Features

• Update: Additional Microsoft .NET Core versions available to the .NET property collectors and actions including runtime versions 2.1.23, 3.1.9 and 5.0.0-RC.2, and SDK versions 2.1.811, 3.1.403 and 5.0.100-RC.2.
• Update: Added a new Build.CheckRepositories: permission which can be used to allow users to start a repository check without allocating full editing permissions.
• Update: Security exceptions due to session time-outs or incorrect permissions are no longer logged as errors, only raised to the user.
• Updates to some third party packages.

Fixes

• Fix: Issue with periodic triggers, which are set to trigger between specified times, where the first interval during the enabled period was longer than specified.
• Fix: Corrected incomplete PowerShell.Core property collector expression in Microsoft PowerShell action causing action failure.
• Fix: Issue with permissions caching between users on repository pages.
• Fix: Artifact links were not being removed from the database when the full server workspace was cleaned up.
• Some minor UI and text updates.

Note: You will need to update your agents after upgrading the server to this build.

Features

• Update: Bundled Mercurial command line used for repository cache has been upgraded to version 5.5.2.
• Updates to some third party packages.

Fixes

• Fix: Error fetching git repository changesets when a file in the root folder has the same name as the branch.
• Fix: Stages which were queued after promotion on service restart are now requeued on startup.
• Fix: Formatting of branch mappings tab of trigger dialog was misaligned.
• Fix: Intermittent null exception during build cleanup.
• Some minor UI and text updates.

Note: You will need to update your agents after upgrading the server to this build.

Features

• Update: Added Bitness parameter to all Microsoft .NET actions, which can be used to a select 32-bit or 64-bit executable.
• Update: Added Runtime parameter to .NET Test action.
• Update: Added a WindowsDesktop.App property collector to use to check for installation of .NET Desktop Runtime versions.
• Some UI updates.
• Updates to some third party packages.

Fixes

• Fix: Issue where builds would accumulate changesets when a discard condition was defined (although trigger quiet period was set to zero).
• Fix: The configuration name was "undefined" in title of the queue options dialog.

Note: You will need to update your agents after upgrading the server to this build.

Fixes

• Fix: Test result durations registered by the DotNet Test action are no longer multiplied by a factor of 1000.
• Update: Branch mappings on configurations and triggers are now preserved, where possible, when a change is made to a repository which requires it to be recreated.
• Update: A warning is now logged, rather than an error, if a Subversion log entry does not contain a message.
• Update: Additional DotNet Core versions available to the DotNet property collectors and actions including runtime versions 2.1.22, 3.1.8 and 5.0.0-rc.1, and SDK versions 2.1.810, 3.1.402 and 5.0.100-rc.1.
• Update: Bundled Mercurial command line used for repository cache has been upgraded to version 5.5.1.
• Some UI updates.
• Updates to some third party packages.

Note: You will need to update your agents after upgrading the server to this build.

Fixes

• Fix: Values passed into the Additional Arguments field of the DotNet actions were incorrectly quoted.
• Fix: Periodic time triggers with an overnight enabled range would stop at midnight.
• Update: Added a No Output Timeout field to the DotNet Test action
• Update: Additional DotNet Core versions available to the DotNet property collectors and actions including runtime version 5.0.0-preview.8 and SDK version 5.0.100-preview.8.
• Some UI updates.
• Updates to some third party packages.

Note: You will need to update your agents after upgrading the server to this build.

Features

• Periodic time triggers can now be set to trigger only between specified times.
• Improvements to queue build dialog opening performance.
• New Name field in Rename Directory action now supports expressions.
• Added agent names to completed builds and tooltips over stage blocks on Builds View dashboard.
• Additional DotNet Core versions available to the DotNet property collectors and actions including runtime versions 2.1.21, 3.1.7 and 5.0.0-preview.7, and SDK versions 2.1.809, 3.1.401 and 5.0.100-preview.7.
• Some minor UI updates.
• Updates to some third party packages.

Fixes

• Fixed correction to the namespace text output in NUnit unit test results.
• Fixed bug preventing clean-up running immediately when running from configuration wizard.
• Fixed issue where FinalBuilder action did not quote agent path when running FinalBuilder 7 project.

