JetBrains TeamCity Blog

TeamCity 3.0 is almost here. While it is still in the oven, you can try this Beta release.
This is your last chance before the release to try the cutting edge version of TeamCity and let us know if you have any urgent issues.

Browse the release notes and download the Beta.

Happy building,
The JetBrains TeamCity Team

In the latest TeamCity 3.0 EAP releases we added one more feature helping to keep you up with the status of builds of the certain build configurations – getting reports on their status via syndication feeds.

You can specify the content of your personalized feed selecting from a wide range of settings and subscribe to it, for example, using some external application. Receive new feed entries for:

• all new builds or only successful or failed ones
• builds triggered by changes of all users or a particular user in your company, or only your changes

To create a custom RSS feed and subscribe to it:

1. Navigate to My Settings and Tools page, TeamCity Add-ons area, Syndication Feed and click Customize.
2. On the new page that opens specify a number of options:
   • select Build Configurations (multiple selection is available)
   • determine the Feed Entries you want to be included in the reports (events such as builds, changes of particular users or both, triggering the syndication feed generation)
   • enter the authentication settings if required
3. Copy and paste the resulting URL into your feed reader or click the Subscribe link and then select the desired application for reading the feed.

The resulting feed will be updated as soon as the new build matching the selected requirements completes.

The feed entries contain the summary of results of builds of the certain build configurations and navigatable links to the build changes and the build log:

Besides feed URL generator, it is possible to obtain the information about the finished builds from the home page of a build configuration.

Technorati tags: TeamCity, JetBrains, Java, .NET, IntelliJ IDEA, continuous integration, build management, agile development, best practices, MS Visual Studio 2003, Eclipse, notification, RSS, feed

This EAP release brings:

• new user interface on assigning per-project user roles,
• redesigned Build Results page,
• possibility to create custom statistics charts,
• more powerful control on the build agents via authorized/unauthorized state,
• VCS labels for Subversion, StarTeam, and ClearCase, and more

The redesigned Assign roles dialog provides ability to assign a role in multiple projects:

Besides, it’s now possible to assign roles in multiple projects for multiple users and unassign multiple roles in a single action, and many others.

More possibilities on extending TeamCity are now available: report and display custom statistic values using teamcity-info.xml file. Statistics charts can then be displayed in the Statistics tab of the build configuration.

We have added one more state for the Build Agents for better control of the company’s Build Grid which is “authorized” Agents which can be managed by TeamCity Administrator. Only authorized Build Agents can run TeamCity builds. All those unauthorized immediately appear in Agents| Unauthorized Agents tab.

In addition to automatic build labeling, you can now label sources used for a build at a later time by clicking the Label this build sources link of the Build Results page:

Among the other improvements:

• smarter “Builds with my changes” notifications
• polished statistic charts presentation and new passed tests count and inspections/duplicates counts charts
• improved VCS support

View the more detailed release notes and download the latest build. And, as usually, we urge you to perform your data backup before upgrade and eagerly wait for your feedback.

Technorati tags: TeamCity, JetBrains, Java, .NET, IntelliJ IDEA, continuous integration, build management, agile development, best practices, MS Visual Studio 2003, Eclipse