FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

REPOSITORY

• Github integration to build pull requests and update pull request status based on build result
• 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

BUILD WORKFLOW

• 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

GUI

• 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

OTHERS

• 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

• 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

BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY ISSUES

• 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.

• 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.