Continua CI 1.0 Version History

• Feature: Continua now supports DUnitX enhanced Command Line Options
• Update: NuGet Install action working directory is now the builds workspace folder
• Update: Now always using bundled Mercurial for repository cache synchronisation
• Fix: Issue with repository cache synchronisation with agents over remote SSH.
• Fix: Improved validation when adding / editing Property Collectors
• Fix: Variables now expand correctly when placed within secure fields (e.g. password fields)

Note : You will need to update your agents after installing this build.

• Update: No longer checking agent requirements for disabled actions.
• Update: No longer cleaning up build on server when build is pending promotion.
• Update: Added Delphi XE6 property collector.
• Fix: Issue where DUnitX action would not fail when DUnitX executable throws an exception.
• Fix: Filtering error in builds history page.
• Fix: Issue where filter would be lost when paging on Unit Tests page.
• Fix: Issue where incorrect namespace values would be displayed on Unit Tests page.
• Fix: Message was not displayed when repository scope could not be changed due to links with configurations outside of target scope.
• Fix: Issue where repository exclude rules would require a forward slash whereas include rules would not.
• Fix: Issue where process error would cause subsequent action to fail instead of action where the error occurred.
• Fix: Incorrect display of license subscription expiry date.
• Fix: Concurrency issue where notification emails would output the wrong build state.

Note : You will need to update your agents after installing this build.

• Update: Now supporting Surround 2014 repositories
• Update: Now supporting TFS 2013 repositories
• Update: Added Relative Folder option to TFS repositories. This allows repository checking and exporting to be restricted to a specific folder under the repository root (when not using branches) or under each branch path (when using branches).
• Update: Now validating that Subversion repository URL actually points to the root of the repository
• Update: Added option to validate FinalBuilder project (off by default), previously it was always validating which can be slow.
• Update: Now masking Nuget action API key fields as password fields
• Update: Nuget Restore action now checks solution folder for configuration files if field is left blank
• Fix: Web.Config Transform action now handles spaces in file paths
• Fix: Issue where manually polled repositories would change to automatic polling after first manual poll
• Fix: Issue where Surround would not detect changes after repository initialisation
• Fix: Issue with Surround where files in child folders were not being checked out.
• Fix: Searching for private messages now works
• Fix: Validation issue with Perforce repositories
• Fix: Corrected command quoting for DOS command action
• Fix: Scrollbar jumping issue on project list view
• Fix: Issue where variable prompt types would be lost
• Fix: Removed Stop button from discarded builds
• Fix: Ensured build variables are available when checking discard conditions
• Fix: Issue where zero files would be copied to agent workspace if destination ends with slash in repo rules
• Fix: Issue where build would wait for repository in downtime period
• Fix: Excluded directories are no longer iterated unnecessarily when syncing files between agent and server
• Database access performance tweaks

Note : You will need to update your agents after installing this build.

• Fix: Issue where build version would be overwritten when setting build status from FinalBuilder action
• Fix: Validation issue with OpenCover action
• Fix: Issue where report generation was not executing with OpenCover action
• Fix: Comments were not showing on Perforce changesets
• Update: Database performance tweaks

Note : You will need to update your agents after installing this build.

• Update: Added NuGet Restore action
• Update: Repository downtime range can now span days e.g. from 23:00 to 01:00 the next day
• Update: TFS branch and project path matching is now case-insensitive
• Update: Added warning when passwords are not copied after pasting a saved action
• Update: Improved reliability of Perforce repository reset
• Fix: Handling spaces correctly in Perforce stream paths
• Fix: Handling UNC paths correctly for Git repositories
• Fix: Issue where action messages can be logged after the action completes
• Fix: Issue where build status display would not be updated immediately when stage state changes from initialising to executing
• Fix: Issue with build metrics not accumulating correctly
• Fix: Avoiding lock and time-out errors when cleaning up build directories
• Fix: Issue where server properties get cleared when editing property collectors
• Fix: Password and access tokens on child actions were lost after editing stages
• Various minor UI fixes

Note : You will need to update your agents after installing this build.

