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The long-awaited TeamCity 2.0 beta is finally available!

We have prepared a short overview of new TeamCity features concerning both user interface enhancements and server and projects setup possibilities.

We also urge you to have a look at multiple improvements we have made for IntelliJ IDEA plugin, in particular:

• new interface for monitoring the status of your changes integration and the projects status
• quick fixes for remote code analysis results
• remote analysis of the project code duplicates and viewing code duplicates in IntelliJ IDEA

The plugin is available at TeamCity’s My Settings and Tools page, TeamCity Add-ons area.

Get your copy of TeamCity 2.0 beta version at: http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/beta.html.

As usual you can have a look at the new features on our demo server, and as usual no installation or configuration is required.

We would really appreciate your comments and opinions which can help us a lot especially before the release.

Along with usability improvements and fixes to existing functionality (see release notes), TeamCity 1.2 is mainly targeted for .NET platform developers but in the nearest major release we plan to extend the list of supported IDE’s with Eclipse plugin and implement multiple enhancements anticipated by Java developers.

Test-drive our demo server with TeamCity 1.2 installed.

Download TeamCity 1.2.

The nearest minor TeamCity 1.2 release is aimed at improving the productivity and support of the continuous integration process of .NET platform developers but also contains a number of critical bugfixes and usability enhancements.

The final release is scheduled for the 15th of January, 2007. In the mean time, we invite you to download the first Release Candidate of TeamCity 1.2 .

New feature highlights are:

• integration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
• support of Visual SourceSafe 2005 and 6.0

To successfully run TeamCity 1.2, you can either use the existing 1.0 or 1.1 license key, or request a 60-day trial key by filling a short evaluation form.

We are glad to launch the long-awaited early access program for the next versions of TeamCity, namely 1.2 and Agra (a codename of 1.5 version).

The nearest minor release (1.2) is mostly aimed at supporting the continuous integration process of .NET platform developers and already provides:

• integration with Visual Studio and possibility to open the stacktraces of failed tests when you click the link of failed test in the web
• support of Visual SourceSafe 2005 and 6.0 to manage your source files revisions

Please note, in this EAP you will need to have VSIP (Visual Studio Industry Partner) SDK to use Visual Studio add-in for TeamCity (available at Microsoft web site for free). Please visit http://affiliate.vsipmembers.com/ for details. Surely, this will be fixed in the next EAP and release version.

The Agra version is aimed at improving TeamCity in almost all aspects:

• Web Administration:
• enhancements of agent properties management
• dependent builds triggering
• project cloning
• checkout on build agent
• Version Control Systems:
• ClearCase support
• Build runners:
• a Build Runner for searching the code duplicates
• Improved Maven 2 support
• Ant 1.7 support
• Usability enhancements:
• viewing the file changes (diff) on the web (already implemented)
• enhanced and more flexible notification rules
• customizable build log filtering
• Integration with IDEs:
• Eclipse integration
• Microsoft Visual Studio integration enhancements

In the Agra version we also plan to support Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System - one more good news for .NET platform developers.

TeamCity 1.2 and Agra EAP page: http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/TW
Changes page: http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/TW/Changes+page

Download for stable 1.2 EAP:
http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/TW/Changes+page

Download for stable 1.2 EAP:
http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/TW/Download+Latest

We look forward for your comments and suggestions.

The latest version of TeamCity is now available at Download page.

This release is mainly aimed at improving product quality based on your bug reports and feedback, which we really appreciate. We have also added several features that make your team development process smarter:

• Support for TestNG tests for Ant build runner
• “Stacktrace navigation” from TeamCity to IntelliJ IDEA
• Subversion access over https protocol with client certificate authentication

Now TeamCity works under Internet Explorer 7.0 and Firefox 2.0.

You can take a look at these and other features in the TeamCity live demo.

More features are coming soon in the next minor release:

• support of ClearCase and Visual SourceSafe
• long-awaited integration of TeamCity with Microsoft Visual Studio

Join our Early Access Program and be the first to know the latest news and share your opinion on new and existing product features!

It is always a pleasure to get a positive feedback on the products we develop, especially enterily new ones. We really appreciate the Continuous Integration Revisited post, where the author describes TeamCity’s features and his own experience. He noted that TeamCity’s installation and configuration was really quick and transparent, pointed at the benefits of the Delayed commit feature, and discussed possibility of creating the build configurations using different build runners and testing frameworks for remote code testing.

Now about new features that are not mentioned in this review, since they appeared only in the latest EAP build (that you can download at http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/TW/Download). Among several enhancements and new features, the most important one is displaying of the Code Inspection results in a dedicated tab on Results page. Now you can locate the dead code, find probable bugs, check coding guidelines and specifications violations right on the web. TeamCity’s code inspections are based on the IntelliJ IDEA’s Static Code Analysis and Code Inspection tool, so you can use the power of more than 600 code inspections for remote code analysis.



Right now, you can’t navigate to the discovered problems from the web to IntelliJ IDEA. But this functionality will be implemented in the nearest IntelliJ IDEA EAP builds.

To get the full list of changes and new features in TeamCity EAPs, monitor the changes log.

We have recently announced the EAP for our new solution - JetBrains Team Server (codenamed “Albus”).

You don’t need to download and install Team Server to get an overview of its features set. Take a look at the features which we have already implemented at the public Team Server.



Currently the following features are available:
•   running, pausing, and resuming builds of different projects
•   viewing the test results and the project status
•   displaying the build status before the build is complete
•   reordering the builds queue using drag-and-drop
•   taking responsibility for the build failure

More features will be delivered soon. They are now discussed at the Team Server forum. Participate in the discussion and post your wish list of Team Server features – the Early Access Program is still in progress.

Read the Team Server FAQ and installation and configuration instructions if you want to try Team Server with your project.

See the development roadmap and suggest features at the Team Server space in Jira, and we eagerly wait for your feedback in this blog as well.