File Release Notes and Changelog
Release Name: 2.6
Notes:
Highlights of 2.6:
* 2.6 does not support JDK 1.3. JDK 1.4 is the new minimum require JDK version.
* Xalan has been replaced with Saxon resulting in many fewer OutOfMemoryErrors.
* Windows installer can now install CC as a service
* Custom project types are now supported if they implement ProjectInterface
* Add Ant-style launcher allowing plugins to be added just by dropping
a jar in the correct location
* New chart showing Checkstyle, PMD and JavaDoc violations over time.
New tags:
* CompositeBuilder
* ExecBootstrapper
* include.projects
* Harvest (AllFusionHarvestCM511)
* MavenSnapshotDependency
* Rake (RakeBuilder)
Changes:
CruiseControl Release Notes - 2.6
general
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* End of support for compiling/running Cruise with JDK 1.3. New
earliest supported JDK is 1.4.x.
* Replace Xalan with Saxon.
* Overhaul handling of threads, streams and logging when executing
external processes.
contrib
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distributed
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* Update distributed CC code for refactoring in core (CC-485). Patch
by Dan Rollo
* Fix bug in distributed where empty results subdirectories cause
exception (CC-458). Patch by Dan Rollo
* Fix bug where distributed InteractiveBuildUtility always fails to
build (CC-459). Patch by Dan Rollo
* Pass CC_OPTS in cruisecontrol.sh for distributed CC. Patch by Dan
Rollo.
* Fix bug in distributed where BuildAgent restart() and kill() never
waited for build to finish (CC-517). Patch by Dan Rollo
mainAsWar
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* Allows the main build loop to run in a servlet container.
packager
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* packager: Based on the RpmPackager contributed earlier by Julian
Simpson, but now works with rpm version 4 and also creates Debian
packages. It is also done in such a way that building any other type
of package should work. Contributed by Christoper Read and Julian
Simpson.
* packager: fix user and group in logrotate script - Patch by Markus
M. May
windowsInstaller
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* Fixes for windows installer (CC-505). Patch by Julian Simpson:
- displays README instead of RELEASENOTES
- now with Windows service
- backs up logs and artifacts to your Windows profile temp dir when
removing
- cleans out install dir
build loop
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Accurev
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* Fix property attribute and remove propertyOnDelete since I don't see
an easy way to know if a file has been deleted.
AllFusionHarvestCM511
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* AllFusion Harvest CM 5.1.1 source control implementation, registered
as "harvest" in the default plugins. Submitted by Larry Liberto.
AntBuilder
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* Add optional attribute "keepgoing" to invoke ant with -keep-going
flag. Submitted by Stephen George
* Can once again use optional tasks with internal version of ant
(CC-400). Patch by Frederic Mockel
bootstrappers
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* Update all bootstrappers to throw CruiseControlExceptions on errors
instead of log and continue (CC-449). Reported by Sylvain Benoist.
BuildQueue
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* Fix synchronization bug (CC-540). Patch by Benjamin Burgess
BuildStatus
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* Better error message when log directory doesn't exist
(CC-487). Submitted by Sven Strohschein
ClearCase
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* Fix error logging (CC-450). Reported by Kevin Quigley.
CMSynergy
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* Use a four part project name for projects (CC-370). Reported by
Antek Baranski. Patch by Robert J. Smith and Antek Baranski.
ConcurrentVersionSystem
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* Remove race condition on closing error stream.
* Make empty string in tag an alias for HEAD (CC-511). Fix by Benjamin
Burgess
CompositeBuilder
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* Add CompositeBuilder to run a list of builders and have the results
of the builds combined (CC-538). Submitted by Frederic Mockel
* CompositeBuilder.validate() should validate child builders. Reported
by EJ Ciramella
cruisecontrol.bat
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* Was failing to execute java when JAVA_HOME wasn't set (CC-492).
* Was failing if there were spaces in JAVA_HOME (CC-554)
CruiseControlConfig
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* Allow properties inside of preconfigured template projects. Patch by
Jerome Lacoste
* Allow non-default projects to be registered as plugins. Alternative
project implementations need to implement ProjectInterface.
* Add include.projects tag as part of CC-266.
CruiseControlController
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* Prevent ConcurrentModificationException by only allowing a single
thread to be parsing the config file.
default-plugins.properties
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* Add ClearCaseViewstrapper (CC-482). Reported by Andy Stevens
* Add ExecBootstrapper and CompositeBuilder (CC-538).
