TeamCity Blog

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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Hello,

We are glad to announce the first EAP build of TeamCity 3.0 (codename Benares). It has significant number of new features as well as fixes, usability and performance improvements. It is pretty stable - we run TeamCity EAP as an internal JetBrains build server which serves dozens of projects of various types (.NET, Java) in multiplatform environment (MacOS, Windows, Linux).

Most noticeable features of this build include:

• Per build configuration, shareable VCS Roots
• Visual Studio pre-tested commit support for Subversion
• StarTeam support
• Build queue now features estimated build start and finish times
• Possibility to assign agent to specific build configurations
• Detection of hanged builds
• Multiple UI improvements

and other issues.

We have much more plans, with primary focus on statistics and per-project access rights. Stay tuned with Benares early access program.

Download TeamCity Benares EAP build

Kind regards,

—JetBrains TeamCity team

TeamCity, JetBrains, continuous integration, build management

We have published version 2.1.1 of TeamCity today.

The fixes and improvements in this release include:

• TW-2836: ability to retrieve artifacts as guest user, not using URL parameters;
• TW-2796: fix in Perforce sources retrieving for multi-line client mapping;
• TW-2775 and TW-2772: fixed several issues with CVS modules handling for server-side and agent checkout;
• TW-2797: no more unnecessary sources cleanup for SVN with agent checkout, SVNKit library updated to version 1.1.3;
• TW-2830: several IPR runner fixes: handle space in global library name and others.

As usual, the version is up and running on our demo server.

Meanwhile, we are steaming for the next version (codename Benares) and have already prepared several tasty features, that you will be able to check as soon as Early Access Program opens (due withing a month).

Develop and build with pleasure,

—JetBrains TeamCity Team

TeamCity, JetBrains, continuous integration, build management

The 2.0 release of TeamCity was packed with features. But appetite comes with eating, and the more features we offer to our users the more requests for improvements and enhancements we get with every new release. Well, at least this keeps us going in the right direction

The 2.1 version of TeamCity we release today lists a fair number of various improvements to existing features, plus several new features you might enjoy:

• More stable and complete integration with Subversion and ClearCase
• Ipr, Inspection and Duplicates finder runners related fixes
• Ivy-related improvements, including password repository protection
• Viewing existing artifact dependencies for a given build on the build results page
• Possibility to select a specific agent to run a build on
• Enforce clean checkout for a project on all build agents (to clean all the incorrect data)

- to name just the most noteworthy ones.

Download TeamCity 2.1 at http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/download/ and let us know what you think in our forum. You may also see TeamCity in action on our public site.

Good luck with your builds,

—JetBrains Team

TeamCity, JetBrains, continuous integration, build management, Subversion, TFS, ClearCase

Hello everyone,

We are going to release a minor update to TeamCity 2.0 in May, which will include several new features and a critical bugfixes. So today the first EAP build for this version of TeamCity is published.

My favorite feature in this EAP is “Run on agent”, when you can schedule a build on the specific agent:

You can read release notes for this build, view Jira changelog and download the software.

You’re welcome to participate in our EAP program to provide feedback on its features, and you can get help working with TeamCity in our discussion forum.

With kind regards,

Kirill Maximov

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We are excited to announce the long awaited release of TeamCity 2.0 (code name Agra) – our innovative solution for continuous integration, build management, code quality analysis, and team collaboration.

We’ve added a whole lote of new features - please find the most noteworthy ones below and the
full list on the TeamCity site:

• Delayed commit and remote run functionality now works for Eclipse/Subversion and MS Visual Studio 2005/Team Foundation Server. This way we help keep builds unbreakable for developers who use these environments as well (users of IntelliJ IDEA have benefitted from this feature since TeamCity 1.0). You may take a look at Flash demos for Eclipse plugin and for MS Visual Studio plugin.
• Out-of-the box search for code duplicates in IntelliJ IDEA Java projects. You can view results of such builds both on the Web and in IntelliJ IDEA (Selena M1 is required). You can also navigate from Web UI to the IDE interface.
• Dependent builds support and Ivy integration:
  • e. g. Dependent triggering: trigger a build after a build of another build configuration has completed successfully.
  • e. g. Artifact dependencies: use artifacts of one build in another build (even using different agent computers).
  • Your build can download artifacts from TeamCity server using Ivy, i. e. tge server can act as Ivy repository
• New version control systems support: ClearCase UCM and Team Foundation Server
• Web diff tool with informative highlighting
• Easy integration of any third-party reporting tools (if your tool provides an HTML report, you can access it from TeamCity with just one click)
• Smarter build agents management:
  • See which agents are connected to the TeamCity server and which aren’t
  • Enable and disable agents in the web UI
  • See configuration details for each agent
• LDAP authentication scheme
• Improved Maven 2 support, bundled Ant 1.7, support for JUnit 4.3

You can browse TeamCity features in detail, inspect live TeamCity installation, or read PDF overview (~500k).

Oh, and let us not forget to mention this: TeamCity 2.0 is a free upgrade for all previous licensed users! We also offer academic and open source licenses.

Wishing you develop and collaborate with pleasure!

— JetBrains Team

TeamCity, JetBrains, continuous integration, build management, Subversion, TFS, ClearCase UCM

Dear friends,

We’re pleased to launch a new blog dedicated solely to TeamCity. We hope you will find it a useful resource for all things related to TeamCity - news, tips & tricks, links and opinions, and more.

To let you in on the history of TeamCity, which is nearing its second major release, this opening post includes a recap of past and recent TeamCity developments.

March 29, 2006: JetBrains announces its new solution – JetBrains Team Server.

May 25, 2006: JetBrains presents Team Server, along with IntelliJ IDEA, to Google.

July 13, 2006: Team Server is given its new name: TeamCity.

July 28, 2006: TeamCity beta is released.

October 2, 2006: TeamCity 1.0 released simultaneously with IntelliJ IDEA 6.0.

December 4, 2006: TeamCity 1.2 EAP (Early Access Program) opened.

December 19, 2006: TeamCity Release Candidate made available.

December 19, 2006: TeamCity nominated and currently in voting for Java Developers’ Journal Readers’ Choice awards (3 categories).

January 15, 2007: TeamCity 1.2 released.

January 31, 2007: EAP for TeamCity 2.0 opened.

February 20, 2007: Test-driven development, continuous integration and TeamCity.

March 8, 2007: Java Power Tools surveyed.

March 23, 2007: TeamCity picks up recognition and a Jolt Productivity Award in the Collaboration Tool Category.

March 27, 2007: TeamCity 2.0 Beta released.

April 6, 2007: TeamCity blog launched.

Please check in often

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