Overview Of New Features In Parabuild 3.0

Below you can find a list of new features in Parabuild 3.0 divided by the subsystem of the server.

Accessibility

The following features have been added to enhance Parabuild accessibility:

An ability to configure system-wide and per-user refresh rate for build status pages
An ability to enable and disable automatic refresh for build status pages
Configuring actual values for successful and failed build colors

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Build And Release Management

The following features have been added to the build management subsystem:

Manual builds
Ability to re-run an arbitrary build
Publishing build results
Automatic deletion of old build results
Build start request parameters to support build promotion
Product version templates and counters
Ability to disable a build step
Ability to continue build if a build step failed
Regex in success and failure patterns
User started a build is accessible through a shell variable

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User Interface

The following features have been added to the Web User Interface subsystem:

Build display groups
A display group to watch broken builds only
Change list diffs for two given builds
Builder host on the detailed build result page
Next/previous navigation in build results
Showing if the workspace was cleaned up
Recording a user that started build manually
Build time graph
An filter to show only successful or failed builds in the build history
Remembering last logged-in user
Build status embeddable into web pages

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Notification

The following features have been added to the notifications subsystem:

Fine-grained notification policy
Configuring content of the subject line for e-mail messages
Setting priority of e-mail messages
Notifying a user that started build manually
Publishing build statuses via RSS
Windows system tray client

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Security

The following features have been added to the security subsystem:

Support for LDAP/Active Directory
An option to hide change description for anonymous users

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Test Tools Integration

Added displaying JUnit statistics graphs

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Version Control Integration

The following features have been added to integration with version control systems:

Support for MKS Source Integrity
Support for PVCS/Serena ChangeMan Version Manager
Support for SourceGear Vault
Support for Borland StarTeam
Support for "File System" VCS
Support for module aliases in CVS
An ignore-list for version control systems
An option to make Visual SourceSafe files read-only after checkout
Support for ignoring arbitrary ClearCase errors
Support for multiple ClearCase branches per build configuration

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