Dear users,

QuickBuild 15 is now available. This version upgraded most of the third party libraries to reduce potential security vulnerabilities. Due to this, QuickBuild now requires Java version 11 or higher. Check https://www.pmease.com/quickbuild/whats-new for improvements in this release.

Thanks for your attention

The QuickBuild Team

Dear users, 

QuickBuild 14 is now available. Some major improvements:

• Java 21 LTS support
• Build discussions
• Favorite configurations management
• Update of overrided variables/steps/repositories while renaming
• Export build search result to Excel
• Launch build agent and deploying S3 artifacts with AWS IAM role
• k8s cloud profile service customization
• Two-way build agent heartbeat
• Offline notes to inactive nodes

For more information, please check https://www.pmease.com/quickbuild/whats-new

Thanks for your attention

The QuickBuild Team

Dear users,

QuickBuild 13 is now released. Some major improvements:

• Dark theme for QB
• Docker integration to build image, run container, or run specified commands
• TOTP based two-factor authentication
• Java 17 LTS support
• Global resource to limit build concurrency without requiring build running on specific node
• Able to search configurations via restful api
• Able to customize page css styles
• Move all step related links back to the left side close to the step name
• Able to loop through multiple LDAP authenticators in case some of them are down
• Display all promotion target builds in build detail page
• Able to copy notification from one configuration to another
• Able to calculate perforce changes if build with label
• Allow agents to wait for QB server on startup
• Able to specify scriptable display name of promotion
• Audit variable change via script
• Set Kuberntes image pull policy to be always when test relevant cloud profiles
• Loop all applicable cloud profiles to launch on-demand node
• Improve error detection to detect lines not matching specific pattern as errors

For more information, please check https://www.pmease.com/quickbuild/whats-new

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QuickBuild team

Dear users,

QuickBuild 12 is now released. Some major improvements:

• OpenID single sign-on support
• On-demand build agent launch via GCP
• Kubernetes build agent resource kustomization
• Mac M1 support
• Configuration tree state per gadget
• Variable prompt for html input
• Server wide properties
• File upload via RESTful api
• RESTful api authentication via access token
• GitHub Organization Webhook
• Export/Import Dashboards

For more information, please check https://www.pmease.com/quickbuild/whats-new

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QuickBuild team

Dear users,

QuickBuild 11 is now released. Some major improvements:

• AWS/Azure spot instance support
• Single sign-on via Azure AD
• Azure Devops integration
• Optional password policy
• Value validation of variables submitted via API
• UI polishing
• Improved build stats
• Ability to collapse composite steps
• Recursive upstream change calculation for QuickBuild repository
• Ability to use external artifacts as dependency and promotion
• Ability to change schedule of queued build requests
• Option to overwrite existing object upon copy
• Plugin extension point to write build log to other destinations
• Able to sync bootstrap libraries to agents
• Grid node attributes comparison

For more information, please check https://www.pmease.com/quickbuild/whats-new

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QuickBuild team

Dear users,

QuickBuild 10.0 is now released. Some major improvements:

• Sonar integration
• Amazon S3 support for artifact publishing
• JIRA cloud integration
• SAML single sign on
• Json RESTful api
• Script execution via command line output
• GitHub pull request effective condition to facilitate overriding
• Notifications upon configuration error before build is generated
• Cloud profile filtering and paging
• Date/time picker for date/time variable
• Show password option to facilitate password editing

For more information, please check https://www.pmease.com/quickbuild/whats-new

Thanks for your attention

QuickBuild team

Dear users,

QuickBuild 9.0 is now released. Some major improvements:

• Java 11 support
• Swagger report publish
• Build stats aggregation
• GitLab pull request support
• GitHub/GitLab/BitBucket web hook integration
• Groovy script syntax highlight
• Rich html editor
• Step to run Groovy from file
• Grid resource filtering
• Decoupled commit status update and code checkout
• Grouped html reports
• GPU support of EC2 integration

For more information, please check https://www.pmease.com/quickbuild/whats-new

Thanks for your attention

QuickBuild team

Dear users,

QuickBuild 8.0 is now released. Some major improvements:

• Kubernetes integration
  
• Azure integration
• BitBucket cloud integration
• Slack notification
• Build status markdown support
• Nested permission set
• Setting overriden diff
• Per-step log level
• Primary dashboard designation
• Customizable network loss tolerance
• Configuration export/import step
• Step retry condition

