This page is an ongoing tracker for the "next" release, and will be edited to reflect the proper version.

Next Release

The next release is 0.8.7. This page describes defects and enhancements scheduled for that release.

Open Defects

#1980

updateBigStatus not called enough?

#2203

svn copy method, timeout setting has no impact

#2223

Consider reverting removal of slave-side BK step.

#2232

ForceScheduler should repopulate on error

#2233

gitpoller should detect when it needs to reinitialize its state.

#2238

Need TeX-compatible images for PDF generation

#2249

change merging is no longer picking the newest change

#2258

master-side Git timeout ineffective

#2261

Nightly tests fail in timezones which differ by odd multiples of 30 minutes from UTC.

#2270

Exception found: finished time is None

#2300

Waterfall's ?branch= parameter is broken with source stamp sets.

#2305

If doStepIf callable errors out build ends badly

Open Enhancements

#159

should be possible to have two buildbot.steps.source.SVN(mode="copy") steps in a single build factory

#1037

Refactor builds/build_requests tables to remove duplicate rows in builds table.

#1053

schedulerdb should have id columns on all tables

#1725

GerritStatusPush: add filters on builderName, project, branch

#1729

Need indices on sourcestamps.branch, sourcestamps.revision

#1771

Store 'slavename' in the database for every build

#1801

refactor slave/buildslave/runprocess.py

#1821

scheduler usability improvements

#1824

Dependent build depends on scheduler property

#1827

Make graceful shutdown a buildbot command

#1830

Add a warning for logfiles if the log file does not exist or is not found

#1861

github hook should optionally ignore distinct=false

#1873

web status does not ask for name when auth not in use

#1884

transfer steps should include progress info

#1919

Display revision in waterfall build box

#1936

optimize getOldestRequestTime

#1950

EC2 docs need updating to new AWS terminology

#1993

gather metrics on caches, move buildbot.cache to buildbot.process.cache

#1994

means to add periodic metrics checks without modifying metrics.py

#1996

Unit tests for all master-side step classes

#1997

Gather metrics on query times

#2001

check docs for WithProperties and callables

#2041

use consumeErrors for all gatherResults calls

#2047

incorporate buildbot.master.LogRotation into buildbot.config

#2066

Fix new source steps' URL handling

#2155

Change git submodule handling in incremental builds

#2186

github change_hook needs security by default

#2188

status targets are replaced, even if their configuration is unchanged.

#2222

master-side git step doesn't support reference repos.

#2225

LoggingBuildStep should take an option to specify which exit codes indicate errors.

#2226

Add a buildstep that just renders stuff into a log file.

#2231

ForceScheduler should validate its paramter types

#2237

Schedulers should have names and reconfigService methods

#2259

Support a read-only backend db

#2264

Document Interpolate and IRenderable.

#2271

Explicitly require a buildstep 'name' to be a string type

#2274

reformat buildbot docs with one sentence per line

#2277

Add documentation on how to write IRenderables.

#2282

Bzr hook does not fill in repository information

#2283

make sure *.master is always set

#2292

make logs provided by webstatus HTTP-cacheable

#2297

Config-time checks for 'codebase' correctness

0.8.+ bugs

#68

New mechanism for monitoring buildbot startup

#75

IM status targets

#97

Use svn switch to improve efficiency

#98

let darcs_buildbot send a branch

#132

Use jinja for MailNotifier emails

#167

svnversion is pretty slow, particularly on windows

#180

buildbot try does the wrong thing with mercurial queues

#212

buildbot doesn't respond to darcs tags

#219

'stop builder' raises an exception

#223

darcs_buildbot.py: RuntimeError: unable to find our most recent change in the last 80 changes

#262

win32 buildbot2.bat not included in scripts directory when installing

#273

contrib/windows/setup.py does not create fully working buildbot_service.exe

#339

inline logs in HTML Emails and capture errors in Compile

#344

Lost-slave emails should contain link to waterfall...

#356

doxygen build step

#371

ShellCommand argument "logfiles" does not properly work for HTML log files

#385

SVNPoller transform_path AssertionError when change includes modifications to files inside and outside the svnurl

#387

TerminateProcess fails in buildbot_service.py

#419

No tests for buildbot.changes.hgbuildbot.py ?

#438

Mercurial does not update to the right revision when building a tag from a named branch

#456

Slave's ShellCommand and msys are broken

#482

LDAP authentication of build requests

#496

ShellCommand not working with params on Windows

#518

allow complete rebuild during force

#537

pause buildslaves

#538

web server does not use gzip encoding

#581

Automatic builder creation for new branches

#595

RFE: Allow FileDownload from arbitrary file object

#631

IRC bot gives 'ValueError' when fed a singlequote

#657

Support different jinja template directories

#678

Allow CVS checkout/export of multiple modules

#708

Incorporate bzr_poller.py and add more docs

#738

Record true start/end time for build steps

#739

HTML logs do not get compressed

#751

Sending SIGTERM before SIGKILL to a remote shell command that has timed out

#765

web display for schedulers

#795

Allow switching ETA estimation method in master.cfg

#796

Implement UI elements: build's progress bar & build time charts

#806

Need branch name display

#833

buildbot.status.web.logs assumes logfiles are in utf-8

#839

shell.Compile should invoke platform-specific compilation method

#844

Perforce authentication is misleading

#850

Link change pages to builds from that change

#851

slave assignment could take load into account

#865

buildbot try not working with mercurial

#870

Http log rotation triggers exceptions.WindowsError on master when multiple web ports are present

#893

Mercurial source step needs username and passwd parms

#896

Try should capture and send e-mail address of the submitter so that notifications can be sent

#914

Add ability to send instance data to EC2 instances

#921

buildmaster logging should be more segregated

#925

Add branch support to svn_buildbot.py

#928

Allow builder to be associated with multiple categories

#946

BzrPoller Unhandled Error

#950

link rebuild pages to the build that they were a rebuild of

#953

Bad interaction between (contrib) darcs_buildbot.py and buildmaster >= 0.7.12.

