QB11 Release Highlights

New Features and Improvements

• QB-1901: Spot instance support for AWS EC2 cloud profile
• QB-3659: Spot VM support for Azure cloud profile
• QB-3272: Support Azure Devops Git Repos
• QB-3661: UI Polishing
• QB-3525: Able to change schedule of queued build requests
• QB-3526: Option to replace existing object when copy from other configurations
• QB-3531: Able to control permission of queue access in group
• QB-3534: Do not persist scheduler generated build requests
• QB-3550: Offer BCC option in the Send Email Step
• QB-3551: Plugin extension point to write build log to other destinations
• QB-3558: Adding Evaluate Velocity Template to utils
• QB-3571: Ability to retrieve external artifacts (specified in configuration setting) via QuickBuild repository
• QB-3573: Rename groups used in promotion condition also when group renames
• QB-3578: Send status reason text along with status code in pre-queue evaluation response
• QB-3579: Log current step when evaluating step repetition values to help error investigation
• QB-3589: Preserve white spaces in QB log
• QB-3604: Optional password policy to ensure strong passwords
• QB-3608: Able to configure LDAP socket connection/read timeout
• QB-3609: Use a backoff strategy to persist build request when system is busy to improve performance
• QB-3610: RESTful API to retrieve evaluated variable values of configuration
• QB-3623: Do not make lastLogin mandatory when creating user via restful api
• QB-3624: Copy authorized groups automatically when copy a configuration
• QB-3625: Add a small button next to configuration path to paste configuration path in clipboard
• QB-3626: A dashboard gadget to display list of builds via groovy script
• QB-3630: Able to collapse children of composition steps
• QB-3636: Make the configuration picker in the gadget scriptable
• QB-3638: Able to pause/unpause schedule without having EDIT_SETTING permission
• QB-3643: Prevent triggering on disabled configuration through rest API
• QB-3646: SSO via Azure AD
• QB-3647: Add a "Prefer node SUCCESSFULLY running this step previously"
• QB-3649: Test cloud profile only when necessary
• QB-3655: Improved build statistics
• QB-3657: Node configuration comparison
• QB-3662: Retry launching on-demand node via cloud profiles in case there are temporal errors
• QB-3665: Validate variables submitted via RESTful api or trigger build step
• QB-3667: Ability to promote external artifacts specified in configuration setting
• QB-3668: Config notifications: include "committers" from the entire upstream pipeline
• QB-3669: Able to sync bootstrap libs to agents
• QB-3671: Have "Custom Statistics Report" plugin support JSON format as well
• QB-3673: Do not persist user last login upon rest call to improve performance

Bug Fixes

• QB-3590: Auto promotion again when a build is recommended
• QB-3612: when importing/syncing changes to configs, there is no update to the audit log
• QB-3660: Unable to run child steps on other nodes if previous node is not available upon retry
• QB-3663: Launched Azure windows 10 node can not join the grid automatically
• QB-3666: Failed builds gadget not showing failed builds of specified root
• QB-3670: Accessing variables in repository user mapping results NPE if checkout step runs on agent