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After a short break in developing new features we are glad to launch the Early Access Program for TeamCity version 4.0.
A list of this EAP build features includes the following:

• “Run recently failed tests first” and “Run new and modified tests first” options for Ant and Ipr Build Runners and JUnit and TestNG frameworks
• A separate page for each project with a list of all its build configurations and selected statistical reports of the project
• Various notifications improvements: possibility to customize the order of processing your notification rules; “first failure/success” notifications are also supported for “Builds with my changes” notifications
• Custom statistics now supports multiple series (values) display on a single chart
• Multiple performance improvements
• and more…

View more detailed release notes and download the build. As usual, we remind you to back up your data before upgrade.

Don’t miss your chance to influence the development process and vote for already existing features or submit 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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This post continues the story of new TeamCity plugins which have just appeared. Today we would like to tell you about two third-party plugins.

The Growl notifier plugin delivers alerts using Growl engine.

Another plugin named Team piazza displays the current state of the build informing the team when the build fails and provides much other useful information on the current build state.

We would like to remind you that anyone can become a member of TeamCity plugin development community and develop plugins for integration with different change management systems, build runners, IDEs, or notification means using TeamCity’s Open API. Get more information in TeamCity online reference.

Thank you very much for your effort!
The JetBrains TeamCity team

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We are pretty sure that you know JetBrains likes playing games and making jokes. You think we have been preparing for 3.1.1 release? You are wrong All this time we have been looking at the Projects page and gathered our developers feedback who complained how exhausted they were about its dull look…

So, we decided to change it for the better and developed a small plugin making TeamCity look more hmm… relaxed… Just check out new glamourous icons for tests status, Run buttons are running all around the Projects page, projects and build configurations’ names abracadabra… It’s alive now!

All the development is stuck completely - everybody is trying to run new builds but no luck, tests are running away or burning out… Ohh…

Don’t repeat our mistake! We warned you!

We wish you sunny and warm April and May!
The JetBrains TeamCity team

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For the past several weeks we have been working really hard to solve a number of issues after the 3.1 version was released, and voilà - a hot tasty little pie called TeamCity 3.1.1 is right here

The release is mainly targeted on improving the performance, has a number of bugfixes and adds better performance for StarTeam.

You can download the latest version at the official website. And don’t forget to back up your data before upgrading.

And some more good news today. Laurent Kempé, the editor, founder, and primary contributor of Tech Head Brothers, has just published an article on his successful experience of integrating TeamCity with NCover - a tool for measuring the code coverage for .NET platform development. An integration result is possibility to get an overview of the project code coverage in a dedicated Code Coverage Summary tab of the build configuration.

We wish you a happy building with TeamCity 3.1.1 and we are really glad to hear about the concrete TeamCity usage examples!

The JetBrains TeamCity team

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We are glad to announce the EAP of Rake plugin for TeamCity. The plugin implements support of fully functional build runner and provides on-the-fly test reporting for the Test::Unit and RSpec testing frameworks.

The plugin is open-source and written in Java, and, of course, everyone is welcome to contribute.

Take a look at the working demo of the Rake builds in TeamCity at our public demo server, TeamCity Rake Runner Demo project, for example, Radiant:Spec build configuration.

To download the plugin, navigate to Teamcity Rake Runner project on the Projects page, point to the Artifacts link and download the plugin archive.

Please note that the plugin is compatible with TeamCity 3.1 and higher (the 3.1.1 version is going to be released really soon). For additional information please refer to the plugin description page and on-line reference.

We wish you a happy building with Rake Build Runner and eagerly wait for your feedback!

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Hooray!

This year TeamCity has again received a Jolt productivity award in the Collaboration Tools category, and it is the first time we are recognized in Project Management Tools category!

IntelliJ IDEA - our flagship product - received an award for being a productive Development Environment.

We are very happy and proud that all our effort and work was not in vain and glad to see our tools get wider acceptance in IT world.

We would also like to congratulate and wish all the best to the other Jolt winners and Jolt judges and promise to keep on the good work

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Even though TeamCity 3.0 brought a great deal of new features, it was long long ago - to be more precise - last year… Since then we got so much feedback and feature requests which we greatly appreciate and understood that we had to work harder A result is TeamCity 3.1 which is mostly a maintenance release but also brings a number of tasty features:

• Visualization of Build Agents’ workload
• “Time to fix tests” statistics report for monitoring the project health
• Improvements in 3rd party .NET tools integration
• More types of notification options
• Improved external database support (Oracle)
• Scope filter for Code Duplicates and Inspections browsers
• New options for builds triggering

Plus multiple user interface enhancements, performance improvements, and bugfixes.