* Add RakeBuilder as <rake .../>
EmailPublisher
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* Add <ignore ..> child element (CC-489). Patch by Jarkko Viinamäki
* Fixed bug where using SSL but not specifying mailPort would result
in a NullPointerException. Reported by Michael Clark
* Added validation for nested alert, always, failure, success and
ignore elements.
ExecBootstrapper
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* Add ExecBootstrapper which executes a command (like the ExecBuilder)
during the bootstrap process (CC-538). Submitted by Frederic Mockel
Launcher
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* Add Ant-style launcher (CC-268). Patch by Robert J. Smith.
* Fix NPE if cc.home property not set (CC-516). Patch by Dan Rollo.
LdapMapper
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* Support authentication (CC-453). Submitted by Lars Gehrken
LockFileListener
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* Fix problem where listener was incorrectly deleting the lockfile.
* Add documentation for lockfilebootstrapper and lockfilelistener
(CC-507). Patch by Allan Wick.
MavenSnapshotDependency
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* Modifications to MavenSnapshotDependency (CC-484). Submitted by
Jarkko Viinamäki
- made POM scanning namespace aware. Dependencies were not detected
if project.xml had schema definition in the project element
- added support for "ejb-client" dependency type
- added echo for detected snapshot dependencies
- added support for build.properties or other similiar properties
file which contains key=value tags to replace ${key} type strings
in project.xml
* update startup scripts in binary release to use correct version of
maven2 embedder lib - Reported by Valerie Maher
Maven2Builder
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* fix problem where a FATAL ERROR was not detected as an error.
* fix finding mvn.bat in Windows. Reported by Michael Mattox
* add support for <property> child elements
MKS
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* fix problem with spaces in project path (CC-558). Patch by Thomas
Schüttel
ModificationSet
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* now calls validate() on all child source controls.
P4
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* Command to correct for server time wasn't using the optional values
such as the port (CC-469). Reported by Terri Paik
* Fix problem where very short interval time (30 seconds) was causing
system to run out of file handles. Fix by Jared Richardson
Project
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* Add requireModifications and forceOnly attributes (CC-501). Patch by
Chris Erskine
* Avoid loop when forcing a build that has an exception in the
bootstrapper (CC-556). Patch by Stefan Lützkendorf
PropertyLabelIncrementer
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* Add attribute "defaultlabel" which is returned when property file
doesn't exist (CC-470).
PVCS
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* Add support for multiline comments (CC-440). Patch by Scott
Heaberlin
RakeBuilder
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* Add builder to call Ruby Rake (CC-564). Submitted by Kirk
Knoernschild
SCPPublisher
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* Add attribute "executableName" to specify alternative executable.
SourceControlProperties
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* Create delegate to fix problem where properties set by the source
controls persisted across builds (CC-508).
StreamPumper
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* Log if consuming line fails (CC-199). Reported by Kaloyan Enimanev.
SVN
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* Reset modified property to null if no modifications. Patch by Paul
Hammant
* Remove race condition on closing error stream.
* Surround dates with double quotes when on windows (CC-447). Patch
by Marco Tedone.
UCM
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* Skip rmbranch and rmver events (CC-430). Patch by Olga Bondarchuk
VSS
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* Asterisks in comments no longer cause
StringIndexOutOfBoundsException (CC-461). Reported by Omair-Inam
Abdul-Matin
VssBootstrapper
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* VSSBoostrapper fix for intermitent "java.io.IOException: The handle
is invalid" errors (CC-535).
reporting application
======================
buildresults.xsl
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* Comment out javadoc.xsl since the information is already in the
errors and warnings section.
index.jsp
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* Fix invalid comment syntax in index.jsp (CC-486). Reported by Andy
Stevens
* Use fully qualified hostname for JMX server (CC-362). Patch by Sven
Strohschein
* Use cruisecontrol.jmxhost parameter if it is set in web.xml.
controlpanel.jsp
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* Use fully qualified hostname for JMX server (CC-362). Patch by
Rajesh Patel
* Use cruisecontrol.jmxhost parameter if it is set in web.xml. Patch
by Jared Richardson
FileServlet
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* Fix problem where urls in directory might have double slashes. Fix
by Edward Kuns
* Added content length to HTTP response, this allows keep alive
connections. Patch by Andreas Mandel
metrics.jsp
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* New charts calculated by evaluation an XPath expression on all build
logs.
nant.xsl
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* Update to work with nested builds.
rss.jsp
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* Use RFC-822 format for dates (CC-473). Patch by Brian Egge
testdetails.xsl
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* Rewrite xsl to be more efficient. Submitted by Ivan Latysh
taglib
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* Taglib tries to read a system property named "false", which,
depending on security policies, may be denied (CC-525). Based on
patch by R. Lemos