JetBrains TeamCity Blog

We are glad to announce, that we’ve just opened an Early Access Program for TeamCity 5.1.

Here’s the short list of only some of the improvements and features that today’s EAP brings:

• Customizable email notifications — now you can use FreeMarker templates to create your custom notification messages.
• Several UI improvements, such as collapsible projects on overview page and the most voted one — the ability to specify time zone, which is handy for geographically dispersed teams.
• New Current problems tab is added for a project, that shows which tests are currently failing in this project and which configurations are red.
• Support for .NET 4.0, and not yet released Visual Studio 2010 and TFS 2010.
• Improved support for .NET test frameworks.
• Code coverage support for Maven runner.
• Ability to produce zip and tar.gz artifacts from a bunch of files.
• IDE integration plugins improved.
• read more…

View the detailed release notes, download the build and stay tuned — TeamCity 5.1 won’t take long to appear.

By tradition, we remind you to back up your data before upgrade.

Looking forward to your feedback!

Sincerely,
JetBrains TeamCity team.

Great news, everyone — we’ve just published TeamCity 5.0 Release Candidate! And it means that TeamCity 5.0 is almost at your doorstep!

So, don't hesitate and download TeamCity 5.0 RC, and, of course, do not forget to backup your TeamCity data before upgrading.
As always, your feedback will be highly appreciated.

Stay tuned, the big day’s coming!

Develop with pleasure!
The JetBrains TeamCity Team

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Hooray! Here it is, the new EAP build with more fixes and enhancements! Download it and check the complete list of included changes.

Stay tuned — TeamCity 5.0 is just around the corner.

Develop with pleasure!

JetBrains TeamCity Team

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The new TeamCity 5.0 EAP is released! Substantially, this build contains recent bug-fixes; for the complete list of included fixes refer to the Resolved issues page.

Download the latest EAP and don’t forget to back up your data before upgrading.

Develop with pleasure!

JetBrains TeamCity Team

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TeamCity 5.0 is approaching inevitably and here we are with fresh EAP build.
All major new features have been introduced already in previous EAPs, but still you’ll find lots of improvements and fixes to check:

• Amazon EC2 support: build agents running on Amazon EC2 shut down automatically if idle for a chosen time; plus Amazon EC2 integration can be enabled/disabled now.
• Command line remote run tool: reading a list of changed files from stdin is supported.
• New system wide notifications.
• Improved TeamCity startup procedure.
• Build configuration templates: cross-project associations between templates and configurations are now available. Also, the “Move” operation for templates is added.
• Clean-up: clean-up rules can be specified for build configuration templates, plus the “Build History Clean-up” page has been reworked.
• Enhanced “My changes” page.
• and more…

For detailed list check the Release notes.

Download fresh EAP build. Please back up your data before upgrade.
We always wait for your feedback at TeamCity forum.

Wish you happy building!
The JetBrains TeamCity team

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There is not much time left till the scheduled TeamCity 5.0 release and we’re forward looking to the final stage of development. The new EAP build contains some new features plus enhancements listed briefly below:

• Per-test responsibility. Now you can assign responsibility not only for the entire build crash, but for particular failed tests. Also, the new “Responsibilities” tab with currently taken responsibilities taken in a project is added to the project home page.
• New template-related actions: “Extract template” and “Create build configuration from template”. The first of these actions, “Extract template”, allows the user to create a new template from an existing build configuration. The second action allows creating new build configuration from an existing template. In both cases, build configuration is associated with a template automatically.
• Remote run for GIT in IntelliJ IDEA
• Support for <gant/> task in Ant build scripts
• Support for recognition of compilation errors output produced by <groovyc/> Ant task
• Git and Mercurial plugins are now bundled in TeamCity distribution
• and a bit more…

Check the complete Release notes for for more details.

Download the new EAP build, and please don’t forget to back up your data before upgrade.

