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* Release ?.?.? (?)

** New Features

*** Configurable public_html directory (#162)

The public_html/ directory, which provides static content for the WebStatus()

HTTP server, is now configurable. The default location is still the

public_html/ subdirectory of the buildmaster's base directory, but you can

change this by passing a suitable argument when creating the WebStatus()

instance in your master.cfg file:

  c['status'].append( WebStatus(8080, public_html="/var/www/buildbot") )

*** Lock access modes

?"exclusive"/"counting" owners of a Lock

** Bugs Fixed

*** Buildslave missing_timeout= fired too quickly (#211)

By providing a missing_timeout= argument when creating the BuildSlave

instance, you can ask the buildmaster to send email if a buildslave is

disconnected for too long. A bug in the previous version caused this

notification to be sent too soon, rather than waiting until the timeout

period expired. This should be fixed now.

*** Test command display fixed (#332)

In the previous version, a steps.shell.Test step would display the parsed

test results (in the step's box on the waterfall display) in lieu of any

other descriptive text the step might provide. In this release, these two

pieces of information are combined.

** Minor Changes

The buildmaster's version is logged to its twistd.log file at startup. The

buildslave does the same, to its own logfile.

Remote commands now record how long each command took. The "elapsedTime="

message will appear in the step's main logfile.

The "buildbot restart" command no longer fails if the buildbot wasn't already

running.

The FileUpload and FileDownload steps now create their target directories

(and any missing intermediate directories) before writing to the destination

file.

The per-build and per-step web pages now show the start, finish, and elapsed

time of their build or step.

??"fix sendchange when HEAD is specified"

** Compability With Other Tools

The mercurial commit hook (buildbot.changes.hgbuildbot) in the previous

version doesn't work with hg-1.0 or later (it uses an API function that was

present in the hg-0.9.5 release, but was removed from hg-1.0). This

incompability has been fixed: the new version of buildbot should be

compatible with hg-1.0 and newer (and it probably retains compability with

hg-0.9.5 and earlier too). (#328)

The Git tool has traditionally provided two ways to run each command, either

as subcommands of /usr/bin/git (like "git checkout"), or as individual tools

(like /usr/bin/git-checkout). The latter form is being removed in the

upcoming 1.6 Git release. Previous versions of Buildbot have used the

git-checkout form, and will break when Git is upgraded to 1.6 or beyond. The

new Buildbot release switches to the subcommand form. Note that this is a

change on the buildslave side.

?? The Git checkout command will now use the default branch (as set in the

steps.source.Git() step definition) if the changes that it is building do not

specify one.