JetBrains TeamCity Blog

Today’s TeamCity 7.0 EAP is the last EAP build with new features in it, as starting from it we are going to focus on fixing bugs and polishing already announced functionality. So basically, this build is more or less what TeamCity 7.0 is going to look like. So here’s what we have for you today.

REST API

A feature request to allow build configuration editing via REST, that has been around for a while, has finally been implemented, so now you can get complete settings of a build configuration or template via REST and change them as well. Moreover, you can create and delete build configurations, projects and VCS roots.
See the details in release notes.
We would appreciate if you could try the updated REST API and let us know about any issues or suggestions that you might have.

Dependencies Graph

If you have been following the EAP program you’re probably already familiar with the new Dependencies graph that shows all build chains of a particular configuration or a build.
However, with this EAP build you will have much more control over your build chains, for example start dependent parts of the chain using the same revision for dependent builds.
The whole thing is similar to a “pipeline”, at any stage of your release process you can easily prolong pipeline to some further stage.

NuGet

TeamCity now uses Java based back-end for handling NuGet feeds. This should simplify setup of NuGet in TeamCity and as an additional benefit you can use TeamCity NuGet feed feature if server is installed on Unix.

Maven

Both Maven2 and Maven3 are now bundled with TeamCity. You can choose required version of Maven on the Maven runner page.
Additionally you can instruct Maven runner to use unique local artifacts repository for the builds of build configuration.

See the complete release notes, back up your TeamCity instance, try the build and share your feedback with us!
We’re going to try to publish bug-fix builds more often than regular EAP builds, preferably once in two weeks, so stay tuned!

New TeamCity 7.0 EAP build is ready and waiting for you to try! We have improved features introduced in the first EAP build, and of course we’ve got some completely new stuff.

.NET Inspections runner

Yes, it’s finally here and it’s based on powerful ReSharper code analysis engine! Now you can run .NET inspections and see the results right in TeamCity.

Global Maven settings

Previously you could specify path to alternative user settings file (equivalent to Maven command line option -s or –settings) in build configuration.  Now you can define these settings xml files globally in Server Configuration area, and use them in your Maven builds. When you create or modify a build configuration you will only need to select, whether you want to use default settings file (chosen by Maven), specified by path or global (uploaded on server). Since TeamCity stores these files under <TeamCity Data Directory>/config/_mavenSettings , you  can update them there whenever you need.

Per-check-in builds

If you have fast builds, you can now trigger them for each check-in, or for a group of check-ins made by the same user. Why? Thus you will see right away who broke what! When a build contains one check-in, or a couple of check-ins by one user, there can be no doubts, who’s responsible for a new failed test.  ;)

Fail build on a specific text in build log

We’ve already mentioned this feature in one of the recent posts, though we have improved it since then and we would like to hear your feedback on it.

Graph of commits

If your project uses Git or Mercurial you can see graph of commits on build configuration change log page. Graphs are also useful for non-DAG-based VCSs: they make it easier to understand where a VCS root modification comes from.

…and the rest gets only better!

We’ve improved, reworked and made better:

• Administration interface for Agent Pools
• Snapshot dependencies graph
• Tree view in build log
• NuGet integration
• and more…

Don’t forget to back up your TeamCity instance, try the build and help us make another one better for you!

Happy building!

Look out world, we have just opened early access program for the next TeamCity version: code name Faradi. That means you can download the first TeamCity 7.0 build right away and try all the cool features that are in it. Want to know what features are there? Here’s a list:

Build Failure Conditions – Smart Control Over Your Build Status

TeamCity has become smarter in deciding when a build is to be considered “failed” – now it can look beyond the obvious like exit code or failed tests presence. Basically, you can instruct TeamCity to mark a build as failed if it has become “worse”. There is a number of metrics in TeamCity already to measure how “good” a build is, like code coverage, or artifacts size, etc., so all you need now is set up the threshold for those metrics that are important to you. For instance, you can mark build as failed if code coverage or code duplicates number is worse than in the previous build. Learn more about this feature from the related post. However, that’s not the end of the story. Another build failure condition is on its way – it’ll allow to mark build as fail when a certain message is met in build log. This functionality is still quite raw though.

By the way, don’t panic when you don’t find good old “Fail build if” conditions that used to be at the General Settings page – we didn’t drop them, just moved to the new page with the rest.

Agent Pools – Better Agents Management

Starting with TeamCity 7.0 it’s easier to organize your build agents and calculate the required agents capacity. Instead of having a a single set of agents, you can now break it into smaller groups called agent pools. In two words, a pool is a subset of agents to which you can assign projects. Thus you can run your project on a subset of agents and make sure no other projects will run in the same pool.

Dependency Based Test Run – Faster Builds

Maven, Gradle and IntelliJ IDEA Project build runners now support dependency based run of tests. One of the best practices in software design is to make modules as independent as possible, and if you follow this practice, now you can get an extra bonus – faster builds in TeamCity, because TeamCity can run only those tests that are really affected by changes in dependencies.

Learn more in the release notes.

NuGet Support

TeamCity now comes with native NuGet support. The plugin that provides NuGet support has become available a couple of weeks ago, and now it is bundled with TeamCity. There was a series of blog posts dedicated to this plugin, so we won’t go into details here:

• http://blogs.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2011/08/native-nuget-support-in-teamcity/
• http://blogs.jetbrains.com/teamcity/2011/07/20/nuget-plugin/
• http://blog.jonnyzzz.name/2011/07/nuget-publish-build-runner.html

As a side note, the plugin is compatible with TeamCity 6.5, so if you want to use it in your existing production server, you can download it at teamcity.jetbrains.com.

And a bunch of other features…

… including build performance monitor, improved My Changes page and Build Log, support for Subversion 1.7 in Visual Studio Addin, and so on. See the complete release notes, try the build and share your feedback with us!

Don’t forget to back up your TeamCity instance, and note that starting with this version TeamCity server and agent require Java 6.0 or later.

Stay tuned, we’ve just got the ball rolling!

As the major TeamCity 6.0 release approaches, the release candidate build is already available. Besides bug-fixes, it contains several enhancements and improvements. For example:

• dotCover coverage engine now reports statement coverage instead of line coverage.
• .NET coverage options are now available in MSTest build runner.
• For each Maven build TeamCity agent gathers Maven specific build details, which are available on the dedicated “Maven Build Info” tab after the build is finished.



• Swabra settings now reside in a separate section called “Build Features” which is available on “Build Steps” page.
• and more.

As usual, we remind you to back up your data before upgrading to a new version. Stay tuned, the big day’s closer than it might seem;)
Download TeamCity 6.0 RC.