Buildbot

0.7.0 is a major feature release, which adds build-on-branch, multiple buildslaves-per-builder, properly separates Locks and Dependencies, and adds the long-awaited 'try' feature which lets developers run test builds against code that they have not ... [More] yet checked in to the repository. Please see the release notes for complete details. Users upgrading from previous versions should pay special attention to the section on Schedulers to note the config-file changes they must make. The BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required by most software projects to validate code changes. It builds and tests the tree each time a change is committed, providing status updates through a web page or other protocols. Please visit http://buildbot.sf.net for more details. Have a stigmergic day, -Brian [Less]

0.7.2 is mostly a bugfix release: it fixes an annoying bug which broke config-file reloading. It also adds a --umask option for the buildslaves, and makes it possible to have all listening ports bind to specific interfaces (like 127.0.0.1). The ... [More] BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required by most software projects to validate code changes. It builds and tests the tree each time a change is committed, providing status updates through a web page or other protocols. Please visit http://buildbot.sf.net for more details. Have a well-laundered day, -Brian [Less]

0.7.1 is mostly a bug-fix release, but also includes the new cron-style Nightly scheduler contributed by Dobes Vandermeer that lets you schedule builds at various times of day, week, month, or year. It also adds a 'resubmit this build' button to the ... [More] web status page. The BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required by most software projects to validate code changes. It builds and tests the tree each time a change is committed, providing status updates through a web page or other protocols. Please visit http://buildbot.sf.net for more details. Have an emergent day, -Brian [Less]

buildbot-0.7.5 is now available. The BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required by most software projects to validate code changes. It builds and tests the tree each time a change is committed, providing status updates through a ... [More] web page or other protocols. Please visit http://buildbot.sf.net for more details. This release features new support for Monotone and Tinderbox, and adds an SVN repository poller, new BuildSteps to transfer files between master and slave, and multi-owner Locks. Builder reconfiguration is now far less destructive than before, and the useful portions of the logfile are displayed as output of the reconfig/restart command. All buildsteps have been renamed and reorganized, and of course a number of bugs have been fixed. [Less]

buildbot-0.7.9 is now available. This is a minor feature release. The location of the public_html directory is now configurable, new "lock access modes" have been added, and the buildslave missing_timeout= should no longer fire too early. ... [More] Compatibility with recent versions of Mercurial and Git has been improved. The BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required by most software projects to validate code changes. It builds and tests the tree each time a change is committed, providing status updates through a web page or other protocols. Please visit http://buildbot.net for more details. [Less]

This is mainly a release of patches accumulated over the past several months. A number of new steps and other features are available, and a significant set of bugs have been fixed in this release.

buildbot-0.7.3 is now available. It features new support for Mercurial, adds "build properties" which make it easy to include the revision number of the build in shell commands (useful for making named snapshot tarballs). There are also a number of ... [More] bugfixes. The BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required by most software projects to validate code changes. It builds and tests the tree each time a change is committed, providing status updates through a web page or other protocols. Please visit http://buildbot.sf.net for more details. Have a hydrargyrus day, -Brian [Less]

buildbot-0.7.6 is now available. The BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required by most software projects to validate code changes. It builds and tests the tree each time a change is committed, providing status updates ... [More] through a web page or other protocols. Please visit http://buildbot.net for more details. This release features a bunch of new WebStatus pages, support for Bazaar-NG (aka bzr), and improved config-file error logging. You can now configure the buildmaster to notify an admin (via email) when a buildslave has been offline for too long, and provide better concurrency limits on how many builds the buildslave is allowed to do at once. Running multiple buildslaves for a single builder (i.e. build farms) is improved somewhat, and a number of bugs have been fixed. [Less]

buildbot-0.7.7 is now available. This is mainly a bugfix release, addressing several dozen problems found and fixed over the last six months. Some small new features were added: the "buildbot checkconfig" command was added to test the ... [More] buildmaster's config file before use, and the Waterfall can now accept "?category=FOO" query arguments in the URL to limit the display to Builders which belong to the given categories. The BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required by most software projects to validate code changes. It builds and tests the tree each time a change is committed, providing status updates through a web page or other protocols. Please visit http://buildbot.net for more details. [Less]

0.6.5 is a minor feature release. The most significant addition is that very large (>100MB) log files are handled *much* more efficiently: spooled directly to and from disk without holding the entire contents in memory first. This drastically ... [More] reduces the memory consumption of the buildmaster for projects with sizeable logs. The other big feature is that mktap has been abandoned in favor of ".tac" files, simplifying the installation and startup process. The "buildbot" front-end tool now handles all aspects of creating and launching the daemons. All documentation was converted into .texinfo format, and a decent chunk of the User's Manual has been written. The BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required by most software projects to validate code changes. It builds and tests the tree each time a change is committed, providing status updates through a web page or other protocols. Please visit http://buildbot.sf.net for more details. Have a log(N) day, -Brian [Less]