JetBrains is proud to announce the availability of a new major version of TeamCity, our innovative continuous integration and build management server.
Key features in this release:
Support for Amazon EC2: Take advantage of cloud computing with TeamCity by putting build agents on Amazon EC2 cloud with on-demand image starting and on-idle stopping.
Issue tracker integration with JetBrains YouTrack, JIRA and Bugzilla out of the box, plus an API for integration plugins for other systems.
Maven support improvements, including simplified build configuration creation from POM file, and build triggering on Maven artifacts change.
Build configuration templates for eliminating redundancy in build configurations settings.
Project archiving for putting no-longer-active projects out of sight.
Command line tool for running Personal builds on server without IDE integration.
Backup & Restore added to simplify TeamCity maintenance, and migration tool re-implemented.
Other improvements:
Now you can view the status of a change across all build configurations on a single page.
Failure responsibility feature has been advanced to cover not only builds but also individual test failures.
Various actions performed by TeamCity users are now stored in the Audit log, which can be browsed from the web UI.
Code coverage analysis has been significantly improved for both Java (based on IntelliJ IDEA coverage engine) and .NET (support for NCover and PartCover).
And many more.
New and improved integrations:
Git & Mercurial support are now bundled with TeamCity.
Remote Run now works for Git from IntelliJ IDEA & Eclipse.
New support for Cucumber, Shoulda, Test-Spec in Rake runner.
TeamCity IntelliJ IDEA plugin now works with IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition and RubyMine 2.0.
Of course, this is not an exhaustive list, so check What's New to get a full overview of new features and improvements.
Owners of TeamCity licenses purchased after October 1, 2009, will receive a 1-year subscription for software updates for free and, therefore, will qualify for a free upgrade to TeamCity v5.0. If you have such licenses, you will soon receive an e-mail with the new keys and certificates.