JetBrains TeamCity Blog

As you might know, TeamCity comes with such feature as build tags – do not confuse with supported VCS tags, because that’s an entirely different story. You can assign any number of tags for a single build, and then use them to organize your build history, or quickly navigate to the tagged builds. There is nothing tricky about that, but one might ask himself when these tags can be helpful.

Well, here is an example. Suppose, after some time of developing, your project manager decides, that you’ve finally got a stable build that can be considered a release candidate, or eap. He can mark this build with “EAP” tag, and thus, guys from QA won’t need to search through the whole build history to find the build they should carefully look at. They’ll just need to filter the history by this tag, or simply type “EAP” in the search field.


You can also leave a comment on any build, providing some extra notes about it; and just as with the tags, you can later on search for the build by the comment. Hope, you’ll like it.
Feedback is appreciated as usual.

Here’s a quick note to let you know that TeamCity’s issue tracker of choice, previously code-named Charisma, has gone beta under a new name: YouTrack.

You can read more about YouTrack features in its own section at the JetBrains web site, watch demos, and download the beta version.

You’re also welcome to subscribe to YouTrack blog to get latest updates on the development process.

Please report bugs and request new features at YouTrack’s own instance.

YouTrack 1.0 public release is scheduled by the end of 2009.

Build and track with pleasure!

Following a good tradition, this year we are going to attend JavaOne Conference. This year it is held on June 2-5 at the Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA.

We will be glad to welcome you to the JetBrains booth. Do not miss your chance to meet those who develop TeamCity and other JetBrains products. We promise live demos, answering all your questions, and much more.

Hurry up. Only 8 days left.

The JetBrains Team

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This fresh TeamCity 4.5.1 update incorporates a number of fixes.
Download this build and make a backup of your data before upgrade.


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

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This TeamCity release brings a range of improvements intended to make development teams more productive and efficient.

Here are some of the release highlights:

• LDAP integration with automatic user profiles synchronization
• User groups management engine allowing to fine-tune team members’ roles and access rights, set up groups hierarchy and notification rules
• CVS and Perforce plugin version 2008.2 support in Eclipse plugin
• Perforce support in Microsoft Visual Studio plugin
• Build Agent compatibility with Mono testing framework as a .NET platform for continuous builds
• Test results grouping letting you filter tests by suites, packages/namespaces, and classes
• Handling external tools reports in XML format (ANT’s JUnit tasks, NUnit, Surefire, PMD, and FindBugs)
• Git integration (EAP is now open)

In addition to achievements in these areas, we made the UI more refined and responsive.

For more details, jump to the New Features page.

You can request 60-day trial of TeamCity 4.5 Enterprise edition or download an absolutely free Professional Edition.

All upgrades from TeamCity 4.0 are free!

Develop with pleasure!
The JetBrains Team

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After making an assessment of our last months’ work, we decided this release is worth to be named TeamCity 4.5, and here comes its first release candidate:

• redesigned Tests tab for build results: you can now group tests by suite, package or class, filter, and narrow the scope.
• LDAP integration improvements.
• external change browser (FishEye) support improvements.

And great news everyone! We launch EAP for a long-waited Git support plugin available as a separate download.

Read about the changes in the release notes and download the release candidate build.

As usual we urge you to backup your data before upgrading to a new version.

Wishing you develop with pleasure,
The JetBrains TeamCity Team

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This EAP build, about the last one before the release of TeamCity 4.1, brings you:

• Almost completely implemented User Groups feature. Please feel free to comment and send your feedback.
• Configurable user roles: add new roles and change the permissions set right from the web UI.
• Improved LDAP integration.

and a bunch of other improvements.

Try a new version of TeamCity and let us know your opinion at our community and issue tracker.

As always we recommend to backup your data before the upgrade.

Wishing you always develop with pleasure and promise to release TeamCity 4.1 in several weeks!
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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The latest TeamCity 4.1 EAP build brings you support of continuous integration builds on Windows and Unix-based platforms under Mono framework.

TeamCity automatically detects presence of Mono frameworks installed and sets system properties which you can use when specifying the build settings and build agent requirements.

To instruct your build configuration use Mono framework, navigate to the Build Runner step when setting up or editing your build configuration and select:

• mono as a Target framework for NAnt,
• Mono xbuild as an MSBuild version for MSBuild,

Try Mono support by yourself downloading and installing the latest build and get further information in TeamCity online reference.

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Here comes the progress summary of our last several weeks effort:

• With Microsoft Visual Studio plugin you can now perform pre-tested commit of your changes under Perforce
• Introduction of XML reporter allowing to process various XML reports and feed data to TeamCity
• Display of test details (particular test history in all build configurations) and problematic tests on the Project level
• Grouping of the tests list by package and test case
• Introduction of All Users group

Try a new build making a backup of your data before upgrade and read the detailed description of new features and improvements.

Wait for your feedback in TeamCity community.

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