5.13. 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 Nine for a guide to upgrading from 0.8.x to 0.9.x

5.13.1. Master

5.13.1.1. 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.

5.13.1.2. 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.

5.13.1.3. Deprecations, Removals, and Non-Compatible Changes

5.13.2. Slave

5.13.2.1. 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.

5.13.3. 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