JetBrains TeamCity Blog

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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Today’s piping hot TeamCity 4.5.4 update eliminates several compatibility problems and increases overall stability. For the complete list of included fixes, check Release Notes. This update is recommended for all users of TeamCity.

TeamCity 4.5.4 is available for download now. As usual, we do recommend you to back up your data before upgrade.

Wishing you develop with pleasure!
The JetBrains TeamCity team

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We’re glad to announce the fresh update – TeamCity 4.5.3, which solves a Rake Runner problem introduced in TeamCity 4.5.2 and contains a few more fixes.
For the complete list of included changes, check Release notes.

Download TeamCity 4.5.3 and, please, don’t forger to back up your data before upgrading.

Wishing you develop with pleasure and waiting for your feedback!
The JetBrains TeamCity team

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We’re glad to inform you that TeamCity 4.5.2 is just released. This fresh update comprises bundled SVNKit 1.3 support and a number of fixes. For the complete list of included changes check the Release notes.

You are welcome to download the new version from our official site, and, please, don’t forger to back up your data before upgrading.

This update is recommended for all users of TeamCity Professional and TeamCity Enterprise editions.

Wishing you develop with pleasure and waiting for your feedback!
The JetBrains TeamCity team

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As you probably know, it’s been about a year now since TeamCity migrated from Jira to an in-house issue tracker, code-named Charisma.

Those of you who have ever posted any requests to our tracker have probably got used to its features and GUI. However, one year is a heck of long time, and of course Charisma did evolve since then. The time for change has come, and a week ago the brand new UI has been pushed to www.jetbrains.net/tracker, and now you can try it yourself. The old-timey UI (aka “workspace”) will be abandoned soon.
So head to your profile (“Settings” tab) in the tracker and select “Use New UI”. You will then be redirected to the new UI URL: www.jetbrains.net/tracker/issues.

You can still reach the old UI at www.jetbrains.net/tracker/oldWorkspace, but if you ever need it — let us know why. We are eagerly waiting for your feedback: we’d like to improve the new UI so that you feel comfortable using it, before we drop the old one for good.

Please, don’t hesitate to share your opinion, ideas and suggestions with us in TeamCity community. If you have found a bug, post the issue right into Charisma.

We wish you happy building with TeamCity and hope to hear from you soon!
The JetBrains TeamCity Team

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Now TeamCity is equipped with a new feature designed to improve your project ROI and raise team motivation. It allows you to automatically charge developers for broken builds, abusing hardware resources, and more.
 
The charging feature provides a web UI where administrators can customize conversion rates and charging rules, as well as the list of accepted credit cards and payment methods.
 
To start improving your project bottom-line today, click here to learn more and download the latest TeamCity build.
 
As always, we are eager to hear your feedback. We also recommend backing up your data before you upgrade.
 
Enjoy your profitable building!
 
The JetBrains 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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TeamCity 4.0.2 comes with several fixes and improvements, and we would like you to upgrade to this version when you:

• use snapshot dependencies and discover the build queue becomes long because of the builds of the same build configuration which were triggered automatically,
• have builds with large number of failing tests,
• use SVN, CVS, or TFS (for which we have added agent-side checkout) as your version control system,
• have extra large build numbers,
• use MSTest reporting,
• experience any of the following issues.

Download this new version of TeamCity and keep your both eyes on our blog and community as we plan to open the EAP for TeamCity 4.1, in which plan to implement a number of new features, really soon.

Develop with pleasure!
The JetBrains Team

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We're glad to announce the release of TeamCity 4.0.1!

This minor release addresses the most recent feedback that we've received since the release of TeamCity 4.0. The release brings a tiny new feature – a by user filter on the Change Log page plus several improvements and fixes such as:

• compatibility with Jetty web server,
• remember me option on the Login page now supports multiple web browsers at the same time,
• Eclipse plugin improvements.

See the complete list of this release changes.

We urge you to download this build and keep developing with pleasure.

Wishing you all happy holidays and see you next year!
The JetBrains TeamCity Team

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