[Anthill-announce] ANN: Anthill Pro 2.5.0

[Maciej Zawadzki]

Version 2.5.0 of Anthill Pro is now available. This is a significant
release with new features and many bug fixes. We have added support for
Groovy scripts. In order to improve AnthillPro startup times, the
intranet is now loaded in a separate thread. Buttons to move builds to
the top or bottom of the queue were added to facilitate high/low
priority builds. The complete list of changes is below.

You can download this latest release at
https://www.urbancode.com/products/anthillpro/secure/protected/download.jsp

Thanks,
-- The Anthill Team

#594 Modify PVCS driver to allow '-' and '.' in the version strings
- AnthillPro was changing dashes and dots in the version strings to
underscores. That is no longer the case.

#592 New Ant version (1.6.4) included with AnthillPro distributions.
- it seems that the Ant 1.5.4 version that was included in the
AnthillPro distribution has an issue with tasks that run out of process
and produce some output. This greatly increased the execution time for
those tasks. This problem seems to be fixed for 1.6.4 (and probably
earlier versions).

#588 ClearCase Base Driver (Creates a new View) does not work if Anthill
is installed in path/directory with a space.
- paths with white spaces are handled correctly now.

#587 Add a check box to activate retention policy for the Directory
Publisher
- the retention policy that was added for the directory publisher in
version 2.4 was not activated by default and there was no setting to do so.

#585 AnthillPro not listing the recipients of the email from the build
contributors notifier in the log.
- the logs from the build notifiers did not include the addresses of the
recipients.

#584 VSS driver appending project name twice to the working directory in
some pagelets under Unix.

#583 Subversion driver could not parse revisions made by users with
white spaces in the user name.

#582 Perforce driver was not accounting for time zone difference when
requesting revision logs
- now every time the build starts, AnthillPro will get the information
from the server and adjust the dates according to the time difference
between the server and the client.

#581 CVS driver could not detect the author of a revision for some newer
versions of CVS server
- in some of the newer versions of CVS, the time zone was added to the
revision date and that confused the author's name recognition. This fix
should work with all versions of CVS.

#580 Existing email mappings and attached script did not show in UI
- small bug in the UI preventing users from seeing the existing e-mail
mappings and the associated script.

#579 AnthillPro was removing logs from the most recent build if
rebuilding from a tag
- this was causing builds from a tag to attempt to move the logs from
the last successful build to a nonexistent location.

#578 Option to force dependencies to build even if there are no revisions
- now you can tell AnthillPro which dependencies should be forced to
build even if there are no revisions.

#575 Build button overflows column in the administration summary view

#571 Environment variables containing '\' cannot be deleted

#570 Can't Create a Working Directory Script for BitKeeper
- now you can add a working directory script for a BitKeeper repository

#569 BK driver can fail on initial setup
-sometimes the first build with a new BitKeeper repository would fail.

#566 File Based Versioning Broken in New Subversion Driver
- a bug in the Subversion driver that was removing the version from the
working directory name.

#565 Add Groovy Integration
- now AnthillPro can use scripts written in Groovy, not just BeanShell

#564 CVS Driver does not display selected working dir script
- UI bug

#561 Starteam Driver Fails in 2.4.0
- the driver was truncating part of the working directory.

#560 Provide 'Move to top' button for queue management
- move to top and move to bottom buttons available in the main
Administration window

#545 Cron scheduler does not handle hour ranges that loop

#525 StarTeam may label wrong files
- modified the StarTeam driver to save the checkout time and use it to
label only to this point of time. Revision logs are also limited only to
the checkout time.

#512 Exceptions when starting AnthillPro

#360 Slow starting with large intranet
- the intranet is now being loaded in a separate thread so that the
administration module is available shortly after startup. In future
releases there will be even more improvements.