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 h2. Architecture
 * QuickBuild server and agent now require Java 1.7 or higher versions
 * Upgrade to use Jetty9
 * Add upgrade script to upgrade previous installation in-place to be more convenient and avoid issues such as re-installation of services
 * Add MariaDB support
 * Use Java 7 FileStore API to monitor disk usage when sigar is failed
  
 h2. Build System
 * Parallel composition step can be configured with limited number of workers to queue processing of its child steps instead of running them all at once
 * Bullseye coverage integration
 * Custom statistics report aggregation
 * Enhance auto-promote flag as auto-promote condition so that user can customize on which condition to auto-promote a build
 * Put uploaded file of file input variables into folder "qb_build_uploads" under workspace of master node, and preserve the original file name
 * Able to accept and persist new build requests while wait for finish of running builds upon system shutdown
 * Apply build timeout to build condition check stage as well
 * Add step retry setting upon failure
 * Add command pre-kill script in configuration advanced setting
 * Make the Maven build plugin's effective POM resolving configurable per-step
 * Add the possibility to use the master step node in Node Selection option
 * Add a resource node selector to match host name against regular expression
 * Use mvn.cmd instead of mvn.bat if neither Maven home nor Maven executable is specified
 * Map committer to user using full name in addition to login name when send build notifications
 * Place build publish directory in multiple subfolders to avoid too many files in a single directory
 * Mark non-interruptible groovy script step as cancelled upon cancellation in order to signal subsequent steps to take appropriate actions
 * Add a script evaluation in step repetition value provider to return list of values instead of comma/newline separated string
 * Add an option not to post build status as review info on Gerrit repository
 * Ensure destination directory exists when export a single file from Subversion repository
  
 h2. User Interface
 * Add condition script to build and request custom column to display them conditionally based on current configuration
 * Add a gadget to show running builds in specified configuration
 * Heatmap to show number of running builds
 * Able to export/import specified configuration tree
 * Able to prevent inheritance of certain steps, variables, promotions, repositories, aggregations and notifications
 * Able to hide inherited objects (steps, repositories, variables, etc) in child configurations
 * Able to filter steps/repositories/variables/promotions/aggregations containing specified text
 * Add button to clone inherited steps, repositories, and variables into current configuration
 * Navigate between changes in diff view
 * Allow searching by build version/id under build statistics/SCM activities/change history
 * Download link for "SCM Changes" report
 * Use group dashboard as default for new users
 * Able to change build request order in queue via drag&drop
 * Able to recommend/unrecommend bulk of builds in configuration history page or build find result page
 * Able to filter out build requests from audit log
 * Add separate sliders for available steps and workflow for easier workflow organization
 * Filter users not logged in since specified date for deletion
 * Auto-refresh dashboard gadget using latest finished/latest successful/latest recommended build
 * Scripting support for LDAP/ActiveDirectory authenticator properties
 * Define custom message in system setting to show on access denied page
 * Remove duplicated variables automatically upon save
 * Able to save configured page size shown in Administration views
 * Scripting support for build related gadgets
 * Make the available resource count in the grid resource view to show a filtered view of the nodes
 * Make path pattern case sensitive/insensitive by appending existing patterns with ",casesensitive=yes" or ",casesensitive=no"
 * Display build date in pipeline
 * Support multi-line values in build and request custom columns
 * Prevent Java keywords to be used as variable names
 * Show promotion name while specifying promote options
 * Able to execute custom script after user self-registration
 * Show abbreviated schedule with full schedule tooltip in dashboard view if it is too long
 * Prefix dashboard name with owner name to make it more clear
  
 h2. Source Control System
 * Support Perforce ditto mapping
 * Add additional sync options (besides the additional global options) to support Perforce features such as parallel sync
 * Add conflict resolve option in Perforce shelve support
 * An option to fail the build if there is no shelved files in shelved change list
  
 h2. RESTful API
 * Enhance resource RESTful API to get information of total and available resources by nodes
 * Add RESTful API to manipulate dashboard and associated group share and user share
 * Able to specify priority when submit build request via RESTful api
  
 h2. Scripting API
 * Add scripting API build.flushVariables() for user to flush variable values to database in the middle of build
  
 h2. Bug Fixes
 * Fix the issue that build version in dashboard and rest api is not consistent with build overview page if build version is changed in the middle of build
 * Fix the issue that artifact can not be downloaded if its path contains "#"
 * Fix the issue that javadoc does not contain many steps and repositories
 * Fix the issue that node assignment rule specifying build agents requiring nodes to be online
  
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  * Build publish directory is now stored into a sub directory using last three digits of build id, while old build directories are still remained in the original place. Make sure to call _build.getPublishDir()_ always if you want to get build publish directory as this API handles the change transparently
 * 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.
 * Bean editor annotation _@FileInput_ now populates related field with below format instead of a single file name:
 <original upload file name>/<Base64 encoding of upload file content>
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