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5.103. Release Notes for Buildbot 0.9.0b2
The following are the release notes for Buildbot 0.9.0b2. Buildbot 0.9.0b2 was released on August, 2 2015.
5.103.1. Master
5.103.1.1. Features
Mercurial hook was updated and modernized. It is no longer necessary to fork. One can now extend PYTHONPATH via the hook configuration. Among others, it permits to use a buildbot virtualenv instead of installing buildbot in all the system. Added documentation inside the hook. Misc. clean-up and reorganization in order to make the code a bit more readable.
UI templates can now be customizable. You can provide html or jade overrides to the www plugins, to customize the UI
UI side bar is now fixed by default for large screens.
5.103.1.2. Fixes
Fix setup for missing www.hooks module
Fix setup to install only on recents version of pip (>=1.4). This prevents unexpected upgrade to nine from people who just use
pip install -U buildbot
Fix a crash in the git hook.
Add checks to enforce slavenames are identifiers.
5.103.1.3. Deprecations, Removals, and Non-Compatible Changes
5.103.1.4. Changes for Developers
The
BuilderConfig
nextSlave
keyword argument takes a callable. This callable now receivesBuildRequest
instance in its signature as 3rd parameter. For retro-compatibility, all callable taking only 2 parameters will still work.Data api provides a way to query the build list per slave.
Data api provides a way to query some build properties in a build list.
5.103.2. Slave
buildbot-slave
now requires Python 2.6
5.103.2.1. Features
Schedulers: the
codebases
parameter can now be specified in a simple list-of-strings form.
5.103.2.2. Fixes
Fix two race conditions in the integration tests
5.103.2.3. Deprecations, Removals, and Non-Compatible Changes
Providing Latent AWS EC2 credentials by the
.ec2/aws_id
file is deprecated: Use the standard.aws/credentials
file, instead.
5.103.3. Details
For a more detailed description of the changes made in this version, see the git log itself:
git log v0.9.0b1..v0.9.0b2