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The release of 1.355 came out earlier this week but I hadn’t had the chance to write anything up about it. Of course, the work never stops on Hudson so we almost have 1.356 ready to roll out the door, but then Kohsuke tweeted this: Because of the data center migration going on, I won’t be able to release #hudsonci today. I won’t go into details on some of the infrastructure changes we have lined up just yet, so here’s the breakdown of 1.355 Bugs fixed Colored ball image at top of build pages was broken for Hudson in some web containers (fixed by removing workaround for a Firefox bug fixed since 3.0.5/Dec2008). ( issue 2341) Console page while build is running did not wrap lines when viewed in IE. ( issue 5869) Fixed build history to indicate test failure for MavenBuild and MavenModuleSetBuild. Make dropdownList work in repeatable content, such as a build step. Enhancements Added the agent retention strategy based on a schedule. Added to configure charset option of Mailer. You can go grab the latest .war file straight from hudson-ci.org or if you’re using a native package, use your package manager to upgrade.

Hear ye, hear ye! Behold, the first release of Hudson ever made by a not-employed-by-Sun Kohsuke (as we covered last week). This iteration of Hudson contains only bug fixes, check the listing below for the specifics on which bugs have been fixed (1.355 is looking like it will contain a number of fixes as well). The release of 1.354 comes slightly later than usual given some of the logistics that needed to, or still need to be resolved. One of the infrastructure issues that’s half-way resolved is the question of Debian/Ubuntu packages. Kohuske has packages uploaded in an experimental apt repository on hudson-labs.org which you can try out. That said, it’s not entirely clear whether this is going to be the preferred means of distributing native Debian/Ubuntu packages in the future (your mileage may vary). Bugs fixed POM parsing was still using the module root as the base for relative paths for alternate settings files. ( issue 6080) Fix dynamic updates of build history table when CSRF protection is turned on. ( issue 6072) Improved the error reporting mechanism in LDAP setting. Raw console output contains garbage. ( issue 6034) Fixed a file handle leak in the agents connection. ( issue 6137) Quiet period wasn’t taking effect properly when doing parameterized builds. Contributors The release of 1.354 contains a total of 51 commits to the "core" part of the tree, from 9 different contributors abayer drulli kohsuke manuel_carrasco mindless sogabe swiest vlatombe wyukawa + You can go grab the latest .war file straight from hudson-ci.org or if you’re using a native package, use your package manager to upgrade.

This week’s release comes slightly later than usual and is mostly a clean-up of a few bugs. Due to a problem with the Kohsuke’s GitHub mirror of Hudson’s core, I can’t mine the commits for interesting information as per usual so you’ll just have to trust that Hudson 1.353 is chock full of good, wholesome bug fixes. If the problem persists next week, I’ll find a better way to dig up information on particularly releases that doesn’t depend on the GitHub mirror. Bugs fixed Tagging a repository can result in NPE. Fix possible form submission error when using multiple combobox elements. ( issue 6025) Better escaping of test case names in test results pages. ( issue 5982) Make radio buttons work in repeatable content, such as a build step. ( issue 5028) Fixed the handling of verifying that the POM path entered for Maven projects exists. ( issue 4693) Enhancements Added link to builds in buildTimeTrend ( issue 3993) You can go grab the latest .war file straight from hudson-ci.org or if you’re using a native package, use your package manager to upgrade.

After an exciting week that saw the rushed release of Hudson 1.351 on Monday following a fairly serious regression, Hudson 1.352 was released mid-Friday with a good mix bug fixes and enhancements. Bundled with this release was another localizations drop including translations for ca, es, fi, fr, hi_IN, it, nl, ru, and sv_SE locales. In addition to the nice fancy new community contributed translations, which you can help with by installing the Translation Assistance plugin, the 1.352 release includes the subtle enhancement of hyperlinking URLs in the console output. In general, 1.352 is looking like a very solid release, that said, here’s the breakdown for this release: Bugs fixed Fixed a file handle leak when a copy fails. ( issue 5899) Replace '>' with '_' in username, as already done for '<'. ( issue 5833) Fix editableComboBox to select item when mouse click takes more than 100ms. ( issue 2722) Fixed NPE when configuring a view without "Regular expression". Page shouldn’t scroll up when the user opens/closes a stack trace in the test failure report. Fixed a bug where Hudson can put a wrong help file link. ( report) Fixed Maven site goal archiving from agents. ( issue 5943) Fixed a regression with NetBeans Hudson plugin progressive console output. ( issue 5941) Fixed a situation where a failure in plugin start up can prevent massive number of job loss. Enhancements Supported JBoss EAP 5.0.0 GA. ( issue 5922) CLI commands on protected Hudson now asks a password interactively, if run on Java6. Added CLI 'login' and 'logout' commands so that you don’t have to specify a credential for individual CLI invocation. URLs in the console output are now hyperlinks. Improved the URL annotation logic. Add drag&drop support for f:repeatable lists and use this for the JDK/Ant/Maven installations in global config so these can be reordered. Integrated a new round of community-contributed localizations (ca, es, fi, fr, hi_IN, it, nl, ru, and sv_SE locales.) Contributors This release contains 63 commits, from six different contributors including our very own Subversion-loving Mike Rooney (mcrooney). abayer jglick kohsuke mcrooney mindless sogabe You can go grab the latest .war file straight from hudson-ci.org or if you’re using a native package, use your package manager to upgrade.

