CruiseControl 2.7.1 RC4 released from China
I have been working with the CruiseControl Enterprise team in China for the last week.
We have been pushing hard to get the main issues fixed in preparation for CruiseControl 2.7.1 Release Candidate 4. It’s now available for download.
Try it out! We are hoping this will be the final release candidate for 2.7.1. If you have any issues, please post them to the CruiseControl devel mailing list.
The release notes for this release are included below.
CruiseControl Release Notes - 2.7.1RC4
general
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* Upgraded Ant that is distributed with CruiseControl to Ant version 1.7.0.
* Fix source version cruisecontrol.sh to work with cygwin (CC-694). Patch by Rex Tener.
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)
* Sample project now use the projects directory, not checkouts directory
* Sample project does not use https any more
* Sample project config now uses ProjectConfig plugin
* Get Cruise to start on boot on Debian systems
Windows Installer
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* Added the -webport parameter so that Jetty will start by default, just like the binary distribution.
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 7.
* Fixed display issues in IE6.
* 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 $build.build.duration in build detail page.
* Error details are missing in the dashboard (CC-665).
* Dashboard can’t parse logfiles with testsuite elements without time attribute (CC-670).
* Dashboard can’t parse logfiles with non-default date formats (CC-671).
* Fixed case where long project name would not wrap within Toolkit and Tooltip divs.
* Fixed layout problem with tabs when wrapping.
* Added Errors and Warnings tab. Removed Errors tab. Moved the test errors and test failures to Tests tab.
* Implemented the capability of displaying the status of last build while building
* Fixed the problem that cursor in IE6 does not show as hand for the link.
* Fixed the problem that timer does not stop after build finished.
* Fixed the problem that the hyperlink in building status turns brown.
* Fixed the problem that the color of text was red in IE6.
* Fixed the problem of allowforcebuild flag in dashboard-config.xml not accepting “true” or “yes” values as true.
* Added validation on project name to disallow the special characters in the set “!£$%^&*()+=#~?/<>[]{}`@:;\|’
* Made the colour of force build icon correct when a build changes from inactive to active.
* Include the zipped log files in the build detail page.
* Switched the active build icon to a transparent image that does not interfer with the background color.
* Changed the anthome to ant-1.7.0 when adding new projects via the dashboard.
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.
* Provide support for displaying current build messages when using ant logger.
Builder Progress messages
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* Add a Progress signaling api to the builders:
Experimental impl for
Progess messages are shown on the reporting/jsp project pages, below the project state text.
* Fix side effect of loading ant jars where possible by using -lib arg with full logger jar name. (CC-686) Patch by Yuan Yingjie, Hu Kai
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
CompoundPublisher
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* New publisher which allows multiple publishers internally. (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 with new attribute ‘useLocalRevision’ (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.
Reporting (legacy)
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* Force build when already building could end up not going into the build queue(CC-436). Patch by Szczepan Faber