Hello, I'm tim, I'm the pm for the package stage and today I'm going to be talking about a couple of features that we have lined up for the 13.8 milestone, which is scheduled for release for self-managed on january 22nd, 2021 happy new year, everyone so we're a little short-handed uh given the holiday schedule. uh So I'd like to just talk about two issues that we have planned. One is an implementation and one is a design issue.

The first is a new feature, a new group setting that we'll be adding for the package registry. First, we're going to focus on maven, and this setting at the group level will allow you to choose. If whether or not you want to allow duplicates for duplicate maven packages to be uploaded and if there are any exceptions. So, for example, looking at this design where we could see actually all the formats supported in this milestone, we're only going to add support for maven.

You could choose whether or not you would like to allow duplicate uploads and, if not, if you would like to add any exceptions by default, we will follow what the public registries and the formats themselves follow. So for maven we will allow duplicates, but you will have the option to go in and say: don't allow them.

The second issue I wanted to talk about is an improvement in design for the cleanup policy for tags. So one feature that we've heard very frequently from our from speaking to folks in the community. Is they you set up a new cleanup policy and you don't exactly know which container images are going to be removed by that, and so we've had this request to add in a dry run. So what you know? Basically, you enter in your regex and then you want to know which images will be affected in your registry.

So this is a design issue that we'll be implem designing. What this dry run could look like what the functionality will be and then we'll be doing some solution: validation on that and rolling it out in early 2021, so yeah. I just wanted to highlight a couple of features. I hope everybody has a happy and safe holidays and I look forward to collaborating with you in the issues and in their mrs thanks.

Everyone.