• Update: Improved repository sync for Perforce versions 2012.2 and above
• Update: Better handling of some agent communication errors
• Update: Removed unnecessary communication of properties between agent and server
• Fix: Issue where Subversion externals were not detected for repository folder containing a space
• Fix: Email notifications were failing for users with non-Latin characters in name
• Other minor fixes and additional debug logging

Note : You will need to update your agents after installing this build.

• Update: Added checkbox to toggle display of pinned builds on the build history page
• Update: Notifications are no longer sent to deleted or disabled users
• Update: Subversion repository working copies are now automatically upgraded if required
• Update: Improved timeline messages when waiting for repository
• Update: Trimmed search text when searching for an action in stage editor
• Change: The workspace option on the Server Cleanup Policy page is now automatically ticked if the database option is selected. The server will now only allow builds to be removed from the database once the workspace folders are cleaned up. This should ensure that the cleanup is scheduled to retry if there are any lock errors preventing workspace deletion.
• Fix: NUnit results were not displayed when TestFixtureSetup and TestFixtureTeardown attributes were used
• Fix: Issue where display of stage executing status would be delayed
• Fix: Issue where input controls were empty when editing variables
• Fix: Issue where configuration condition expression logic is not copied when cloning
• Fix: Build log error with long action names
• Fix: Issues authenticating when checking out Subversion repository externals
• Other minor fixes

Note : You will need to update your agents after installing this build.

v1.0.0.2985 fixes a regression bug with MSTest executable path in v1.0.0.2983.

v1.0.0.2983 changes are listed below.

• Update: Upgraded email component to latest version - fixes issue with some SMTP services
• Update: Improved performance at start of build when waiting for repositories to be checked and cache updated
• Update: HTML can now be input for text and memo variable types
• Update: Added a ticket authentication time out check for Perforce
• Update: Mercurial repositories are now automatically recovered where necessary after an aborted process
• Update: Added a new Server.HostName server property for use in expressions
• Update: Improved error handling of invalid property collector paths
• Change: Agent installer now enforces selection of local folder for agent workspace
• Change: Pinned builds are now displayed at start of build history table
• Fix: Could not end quiet period when multiple builds were in quiet period
• Fix: Agent installer would forget previous settings after installing using existing settings
• Fix: Service would crash when using LDAP authentication if Active Directory contained nested groups with circular references
• Fix: Various issues when sorting and filtering on configuration build history table
• Fix: Error reported incorrectly when syncing Perforce working folder
• Various UI and validation fixes

Note : You will need to update your agents after installing this build.

• Update: Files are now listed for Git merge changesets
• Update: Nested Git submodules are now updated recursively
• Update: Agent messages are now batched to improve performance.
• Update: Increased response of main project views when build start button is clicked.
• Update: Added various options to PowerShell action (Threading Apartment, Execution Policy, Version)
• Update: Fixed run order for builds waiting for conditions
• Update: NUnit report parser updated so that it still registers totals if there are no test cases in XML file
• Update: Additional debug logging for build process.
• Change: Git repositories now ignore .git folder in submodules when updating cache
• Change: Removed GZip and BZip archive types from 7Zip action as file lists are not supported for these archive types
• Change: Changed $Configuration.QueuedCount$ to include only builds which have passed configuration conditions. This means you can now reliably ensure only one build runs at a time by setting the queue conditions to $Configuration.QueuedCount$ Less Than 1 And $Configuration.RunningCount$ Less Than 1
• Change: Increased maximum database size for build log to 4GB
• Change: Agent and server services now write to different log files
• Fix: Memory leak with email notifications
• Fix: Issue where NUnit action would fail when "Fail action if any tests fail" was not ticked
• Fix: NUnit artefact viewer was hiding test names when sorting
• Fix: Possible build hang if stage completes before initialisation complete message is received
• Fix: Handled exception when deleting Access Control List entry
• Fix: Handled build logger exceptions when registering unit tests
• Fix: Git repositories using SSH URL were not picking up changesets
• Fix: Corrected validation for condition expressions
• Fix: Ensure that associated configurations are not lost when recreating a repository after changing identity properties
• Fix: Memory issues with large private messages.
• Fix: Removed and prevented user allocation to duplicate groups.
• Fix: Prevented propagation of clicks from modal dialogs.
• Fix: Ensure that password fields for actions are encrypted correctly and not overwritten when editing
• Fix: Handle Unicode errors when reading changesets from Vault repositories
• Fix: Various error handling and UI fixes.

