 300 features, and in that same time resolving over 2500 GitHub issues I think we may have arrived there, and what a ride it's been.
The current development has reached a point where we only have 16 miscellaneous bugs to be fixed in pipeline, and over 170 features that have been requested that are outstanding. It's quickly going to become more of a problem of which feature to tackle first vs. continually stamping out bugs. I guess that's a good problem to have though.
The last 3 years of releases, and 5 years of development are a testament that Open Source projects can remain active for greater than 10 years as Cacti approaches its 18th!
I would like to thank the Cacti Community for their support over those last 5 years. We've had a continual stream of support from not only the broader community of users, but from major Linux distributions as well. You guys know who you are, and we appreciate the bug hunting, security exploit testing, pull requests, and at times testy dialog which through the problem resolution process offered by GitHub continue to make Cacti a stronger and stronger Open Source offering.
Now, with respect to this 1.2.16 release, we've moved quickly due to a major issue that were accidentally introduced while introducing a minor enhancement to increase the speed of saving a Device. If you do not have multiple Data Collectors, you likely would not have experienced this issue, but for those of you who do have them, it was a major issue.
So, we are happy to release this 67th, version of Cacti, and hope you enjoy it as well, and until the next release, don't forget to contribute back when and where you can.
On a more personal note, I've been at this since 2002, and that's a long time. Before I started, I had most of my hair, and it was pretty much all brown. Now, it's mostly grey, my kids are grown up, out of college, and will shortly be heading out on their own. I hope to continue contributing back to Cacti for years to come. I guess time will only tell. As many of you know, Cacti was my hobby for many years that sort of accidentally turned into a career for me. That career's had it's ups and downs, and I'm glad to have been able to do my little part for the world of internet monitoring through them. Finally, if you are reading this, thanks for listening
Sincerely,
TheWitness