Rush delivery from Hudson HQ! Hudson 1.351 just rolled out with a very important regression fix: Regression in 1.350 that can delete old build artifacts. ( mailing list thread, issue 5937) Sorry for the hiccup everybody, we’re working pretty hard on getting a better, more stable, release process in place. You can go grab the latest .war file straight from hudson-ci.org or if you’re using a native package, use your package manager to upgrade.

Finishing off the second week in March, the Hudson team rolled Hudson 1.350 off the assembly line last Friday, bringing a slew of fixes. Of particular interest to users of Hudson’s various native packages for Red Hat, openSuSE, Ubuntu/Debian and Solaris, was a change that suppress the "self-upgrade" functionality in the "Manage Hudson" page. On the enhancements side of the fence, the team added authentication support to the Hudson CLI ( issue 3796) allowing Hudson users with locked down installations to take advantage of everything the CLI has to offer. Internal to Hudson, some more changes from Alan Harder (a.k.a mindless, a.k.a The Garbage Man), deprecating or otherwise removing deprecated APIs. Alan’s been doing some great work on Hudson’s internals, if you’re coming out to this weekend’s hackathon, but sure to pat him on the back for his tireless efforts. Bug fixes Fix handling of relative paths in alternate settings.xml path for Maven projects. ( issue 4693) Alternate settings, private repository, profiles, etc were not used in embedded Maven for deploy publisher. ( issue 4939) Make editableComboBox work in repeatable content, such as a build step. If content is captured using ..content.. , fixed this to use proper HTML rendering when appropriate. '<' and '&' in the console output was not escaped since 1.349 ( issue 5852) Fixed an AbstractMethodError in SCM polling under some circumstances. ( issue 5756) Fixed a ClassCastException in the Subversion plugin - now using Subversion plugin 1.13. ( issue 5827) The Maven Integration plugin link in the Update Center was going to a dead location. ( issue 4811) On RPM/DEB/etc installation, don’t offer the self upgrade. It should be done by the native package manager. ( report) Fixed a possible lock up of agents. Enhancements Added advanced option to LogRotator to allow for removing artifacts from old builds without removing the logs, history, etc. ( issue 834) Authentication support in Hudson CLI. ( issue 3796) Added console annotation support to SCM polling logs. Contributors The 1.350 release of Hudson contains 54 commits from 6 different contributors, abayer jglick kohsuke manuel_carrasco mfriedenhagen mindless You can go grab the latest .war file straight from hudson-ci.org or if you’re using a native package, use your package manager to upgrade.

Last Friday, March 5th, Hudson 1.349 was pushed out into the wild with an even split of bug fixes and enhancements. Included in this release is Alan Harder’s (a.k.a mindless) old data monitor code, discussed previously in the post " Call for Testers: The older the better." Included in this release were further updates to the japanese and german localizations of Hudson; if you’re interested in helping localize Hudson into more languages you can join the effort via the Internationalization page on the wiki. Now for the breakdown of the 1.349 release: Bug fixes Fix deserialization problem with fields containing double underscore. ( issue 5768) Fix deserialization problem for Exception objects where the XML has bad/old data. ( issue 5769) Fix serialization problem with empty CopyOnWriteMap.Tree. ( issue 5776) Fixed a bug that can cause 404 in the form validation check. Enhancements Remote build result submission shouldn’t hang forever even if Hudson goes down. Added a monitor for old or unreadable data in XML files and a manage screen to assist in updating files to the current data format and/or removing unreadable data from plugins that are no longer active. "Manage Hudson" page will show a link if any old/unreadable data was detected. Added a mechanism to bundle init.groovy inside the war for OEM. ( report) Added an extension point to annotate console output. ( issue 2137) Contributors Hudson 1.349 contains 43 commits from 6 contributors, due to the merging in of Alan Harder’s old-data-monitor branch the commit count is a bit off from the amount of code change that actually went out in 1.349. abayer kohsuke mindless sogabe swiest wyukawa As usual, you can go grab the latest .war file straight from hudson-ci.org or if you’re using a native package, use your package manager to upgrade.

A couple weeks ago in the post outlining the release of Hudson 1.347 I mentioned that Alan Harder (a.k.a. mindless) had undertaken a deprecation-crusade; that is to say Alan has taken it upon himself to rid Hudson’s code-base, particularly in the plugin area, of older code. One of Alan’s branches old-data-monitor was merged into trunk with r28147 bringing with it some changes to help migrate older plugin datasets to newer formats. When I reached out to Alan earlier today on IRC ( #hudson on the Freenode) about the subject he agreed that polling the community for beta testers would be a good idea; this is where you come in. Per Alan’s message to the dev@ mailing list: Visit your "Manage Hudson" screen to see if the notice about old/unreadable data appears. I’ll be curious to see which of the old deprecated data structures are actually out there in people’s XML files. Instead of waiting for the release candidate to be packaged Wednesday evening, I’ve gone ahead and published the artifact from build #4544 which can be downloaded here: hudson.war If you have an old Hudson installation with, testing this build would be incredibly useful. Alan went on to say: If people find issues with OldDataMonitor, they should file them at issues.hudson-ci.org in "core" component and assign them to "mindless". This change does not mutate any data (or at least it shouldn’t) so it should be safe, be on the look out for exceptions in Hudson’s log on startup.