This release has two major improvements that came directly from customer requests:

In addition, there are a couple of minor changes:

New Root Organization

IQ Server now includes the Root Organization at the top of the system hierarchy, which acts as a container for all organizations in the system. Any policy set in the root organization is inherited globally by every organization and their associated applications. For more information about the Root Organization, see the Organization and Application Management chapter.

If you are upgrading from IQ Server version 1.17 or earlier, it is strongly recommended that you read the following documentation:

New Audit and Quarantine Features

For users of the Firewall solution, you can now evaluate repositories in your Nexus Repository Manager. When a repository is evaluated, use the Audit feature to identify policy violations associated with components inside the proxy repository. Additionally, you can use the Quarantine feature to prevent newly proxied components with policy violations from being served to clients. The evaluation results are provided in the new Repository Results (similar to the Application Composition Report). Note: At this time, only Maven and NuGet packages inside proxy repositories will provide results. For more information, see the IQ for Repository Manager chapter.

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