Wednesday, April 21, 2010

TeamCity 5.1 is here

And finally, here is build 13360 already available from the official download page as TeamCity 5.1 release.

You can get an overview of the new additions in the What's New or review the full fixed issues list.

As usual, please backup before you drive.

Thank you for the continuous support and feedback.
You can prepare to vote for (and suggest) the new features as we are going to make up our minds on the next major release.

Monday, April 19, 2010

TeamCity 5.1 RC2: build 13340

As release is really-really close, here is one more RC build.

It has some issues fixed and also has SourceGear Vault plugin bundled with "experimental" status.

Please backup, download, report.

And we are back polishing the build to remove that "candidate" from it's current "RC" name.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

TeamCity 5.1 RC: #13300

The EAP build we are publishing today has a Release Candidate status: we are now focused on most critical fixes and checking the general state of the build.

So help us discover any critical issues in the build (BTW, what a fancy number: #13300 :).

There are almost no changes as we are focused on the bugfixing.

As usual do not forget to backup your existing data before upgrade!

Update: At some point we bundled Swabra plugin, but then decided this is a bit too early and being it a separate plugin would let us brush it up more effectively. Anyway, everyone is encouraged to try it and let us know how useful it is for you.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

One more EAP build before 5.1: #13245

Here is the latest snapshot of the current TeamCity state: build #13245.


One of the major improvements introduced in the build is new UI for editing build configuration triggers. We migrated from tab-based triggers UI to list with add/edit/remove operations as this is necessary for further extending triggers capabilities and configuration.

See the other changes in the release notes or browse through the list of fixed issues in our tracker.

Please try the build and let us know if anything goes wrong - 5.1 is within weeks, so we need your help to discover any hidden issues.

And just in case, do not forget to backup your existing data before upgrade!

Monday, March 29, 2010

Prepare for April the 1st - try TeamCity Fools Day Plugin

Fools Day is close so if you would like to joke on your colleagues try TeamCity Fools Day plugin.
Please install it only if your organization can afford little disruption from the work as the plugin is a bit intrusive. Also, feel free to look into the code and tweak it.

The page has the version from the last year but it still works OK with TeamCity 5.0.3 (what a stable API :)

We might add something fresh to the plugin if we have time these days (our colleagues got a bit tired of the screen shooting last year), so watch for the plugin page updates.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

TeamCity 5.1 EAP build #13215 is available

We are coming closer to 5.1 release (will hopefully happen in about month) and here is a new EAP build for you to try and let us know your feedback.

Some of the improvements that many existing TeamCity users will probably be interested in:
  • Ability to hide and reorder build configurations on the Overview page. After some discussions this is made a per-user setting that affects only the Overview (as an exception, the changed order is also used on My Changes page). If you try the feature, please let us know how well this suits your needs;
  • support for putting external database drive jars under .BuildServer/lib/jdbc directory. If you upgraded TeamCity in the past you probably know that the driver jars need to be added again after upgrade. So the feature is aimed to reduce necessity to patch existing TeamCity installation after upgrade;
  • HTML email notifications (and with the recent addition of advanced notification templates customization you can further extend the messages) ;
  • support for image files in the web file diff view: two images will be displayed side by side;
  • ability to add a comment for a build right on the build triggering - in the custom run build dialog;
  • and more.
The build is waiting for your download requests.

Do not forget to backup your existing data before upgrade.

Care to make TeamCity better? Do not stay silent, drop us a line.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

TeamCity 5.0.3 Bugfix Update

While we are working on 5.1 release, some of the fixes seem important enough to be integrated into our 5.0.x branch. The number of fixes seems enough to release an update and we gladly do it today.

The update is recommended but is not mandatory, if you do not experience any issues with your TeamCity setup, you can skip the update.

Thank you all who reported issues and let us investigate and fix them.

Download the new verison and ... happy building!