Pulse Continuous Integration Server 1.2 Goes Beta
Well, we’re pretty pumped today. The latest major release of Pulse has gone beta today, and been promoted to zutubi.com! Many thanks to the customers who rode the bleeding edge of the Pulse 1.2 Early Access Program, your feedback has been invaluable. Now you have a kick arse build server in return :).
Pulse 1.2 is packed with new features, and dozens of those little improvements that just Make Life Better. The list includes:
- Personal Builds: The headline feature for 1.2, personal builds allow you to submit your changes directly to Pulse for testing before you commit them.
- Reports: Each pulse project now has its own “reports” page, which displays build data for the project visually.
- Change Viewers: easily integrate Pulse with change viewers such as Fisheye, P4Web, Trac and ViewVC. Use custom settings to integrate with other viewers.
- Commit Message Transformers: control how your commit messages appear in Pulse. Link them to your bug tracker, or highlight important information.
- Customisable Build Columns: choose the fields to view for build results, and reorder them using drag and drop!
- AJAX-powered browsing: browse your working copies and captured artifacts using a dynamic tree view.
- “Broken since” Support: when a test has been failing for multiple builds, it is displayed differently. The build where it first failed is just a click away!
- Windows System Tray Notification: a new Windows client, “Stethoscope”, allows you to see your project status at a glance.
- Customisable Notifications: you can now override the default notification messages (email or Jabber) by creating your own notification templates.
- Automatic Agent Upgrades: when the Pulse master server is upgraded, it will automatically upgrade all agent servers.
- Much, much more: dozens of other minor features and improvements.
I’ve talked a bit about personal builds, and how they combine with distributed builds to make Pulse a must-have development tool. I’ll also post about some of the other new features, and the cool things they let you do.
For now, check out Pulse at zutubi.com. Give it a try for 30 days for free: you’ll be hooked ;).
