0.9.0rc1.rst

Release Notes for Buildbot 0.9.0rc1

The following are the release notes for Buildbot 0.9.0rc1.

See Upgrading to Nine for a guide to upgrading from 0.8.x to 0.9.x

Master

Features

• new :bbHipchatStatusPush to report build results to Hipchat.
• new steps for Visual Studio 2015 (VS2015, VC14, and MsBuild14).
• The :bbP4 step now obfuscates the password in status logs.
• Added support for specifying the depth of a shallow clone in :bbGit.
• :bbOpenStackLatentWorker now uses a single novaclient instance to not require re-authentication when starting or stopping instances.
• The dist parameter in :bbRpmBuild is now renderable.
• new :bbBitbucketStatusPush to report build results to a Bitbucket Cloud repository.

Fixes

• :bbGerritStatusPush now includes build properties in the startCB and reviewCB functions. startCB now must return a dictionary.
• Fix TypeError exception with :py~buildbot.changes.HgPoller if usetimestamps=False is used (3562)
• Fix recovery upon master unclean kill or crash (3564)
• sqlite access is serialized in order to improve stability (3565)
• Docker latent worker has been fixed (3571)

Changes for Developers

Features

Fixes

Deprecations, Removals, and Non-Compatible Changes

• Support for python 2.6 was dropped from the master.
• public_html directory is not created anymore in buildbot create-master (it's not used for some time already). Documentation was updated with suggestions to use third party web server for serving static file.
• usePTY default value has been changed from slave-config to None (use of slave-config will still work).
• GithubStatusPush reporter was renamed to :bbGitHubStatusPush.

Worker

Deprecations, Removals, and Non-Compatible Changes

• The buildbot-slave package has finished being renamed to buildbot-worker.

Worker

Fixes

• runGlob() uses the correct remote protocol for both :py~buildbot.process.buildstep.CommandMixin and :py~buildbot.steps.worker.ComposititeStepMixin.
• Rename glob() to runGlob() in :py~buildbot.process.buildstep.CommandMixin

Changes for Developers

• EC2 Latent Worker upgraded from boto2 to boto3.

Deprecations, Removals, and Non-Compatible Changes

• Worker commands version bumped to 3.0.
• Master/worker protocol has been changed:
  • slave_commands key in worker information was renamed to worker_commands.
  • getSlaveInfo remote method was renamed to getWorkerInfo.
  • slave-config value of usePTY is not supported anymore.
  • slavesrc command argument was renamed to workersrc in uploadFile and uploadDirectory commands.
  • slavedest command argument was renamed to workerdest in downloadFile command.
  • Previously deprecated WorkerForBuilder.remote_shutdown() remote command has been removed.

Details

For a more detailed description of the changes made in this version, see the git log itself:

git log v0.9.0b9..v0.9.0rc1

Note that Buildbot-0.8.11 was never released.