There are many things to do. I'll highlight three major tasks planned for 1.0.0.Beta7. Of course there are also a few bugs to fix.

1. Go fast!

We know, time is precious. We don't want to take your time and therefore we'll speed up our appliances! The goal is to start an instance under 5 minutes on EC2 and <20 sec on local virtualization platform. On EC2 this takes so much time, because every time you hit Launch button an image is copied from bucket to host and unbundled, we cannot speed up this process, unfortunately :(

We're optimizing boot process. That means: disabling everything we don't need and removing all unnecessary packages.

2. JOPR monitoring

JOPR is a JBoss monitoring and management tool (probably better word would be platform). We'll use it to monitor all services we have in the cloud, including: JBoss AS and httpd. System level services like sshd we'll monitor too!

You can define alerts, see resource usage history, customize your dashboard, etc. Just take a look! More screenshots are available on project website.

3. Amazon CloudFront support

Amazon CloudFront will enable faster image delivery. Every downloaded file is cached on servers around the world, this will dramatically increase your download speed (I hope!).

When it will be released?

The plan is to release Beta7 by the end of next week. Follow us on Twitter or take a seat in our IRC room to know everything from first hand!