CruiseControl is a framework for a continuous build process. It includes, but is not limited to, plugins for email notification, Ant, maven, and various source control tools. A web interface is provided to view the details of the current and previous builds.

Release info

Cruisecontrol 2.3 was released on the 27th of August 2005
(Cruisecontrol 2.3.0.1 was released on the 28th of August 2005)

Highlights

The new version features many fixes and some new features. In particular:

Major new features:

binary release: this all in one distribution combines both the build loop and the reporting modules and makes it really easy and quick to get started thanks to the embedded Jetty Web Container.
introduction of Ant style properties in config.xml. This will make your config file much smaller and easier to maintain. See for more information.
support for adding/removing projects without restarting build loop
added preliminary support for distributed building (contrib)

Major bug fixes:

major overhaul of the CMSynergy support
major overhaul of the MKS support
P4 now supports files with more than 100 revisions
CVS now works with remote modules
Chart of builds now works with 2 builds within 1 minute

New plugins:

new source controls: AlienBrain, Accurev, TimeBuild
new publishers: OnFailurePublisher, OnSuccessPublisher, SocketPublisher, RSSPublisher, CurrentBuildStatusFTPListener
distributed builder (contrib)

Other fixes

add support for Macker in HTMLEmailPublisher and reporting module
the jabber publisher now uses a single persistent connection.
AntBuilder and htmlemail are now more portable and require less configuration
several important P4 fixes
added support for self configuring plugins
added an RSS feed for the reporting pages.
reporting: make tab menu always visible
reporting: automatically return welcome files (index.html) when browsing with the fileservlet. Configurable.
RpmPackager for creating CruiseControl RPM (contrib)
improved documentation and many bug fixes

More info

The list of the detailed changes can be found here http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/cruisecontrol/cruisecontrol/RELEASENOTES.txt?r1=1.260&r2=1.342

CruiseControl 2.3 can be downloaded from http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/download.html

CruiseControl home page: http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/

Known problems

when building from sources, CruiseControlItemTest may fail. The fix for this issue was committed after 2.3.0.1 and will be available in a forthcoming release. In the meantime, you can safely delete the failing test class (cruisecontrol/main/test/net/sourceforge/cruisecontrol/publishers/rss/CruiseControlItemTest.java) before building.
hanging external processes created by the build loop can hang your build loop. Killing/terminating them using your Operating System tools should unblock your queue. Until this is fixed, try using timeout attributes (when available) to allow the build loop to automatically kill those processes. Otherwise kill the process after logging on the machine.
there's also a potential race condition in the AntBuilder that can hang your build loop just after your build ended. Logs will be generated but publishing won't happen. If you hit the issue, try to restart your build loop.
plugin preconfiguration doesn't work with nested elements. This is going to be fixed in the nest release.- properties cannot be used to define project names. A fix for this issue is being considered.
On Linux Fedora Core 4, under Sun's SDK 1.4.2_08, the HTML/EmailPublisher may fail with something like:
```
   exception publishing results with net.sourceforge.cruisecontrol.publishers.HTMLEmailPublisher for project xyz
   net.sourceforge.cruisecontrol.CruiseControlException: Could not connect to SMTP host: localhost, port: 25;
   
```
The solution is to disable IPV6 stacks usage in the JVM (adding -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true to your build loop VM start scrip) or upgrade to SDK 5.0 to run the build loop.
running cruisecontrol.bat/.sh must be done from its installation directory, otherwise you will get the error that CC is not able to find the .\webapps\cruisecontrol directory, in particular if you try:
```
  MyProjectDir> CC_Install_Dir\cruisecontrol.bat -configfile yourccconfig.xml
  
```