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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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When we just started developing TeamCity, we decided to make it as open and easy-to-contribute as possible and allow anyone to develop and deploy custom server-side and build agent’s plugins and extend it in different areas to fit the needs of a project and team.

Let’s dig into adding custom reports into the most frequently accessed place in TeamCity’s UI – Build Results page. This can be easily done by:

1. specifying a report as a build artifact
2. modifying the build configuration so that TeamCity displays a report when a new artifact

And voilà! you get brand-new tab on the Build Results page showing your report.

Besides, it is possible to modify the builds’ status information and the status text.

For the builds’ statistics feature, which appeared in TeamCity 3.0 , you can add custom statistic graphs. Just provide the required data in teamcity-info.xml and describe the new graphs in main-config.xml file and access new statistics charts in the Statistics tab of the build configuration page.

Bluewire Technologies (thank you very much again!) has recently shared their experience on including third-party reports in the Build Results page and publishing custom data from the build i.e. number of unit tests which have passed or failed.

More details on customizing the Build Results page are as usually available in TeamCity online reference.

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TeamCity and IntelliJ IDEA have been announced the finalists for this year’s Jolt Product Excellence Awards - an annual showcase of products that have the biggest impact on the software industry allowing to create software faster, easier, and more efficient.

TeamCity is nominated in 2 categories, namely, “Collaboration tools” (we were the winners in this category last year!) and “Project Management” tools.

The awards ceremony will take place on March 5, 2008 at the 21st annual Software Development Conference & Expo West at the Santa Clara Convention Center. We believe we have very good chances to win with our innovative approaches and rich functionality.

Keep your fingers crossed while the judges will take an in-depth look at us in the next round of the process!

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Since TeamCity 3.0 release we got so much feedback from you that it almost made us drown but we really appreciate you could find time to share your opinion and send those bug reports that helped us to stay in form and make the release of TeamCity 3.0.1 – our final one for this year. View the complete list of issues which we resolved and download this latest version at http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/download/index.html.

We would also like to wish you all the best for 2008 and want to say once again that we’re always ready and open for discussion, and we will try to do our best to incorporate your feature requests and suggestions into our new releases.

Happy holidays and see you in the New Year!

JetBrains TeamCity team

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We are glad to get positive feedback from our users. Michael Hüttermann, a well-known author of a book on agile software development, Sun Java Champion, member of Agile Alliance, a coach and consultant for JEE and agile development, upgraded to TeamCity 3.0 and gave a very good response in his blog.
The first feature that Michael has mentioned, is the free Professional edition, which is quite sufficient for the small and medium-size projects. Also, he appreciated the statistic charts, per-project access rights, StarTeam support, source code labeling, and the possibility to get thread dumps.
We want to thank Michael for the deep analysis and suggested improvements.

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In just a couple of days JetBrains gets into the center of the Java universe – at JavaPolis 2007 conference.

Drop by the JetBrains booth and get your chance to have a face-to-face talk with IntelliJ IDEA and TeamCity teams and have a first-hand knowledge on features available in the products’ latest releases and numerous tips and tricks.

See you soon!

The JetBrains TeamCity team

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JetBrains is happy to tell you that TeamCity 3.0 is now available!

This release continues to extend support of both Java and .NET software development teams. Small and medium-size development teams now benefit from the completely redesigned licensing scheme allowing to get TeamCity’s innovative productivity and quality-enhancing features for free with Professional edition. Enterprise edition supports per-project user roles and allows to manage an unlimited number of users and build configurations.

The key new features of this release include:

• Per-project access rights with project roles — an exclusive feature of the Enterprise edition
• Build statistics charts, with declarative pluggable charts for user-defined metrics
• Pre-tested commit from Visual Studio for Subversion
• StarTeam support
• .NET Duplicates finder for catching similar code fragments of your C# and Visual Basic .NET code
• Java Inspections and Duplicates for Maven2 projects
• Version Control labeling for Subversion, CVS, Perforce, StarTeam, ClearCase
• “Hanging” builds auto-detection and thread dump capturing, for quick feedback on Java and .NET builds’ problems
• Display of build start/finish estimations in the Build Queue
• Build tags for organizing and quickly filtering builds

To learn more about new features in TeamCity 3.0, please visit http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/?30blog

For more details about the new licensing scheme for Professional, Enterprise and Open Source licenses, see http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/buy/?30blog

Existing TeamCity users can upgrade free of charge to the Enterprise Edition of TeamCity.

Get more pleasure developing with TeamCity 3.0 and thanks for your feedback which helps us to move forward and bring new ideas to life!

The JetBrains TeamCity team

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We are glad to share good news on TeamCity’s success with you. Many readers of Java Developer’s Journal which is the world’s leading Java resource gave their votes for TeamCity. It has become a winner in the best team development tool category together with our flagship product IntelliJ IDEA 6.o. Besides, TeamCity is a finalist in the best Java project build tool category.

We really appreciate your support and want to thank all those who took their time to vote for TeamCity. We keep on working on improving the existing features and adding new ones, and hope our products will meet your expectations in the future.

Participate in TeamCity early access program to stay tuned with the current project’s status and download the latest TeamCity EAP build.

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We keep on getting feedback on TeamCity’s advantages in continuous integration and agile development practice from our users. Michael Hüttermann, a well-known author of a book on agile software development, Sun Java Champion, member of Agile Alliance, a coach and consultant for JEE and agile development has recently published a second article on TeamCity in Javamagazin (issue 9, 2007). In the article he shares his positive user experience with TeamCity and provides:

• a summary of TeamCity’s concepts and possibilities of its user interface
• some notes on initial TeamCity installation and startup
• a howto on configuring the project settings via TeamCity’s web interface and migration from CruiseControl to TeamCity
• a description of IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 integration plugin for TeamCity

The article is currently available only in German at Michael Hüttermann’s website, and we hope it will soon be translated into English.

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