Read the detailed What’s New page at the official website.

Download TeamCity 3.1 and let us know what you think at our forum.

As usual we have updated our public demo server, and you can try the new features of this release without any installation and configuration.

Good luck with your builds!

The JetBrains TeamCity Team

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TeamCity 3.1 release is coming. And as we already stated, the release is targeted on the current features maintenance and critical bugfixes but we have also implemented some new features helping you to be more productive with your continuous integration process. Among the feature highlights we would like to name the following:

• New visual metrics for estimating the Build Agents workload and showing the time to fix the failed build tests
• Support for NAnt 0.86 Beta 1 testing framework
• NUnit 2.4 support
• Possibility to specify the mode (x86 or x64) to run the NUnit tests
• NUnit tests categories support for NAnt, MSBuild, and NUnit Launcher
• Reporting tests via standard output enabling smooth integration with unit tests
• Publishing build artifacts while the build is still running. As soon as the build produces a new artifact, it becomes visible and available for download and use in multiple places of TeamCity user interface
• Smarter notifications allowing to be aware on the first failed build after successful
  on the first successful build after failed and all company’s projects status
• Build Queue reordering is now available right on the Projects page
• Find the builds created on particular Build Agents and filter the builds history builds of particular build configuration typing a part of the agent name
• Filtering the code duplicates and inspections results by directories for better navigation in discovered issues
• Code duplicates are not dull looking any more as the syntax is now highlighted
• Improved cleanup options for saving the server disk space
• and many other fixes, polished user interface and improved performance

Download TeamCity 3.1 Release Candidate.

More technical details on this release improvements are available in TeamCity Reference. And as usual we want to ask you to backup your data before upgrading to a new version.

Wish you happy building!
The JetBrains TeamCity team

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… is available for download.

This release is mainly about bugfixes but also brings the improved external database support, in particular:

• support for Oracle as an external database
• database migration tool now provides migration in any direction

We appreciate you for your feedback, urge you to read the backup instructions before the upgrade and wish you a happy building!

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Good news! TeamCity 3.1 is going to be released really soon and meanwhile we have prepated a new EAP build with a number of new features and interface improvements:

• Build Agents’ Workload Statistics. To enable a better control on TeamCity’s Build Agents’ workload, we have introduced visualizing their load during the specified time period.
• More .Net Tools Support: Now NAnt 0.86 runner and NUnit 2.4 testing framework are supported, and you can specify in the mode (x86 or x64) to run NUnit tests.
• New notification options: receive notifications only when the build status changes selecting “Limit to only the first successful build after failed” and “Limit to only the first failed build after successful” options when setting up your notifications:



• Sending service messages via standard output. As TeamCity reports tests on-the-fly while the builds are still running (and not all tests are complete), each testing framework needs its own support for the feature. In TeamCity 3.1 we are going to introduce an easy way to report running tests information: just print a pre-formatted message to the standard output of the build process so that TeamCity is aware of the test.
• “During-the-build” artifacts publishing is another tasty feature of service messages.
• UI Enhancements:
• All projects popup available from every page
• Access to queued build estimate right from the overview page
• Enhanced External Database Support. Database migration tool now supports any direction migration. Initial support for Oracle is implemented. Please try on as-is basis.
• Other Improvements:
• Build working directory setting
• 3 levels of Builds History clean-up (artifacts, history, statistics)
• Agent filter on build history
• Quick search of the build on specific agent
• Ability to watch all projects
• TLS support for e-mail sending
• Build scheduling with CRON-like expressions
• “Tests time to fix” statistics
• Syntax highlighting in duplicates viewer
• Basic support for reporting tests running in parallel (parallel ant task or TestNG)
• “View Agent Details” permission (by default the permission is set for the Project Developer, Project Administrator, Agent manager, and System administrator roles). In TeamCity Enterprise, Windows domain authentication is now available on Linux computers.
• Duplicates and inspections browser now allows to browse results filtered by directories

View 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!

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