ChangeLog-0.7.10 @@ -1,5 +1,180 @@ User visible changes in Buildbot. -*- outline -*- +* Release 0.7.10 (25 Feb 2009) + +This release is mainly a collection of user-submitted patches since +the last release. + +** New Features + +*** Environment variables in a builder (#100) + +It is useful to be able to pass environment variables to all steps in a +builder. This is now possible by adding { .. 'env': { 'var' : 'value' }, ... } +to the builder specification. + +*** IRC status plugin improvements (#330, #357, #378, #280, #381, #411, #368) + +*** usePTY specified in master.cfg, defaults to False (#158, #255) + +Using a pty has some benefits in terms of supporting "Stop Build", but causes +numerous problems with simpler jobs which can be killed by a SIGHUP when their +standard input is closed. With this change, PTYs are not used by default, +although you can enable them either on slaves (with the --usepty option to +create-slave) or on the master. + +*** More information about buildslaves via the web plugin (#110) + +A new page, rooted at /buildslave/$SLAVENAME, gives extensive information about +the buildslave. + +*** More flexible merging of requests (#415) + +The optional c['mergeRequests'] configuration parameter takes a function +which can decide whether two requests are mergeable. + +*** Steps can be made to run even if the build has halted (#414) + +Adding alwaysRun=True to a step will cause it to run even if some other step +has failed and has haltOnFailure=True. + +*** Compress buildstep logfiles (#26) + +Logs for each buildstep, which can take a lot of space on a busy buildmaster, +are automatically compressed after the step has finished. + +*** Support for "latent" buildslaves + +The buildslaves that are started on-demand are called "latent" buildslaves. +Buildbot ships with an abstract base class for building latent buildslaves, and +a concrete implementation for AWS EC2. + +*** Customized MailNotifier messages (#175) + +MailNotifier now takes an optional function to build the notification message, +allowing ultimate site-level control over the format of buildbot's notification +emails. + +*** Nightly scheduler support for building only if changes have occurred + +With the addition of onlyIfChanged=True, the Nightly scheduler will not schedule +a new build if no changes have been made since its last scheduled build. + +*** Add ATOM/RSS feeds to WebStatus (#372) + +Two new pages, /atom and /rss, provide feeds of build events to any feed +reader. These paths take the same "category" and "branch" arguments as the +waterfall and grid. + +*** Add categories to Schedulers and Changes (#182) + +This allows a moderate amount of support for multiple projects built in a +single buildmaster. + +*** Gracefully shut down a buildslave after its build is complete + +The /buildslaves/$SLAVENAME pages have a "Gracefully Shutdown" button which +will cause the corresponding slave to shut itself down when it finishes its +current build. This is a good way to do work on a slave without causing a +spurious build failure. + +*** SVN source steps can send usernames and passwords (#41) + +Adding username="foo" and/or password="bar" to an SVN step will cause +--username and --password arguments to be passed to 'svn' on the slave side. +Passwords are suitably obfuscated in logfiles. + +** New Steps + +*** DirectoryUpload (#393) + +This step uploads an entire directory to the master, and can be useful when a +build creates several products (e.g., a client and server package). + +*** MasterShelCommand + +This step runs a shell command on the server, and can be useful for +post-processing build products, or performing other maintenance tasks on the +master. + +*** PyLint (#259) + +A PyLint step is available to complement the existing PyFlakes step. + +** Bugs Fixed + +*** Process output from new versions of Test::Harness (#346) + +*** Fixes to the try client and scheduler + +*** Remove redundant loop in MailNotifier (#315) + +*** Display correct $PWD in logfiles (#179) + +*** Do not assume a particular python version on Windows (#401) + +*** Sort files in changes (#402) + +*** Sort buildslaves lexically (#416) + +*** Send properties to all builds initiated by AnyBranchScheduler + +*** Dependent Schedulers are more robust to reconfiguration (#35) + +*** Fix properties handling in triggered buidls (#392) + +*** Use "call" on Windows to avoid errors (#417) + +*** Support setDefaultWorkdir in FileUpload and FileDownload (#209) + +*** Support WithProperties in FileUpload and FileDownload (#210) + +*** Fix a bug where changes could be lost on a master crash (#202) + +*** Remove color settings from non-presentation code (#251) + +*** Fix builders which stopped working after a PING (#349, #85) + +*** Isolate Python exceptions in status plugins (#388) + +*** Notify about slaves missing at master startup (#302) + +*** Fix tracebacks in web display after a reconfig (#176) + +** Version-Control Changes + +*** Many Mercurial fixes + + - Inrepo branch support finalized (source step + changegroup hook + test case) + (#65 #185 #187) + + - Reduced amount of full clones by separating clone with update into + clone/pull/update steps (#186, #227) (see #412 for future work here) + + - Fixed mercurial changegroup hook to work with Mercurial 1.1 API (#181, #380) + +*** Many git fixes + +*** Add got_revision to Perforce support (#127) + +*** Use "git foo" everywhere instead of deprecated "git-foo" + +** Minor Changes + +*** factory.addSteps (#317) + +If you have a common list of steps that are included in multiple factories, you +can use f.addSteps(steplist) to add them all at once. + +*** Twisted logfile rotation and cleanup (#108) + +By default, Buildbot now rotates and cleans up the (potentially voluminous) +twistd.log files. + +*** Prioritize build requests based on the time they wre submitted (#334) + +Balancing of load is a bit more fair, although not true load balancing. + * Release 0.7.9 (15 Sep 2008) ** New Features NEWS @@ -1,2 +1 @@ - -version = "0.7.9" +version = "0.7.10" buildbot/__init__.py @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ \input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*- @c %**start of header @setfilename buildbot.info -@settitle BuildBot Manual 0.7.9 +@settitle BuildBot Manual 0.7.10 @defcodeindex cs @defcodeindex sl @defcodeindex bf docs/buildbot.texinfo 3f82bdf779ab16857667f450f11f0dc84049c015 Dustin J. Mitchell dustin@zmanda.com http://github.com/djmitche/buildbot/commit/a4313d4f4a9f118edfbd63a6551014fcb2bc261b a4313d4f4a9f118edfbd63a6551014fcb2bc261b 2009-02-26T08:14:08-08:00 2009-02-26T08:14:08-08:00 0.7.10 release changes bce596555ffa9bdd385b4ca330cefd3c52eeaab9 Dustin J. Mitchell dustin@zmanda.com