[ixpmanager] [RELEASE] V6.0.0 - IXP Manager v6.0.0

[Barry O'Donovan (INEX)]

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of IXP Manager 
v6.0.0. Thanks to many of you for your patience to date - we know this 
release was some time in the making.

One of the biggest changes in v6 relates to a significant framework 
change - Doctrine ORM has been completely removed and replaced with 
Laravel's Eloquent. This work is thanks to Yann Robin who has done all 
the heavy-lifting on rewriting all database-related code within the 
project over the past few months. Using Eloquent, which is a key 
component of Laravel and integrates fully with the framework, should 
allow us to develop new features with greater ease and speed.

This release also introduces two new major features: core bundle 
management (inter-switch links) and database change logging.

Full details are available at: 
https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager/releases/tag/v6.0.0

Prerequisite: PHP v8 is required for IXP Manager v6.0.0. To help with 
this - and upgrading in general - we have also released a video tutorial 
of the IXP Manager v5.8.0 to v6.0.0 upgrade process which includes 
upgrading to PHP 8 on an existing system (e.g. Ubuntu 18.04 in the 
video) and a second option of upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04 and then to PHP 
8.0 - https://youtu.be/KcWUMYCQosA

All relevant collateral on the IXP Manager website and documentation has 
been updated for v6. This includes installation and upgrade video tutorials.

Please feel free to followup here with any issues or questions when 
upgrading or to the GitHub Discussions topic for this release:

https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager/discussions/718

We're trialing GitHub discussions as a potentially more searchable and 
link-able tool than the mailing list. But please, use either and we'll 
respond as appropriate.



Thanks,
  - Barry

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Kind regards,
Barry O'Donovan
INEX