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In this EAP build you can find a number of TeamCity 4.0 planned features and enhancements:

• More possibilities for build sequences and artifact dependencies.
• Eclipse plugin usability improvements.
• VCS integration-related improvements for CVS, Perforce, and Subversion.
• Adding comments for a finished build.
• Search improvements.

Read more about this build in detailed release notes and download the latest build.

Since now we open the sources of ClearCase integration and Eclipse plugin so everyone is welcome to contribute and discuss the plugins-related issues at the plugins development forum.

As always we urge you to back up your data before upgrading to a new version.

Please let us know what you think about the feature improvements we've made by sharing your opinions and issues at our support forum.

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TeamCity team members Yegor Yarko and Pavel Sher have just arrived from Amsterdam after participating in CITCON 2008 (Continuous Integration and Testing Conference). Organized as an “Open Space”, the conference encourages developers to discuss stirring topics in groups. Apparently, it was an exciting and valuable event. Kudos to the organizers!

Guys have brought some worthy input about trends and needs in the domain of Continuous Integration and build tools. We feel that TeamCity is on the cutting edge with the unique features it provides and we have lots of other ideas to implement.

Here are some pictures from the event.

You can find conference materials and sessions listing at CITCON Wiki.

For the schedule of all events where JetBrains will participate, subscribe to our special events calendar or check the Academy page.

Many of the web applications we use nowadays are really complex and may deserve some special treatment such as… a dedicated browser window maybe. Why not? The idea of Site Specific Browsers is conquering more and more fans. Most of us can easily name at least 3 such applications used daily. GMail? Facebook? Flickr? Basecamp? TeamCity?

Yes, yes! And TeamCity too.

Some of us (those in the Apple camp) have been using TeamCity in a separate browser via Fluid for quite some time.

Fluid lets you easily create single-site browsers. It’s really cool. Makes you see the applications you thought you knew well in a different light

To make TeamCity look natively nice in Mac OS dock, we’ve created a high-res TeamCity logo to serve as a Fluid application icon.

There is also a nice Growl Notifier plugin for even better integration. The red badge that Fluid can show on the dock icon can be of some use too. Ideas anyone?

But, hey! Now Windows users can also create such site-specific applications. The answer is Google Chrome! No doubt, you have it installed by now We have too.

Since the latest TeamCity 4 EAP build every page provides all the info Google Chrome needs to create an “application shortcut”.

Choose the page you work with most often, e.g. a project page or a build configuration and create an application shortcut for it.

Thinking about all this a little further, it would be nice to tell the system to open certain URLs in specific applications. Based not only on the URL protocol, but also on domain-specific rules, so that clicking a http://mybuildserver:8888/* link would bring up the right Chrome application.

Is this doable now, in your opinion?

That said, go get the latest TeamCity 4.0 EAP build, create a separate application for TeamCity and try the new features.

The new EAP build brings a number of enhancements and new features for better build problems investigation:

• Same source builds improvements such as reuse of the already finished builds, diplay the builds used, and support of personal builds
• Possibility to make a pre-tested commit if there are no newly failed tests for MS Visual Studio and IntelliJ IDEA
• FxCop integration in TeamCity allowing the .NET platform users to get the inspection reports
• An overview of the builds problematic issues: a list of tests which have failed recently, their failure rate and other info indicating the system, build or agents problems
• Test history feature: possibility to view all test’s runs results and statistics
• Multiple fixes and improvements

View the complete list of new features and improvements and download a new build.

As usually we would like to urge you to make a backup of your data before upgrade.

We hope you’ll find the new features useful and eagerly wait for your feedback.

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