Bamboo 4.4 : Bamboo 2.4 Release Notes

6 October 2009

The Atlassian Bamboo team is proud to release Bamboo 2.4.

Hot on the heels of Bamboo 2.3, our latest release comes packed full of improvements to key Bamboo features. If you use JIRA 4.0, you'll be happy to know that Bamboo 2.4 is fully compatible with Atlassian's biggest ever JIRA release. You'll be able to take advantage of JIRA's dynamic dashboards with our new Bamboo gadgets, including revamped versions of our existing Bamboo portlets.

We've also overhauled the Clover plugin that is bundled with Bamboo. If you use Atlassian's Clover, you will be able to view your Clover HTML reports in Bamboo or even view your Clover information in JIRA via a gadget. Getting Clover to work with Bamboo is also much simpler — integrate with a single-click.

Finally, we've added a number of useful tools for Bamboo administrators and developers. The Bamboo REST API has been extended and now incorporates a host of new services, including services with POST methods. Bamboo administrators can also take advantage of our new runtime log4j configuration feature to configure logging levels for Bamboo classes on the fly.

Upgrading to Bamboo 2.4 is free for all customers with active Bamboo software maintenance.

Highlights of this release:



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Upgrading to Bamboo 2.4

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Highlights of Bamboo 2.4

Bamboo Gadgets in JIRA

Atlassian's JIRA 4.0 has a wealth of useful functionality and we've improved the Bamboo-JIRA integration in this release so you can take advantage of it. Our existing Bamboo portlets have been upgraded to gadgets for JIRA 4 and we've added some new gadgets too. You'll notice that the Bamboo gadgets not only look better than the old portlets, they also provide you with more information about your Bamboo instance.

Clover Enhancements

We have made a number of improvements to the Clover plugin for Bamboo in this release. You can now integrate Atlassian's Clover with Bamboo via a single click, access embedded HTML reports and view Clover information in the Bamboo gadget.

REST Improvements

The REST interface for Bamboo has been extended for this release. You will now be able to access a range of new REST methods to help you access and update Bamboo information.

Runtime Log4j Configuration

We're a bundling a feature in Bamboo 2.4 that our own support staff have found incredibly helpful — runtime log4j configuration. This handy Bamboo administration tool allows you to temporarily adjust the logging levels defined in your log4j.properties file. You can change the logging levels on existing packages as well as add new packages to be monitored on the fly.

Plus over 20 fixes and improvements

 

JIRA Issues (27 issues)
Type Key Summary Priority Status
New Feature BAM-3608 Bamboo REST API should expose functionality to retrieve all comments for selected build Major Resolved
New Feature BAM-4293 REST API - Get current (running) build details Minor Resolved
New Feature BAM-549 Add a portlet to the Jira-Bamboo plugin (possibly Confluence also) Trivial Resolved
Improvement BAM-2867 Be able to reference more than one Bamboo from JIRA Major Resolved
Improvement BAM-4335 UniqueAuthorNameValidator throws NPE when reposoitory alias is added and table author contains {{null}} entries Major Resolved
Improvement BAM-4349 Sort the view capabilities page lexicographically Minor Resolved
Improvement BAM-4492 Update BuildResultService in REST documentation Minor Resolved
Improvement BAM-4513 Prevent Jira Bamboo Plugin from adding gadgets to browser if they dont exist Minor Resolved
Improvement BAM-4573 phpunit builder should (optionally) only check for a return code or make the number of lines for 'OK' message flexible Minor Resolved
Bug BAM-4407 REST - Hiberante exception on build details load Blocker Resolved
Bug BAM-4384 Unable to view Plan in REST Critical Resolved
Bug BAM-4517 svnkit authentication fails due to authentication file access problems to local cache on all platforms Critical Resolved
Bug BAM-4013 Favourite toggle broken in all plans screen Major Resolved
Bug BAM-4241 rest/api/latest/chart should return useful information Major Resolved
Bug BAM-4360 Ensure that all commands when mounting EBS volumes handle failure recursively Major Resolved
Bug BAM-4376 Queue re-ordering doesn't work in Safari 4 Major Resolved
Bug BAM-4342 Plugins 2 xwork plugins throw ClassNotFoundException Minor Resolved
Bug BAM-4350 Maven 2.1 will not respect path if not already the default M2_HOME Minor Resolved
Bug BAM-4411 Build reorder section does not show up on the BuildQueue screen Minor Resolved
Bug BAM-4542 Connection from remote agent fails if the agent time is in the past Minor Resolved
Bug BAM-4543 No cancel link from login page Minor Resolved
Bug BAM-4550 Legacy clover tab should not show if there is no data Minor Resolved
Bug BAM-4551 Plan is limited to 15 (Critical) Minor Resolved
Bug BAM-4553 JIRA Plugin "Latest plan status" link doesn't work (seems to just reload the page) in FireFox 3 Minor Resolved
Bug BAM-4558 Clover Gadget doesn't handle the case where there are no clover enabled plans very well - no warning, just a blank spot where the select list should be. Minor Resolved
Bug BAM-4562 Viewing REST pages on IE8 actually crashes IE8. this only seems to happen when you are not logged in Minor Resolved
Bug BAM-4568 Bamboo Gadgets/Rest Do not accomodate for when the bamboo instance has no plans. Minor Resolved

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