Release Highlights

FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

GitHub integration to build pull requests and update pull request status based on build status
Support to use a referenced Git repository to speed up Git clone operation and reduce disk spaces for large Git repositories
Leverage perforce shelve/unshelve feature to verify developer change without using user agent
Display changes made in externals when checking out a Subversion repository with externals
Support to specify date as revision when define a Subversion repository
QuickBuild repository option "latest finished build" should not fail downstream build even if the build is failed
Transaction number field in Accurev repository is now scriptable
Add bzr+ssh support

Define global environments in composite step so that child step can inherit and override them
Refactor build grid so that a running build can exit automatically if communication problem to some used agents is encountered
Define prompt condition for variables to control conditional prompting of variables via scripts
Cancel triggered build upon cancelling the master build if master build is set to wait for finishing of triggered build
Optionally wait for start of a build in order to record build id in trigger build step

GitHub issue tracker is integrated to show issues mentioned in commit comments, Create Issue Step can be used to create issue in GitHub server.

In case build and step is waiting, detect and show the reasons
Define custom columns to be displayed in build request table and build history table
Add recent access information of in resources page to help determine if a resource is actively used
Be able to define order of prompted variables
Be able to organize favorite dashboards if an user has more than ten dashboards
Displays all dashboards defined by all users in administration menu so that administrator can edit/delete them as necessary
Artifact download URL is now sensitive to the selected build type
Adjustable queue page size via system setting
Permission to only download recommended artifacts
Be able to search grid nodes by attribute values

New maintenance step to remove obsolete accounts no longer existing in LDAP server
Be able to trigger build as another user from RESTful API if permitted
Remove workspaces from active nodes when delete configurations
Prevent any user from querying all builds in the system via RESTful API to protect the system
RESTful API to get average build duration and success rate in specified date range for a configuration
RESTful API to query build dependency information
Upgrade groovy to 1.8.9 to allow new scripting features

FIXED BUGS

Bazaar source control plugin should create destination path if it does not exist
QB doesn't list changed files for bazaar
Running a build for the first time does not auto-refresh the build overview page
Operation of disable/enable configuration is not audited
System resume action is not audited
P4 proof build reports "can not clobber writable file" if clobber option is not checked
P4 proof build reports "can not write readonly file" when reverting local changes in special cases
Unexpected exception raised when defining custom stats indicator color using expression
Unknown test status SUCCESS_PERCENTAGE_FAILURE when publishing TestNG report
Option workspace is specified more than once when running TFS workfold command
Checkout Failed with proofbuild perforce repository which has a depot containing spaces in the path
Variables values set during the node selection script are not reflected outside of this script

Since 5.0.14, RESTful APIs for fetching changes and issues are changed, especially for configuration param, the notable changes are, when you specify configuration path before 5.0.14, you need add PATH: as a prefix, now, you can specify the configuration path directly.
Groovy is upgraded from 1.7.9 to 1.8.9 and this may affect some existing scripts.

Important

When upgrading to QuickBuild 5.0.14, you may need reinstall QuickBuild for JIRA plugin, as the old plugin is not compatible with the new REST API supplied by QuickBuild.

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