Release Notes - Version 3.6.3

Overview

AnthillPro Version 3.6.3 is a patch release for bugs in 3.6.2 and includes many new feature improvements.

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Improvements

• Dashboard to Administration quick links. Quickly toggle between the Dashboard and Administration pages of projects and workflows, using a new single-click link.
• Deploy only changed files. Deploy only the changed artifacts within an artifact sets using new options in the Resolve Artifacts and Resolve Dependency Artifact steps.
• Route queued jobs to new agents. Agents that are brought online or added to an environment while jobs are waiting for available agents will automatically pick up queued jobs.
• Quick link to agent settings. Access an agent's settings by clicking the agent name in the Environments page.
• LogHelper class. Additional methods have been added to the LogHelper, allowing for smaller chunks of the log to be loaded when performing a trace. It is now possible to generate logs based on the startLine and endLine.
• Server Logging. A new error log has been added to the AnthillPro server. The log includes only detailed error information (stack traces) when the server throws an error.
• Agent properties. Agent properties are now stored on the server to optimize agent filtering.
• Agent description. It is now possible to include a description/comment for an agent.
• Artifact timestamp retention. Retain original timestamps on all artifacts transferred by Anthill, including directories.
• ClearQuest integration flexibility. Configure ClearQuest record-type mappings and field name/value pairs in the ClearQuest integration.
• Split server URL settings. Configure a server URL for use in reports and notification templates that is different from the one used by Agents.
• TFS source config flexibility. Workspace Name and Source URL in the TFS Source Config can now resolve properties and scripts.
• Visual Studio Builder work dir offset. Run Visual Studio Builder in an offset from the current working directory.
• Separate ClearCase View Server and View Storage. Pass values to the Host Name, Global Storage Path, and Host Storage Path parameters used by the ClearCase mkview command.
• Environment-sensitive input selections for workflow properties. Define dynamic sets of possible workflow property values, determined by the environment in which the workflow will run.
• Workflow priority propagation. Cascade workflow priority to dependent workflows.
• Dynamic workflow priority. Provide a script to dynamically determine a workflow's priority.
• VSS settings are scriptable. VSS settings may contain scripts and reference properties.
• Anonymous repository access. Configure repository access without a password if your SCM supports anonymous access.
• Database optimization. SQL query performance has been improved by adding indexes on foreign keys in databases that do not implicitly create such indexes.
• Optional property lookup. Optionally resolve and use a property value by using a new helper method, getValueOrEmpty in PropertyLookup.

Bug Fixes

The following items resolve reported issues in AnthillPro version 3.6.

