Release Notes for Buildbot 0.8.14

The following are the release notes for Buildbot 0.8.14.

Master

Features

• Git supports an "origin" option to give a name to the remote repo.
• two new general steps are added to handle related builds -- CancelRelatedBuilds and StopRelatedBuilds -- as well as Gerrit specific ones -- CancelGerritRelatedBuilds and StopGerritRelatedBuilds. More information in the manual.
• GitHubStatus now accepts a context parameter to be passed to the GitHub Status API.
• Triggerable now accepts a reason parameter.

Fixes

• Cloning Git repository with submodules now works with Git < 1.7.6 instead of failing due to the use of the unsupported --force option.

Deprecations, Removals, and Non-Compatible Changes

Changes for Developers

Slave

Features

• GerritStatusPush now has parameter --notify which is used to control e-mail notifications from Gerrit.
• StashStatusPush now accepts optional key_format and name_format parameters to configure build reporting to Atlassian Stash.
• Schedulers: the codebases parameter can now be specified in a simple list-of-strings form

Fixes

Deprecations, Removals, and Non-Compatible Changes

• Providing Latent AWS EC2 credentails by the .ec2/aws_id file is deprecated: Instead, use the standard .aws/credentials file.

Details

For a more detailed description of the changes made in this version, see the git log itself:

git log v0.8.12..eight

Older Versions

Release notes for older versions of Buildbot are available in the master/docs/relnotes/ directory of the source tree. Newer versions are also available here:

• Release Notes for Buildbot 0.8.11
• Release Notes for Buildbot 0.8.10
• Release Notes for Buildbot 0.8.9
• Release Notes for Buildbot v0.8.8
• Release Notes for Buildbot v0.8.7
• Release Notes for Buildbot v0.8.6p1