NLDS 1.0.5

This is a heavily refactored version of NLDS, after it failed its initial beta-test.
The main changes are:

• Retry mechanism has been removed
• PathDetails contains details of the Storage Locations and this is passed around in the messages. This has simplified things a lot!
• The tape prepare stage uses the delayed message queue to wait for the prepare to be complete.
• Lots of little changes, bug fixes and enhancements to make the code more human readable, more modular and less cut-and-pastey.
• More understandable config, removed some unused options and provided templates for all config aspects plus a script to create configs.

This is the release candidate for the production version v1.0

1.0.0

This constitutes the NLDS at initial release.

What's Changed

• Implementation of tape support by @jackleland in #66
• Implementation of alembic migrations for database schema & data changes by @jackleland in #68
• made status monitor functional (mostly) by @Will-Cross1 in #67
• Users by @nmassey001 in #69
• Rewrites and improvements to the archive processors by @jackleland in #71
• two bugfixes - see full description by @alaniwi in #76
• v1.0 by @jackleland in #89
• Implement threaded consumers for connection keepalive during long-running consumption by @jackleland in #90
• Fix beta testing issues and implement deamon keepalive thread for Consumers by @jackleland in #93
• Progress toward docs 1.0 by @jackleland in #96
• Flesh out and update documentation by @jackleland in #99

New Contributors

• @Will-Cross1 made their first contribution in #67
• @alaniwi made their first contribution in #76

Full Changelog: 0.1.1...1.0.0

Pre-release of NLDS

This is a pre-release / preview version of NLDS with functionality complete from a user point of view, but no tape backup system implemented.