Features

• Added version 2.4.2 to XUnit action.
• Color codes in PowerShell Core version 7 output can now be treated as errors or warnings.
• The Working Folder field is no longer required for the "Run DOS Command / Batch File" action.
• Bundled Mercurial command line used for repository cache has been upgraded to version 5.4.
• Services no longer require write access to their configuration files. Unique keys are now generated and written to the server configuration file during a new clean installation. Keys no longer need to be stored in the agent configuration file. Note: You should always keep a backup of your configuration files.

Fixes

• Fixed null exception in XUnit action when specifying version 2.4 and above.
• Correction to handling of double quoted arguments in PowerShell action when using PowerShell Core.
• Color codes are now stripped from PowerShell Core version 7 output before writing the build log.

Features

• Additional DotNet Core versions available to the DotNet property collectors and actions including runtime versions 2.1.19, 3.1.5 and 5.0.0-preview.5, and SDK versions 2.1.807, 3.1.301 and 5.0.100-preview.5.
• Changes to TFS repository branch monitoring settings now automatically reset the repository cache.

Fixes

• Fix: XPath attribute selection now works for HTTP Request build event handler. Previously, only element values could be extracted from an XML response.
• Fix: Agent workspaces are now cleaned up when the server clean-up runs, regardless of selected server clean-up options. Previously, agent workspaces were only cleaned up if all server workspace options were checked.
• Updates to some third party packages.

Note: You will need to update your agents after upgrading the server to this build.

Features

• Added option to Build Completed trigger branch mappings to build same revision or commit as triggering repository.
• Bundled PostgreSQL database service upgraded to version 9.6.18.

Fixes

• Fix: Errors while expanding action name in build log and build status message.
• Fix: DateTime error after modifying existing Periodic trigger.
• Updates to some third party packages.

Note: You will need to update your agents after upgrading the server to this build.

Fixes

• Fix: Issue where existing Run DOS Command / Batch File action would fail due to empty missing property collector setting.
• Fix: Changing the Branch Name field on a Git repository which is set to monitor a single branch, now resets the repository.
• Fix: Child actions of disabled actions are now ignored when gathering agent requirements.
• Fix: The Self Contained parameter of the DotNet Publish action has been corrected to include true/false, and use a default of true.
• Fix: The Package Save Mode setting default is now set correctly for the NuGet Restore and NuGet Install actions.
• Fix: The Compression Level setting default is now set correctly for the 7-Zip Create action.
• Update: Added new lock file options to the DotNet Restore action.
• Update: Additional DotNet Core versions available to the DotNet property collectors and actions including runtime versions 2.1.18, 3.1.4 and 5.0.0-preview.4, and SDK versions 2.1.806, 3.1.300 and 5.0.100-preview.4.20258.7.
• Update: Improvements to the handling of missing property namespaces..
• Updates to some third party packages.

Note: You will need to update your agents after upgrading the server to this build.

Fixes

• Regression Bug in v1.9.1.665: User preferences page was empty.

Features

• New cleanup policy for private messages. Cleanup settings can be entered on each users private messages page.
  The default settings are set via the server properties: `PrivateMessages.Cleanup.DefaultMaximumCount`, `PrivateMessages.Cleanup.DefaultExpiryCount`,`PrivateMessages.Cleanup.DefaultExpiryUnits`, PrivateMessages.Cleanup.Enabled`.
  Note that this will initially be set to automatically delete private messages which were sent earlier than 4 weeks ago and keep no more than 500 messages. If you don't want this to happen, please let us know before upgrading.
• Added "Delete All" button to private messages dropdown.
• Added "Mark All As Read" and "Mark Selected As Read" buttons to private messages page.
• Added message preview with details and mark as read links to private messages page.
• Added ability to show all hidden configurations, via the "Show / Hide" dialog, or by clicking on the hidden configuration count number next to the "Show / Hide" button.
• Updated VSTest and MSTest property collectors to include Visual Studio 2019 paths.
• Added Delphi 10.4 Denali property collector.
• Significant improvements to memory usage when paging database queries.
• All authentication cookies are now set as secure if website is running as HTTPS.
• GitHub API calls in GitHub Release and Update GitHub Status build event handlers no longer use deprecated method for access token authentication.

