QB10 Release Highlights
New Features and Improvements
- QB-1348: Sonar plugin
- QB-1800: Publishing artifacts in Amazon S3
- QB-3296: To support JSON rest api
- QB-3481: Integrating with Jira Cloud
- QB-3453: SAML SSO support
- QB-3516: A mechanism to execute script via shell command
- QB-3445: Allow to attach specified properties when publish build info to Artifactory
- QB-3426: Only build if there are new patch sets in Gerrit repository
- QB-3505: Able to specify custom tags for launched build agents via Azure cloud profile
- QB-3506: Able to use premium storage for launched build agents via Azure cloud profile
- QB-3504: Add "Node not matching criteria" for repeat parameter "Addresses of all nodes filtered by specified criteria"
- QB-3398: Trigger build via link by encoding build request xml/json as query parameter
- QB-3413: An option in system setting to persist build queue upon new build requests to avoid queue being cleared upon system crash
- QB-3431: Update to log4j2 in order to work with modern libraries
- QB-3517: Specify effective condition of GitHub pull request setting for sake of easy overriding
- QB-3510: Separate permission to manage build grid
- QB-3436: Sent notification upon build not running due to snapshot taking or build condition evaluation error
- QB-3509: Cloud profile filtering and paging
- QB-3465: Customize git failure messages to retry clone/fetch upon
- QB-3476: Improve build restful API to query build by request id
- QB-3447: Option to delete build log when define artifact cleanup strategy
- QB-3454: Slack notification to support json and image
- QB-3408: Add convenient methods getVarValue/findVarValue in configuration object
- QB-3491: Workaround to include comma in choices of "prompting as selection box"
- QB-3479: Specify charsets to decode file names and messages in Perforce change log
- QB-3478: Offer "Email BCC" for "Notify Through" dropdown list in "Notifications" section of the configuration
- QB-3515: Date and time picker for date/time variable
- QB-3397: Add Show Password button to forms that have a secret/password value
- QB-2334: When a config is updated via REST, record the diff of the XML representation of the configuration
- QB-3422: Ability to use different kube configs/switch kubectl context
- QB-3346: Extra permission to edit grid node user attributes
- QB-3382: Able to import specified configuration from configuration export file
- QB-3394: Display last login date instead of useragent feild at user management page
- QB-3359: Show link to triggered build in remote server in step status
- QB-3350: Able to embed scripts inside custom header
- QB-3514: Increase error message length. Current 1000 char limit is too small
Bug fixes
- QB-3399: Parallel Steps can cause double execution of child steps in some rare cases
- QB-3415: Child steps not running yet (due to limited number of workers) are not cancelled if build gets cancelled
- QB-3496: Artifactory deploy step does not work with files with space in name
- QB-3498: Unable to run restore and upgrade script with OpenJDK 1.8.0_242
- QB-3499: Accurev plugin complains about validation error when calculate changes
- QB-3500: Auto-start fails occasionally due to some temp files not being able to be deleted
- QB-3501: Frequently gets "too many files open" error and new builds won't start
- QB-3511: QB won't start on Mac OSX with latest Java due to JSW error
- QB-3513: Long configuration/build description causes QB using Oracle database complaining about "Stream has been closed"
- QB-3464: qb_build_uploads directory doesn't get cleaned with workspace when using variable to upload files
Important Changes
- QuickBuild 10.x (both server and agent) requires Java 1.8 or higher
- Groups authorized with permission Node Attributes Accessible can only view user attributes now. An extra permission Can Edit Node Attributes needs to be enabled to edit user attributes