TeamCity V5.0 released

TeamCity is a server-based Web application that allows Java and .NET development teams to continuously integrate changes to the code base, frequently run distributed builds and tests, check and improve code quality, all the while making efficient progress toward successful project completion. TeamCity includes many productivity plugins for IntelliJ IDEA, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and Eclipse, which improves team collaboration without breaking the established practices, by separating creative work from routine tasks.

Updates in V5.0

• Amazon EC2 and Virtual Agents
  Take avdantage of cloud computing with TeamCity by putting Build Agents on Amazon EC2. After your Build Agents' AMIs (Amazon Machine Images) are registered, the TeamCity server will account for those virtual machines in its build scheduling and will automatically do a suspend/resume job on them, based on the load and build queue status.
• Better Support for Maven
  Version 5.0 has many Maven support improvements under the hood. These include the creation of Maven-based build configurations (only the URL to the POM file is needed), the visualization of various project data gathered from POM, and a new type of dependency trigger - Maven artifact trigger. This type of trigger starts a build each time the specified Maven artifact changes.
• Build Configuration Templates
  Templates can save a lot of manual work when you need to define a number of duplicate or very similar build configurations. Now you can create a template with the common (shared) settings, and then inherit any number of build configs from this template. You can also extract a template from any of your existing build configurations.
• Issue Tracker Integration
  How often do you see comments like this: "TW-3431 fixed"? How about a little more detail on the issue at hand? The issue tracker integration provides an in-place bug title, direct navigation to the issue, and other productivity goodies. It is currently available for Jira, Bugzilla and JetBrains YouTrack out of the box, but can easily be extended to other systems via plugins.
• Command Line Tool for Personal Builds
  Previously, if you weren't using Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA or Visual Studio, you were out of luck for missing one of the most important TeamCity features - Remote Run and Pre-Tested Commits. But things have changed. As the name suggests, now you can initiate the building of your local changes remotely on the server - from the local command line. No IDEs required. Command Line Tool is an experimental feature and can be downloaded as a separate plugin. It currently supports Perforce, Subversion, CVS, and TFS.

Many Other Improvements:

• Per-test responsibilities
• Build artifacts promotion
• Dedicated change details/status page
• Incremental update of the build log
• Project archiving
• Backup & Restore for easier TeamCity maintenance. Backup can be started from the UI or from the command line; Restore and Migration can be started from the command line only. Command line backup does not require stopping TeamCity if an external database is used.
• Audit of user actions
• Coverage support for .NET & Java. Based on IntelliJ IDEA coverage engine for Java and on NCover (ver 1, ver 3) or PartCover for .NET
• Git & Mercurial support now bundled with TeamCity
• Remote Run for Git from IntelliJ IDEA & Eclipse
• Support for Cucumber, Shoulda, Test-Spec in Rake runner
• TeamCity IntelliJ IDEA plugin now works with IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition and RubyMine

For more information visit:
http://www.jetbrains.com/company/press/pr_031209.html

About JetBrains

JetBrains has a passion for making people more productive through smart software solutions that help them focus more on what they really want to accomplish, and less on mundane, repetitive tasks. As veteran Java developers, JetBrains developers felt bogged down by even the best tools they could find back in 2000, so they set out to build something better. From those first efforts came IntelliJ IDEA, which has been consistently honored with our industry's top awards. Java developers the world over praise IntelliJ IDEA as a highly innovative IDE. Its unprecedented refactoring support, intelligent coding assistance and overall usability have helped thousands of developers to shed much of the traditional drudgery of coding, improve their productivity and code quality and enjoy the craft of programming more.