Dear users,

QuickBuild 7.0 is available with many improvements requested by our users. Please check below link for feature highlights in this version:

https://www.pmease.com/quickbuild/whats-new

A full list of changes can be found here:

http://wiki.pmease.com/display/QB70/Documentation+Home

Thanks for your attention
QuickBuild team

• Find repository/step/variable overrides and usages for configuration refactoring.
• Optionally trust authenticated user in specified http header to support single sign-on.
• Permission set definition to facilitate assigning same set of permissions repeatedly.
• Administrator can select to run as arbitrary user to facilitate checking user profile.
• Aggregate SCM changes to display change summary and statistics in high level configuration.
• Gerrit integration to verify open changes and score specified Gerrit label accordingly.
• JFrog Artifactory integration to publish and use artifacts during build.
• Persist unprocessed build requests after server shutdown and resume processing after startup.
• Accurev proof build to test active changes on QuickBuild before getting them promoted.
• Optionally run scripts after deletion of configuration and build.
• Able to view live log by step, and view log of finished steps before build finishes.
• Step to record SCM changes without checking out the repository.
• Able to display custom banner in QuickBuild page.

• Verify GitHub pull requests and update pull request status based on build result.
• GitHub issue tracker integration to parse issues in commit messages.
• Leverage perforce shelve/unshelve feature to run pre-commit builds without using user agent.
• Retrieve changes of Subversion externals for source view and diff.
• Custom columns to display custom build and request info.
• Display reasons for waiting builds and steps.
• Define environment variables in composite steps for inheritance and overriding.
• Detect broken communication links to agents to fail build fast.
• Drag&drop to organize favorite dashboards.
• Dashboard list to display all dasbhoards in system.
• Resource access information to know about resource usage status.
• Coverity report rendering

• Launch build agent on demand in cloud environment including Amazon EC2.
• Build pipeline to visualize commits life cycle across different build and deployment stages.
• Optionally store artifacts of configuration sub tree to specified build agents to reduce server load.
• Grid and server metrics collecting and trending.
• Alert definition and notification for key performance indicators.
• Enhanced tray monitor and refined message window.
• Toggle node and step information in build log.
• Share dashboards with specified users besides groups.
• Headless plugin build.
• New dashboard gadgets to display build pipeline, grid performance measurements and system alerts.

• Customizable dashboard for users and groups to organize build information via gadgets.
• Report aggregation to provide build metrics summary of descendant configurations.
• Resource management for better control of build distribution and agent load.
• Grid partition to divide grid nodes between different configuration trees.
• User activity audit to track and review every modification to the system.
• CollabNet TeamForge integration for user authentication, file uploading, release creation, issue linking. and issue updating.
• Redmine integration to link QuickBuild builds with Redmine issues.
• Google Repo integration to detect changes, check out source, and create tags against Repo.
• Boost test integration to render test reports and display test trends.
• Redesigned report system for improved user experience and performance.
• RESTful API for changes, issues, and various reports.
• Plugin API for third party issue tracker and unit test framework integration.
• Searchable users and groups.

QuickBuild 3.1 is released to integrate with Git, Mercurial, Bazaar and Team Foundation Server. This integration makes possible below actions in a continuous integration or release management environment when dealing with these SCMs:

• Retrieve source code for build and test from tip or specified revision.
• Create tags for retrieved source code if necessary.
• Detect source changes between builds and notify committers under specified condition.
• Promote SCM revisions to higher stage, for example from qa to release.

Git, Mercurial and Bazaar integration also includes the gated push feature, with which you can submit ready-for-push commits to QuickBuild for build/test, and have QuickBuild to push them to the official repository automatically after building/testing successfully.

This release also supports to build .NET projects through MSBuild and Visual Studio solution builder.

Refer to http://www.pmease.com/features/whats-new/ for details.

• Step can be repeated for different set of parameters, either parallelly, or sequentially. For example, you may create a singe test step to have it execute for each combination of possible databases and OS platforms, or have it run on all applicable build agents. This can greatly reduce number of steps needed in a complex build workflow.
• QuickBuild can now terminate spawned build processes immediately and reliably when a build is canceled or timed out. You no longer need to manually kill relevant processes to release workspace mutexes. This works on Windows, Linux and Unix platforms.
• A non-admin account can now be authorized to administer a configuration subtree.
• Multiple promote actions can be defined with the ability to customize the condition of each action. For example, you may define a release action and have it appear only when build is recommended and current user belongs to release manager group.
• Inherited settings such as steps, repositories and variables will be displayed directly in descendant configurations. This makes examination and modification of inherited settings much easier.
• Build workflow can now be created/rearranged by dragging and dropping steps.
• Trends of duration and success rate of each executed steps are now available in statistics tab of a configuration. You can even compare these trends between different steps to find out which step fails the most and which step costs the most time.
• SCM changes screen is reworked to support text search in changes between two arbitrary builds.
• The same step can now be reused in different composition steps.
• Add the option of auto-detecting user time zone from browser to display local date/time.