Note : You will need to update your agents after installing this build.

• Fix: Random Error when updating Agent Compatibility Cache
• Fix: Logging Errors (regression)
• Fix: Major performance increase when registering large number of unit test results
• Fix: Editing time based triggers could result in multiple builds being triggered.
• Fix: Creating a Filesystem Repository on an empy folder would error.

Note : You will need to update your agents after installing this build.

• Update: Switch off browser auto-complete for password fields
• Fix: Build Completed trigger no longer runs when a stage is awaiting promotion
• Fix: Issue where two builds would be triggered after disabling, editing and re-enabling time based trigger
• Fix: Several changed to log writer connection pool to deal with recurring issue where connection can be disposed before use by another thread

Note : You will need to update your agents after installing this build.

• Update: Mercurial updated to 2.8.2
• Update: Increased performance when collecting properties from agent and introduced batching to avert WCF time-outs
• Update: Added default values to MSBuild and NUnit actions
• Fix: Handle errors with locked files when cleaning up workspace
• Fix: Bug when saving 7Zip actions
• Fix: Issue where log writer connection can be disposed before use by another thread
• Fix: Issue where build status would not be displayed correctly on project tile view after a long run of stopped builds
• Fix: Exception would occur when accessing user preferences page if the user did not specify an XMPP ID
• Fix: Ensure file stream is closed correctly when parsing unit test results
• Fix: Minor issues with error message formatting and linking

Note : You will need to update your agents after installing this build.

• Update: Improvements to branch switching performance when using Subversion. This update is recommended if you are using Subversion externals.
• Fix: Weekly and Monthly trigger could stop working in some situations
• Fix: Humanised summary for trigger last run date was being converted from UTC to local time twice
• Fix: Exception could occur where file stream was closed before writing to log

• Update: Can now switch off the pre-generation of the build log text file by adding to the appSettings section of Continua.Server.Service.exe.config. The log file can be generated manually using a [Generate Plain Text Log File] button on the build log page
• Fix: Next Stage was not being added to the build log after a Stage including Unit Test actions

Note : You will need to update your agents after installing this build.

• Feature: Added "Accumulate Changes" option to Configuration Conditions. Checking this option for queue conditions means that any new changesets for associated repositories added to the queued build instead of triggering a new build
• Feature: Added new $Configuration.RunningBuilds$ and $Configuration.QueuedBuilds$ object properties. These can be used in Configuration Conditions. For example, the Queue condition '$Configuration.RunningBuilds$' Greater than '0', will prevent more than one build from that configuration running at the same time.
• Update: Added count to Timeline tab on Build page
• Update: Added Environment tab to all actions that execute programs.
• Update: Additional deadlock handling.
• Fix: Regression bug where the changes were not detected from TFS 2010 repositories.
• Fix: Bug in stage editor where actions copied and pasted onto parent actions became orphaned and therefore not saved.

Note : You will need to update your agents after installing this build.

• Feature: Live build logging - log now updates automatically as build progresses.
• Update: Build log text file in now pre-generated for immediate download.
• Update: Added new Continua.Web.TimePickerHoursFormat appsetting to web.config. This can be set to "12" or "24" to override the hour format for timepicker. Note by default this is based on the accept-language sent by the web browser.
• Fix: Corrected prompt display when creating and editing variables.
• Fix: Start buttons were not showing as disabled for disabled configurations.
• Fix: Archived reports are no longer copied when cloning a configuration.
• Fix: Builds now correctly go to error state if server is shutdown while stage is initialising.
• Fix: Issue if non-mercurial repository contains .hgignore file.
• Fix: Variables references were not expanded in Visual Studio action configuration field.
• Fix: Installer now using new method to create data share.
• Fix: Fixed parser error with adjacent variable references.

Note : You will need to update your agents after installing this build.

