The following are the release notes for Buildbot .
- The
MasterShellCommand
step now correctly handles environment variables passed as list. - The master now poll the database for pending tasks when running buildbot in multi-master mode.
- The algorithm to match build requests to slaves has been rewritten in :bb
615
. The new algorithm automatically takes locks into account, and will not schedule a build only to have it wait on a lock. The algorithm also introduces acanStartBuild
builder configuration option which can be used to prevent a build request being assigned to a slave. buildbot stop
andbuildbot restart
now accept--clean
to stop or restart the master cleanly (allowing all running builds to complete first).- The :bb
IRC
bot now supports clean shutdown and immediate shutdown by using the command 'shutdown'. To allow the command to function, you must provide allowShutdown=True. - :bb
CopyDirectory
has been added. - :bb
BuildslaveChoiceParameter
has been added to provide a way to explicitly choose a buildslave for a given build. - default.css now wraps preformatted text by default.
- Slaves can now be paused through the web status.
- The latent buildslave support is less buggy, thanks to :bb
646
. - The
treeStableTimer
forAnyBranchScheduler
now maintains separate timers for separate branches, codebases, projects, and repositories. - :bb
SVN
has a new option preferLastChangedRev=True to use the last changed revision forgot_revision
- The build request DB connector method :py
~buildbot.db.buildrequests.BuildRequestsConnectorComponent.getBuildRequests
can now filter by branch and repository. - A new :bb
SetProperty
step has been added inbuildbot.steps.master
which can set a property directly without accessing the slave. - The new :bb
LogRenderable
step logs Python objects, which can contain renderables, to the logfile. This is helpful for debugging property values during a build. - 'buildbot try' now has an additional
--property
option to set properties. Unlike the existing--properties
option, this new option supports setting only a single property and therefore allows commas to be included in the property name and value. - The
Git
step has a newconfig
option, which accepts a dict of git configuration options to pass to the low-level git commands. See :bbGit
for details. - In :bb
ShellCommand
ShellCommand now validates its arguments during config and will identify any invalid arguments before a build is started. - The list of force schedulers in the web UI is now sorted by name.
- OpenStack-based Latent Buildslave support was added. See :bb
666
. - Master-side support for P4 is available, and provides a great deal more flexibility than the old slave-side step. See :bb
596
. - Master-side support for Repo is available. The step parameters changed to camelCase.
repo_downloads
, andmanifest_override_url
properties are no longer hardcoded, but instead consult as default values via renderables. Renderable are used in favor of callables forsyncAllBranches
andupdateTarball
. - Builder configurations can now include a
description
, which will appear in the web UI to help humans figure out what the builder does. - GNUAutoconf and other pre-defined factories now work correctly (:bb
2402
) - The pubDate in RSS feeds is now rendered correctly (:bb
2530
)
- The
split_file
function for :bbSVNPoller
may now return a dictionary instead of a tuple. This allows it to add extra information about a change (such asproject
orrepository
). - The
workdir
build property has been renamed tobuilddir
. This change accurately reflects its content; the term "workdir" means something different.workdir
is currently still supported for backwards compatability, but will be removed eventually. - The
Blocker
step has been removed. - Several polling ChangeSources are now documented to take a
pollInterval
argument, instead ofpollinterval
. The old name is still supported. - StatusReceivers' checkConfig method should no longer take an errors parameter. It should indicate errors by calling :py
~buildbot.config.error
. - Build steps now require that their name be a string. Previously, they would accept anything, but not behave appropriately.
- The web status no longer displays a potentially misleading message, indicating whether the build can be rebuilt exactly.
- The
SetProperty
step inbuildbot.steps.shell
has been renamed to :bbSetPropertyFromCommand
. - The EC2 and libvirt latent slaves have been moved to
buildbot.buildslave.ec2
andbuildbot.buildslave.libirt
respectively. - Pre v0.8.7 versions of buildbot supported passing keyword arguments to
buildbot.process.BuildFactory.addStep
, but this was dropped. Support was added again, while still being deprecated, to ease transition.
- Added an optional build start callback to
buildbot.status.status_gerrit.GerritStatusPush
This release includes the fix for :bb2536
. - An optional
startCB
callback to :bbGerritStatusPush
can be used to send a message back to the committer. See the linked documentation for details. - bb
ChoiceStringParameter
has a new methodgetChoices
that can be used to generate content dynamically for Force scheduler forms.
- The fix for Twisted bug #5079 is now applied on the slave side, too. This fixes a perspective broker memory leak in older versions of Twisted. This fix was added on the master in Buildbot-0.8.4 (see :bb
1958
). - The
--nodaemon
option tobuildslave start
now correctly prevents the slave from forking before running.
For a more detailed description of the changes made in this version, see the git log itself:
git log v0.8.7..v0.8.8
Release notes for older versions of Buildbot are available in the :bbmaster/docs/relnotes/
directory of the source tree. Newer versions are also available here:
0.8.7 0.8.6