Wish you happy building!
The JetBrains TeamCity team

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Great news, everyone — we just released the next EAP build for TeamCity 5.0! What did we include in this build? One major brand new feature, some updates for already introduced features, and some enhancements — our traditional set for EAPs. Here’s the brief list of what you’ll find in this one:

• First of all, we introduce build configuration templates. The goal of this major feature is to get rid of duplicating the build configuration settings. Of course, you can copy build configuration that seems most suitable, and use it as a base for a new one. However, in case something changes, you will still need to make same modifications in all similar build configurations. Now all you have to do is create a template (template actually has the same settings as a regular build configuration) and then associate any number of build configurations with this template. Any change in the template will affect all of the build configurations associated with it.
• UI for Amazon EC2 settings: now you can edit Amazon cloud profiles from the web UI, without editing configuration files manually.
• Enhanced My Changes page: you can see not only builds running with your change but also new tests already failed in these builds.
• Dependency trigger on Maven artifact: this new kind of dependency trigger will start a build if a specified Maven artifact changes.
• Plus some more improvements including support for Oracle 11, widened set of details displayed for disconnected build agent, UI enhancements, etc.

For detailed list of changes, please refer to the complete Release notes for today’s TeamCity EAP.

Download the new EAP build, give it a try and use it, and send your feedback to us — we always wait for it at our issue tracker and online forum.
And last, but not the least: please don’t forget to back up your data before upgrade.

Wish you happy building!
The JetBrains TeamCity team

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Seems just yesterday we’d opened Early Access Program for TeamCity 5.0, and we’re on air again, and with good news! Here is the new EAP release, which incorporates some delicious features and improvements that, we hope, will tempt you to try them in practice:

• Initial support for virtual agents based on Amazon EC2 service.
• Command line tool for Remote runs.
• Backup & Restore via web UI to simplify TeamCity maintenance.
• Simplified creation of Maven build configurations: just provide URL to your project pom file, and TeamCity will take care of the rest.
• Run build with custom artifact dependencies: if your build has artifact dependencies, you can now choose specific builds to depend on.
• History by agent: view a history of builds that were run on a particular build agent.
• All data shown on the Single change status page is now sorted by tabs: Tests, Builds and Files.
• In Audit log, you can now filter the list of registered activities by user. In addition, new activity types are available for browsing.
• Automatically fetched Project Keys for Jira issue tracker.
• Test connection to specified issue tracker in the issue tracker settings dialog.
• Code coverage improvements.
• and a bit more…

View complete Release notes and download new EAP build. Please back up your data before upgrade.

By the way, you still have a chance to vote for features and suggest new ones at our issue tracker and online forum. Your feedback will be most welcome!

Wish you happy building!
The JetBrains TeamCity team

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Truly great news, everyone! Today we announce the opening of TeamCity 5.0 Early Access Program.

We’ve been working hard and we believe it’s time to present you some of TeamCity’s brand new features and enhancements to make your day a bit brighter.
So here goes a brief list of what you’ll find in this first TeamCity 5.0 EAP:

• Issue Tracker integration — out-of-the-box integration with JIRA, Bugzilla, and Charisma (it’s a new issue tracker by JetBrains)
• New code coverage engine for Java — IntelliJ IDEA built-in coverage
• Built-in support for seamless integration with NCover and PartCover for .NET coverage
• Single page to monitor status of a particular change across all of the build configurations
• Customizable UI for artifact-based (report) tabs
• Archived Projects — one click to sort out non-active projects
• Audit and Server logs — let you browse various users activity and server events via web UI
• Eclipse and Visual Studio IDE plug-ins improvements
• Enhanced Rake Runner with new test frameworks support
• Experimental support for Sybase DB engine
• and more niceties…

Quite a list, don’t you think? Just give these features a try, and, who knows?, you might get a taste for them!
If you’d like to get more information and try new features, view detailed Release notes and download the build. Of course, we remind you to back up your data before upgrade.

By the way, don’t hesitate and take a chance to influence the development process — vote for features and suggest new ones at our issue tracker and online forum. We greatly appreciate and eagerly wait for your feedback!

Wish you happy building!
The JetBrains TeamCity team

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TeamCity has always provided a number of places and ways for monitoring changes which the team made:

• pop-up on the Projects page showing pending changes or those being built at the moment
• Recent history on the build configuration Overview page
• different types of notifications
• Change Log of the build configuration containing the records of all entries of changes which were committed.

In TeamCity 4.0 we made a number of improvements in the Change Log tab design helping to focus on what is the most important and letting you to:

• specify the range of changes you want to view by providing the range of builds
• show the builds where developers’ changes got into
• view changes which were made by a particular developer - the feature is available since TeamCity 4.1 EAP

Hope you will find these new Change Log features useful in your daily chores.

Before trying TeamCity 4.1 EAP we recommend you to backup your database as usual.

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