CruiseControl Release Notes - 2.8.3

general

• Update to checkstyle v4.4
• Disambiguated license information for some files that contained HP and Sony copyrights. (CC-889) Patch by Simon Steiner
• Replace Threads where Thread.start() was not called with Runnable to avoid leaks. (CC-895) Patch by Fabio Zadrozny

build loop

BuildOutputLoggerManager

• Use different loggers for different files.

DarcsBootstrapper

• New Darcs bootstrapper (CC-905). Patch by Florian Gilcher. Patch by Phil.

Darcs

• Remove extra "--match" command argument. Patch by Phil.

DateUtil

• Make DateUtil thread safe (CC-906). Patch by Sebastian Koppehel

CMSynergy

• Fix error publishing CMSynergy build (CC-876). Reported by Gerard Roos. Tested by David Corley.
• Allow specification of build and state attributes for baselines created with Synergy 6.4+ (CC-860). Patch by David Corley
• Log now captures CR Synopsis text when is used (CC-903). Patch by David Corley
• Add attribute in cmsynergysessionmonitor node (remoteclient) for remote-client connection in cm synergy (CC-910). Patch by Keith Mendoza
• Document fix for ccm_ui.log error commonly seen when running Cruisecontrol as a scheduled task (CC-960). Patch by David Corley

JNLPPublisher

• A plugin that publishes the built jar into a folder and updates a jnlp file. Needs unit tests, documentation in configxml.html, and a new entry in default-plugins.properties (CC-917). Patch by Nuno da Costa Ferro.

Log

• Add new attribute to Log element: trimWhitespace - if true, trim whitespace from start and end of log lines. Primarily intended only to force historic "trim" behavior. Defaults to false. (CC-912) Patch by Sebastian Koppehel.

Origo Publisher

• Update to use new issue handling API. Patch by Patrick Ruckstuhl.

Rake Builder

• Make the Ruby executable and the Rake executable configurable (CC-904). Patch by Florian Gilcher.

Removed deprecated classes

• removed CruiseControl (old launch wrapper)
• removed net.sourceforge.cruisecontrol.SelfConfiguringPlugin
• removed net.sourceforge.cruisecontrol.bootstrappers.CurrentBuildStatusBootstrapper
• removed net.sourceforge.cruisecontrol.bootstrappers.CurrentBuildStatusFTPBootstrapper
• removed net.sourceforge.cruisecontrol.publishers.CurrentBuildStatusPublisher
• removed net.sourceforge.cruisecontrol.publishers.CurrentBuildStatusFTPPublisher

Removed deprecated methods

• Main, P4Bootstrapper, Log, ModificationSet

SVN

• SVN externals not parsed correctly where multiple spaces exist as separator (CC-949). Patch by Andy Jacobs.

TwitterPublisher

• Add a new plugin for publishing build results to Twitter.

UCM

• UCM.java not creating the right command line for describing all activities (CC-886). Reported by Adrien Gracia

Dashboard

• Dashboard build detail page is creating many JMX server threads (CC-831). Reported by Matthias Grunwalde. Diagnosed by Xinglang Wang. Tested by Joe Schmetzer. Unit Tests patched by Stephen Smith.

• Rename AntOutputWidget to BuildOutputWidget and fix to display build output (CC-899). Patch by Joe Schemtzer.

• Remove deprecation warnings about widget api because no replacement api is available and patches are arriving for the existing api. Also restored links to widgets.html.

• Dashboard doesn't correctly display modifications with multiple files (CC-921). Patch by Joe Schmetzer.

• Newline cleanup of output in both ErrorsAndWarningsMessagesWidget and MergedCheckStyleWidget (CC-810). Patch by Robert Thornburrow.

reporting jsp app

• navigation.jsp missing
• tags around some elements under
  tag (CC-950). Reported by Chris Sewart

documentation

configxml.html

• PropertyFileLabelIncrementer: document preBuildIncrementer attribute (CC-900). Patch by David Corley
• Fix doc error attribute "localworkingdir" for build trigger when it should be "localworkingcopy" (CC-893). Reported by Joona Petrell