Fixes

• Fix: Prevented persistent idle database transaction when getting list of property values from agents.
• Fix: Orphaned variables are now deleted from the database when running build cleanup.
• Fix: Issue where a logged-in LDAP user could become and potentially stay unauthorised.
• Fix: $Server.Now$ is now the correct local server time when accessed on an agent.

Features

• Added property collector for Run DOS Command / Batch File action for agents where COMSPEC environment variable was missing.

Fixes

• Fix: Issue where Python VirtualEnv action would fail when more then one build was running concurrently.
• Fix: Renamed files where not listed in changesets for Git repositories due to a change in 'git log' output.
• Fix: Recently added Log Script Output option was not set to true on existing PowerShell actions.

Features

• Added Test Adapter Path and Parallel options to VS Test action, plus additional text field to enter a custom Framework version.
• Removed warnings about LogOutput or CheckExitCode option when WaitForCompletion was not enabled for Execute Program, Run DOS Command / Batch File and PowerShell actions.
• Additional DotNet Core versions available to DotNet property collectors and actions including runtime version 5.0.0-preview.1.20120.5 and SDK versions 3.1.200 and 5.0.100-preview.1.20155.7.
• The expression $Source$ now returns the path of the repository if there is one, and only one, repository.

Fixes

• Fix: Issue where build could start before a forced repository check was completely finished.
• Fix: Minor issue where edited item was not refreshed on Issue Connectors page.

Fixes

• Fix: Regression bug in v1.9.1.614. An error occurred while saving (and loading old) report definitions.
• Fix: Issue where sensitive variables in action arguments were not masked in build log.
• Fix: Issue where agent installer would not update configuration file when upgrading and specifying new settings.

Fixes

• Fix: Regression bug in v1.9.1.614. An error occurred while saving new repositories, due to a default datetime value which was incompatible with changes made to ensure that a correct UTC datetime was stored to database.
• Update: Updated permissions on repository Mappings button to provide access to mappings for all selected branch-aware repositories, regardless of scope, to anyone with Configuration.Editor permissions.
• Update: Changes to default error message patterns to include Microsoft Visual Studio action, and to default warning message patterns to include Microsoft Visual Studio and DotNet actions.

Fixes

• Fix: Corrected datetime expressions, e.g. $Build.Started$, to output local server time instead of UTC time. Note: this could be a breaking change if you are passing a datetime value to another service that expects a UTC datetime. Resolve using the UTC function e.g. $Build.Started.UTC()$.
• Fix: Local and UTC functions in datetime expressions now work correctly.
• Fix: Corrected datetime variables in notification templates to output local server time instead of UTC time.
• Fix: Reverted update to DotLiquid templating engine which caused errors when using 'truncate' filter in templates.
• Fix: An error was occurring when using a branch with a length of more than 256 characters.
• Update: Changed 'delete build' icon and moved it to left of other buttons.
• Update: Update to DotNet Core versions available to DotNet property collectors and actions to include runtime versions 3.0.3 and 3.1.2 and SDK versions 3.0.103 and 3.1.102.

Features

• Feature: Builds can now be deleted from the build history via a new 'Delete Build' button added to the Build View toolbar. Users must have the new Builds.Delete permissions before they can delete builds.
• Update: Branch lists on the Configuration Repository Branch Mappings dialog can now be sorted by descending last commit date by setting the server property 'Server.BranchMappingsDialog.SortBranchesByDescendingLastCommitDate' to 'True'.
• Update: The scheme and port of repository URLs can now be changed for each repository without recreating the repository and changing its ID.

Fixes

• Fix: The Directory Path Variable for the For Each Directory action is now populated with the full correct path on each iteration.
• Fix: Issue where File System repository pointing to a UNC path would record a changeset when no files had changed.
• Fix: Database time-out when getting the latest branch tag for a repository with a large number of changesets.
• Fix: Removed incorrect error messages logged when notification published are paused due to rate-limiting.
• Fix: Queue build buttons on the Changes view table are no longer displayed if the logged-in user does not have permission to start builds.
• Some third party package updates.

Note: You will need to update your agents after upgrading the server to this build.