Dear Sonatype, a year ago I published an authentication plugin on github which was gratefully picked up by a few companies (I can only tell from what people tell me in issues and mails). With the release of 3.78 you mentioned your switch from karaf to spring in your release notes and said that this…

Hi there! We understand how important customizations are, and the good news is that we’re working on bringing support for them back in future versions of NXRM. In the meantime, if you’d like more details about the recent changes to OSGi bundle support, you can check out the release notes here: 3.…

**+ 1**. I also had to implement our authorization plugin as the available native plugins are very insufficient for our needs. And I have to tell, that compared to the old 2.x versions of Nexus the quality of the adoption of Shiro framework decreased significantly. For example the UI offers adding …

Since Sonatype didn’t consider it necessary to answer here, I at least can reveal to you guys watching this: As of now, there isn’t a straightforward way to load custom plugins in the new architecture. Source: Sonatype Support I’d say there’s no such thing as a plugin system anymore and I would…

Whaaaaaat? If this is true, then it is probably time to look for other solutions. Considering 3.77 was the last version, that supported plugins, it would have likely been better if we stayed on NXRM2. The quality of the code in the old version was much better than in the new one. And the old UI was…

Thank you, this is a relief. It is understandable, that updating the documentation takes some time, so no problem with that, but it appeared to go in really bad direction.

@mgarzon : was there any progression in documenting, how to add plugins into Nexus 3 after this breaking change? I am stuck on the pre-3.78 version. Nexus migration process is failing miserably after a day or two of moving artifacts between the old and new version and with no hope of getting a fixe…

Hello, I’m encountering an issue while attempting to upgrade my customized Sonatype Nexus plugin to release 3.79. The new deployment approach is unclear, and I’m currently blocked on how to properly package and deploy the plugin under the updated system. To provide some context: I cloned the plugi…

Hi @hkhalil In the upcoming versions we will not have support for custom plugins will continue to consider it for future releases.

If you compare the Nexus shell scripts, they no longer process the classpaths, so your files are being ignored. I tried adding classpaths manually, but so far no luck on making them work. If I find a way how to do it, I will let you know. But I am wasting time on this critical feature, that was remo…

So a shift from “we’re working on bringing support for them back in future versions of NXRM” to “consider it for future releases”. I see where this is heading to (community forking Nexus)… Well played.

…or not… from CE EULA: …shall not, or permit any third party to (i) access the Product except as permitted herein and in the Documentation, (ii) modify, translate, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, create derivative works of or copy the Product or otherwise seek to obtain or use the sourc…

Custom plugins still possible starting with 3.78?

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jboss-04 (David Hladky) August 14, 2025, 8:38am 14

This is very good question. The Springboot uprade sould have been NXRM4 with such a blow to power users.

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