I am here at Agile 2007, but found time while working the ThoughtWorks booth to finalize Release Candidate 3 for version 2.7.1 of CruiseControl.

The CruiseControl Enterprise team, along with the crew of dedicated open source committers, have put in a lot of effort to stabilize the release. Please download the release candidate and try it out. If you have any issues or comments, please let us know on the CruiseControl-devel mailing list.

The changes in this release include:

CruiseControl Release Notes – 2.7.1

general
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* Upgraded Ant that is distributed with CruiseControl to Ant version 1.7.0.

cc-config
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* Fixed cc-config\3rdparty\libsystray4j.so causes build to break on Windows (CC-684). Patch by Brian Egge.
* Updated cruisecontrol’s main build to allow setting a proxy prior to downloading and including the cc-config application (CC-687). Patch by Ilkka Laukkanen.

contrib
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packager
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* Fix build root and rpm destination for rpm target. Patch by Joseph Benavidez.
* Init script improvments based on patch by Nicolas Ternisien
* Upgrading a package will no longer overwrite users config
* Packages now depend on Java and subversion
* Package now includes dashboard and cc-config
* Now includes working connectfour sample
* Stops CruiseControl on uninstall
* Now only builds CruiseControl if needed
* .svn folder in connectfour.zip now points to correct sourceforge repository url(http://cruisecontrol.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/cruisecontrol/trunk/connectfour)

Documentation
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* Added docs for the Darcs scm plugin (CC-626).
* Fixed issue with logo appearing incorrectly placed in IE6. Patch by Jerome Lacoste.
* Add missing step in X10 publisher instructions. Patch by Bill Wohler.

dashboard
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NOTE: The dashboard has known display issues in Internet Explorer 6.
* Allowed artifacts to be kept in an arbitrary locations.
* Allowed config.xml to be kept in an arbitrary location
* Can render html/xml/txt in the browser.
* Can display the unit test output for passed builds.
* Enhanced the dashboard to display artifacts directories as tree structure.
* Added the cc-config (http://cc-config.sourceforge.net/) application so that it can be included in the dashboard (CC-658). Patch by Allan Wick.
* Allowed artifacts to be shown and downloaded in case of a failed build
* Allowed project name to contain hyphen (-)
* Allowed integration with project management tools
* Allowed using dashboard-config.xml to configure the dashboard
* Deprecated the way to configure the dashboard via web.xml
* Modificationset and Bootstrapping are no longer considered as building status in summary section.
* fixed unresolved velocity variable $build.build.duration in build detail page.
* Applied the patch of CC-436 which committed by Szczepan Faber
* Added error details in the dashboard (CC-665).
* Dashboard can now parse logfiles with testsuite elements without time attribute (CC-670). Patch by Ilkka Laukkanen.
* Dashboard can now parse logfiles with non-default date formats (CC-671). Patch by Ilkka Laukkanen.
* Fixed case where long project name would not wrap within Toolkit and Tooltip divs.
* Fixed layout problem with tabs when wrapping.
* Added Errors and Warnings tab. Removed Errors tab. Moved the test errors and test failures to Tests tab.

build loop
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AllFusion Harvest
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* Added support for CA AllFusion Harvest via SDK (CC-513). Patch by Robert Thornburrow and Nayan Hajratwala. Removed previous command-line based support.

AntBuilder/Bootstrapper/Publisher
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* Add ant propertyfile attribute (CC-664). Patch by Willem Verstraeten.
* Provide support for configuring additional Ant libs and listeners (CC-542). Patch by Dan Fabulich.

Builder Progress messages
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* Add a Progress signaling api to the builders: <composite>, <maven>, <maven2>, <ant>, and CCDist <distributed> (CC-686).
Experimental impl for <ant> builder to showProgress can be disabled with showProgress=false.
Progess messages are shown on the reporting/jsp project pages, below the project state text.

build.sh/release.sh scripts
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* Set JAVA_HOME properly on MacOSX (CC-681). Patch by Ingo Richter

CommandLine and Process exec handling
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* Close process.outputStream to avoid deadlocks. (CC-527) Reported by Jason R. Hull

Compound Publisher
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* Introduced a Compound Publisher (CC-656).

ConcurrentVersionsSystem/CVSBootstrapper
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* Added the ability to set the cvs compression level (CC-579). Patch by Maxim Butov.

default-plugins
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* Added darcs to the default plugins (CC-626).

Main
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* Put the ccname command line parameter back, after being inadvertently removed (CC-651). Patch by Lars Gehrken.

MavenMapper
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* MavenMapper extracts the email address for a certain committing user as configured in Mavens project.xml or pom.xml (M1 or M2) (CC-618). Contributed by Gisbert Amm.

Plugins
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* Introduce a “ControllerAware” interface for plugins (CC-680). Patch by committer emeritus Robert Watkins.

Project
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* Added a property named “buildforced” that will get passed to builders for conditional control (CC-653). Patch by Dave Kilroy.

PropertiesMapper
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* Refactored validation for cleanliness and removing duplication with ValidationHelper (CC-642). Patch by Gisbert Amm.

Schedule
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* Added trap for zero or less interval and updated docs to indicate that they are not legitimate values (CC-652). Suggested by Jeff Jensen.

SVN/SVNBootstrapper
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* svnrevision property set incorrectly (CC-683). Patch by Tim Brown and Brian Egge.
* svnbootstrapper documentation incorrectly lists “checkExternals” flag. Must be moved to the “svn” modificationset element (CC-678). Reported by Ram Singaram
* Improve error message when there is no valid localWorkingCopy for SVNBootstrapper (CC-679). Patch by Robert Watkins.
* Set svnrepository property so that it can be used by builders, etc (CC-639). Patch by Brian Egge.
* Prevent “premature” SVN modifications being detected (CC-677). Patch by Robert Watkins.

TFS/TFSBootstrapper
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* TFS Support – new sourcecontrol and bootstrapper plugins (CC-666). Patch by Martin Woodward.

TimeBuild
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* Fixed problem when you set time build to 23:55 and the first modifcationcheck occur at 0:01 you won’t get an modification (CC-650). Patch by Lars Gehrken.

UCM
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* Fixed ClearCase/UCM mode when rmver event found in history (CC-660). Patch by Paul Heaberlin.

Veto
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* Improvement to provide detail in log as to what changes caused the veto (CC-676). Patch by Barrett Nuzum.