• Feature: Now displaying additional live information including current action in status area on build details page
• Feature: Added functions to read environment variables on agent: $Agent.GetMachineEnvironmentVariable("varname")$ and $Agent.GetUserEnvironmentVariable("varname")$
• Feature: Added report count to tab on build page
• Update: Counts on build page tabs are now automatically updated as build progresses
• Update: Log file is now pre-generated ready for download as plain text
• Update: Added validation to name fields when creating items in the administration area e.g. subscriptions and server properties
• Update: Guessing file/directory type when "kind" information is missing from a path in a changeset from an old Subversion repository
• Fix: Nuget actions now provide the correct working folder when running NuGet.
• Fix: Now correctly checking for duplicate artifacts

Note : You will need to update your agents after installing this build.

• Feature: added Rake build runner action and Ruby property collectors
• Feature: added trigger files to Final Builder action (for use with FB7.0.0.2566 or later)
• Update: added a separate input box for XMPP server. Username is now escaped according to XMPP standard
• Update: added some deadlock recovery code when starting build.
• Update: some minor changes to quiet period code in an attempt to prevent deadlocks.
• Fix: Github status action updated to deal with API changes.
• Fix: Issue where groups were not being saved when creating a new LDAP user .
• Fix: Issue where group change is not being saved when editing subscriptions.
• Fix: Exception while initialising new File System repository.
• Fix: private messages for system event warnings are now displayed as warnings rather than errors

Note : You will need to update your agents after installing this build.

• Fix: changes to trigger messaging to deal with case where trigger update was not saved.
• Fix: build log no longer show actions which have not been executed incorrectly as "skipped".
• Fix: removed password validation message when creating a new LDAP user
• Fix: null exception if variable is not defined when after quiet period
• Update: Mercurial commands now override any global ignore settings

• Fix: javascript bug when creating actions - introduced in last build
• Update: Added ToLower and ToUpper functions to text properties.
• Feature: Case sensitive comparison option for If and While actions.

Please Note: The default is now case-insensitive for all text comparisons. Previously some operators were case-insensitive e.g. Equals and some case-sensitive e.g. StartsWith. Please check any Flow Control actions which may be relying on case sensitivity

• Feature: Added new tab to trigger dialog for specifying the branch to build for each configuration repository
• Feature: Show prompts for build variables when manually promoting stages
• Update: Configuration Conditions now have the ability to AND or OR expressions in a condition.
• Update: Added default property collectors for MSpec, Node.js and Chocolatey
• Update: Added tooltip to Finished column in main project details and list views to show actual date time
• Update: Now displaying category for each system event private message
• Update: Added server-side caching of view data to reduce database load
• Update: New changesets from non-triggering repositories are now added to builds during quiet periods
• Update: Made project variables available to triggers as well as configuration variables
• Update: Page not found warnings are no longer written to the event log
• Fix: Issue where build does not start when using option to associate all changesets since last build
• Fix: Corrected issue where ignored unit tests were counted as failures
• Fix: Mercurial repository validation could use the wrong executable path
• Fix: Installer issue with Mercurial SSL certificate configuration
• Fix: Javascript error when closing stage delete dialog
• Fix: Issue with Import JUnit parser not handling output from Chutzpah
• Fix: Added additional check for valid working folder to Execute Program action
• Fix: Correction to evaluation of empty text in expressions. Can now test for empty variables in Flow Control actions

• Fix: Fixed issue where changesets were being skipped for Github repositories
• Update: Arguments field for Execute Program action has been changed to multi-line text area and moved to a separate tab
• Update: Event log now displays event time as well as date
• Fix: Fixed UI issues with pinning and unpinning builds
• Update: Can now edit build pinned comments
• Fix: Intermittent AJAX errors with unit test tooltips
• Update: Added Disable Node Reuse property to MSBuild action
• Some minor UI changes

