Hi there. Hello to all NetBeans Platform users and especially those using Maven!
There days Apache NetBeans project uploads binaries to Maven central, but long time ago, in the pre-Apache days, there used to be a dedicated NetBeans Maven repository at https://bits.netbeans.org/maven2/ - the repository is still there. However, if you follow the URL, you'll notice you end up at http://137.254.56.27/maven2/ - that's a sign of you leaving the ASF area and being redirected to the old Oracle server hosting the pre-Apache bits. Oracle isn't going to keep that server running eternally. Take action! The best you can do is to update your application to Apache NetBeans bits. We keep compatibility and we upload the bits to Maven central. Switch to the latest `RELEASE120-u1` LTS version and you'll be supported by Apache forever. If there is any reason for you to stick with pre-Apache releases, consider creating a mirror. Prepare 16GB of free space and then you can: ```bash $ wget -l10 -P. -r -nH -np http://137.254.56.27/nexus/content/groups/netbeans/ ``` once the download is finished, you can compare your bits with my MD5 checksums available as http://xelfi.cz/ls.out - I've just verified today that the checksums of JARs, MD5 and SHA files are 100% the same as in the original nexus repository. Best regards and thanks for sticking with NetBeans! -jt
