Wednesday, 3 December 2008

JetBrains Unleash TeamCity 4.0

JetBrains, a software development firm specializing in the creation of intelligent, productivity-enhancing software, announced the general availability of the fourth major release of TeamCity, its continuous integration server and distributed build management tool.

Some of the most notable improvements in TeamCity 4.0 include:

· Build Chains support, allowing to breaking down a single build procedure into several parts/builds that can be run on different build agents, in sequence or in parallel, using the same set of sources in all of them
· Tests Re-ordering - TeamCity 4.0 can determine a set of tests which are likely to fail, and perform those tests first the next time the project builds
· Possibility to redo any build from a particular version control revision (history builds)
· Statistics for an entire project, and comparative statistics on a single chart
· A new, highly improved Eclipse integration, which brings to the Eclipse world many cool features previously available only for IntelliJ IDEA users
· Lots of user interface improvements: new Project page with project-centric information and statistics, dedicated page for viewing individual test statistics and details, and many improvements in dependencies management

“With exceptional scalability provided by the build grid, extensibility via Java API, and integration with multiple IDEs, version control systems and build tools, TeamCity has already been adopted in hundreds of companies worldwide,” said JetBrains CEO Sergey Dmitriev.

TeamCity 4.0 is available immediately free of charge for individual developers and small-to-medium teams.