5.101. Release Notes for Buildbot 0.9.0b3

The following are the release notes for Buildbot 0.9.0b3. This version was released on October 18, 2015.

See Upgrading to Buildbot 0.9.0 for a guide to upgrading from 0.8.x to 0.9.x

5.101.1. Master

5.101.1.1. Features

  • The irc command hello now returns ‘Hello’ in a random language if invoked more than once.

  • Triggerable now accepts a reason parameter.

  • GerritStatusPush now accepts a builders parameter.

  • StatusPush callback now receives build results (success/failure/etc) with the buildFinished event.

  • There’s a new renderable type, Transform.

  • Buildbot now supports wamp as a mq backend. This allows to run a multi-master configuration. See MQ Specification.

5.101.1.2. Fixes

  • The PyFlakes and PyLint steps no longer parse output in Buildbot log headers (bug #3337).

  • GerritChangeSource is now less verbose by default, and has a debug option to enable the logs.

  • P4Source no longer relies on the perforce server time to poll for new changes.

  • The commit message for a change from P4Source now matches what the user typed in.

5.101.1.3. Deprecations, Removals, and Non-Compatible Changes

5.101.2. Slave

5.101.2.1. Features

  • The Buildbot slave now includes the number of CPUs in the information it supplies to the master on connection. This value is autodetected, but can be overridden with the --numcpus argument to buildslave create-slave.

5.101.3. Details

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

git log v0.9.0b2..v0.9.0b3