Parabuild 4.0.0 EAP Build 1670 / 3.2.35

Note: Parabuild is free for non-commercial use.

Major Features:

1. Software Release Management:
   • Release builds
   • Practically unbreakable nightly builds
   • Continuous integration
   • Multi-platform remote builds
   • Parallel builds
   • Manual patch builds
   • Fine-grained scheduling
   • Shell scripts, make, ANT, NAnt, MSBuild, Perl, qmake, ElectricAccelerator, MSDEV, nmake,Maven, Jam and VB
2. Version Control Integration:
   • Support for Perforce, Subversion, CVS, Surround SCM, ClearCase, Serena ChangeMan (PVCS), Visual SourceSafe, Borland StarTeam, SourceGear Vault, and MKS Source Integrity
   • Change lists
   • Multi-line VCS repository paths
   • Build labeling/tagging
3. Web User Interface:
   • Fast, easy to use Web user interface (UI)
   • No more digging through configuration files
   • Dashboard and detailed views of builds statuses
   • Integration with Cenqua FishEye
   • Integration with ViewCVS/ViewVC
4. Statistics And Build Telemetry:
   • Build time
   • Build and change trends
   • Build breakage distribution
   • Test statistics
5. Build Archive and Search:
   • Text, HTML, Clover, Cobertura, JUnit, PMD, and findbugs logs
   • Searchable build log archive
   • Online build results access
   • Automatic archive cleanup
6. Notification:
   • E-mail
   • RSS
   • Windows system tray
   • Instant messaging (IM)
7. Simple Administration:
   • Simple three minutes installation
   • Low to zero administration overhead
   • Management through Web UI
   • System stability monitoring
   • Group based security
   • LDAP authentication
8. Issue Tracking Systems Integration:
   • Jira
   • Bugzilla
   • Perforce jobs
   • Integration with ViewCVS and P4Web
9. Test Tools Integration:
   • Rendering JUnit reports
   • JUnit statistics charts
10. Compliance And IT Governance:
    • Know who, when, what, how and why.
    • Build configuration audit
    • Change lists

1. Build Management:
   • Build load balancing and failover through clusterization of remote build agents
   • Sticky build agents
   • Clean checkout on agent change
   • Online charts with build agent statuses and load
   • Keeping paused status after re-start
   • Queuing serialized builds if all agents are busy
   • Page to monitor remote agents
   • Environment variables PARABUILD_PROJECT_ID, PARABUILD_PROJECT_NAME, PARABUILD_BUILD_ID, PARABUILD_LAST_GOOD_BUILD_NUMBER, PARABUILD_LAST_GOOD_BUILD_TIME, PARABUILD_LAST_GOOD_CHANGE_LIST_NUMBER and PARABUILD_LAST_GOOD_CHANGE_LIST_TIME
   • Stopping and resuming a group of builds
   • Converting build schedule from manual to automatic and from automatic to manual
2. Web UI:
   • Pop-up editor for build commands
   • Builder drop-down on the build configuration screen
   • Displaying builds assigned to a particular agent machine
   • Build instructions section
   • Display group to show only scheduled builds
   • IP Address and next build time on build list
   • Allowing higher number for cool-down interval
   • Information on who stopped the build to build status screens
   • Colored markers for stdout logs
   • Notification settings in the read-only build run configuration view
   • Throbbers on detailed build status
   • Change list number in build history table
   • Simplified navigation for system administration
   • Wide layout and notes for builds history
   • Build name and host in the error messages
   • Build name and host on the error list page
   • Notifying all administrators about build errors
   • Support for configuring MKS dates
3. Version Control Integration:
   • Perforce: Graceful handling of erroneous double slashes in Perforce depot path
   • Accurev: Added integration with AccuRev VCS
   • Subversion:
   • • Accepting the SSL certificate automatically when accessing https location
     • Watching non-recursive Subversion paths recursively for changes
     • Delay between polling multiple Subversion paths
     • Cleaning up workspace on agent change
   • Notification:
   • • Global VCS user to e-mail map
     • Global setting for ignoring user name case when resolving e-mails of Perforce users
     • Improved option "Send failures only once"
   • Log Management:
   • • Ignoring directory time stamp for logs
     • Integration with Boost Unit Test Framework
     • Generic test result handler
   • Installation & Environment:
   • • Ability to start and stop Parabuild service from Parabuild program group under Windows
     • Enabling running remote builder under Windows under Administrator user
     • Support for 8GB database files
   • Security: Allow users with edit or start rights on any build to see system errors