• Feature: Added SSL/TLS support for email notifications
• Feature: Added build version to subject for notifications
• Update: Improved performance of email notifications
• Update: Added ability to set host URL for notifications via the Server Properties page.
• Update: Configuration wizard now prompts to save any changes when leaving the repositories page
• Fix: Fixed issue where Git was incorrectly picking up submodule changesets
• Fix: Git changesets are no longer lost if there is a error updating a due to missing submodule revision. This happens if the change is made to a submodule in the subdirectory of the local repository and the repository is pushed before the submodule. An error message is now displayed on the changeset allowing the user to resolve the issue once the submodule has been pushed.
• Fix: No longer ignoring action failures incorrectly under catch and finally actions
• Fix: Build now fails if repository rules point to a missing repository
• Fix: Issue where reports were not copied when cloning configuration
• Fix: Removed incorrect error log for Subversion on non-English systems
• Fix: Password is now masked in Git error message
• Some minor UI changes

• Fix: Major reliability fixes for Subversion repositories related to merging and switching branches
• Fix: Fixed issue with installer adding wrong dependencies for SSH Service
• Fix: Better recovery from repository update errors
• Update: Rework on ANT pattern matching to include all matches as supported by NAnt
• Fix: Fixed issue when expanding paths in Workspace Rules
• Update: File Copy and File Move actions now allow you to choose whether to preserve the folder structure
• Feature: New Pin Build action
• Fix: Drag and drop is now improved when moving Stages in the Stages editor
• Fix: Fixed issue detecting pull requests from Git repositories
• Fix: Several fixes for GitHub Status action
• Fix: Can now view content of text and html Artefact files
• Fix: Visual Studio action now correctly adds quotes when running configurations with spaces
• Fix: Removed timestamps from Robocopy errors so that repeated errors are aggregated in to one Event Log entry
• Update: Added LinkUrl property to Build object in expandable fields
• Fix: Made hover colour darker for tables

• Fix: Fixed merge issue with unversioned files when switching branches using Subversion
• Update: Can now specify an ANT pattern to match files for Assembly Info Updater action
• Update: Assembly Info Updater action now logs the path of the updated file
• Update: DUnit, JUnit, MSTest and XUnit now reports summaries of test results to log
• Fix: MSBuild action now reads properties correctly with = in the property value
• Fix: New build version is now visible to another actions in same stage after Set Build Version action
• Fix: Error display on NUnit build version is now visible to another actions in same stage after Set Build Version action
• Fix: Correct success / failure rate is now displayed when viewing NUnit artefacts with errors in the test results
• Update: Additional validation for XMPP messaging ids

• Update: Git repository changesets now uses Committer date instead of Author date
• Fix: Fixed issue where changesets could be missed while build is in quiet period
• Fix: Fixed issue with build time graph showing stopped builds and missing other builds
• Fix: Fixed tooltip display on build history page
• Update: Additional logging and error trapping for XMPP messaging

• Update - major optimisations in the way TFS repositories gets the source code from the TFS server
• Feature - provided option for Unit Test actions to allow continuing after errors as well as failures
• Feature - Added Agent Workspace Cleanup options to Cleanup pages
• Bug - fixed typo with Subversion validation.
• Bug - fixed issues will agent going offline.
• Bug - fixed service dependency issue with installer.
• Change - disabled triggers when configuration is cloned.

• Feature - Added Visual Studio 2013 and MSBuild 12 support
• Feature - Added Safemode option to Visual Studio action
• Feature - Added Agent Workspace Cleanup options to Cleanup pages
• Bug - Increased the maximum size for plugin content and for text area fields. This fixes issues saving repositories with long field contents
• Bug - Added missing Github status icon
• Bug - Fixed issue with promote conditions display when switching between stages
• Bug - Fixed regression bug from 2324 with time zone conversion for time-based triggers
• Update - Optimised Subversion branch validation code
• Update - Added additional exception handling and debug logging

