Version history

S21

Perf improvements

• Add optional support for shallow clones (to save disk space) via SCM_USE_SHALLOW_CLONE setting
• Add etag support to /deployments API to avoid getting data unless necessary
• Improve progress reporting during deployment
• Allow the root of the Kudu service to be used as an alternate git endpoint
• Trim old deployments after reaching some limit
• Several improvement and fixes to the diagnostic trace file

Perf improvements

• Cache deployment script to avoid having to generate it each time
• Use unbuffered input stream during git push operations
• Removed some unnecessary operations when fetching from external git repository
• Removed OData and DotNetZip dependencies, reducing memory usage

Key fixes (many more small fixes not listed)

• Fixed issue that was causing some failures git pushing from Macs
• Fixed several issues that were causing timeouts when pushing large repositories
• Improved detection for processes that are waiting for user input
• Improved recovery after a crash (previously git locks and unwanted git remotes would remain)
• Added retry loop when fetching from external repos to deal with network reliability issues
• Improved how Kudu detects if the git repository already exists

S20

• Add support for deploying from Dropbox
• Add support for deploying Mercurial sites on Bitbucket and Codeplex
• Switch to use script generator as default deployment logic
• Add support for vfs REST API to access the file system
• Add support for zip download/upload API
• Improvements to Log streaming support
• Automatically update git submodules
• Support simple payload to force fetch and deploy
• Add support for Codebase, GitlabHq and Kiln in Kudu (no portal UI though)
• Switch Kudu to use .NET 4.5