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The wait is over, ladies and gentlemen! The release build is baked, tested, and put on the shelf. Tastes good, so go and grab it now!
Let us write down a short summary of what was accomplished since the TeamCity 4.5 release.
First of all, here’s the list of most noteworthy features:
- Support for Amazon EC2: Take advantage of cloud computing with TeamCity by putting build agents on Amazon EC2 cloud with on-demand image starting and on-idle stopping.
- Issue tracker integration with JetBrains YouTrack, JIRA and Bugzilla - out of the box, plus an API for the integration plugins for other systems.
- Maven support improvements, including simplified build configuration creation from POM file, and build triggering on Maven artifacts change.
- Build configuration templates for eliminating redundancy in build configurations settings.
- Project archiving for putting no-longer-active projects out of sight.
- Command line tool for running Personal builds on server without IDE integration.
- Backup & Restore were added to simplify TeamCity maintenance. Also, migration tool was re-implemented.
Other improvements:
- Now you can view the status of a change across all build configurations on a single page.
- Failure responsibility feature has been advanced to cover not only builds, but also individual test failures.
- Various actions performed by TeamCity users are now stored in the Audit log, which can be browsed from the web UI.
- Code coverage analysis has been significantly improved for both Java (based on IntelliJ IDEA coverage engine) and .NET (support for NCover and PartCover).
- And many more
New and improved integrations:
- Git & Mercurial support are now bundled with TeamCity.
- Remote Run now works for Git from IntelliJ IDEA & Eclipse.
- New support for Cucumber, Shoulda, Test-Spec in Rake runner.
- TeamCity IntelliJ IDEA plugin now works with IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition and RubyMine 2.0.
Of course, this is not an exhaustive list, so check What’s New to get a full overview of new features and improvements.
As always, TeamCity 5.0 Professional is available for FREE for all small- and middle-sized development teams and can be downloaded at http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/download.
TeamCity 5.0 Enterprise is available for a 60-day free trial download at http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/download.
New customers can purchase TeamCity 5.0 online at http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/buy/.
Existing customers can upgrade to version 5.0 after purchasing a 1-year subscription for software updates at http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/buy/.
TeamCity licenses bought after October 1, 2009, receive a 1-year subscription for software updates for free, and therefore will work fine with TeamCity version 5.0. If you have such licenses, you will soon receive an e-mail with the new keys and certificates.
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