• Workflow property names are now copied when a library workflow is copied.
• A workflow's properties are now deleted when the workflow is deleted.
• Reading from a zipped log file no longer results in missing lines.
• Locally publishing multiple artifacts from different directories to the same artifact set now appends the artifact set.
• Security exceptions that occur in remoting are now reported to the user as errors caused by insufficient permission to perform the attempted action.
• Workflows executed through the remoting api now run with correct properties
• Copying files during Agent Relay installation now includes creation of empty directories to avoid errors when placing log files in non-existent directories.
• Agent Relay upgrade for an existing Agent Relay using SSL for JMS communication now leaves existing certificates intact.
• Environments displayed in the RunAnotherWorkflow step are now limited to only the environments associated with the workflow.
• Workflow triggers now use current values of workflow properties
• Job trace name is now updatable after being set.
• Dependency relationships among workflows in the same project are now preserved when the project is copied.
• Library workflow properties are now editable within the configuration of another workflow that uses the library workflow.
• Operational project workflows can now use the Run Another Workflow step.
• HttpClient usage in Agents is now set to follow redirects.
• Warning message advising user that a property value exceeds the allowable character length is now reported in the UI prior to an attempted database commit.
• File transfer from non-Windows agent to Windows server now completes with no error in searching for files to transfer.
• Build life links in the Request Context Graph now link to the build life created by the request corresponding to the link.
• Codestation resolve of a single file on Windows agents now correctly includes ah3.dig file.
• Restarting a failed originating workflow with a push dependency now requests the pushed dependency upon completion of the restarted workflow.
• Quality Center test duration is now correctly displayed in seconds on the test tab.
• When publishing artifacts from a Windows agent to a Linux server, directory names are now correctly separated from file names.
• Change log quiet period jobs now select the agent with the highest throughput.
• Workflow property values in multi-select boxes are now displayed in the order in which they were entered.
• Text area workflow property now accepts multi-line text entry in the default value field.
• Agent monitor max heap is now defaulted to 64 M to prevent Agent monitor from reporting use of large amounts of address space due to max heap size being determined by the environment.
• EventService now uses a fixed Java thread pool to avoid consuming excessive memory, preventing creation of additional threads.
• Inactive projects and workflows in dependencies no longer cause failure of context completion.
• Agent monitor command line optimized to prevent agents from running with a smaller heap than intended.
• Aborting a workflow without a running job now releases locks held by the workflow's jobs.
• Auditing re-enabled and functioning correctly.
• Adding a remote label step in TFS now functions properly wihtout reporting JSP error.
• Long-running commands on agents no longer report false timeout errors due to System.nanoTime() problem on some instances of Windows running on VMWare.
• Issue report publisher step for Quality Center no longer fails when the changelog includes an invalid QC issue ID.
• JUnit Report calculation of number of tests run now includes tests that failed in setup.
• Average duration and success rate of operational workflows are now correctly calculated on the workflow dashboard.
• Codestation now logs the actual hash value on a failed verification rather than the expected hash.
• Aborting a delayed workflow run now stops the workflow from running.
• Run Another Workflow step now allows selection of the current environment as the environment in which to run.
• Distributed web now connects to servers that have secure communications turned on.
• Requests for separate workflows now merge only when the requests are made in the context of a shared ancestor request.
• Commit failures due to permissions errors when using remoting no longer block future remoting connections.
• Velocity reports are now accessible by unauthenticated users if they are marked as public reports.
• Iteration agent filtering now accommodates changes to agent allocation.
• Agents list page now renders correctly in IE 8.0 and Firefox 3.5.
• Step timeouts now producing expected behavior.
• The user-specified number of agents to display per page is now retained on page refresh.
• Build requests now fail correctly if their change log quiet period job fails.
• Workflows containing jobs that fail due to unavailability of agents specified by a fixed agent filter no longer remain in a running state.
• The "Ignore failures" setting on job steps now remains functional after reloading the job trace.
• Prioritizing a workflow while a step is in progress on the agent now completes without causing a concurrency exception.
• Export and import of jobs containing an email notifier step now correctly handles email addresses.
• Working directory script selections and agent filter selections are now correctly populated upon adding jobs to library workflows.
• Deleting a build life now removes the build life's job and workflow logs.
• Project-Environment properties are now imported correctly from a project export.
• Build life status updates no longer result in unique constraint violations following a deletion of a workflow instance that assigned a build life status.
• Settings specified in the VSS integration are now saved correctly.
• Values entered in the "Users to exclude from changelog" and "File paths to exclude from changelog" fields in the Accurev source config are now saved correctly.
• A validation on agent filter selection now prevents selection of a fixed agent that is not in the workflow's environment(s).
• The dialog for editing a folder's security settings now correctly displays the settings for the folder being edited.
• Server and agent installation on Solaris is now correctly handled out of the box.
• Incompatibilities between some SOAP clients and the Dashboard WSDL are now resolved.
• Manual initiation of a workflow by a user without permissions to the workflow priority script now executes without reporting a null pointer exception.
• Workflow cleanup jobs no longer encounter frequent database deadlocks caused by missing Oracle table indexes.
• Editing a workflow's environment associations no longer removes environments on which the user lacks permissions.
• Cleanup failures on MySql occurring for certain cleanup policy configurations no longer occur.
• Dashboard tree elements now render properly when viewed in IE 6 and IE 7.