• Feature - Added ability to promote stages based on conditions
• Feature - New action to update status on GitHub
• Feature - Added option to select 32 bit or 64 bit executable for MSBuild action
• Feature - Added Url and Type properties to Source object definitions
• Bug - Fixed issues with copy and paste in Stage Editor
• Bug - Increased the maximum length of database field for storing actions
• Bug - Increased the maximum length of database fields for storing Unit Test stack traces and messages
• Bug - Fixed error when exporting logs created by FinalBuilder action
• Bug - Fixed issue with time-based triggers starting immediately after clone
• Bug - Fixed issues with time zone conversion for date time variables
• Bug - Fixed issue with spaces in 7Zip file path
• Bug - Fixed issue with missing trailing slash in TFS repository url
• Bug - Fixed issue where option to log artefact files is lost
• Bug - Fixed issue with agents staying unavailable indefinitely after error accessing data share
• Minor improvements to error handling
• Minor UI fixes and text updates

Note: please check any time-based triggers and date time variables after installing as we have made some changes to fix conversions between local and UTC dates and times

• Feature - TFS 2010/12 repositories are now branch aware. You will find a new Branches tab on the Edit Repository dialog which allows you to specify the branch monitoring options. We have also implemented better TFS validation
• Bug - Fixed bug when using spaces in branches with Plastic SCM
• Bug - Fixed conflict with locked fields and password fields
• Bug - Fixed database maximum field length issue with large Unit Test stack traces
• Bug - Fixed some minor issues with variable prompt types

• Feature - Added password, date and time as a variable types.
• Bug - Fixed bug involving namespaces during MSTests
• Minor UI fixes
• Bug - Fixed locking issues with Bazaar
• Bug - Fixed issue where dialog could open multiple times

• Minor UI changes for dialogs.
• Fix - fixed bug with success ratios always showing green.
• Feature - updated the autocomplete dropdowns. Visual changes, Scroll bars added and wheel scroll now scrolls through the list.
• Minor UI and help changes for the Welcome/First Installer pages.
• Fix - Added Project, Build and Configuration to Report expressions.

• UI - Expression dropdowns are now scrollable.
• Fix - fixed bug with Git Pulls.
• MSTest action - Added 'fail action if test fail' property.
• Fix - Improved performance when downloading the build log.
• Minor UI Fixes

• Fix - Fixed bug that prevented downloading artifacts.
• Fix - Minor UI fixes
• Fix - Fixed issue where you couldn't modify the global cleanup policy in IE10
• Feature - Added Delphi XE4 to the property collector
• Fix - Fixed UI bugs on agents page
• Fix - fixed bug when checking LDAP

• Update - Updated styling and functionality Agents Pages.
• Update - Updated build colours for builds that are waiting to be promoted & builds that were stopped by a user.
• Update - minor update to notifications styling
• Added NUnit 2.6.2 to the property collectors
• Update - Updated help for the 7-zip actions
• Fix - Added better error messages when artifacts cannot be downloaded from the server's workspace

• Fix - Updated About Continua Page
• Fix - Updated all agent pages and updated agent functionality
• Feature - Added refresh agent properties functionality
• Fix - Updated the agent compatibility matrix
• Feature - Updated the UI for displaying build status

• Feature - Server properties, such as server port, authentication mode and ssh port were added to the Continua Server page.
• Bug - Dates for changesets and other fields now say recently if they are somehow in the future.
• Security improvements
• Minor style tweaks
• Fix - better error handling when tool not found.
• Feature - Issue links in changesets now appear on all build and config pages that pull in the changes.
• Fix - better error handling when artifacts are missing.

• Feature - Cleanup policies can now be run immediately for a configuration or project through the respective wizards
• Bug - Fixed issues viewing artifacts
• Bug - Fixed issue where only the first rule for artifacts rules were being run per stage
• Bug - Fixed issue when editing an identifying property on a repository

• Bug - Fixed bug in installer that set ASP.NET settings for all sites in IIS
• Bug - Fixed compression issues when downloading zip files as an artifact
• Update - updated Pinning builds and how pinned builds work. Pinned builds will no longer get deleted by the Cleanup policy
• Bug - Fixed compressed and garbled error messages being displayed in Continua UI.
• Update - Minor UI tweaks

• Change - Minor performance increases for Continua UI
• Change - Updated how Continua handles a repository saving
• Bug - Fixed bug involving Subversion Externals
• Change - Improved error handling for Server dataShare errors
• Update - Minor updates to the NUnit action including clearer help text
• Update - Minor UI tweaks

Initial Release