#956

Send an email notification to the person who forces/rebuilds a build

#971

Build a windows installer

#978

Changes should have multiple users

#979

No requirement to identify rebuild requestor

#984

per-project revlink

#987

Missing command line for visual studio /clean

#996

set up vulnerability-handling process

#998

better handling for tags in changesources

#1001

start_instance on a latent BuildSlave called before stop_instance finished

#1008

Last build status only reports last failure for multiple non-halt-on-failure steps

#1013

treat repository like revision in sourcestamps

#1030

merge mozilla's hgpoller.py

#1034

REQ: Fossil support

#1038

Audit TimerService / other looping calls

#1061

Buildbot locks downloaded files

#1064

Logging ChangeFilter checks

#1066

Notification for backed up builder

#1688

there should be some way to retry builds that fail in setupBuild without submitting new Changes.

#1703

Use a shorter timeout for old slave disconnection (perhaps based on configuration)

#1715

BK command ignores args['revision']

#1748

Hiding strings from ShellCommands command= in factories using something like Obfuscated

#1754

VC9 compile step assumes PlatformSDK is installed

#1766

Can't pass extra arguments to SVNPoller

#1769

Try schedulers do not allow you to set patch subdir

#1773

deprecate 'default branch'

#1780

Latent build slaves shut down uncleanly and get forgotten by the master

#1782

Hide email address in web status

#1790

Nightly scheduler should have an option to not re-schedule missed builds

#1792

BuildStep timeout detection does not kill child processes

#1795

add python script slave-side command

#1808

Scheduler with treeStableTimer "merges" changes to multiple projects into single SourceStamp

#1826

Periodic scheduler should not necessarily run at master startup

#1848

Cookies to remember web usernames

#1850

Possibility to display the branch of the changes in the changes waterfall column

#1851

Display scheduler name in the builder title

#1852

NightlyScheduler support for change_filter

#1854

FileUpload never times out

#1868

Support for Dummy slaves and/or Builders that don't require slaves

#1870

Nightly scheduler should support multiple branches.

#1871

Goofy quoting/space handling in buildbot_service.py

#1887

on builders page, please show step(s) in progress

#1890

debug Buildbot's memory use

#1891

investigate and document using exocet to reload modules

#1917

improvements and docs to 'buildbot try' with DVCS

#1929

refactor BotMaster.cleanShutdown

#1942

Store passwords in hashed form

#1948

WithProperties doesn't interact properly with reconfig

#1965

Improve subunit support.

#1968

Multi-prefix support for PBChangeSource

#1972

Buildbot doesn't terminate latent EC2 servers upon shutdown

#1990

Source steps falling back to complete re-initialization should not be mandatory

#1999

Include full filename in warnings, if known

#2019

graceful shutdown and triggered builds don't play as expected (0.8.4p1)

#2032

Log tracebacks in separate logfile (not in twistd.log)

#2045

Implicit limit of 1000 builders per slave

#2048

Also adding 'committer' to interested users for MailNotifier

#2050

Use metrics to start benchmarking Buildbot's performance in metabuildbot

#2061

patch: make P4Poller pick up where it left off

#2069

Information on improving P4 object

#2073

buildbot is unable to delete subdirectories of the build dir that have non-ASCII names under Windows

#2074

Support using a list for svnurl in source.SVN

#2098

support for patches in master-side source steps

#2105

Mercurial hook - exceptions.ValueError: signal only works in main thread

#2106

Buildbot requires pycrypto to setup even an unencrypted manhole

#2108

BuildBot uses incorrect method for default location of Visual Studios

#2112

Adding a large batch of changes seems to run at about 7 changes/s.

#2113

documentation for status_gerrit

#2123

Changes sent over the wire should be compressed

#2124

IRC oversubsribes to buildsets, logs too much

#2129

Support unix domain sockets for build slaves.

#2138

ability to plug-in new slave-side commands

#2146

GitPoller should support multiple branches

#2154

Master-side git source step breaks revision+shallow

#2157

drop support for Python-2.4

#2176

buildslave hangs trying to kill process after "1200 seconds without output"

#2185

GerritChangeSource: owner email can be missing

#2197

Add tests for web change_hooks.

#2207

MailNotifier use the user-db by default, but that doesn't properly get populated.

#2213

console webpage doesn't always show revisions when using branch=*

#2217

Allow MailNotifier's messageFormatter to be asynchronous

#2227

Make contrib/post_build_request.py usable via import

#2228

Allow specific ForceSchedulers to be associated with specific WebStatuses.

#2229

irc bot should interact with ForceSchedulers

#2236

Experiment with loading config in a "rollback importer"

#2269

test real RemoteCommands and FakeRemoteCommands with the same tests

#2273

Performance items

#2275

Use encool or the like to generate unicode tests.

#2290

Solaris patch command is not compatible with GNU patch

#2293

Simplify MSYS+buildslave integration

#2302

Make FakeMaster not be a mock.

0.9.0 bugs

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