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9 March 2009
The Atlassian Bamboo team is proud to release Bamboo 2.2.

Bamboo 2.2 introduces a range of exciting new features and improvements. Harness the flexible online processing potential of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to power your builds with the new Elastic Bamboo feature. This provides you with the power to reduce your build times as well as the flexibility in capacity to minimise costs.

Bamboo emails have been redesigned in this release. HTML templates are now supported and can be easily customised to your liking. We have also added new notification events in Bamboo, to allow you to collaborate more easily via build comments or detect when your builds hang.

Finally, we've implemented a few refinements to Bamboo builds. These include improving the performance of artifact transfer from remote agents and adding the ability to use the same repository snapshot revision for dependent builds.

(warning) Please note, this release contains a number of important security fixes. Please see Bamboo Security Advisory 2009-03-09 for further details.

Upgrading to Bamboo 2.2 is free for all customers with active Bamboo software maintenance.

Highlights of this release:



Thank you for your feedback:

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Upgrading to Bamboo 2.2

You can download Bamboo from the Atlassian website. If upgrading from a previous version, please read the Bamboo 2.2 Upgrade Guide.

Highlights of Bamboo 2.2

Elastic Bamboo

Cloud computing comes to Bamboo with the introduction of the Elastic Bamboo feature. You can now configure your Bamboo application to create remote agents in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). We've also incorporated a number of useful tools with this feature, that allow you to start up your builds more quickly via build snapshots, run Elastic Bamboo builds from behind a firewall and control Elastic Bamboo via the Bamboo REST API.

Customisable Email Templates

Bamboo emails have been given a facelift in this release. Multi-part (MIME) format is now supported allowing you to use HTML in your email templates (e.g. for Bamboo notifications). We've set up Freemarker templates in Bamboo as well, making it easy for you to customise the look and feel of your emails.

Build Comment Notification Event

The new build comment notification event makes it even easier to collaborate in Bamboo. You can set up Bamboo to notify selected users and groups when a comment is posted against a build. Users can be notified by email, instant message or even RSS feed, depending on their preference.

Hanging Build Detection Event

We have also added a notification event for hung builds. Ensure that the right people are informed when a build hangs, by setting up notifications using this event. Users can be notified by email, instant message or even RSS feed, depending on their preference.

Faster Artifact Transfer

We have dramatically improved the speed of artifact transfer from remote agents in this release. Remote builds with large artifacts will complete much more quickly, particularly over high-latency network links.

Dependent Builds

Builds are now more consistent when triggering a build after another build finishes. If a child build uses the same source as the parent build, the child build will now be forced to check out the same revision of source code as the parent build.

Agent Improvements

We have introduced a remote agent supervisor in this release to monitor and automatically restart your remote agents, if necessary. You should notice an improvement in the uptime of your remote agents with this change.

Plus over 80 fixes and improvements


JIRA Issues (115 issues)
Key Summary Priority Status
BAM-3607 Builds should be able to have a configurable timeout threshold Major Resolved
BAM-3605 CLONE -The LATEST URL redirect(s) only apply to top level artifacts. Major Resolved
BAM-3591 Initial logging level of Remote Agent is DEBUG Minor Resolved
BAM-3561 Bamboo uses db column name "resource", this is reserved in Oracle Major Resolved
BAM-3554 inconsistent slashing on View Instance page Trivial Resolved
BAM-3553 Elastic Bamboo Configuration administration tab should be always visible Critical Resolved
BAM-3521 Agent Martrix should limited to active plans & agents Major Resolved
BAM-3509 Restarting Remote Agent in wrapper causes license issues with 1 Remote Agent licenses Critical Resolved
BAM-3508 "Can't open file" error causes build to not be run Major Resolved
BAM-3504 Plan Requirements Configuration page showing incorrect coloration and heading for images Major Resolved
BAM-3480 Remote Agent creates spurious directory tree under the default bamboo home bin/ directory Major Resolved
BAM-3479 Refactor VariableSubstitutionBean's so that their internal bamboo variables can be accessed by other components Major Resolved
BAM-3462 Edit shared capabilities broken Major Resolved
BAM-3458 Artifact copier fails to copy any artifacts if a target directory is missing Critical Resolved
BAM-3457 Make instance type of EC2instance available. Major Resolved
BAM-3445 SVN UpdateEventHandler throws NPE Major Resolved
BAM-3432 Shutdown all elastic agent fails Major Resolved
BAM-3412 Change to SVN URL through global variables not detected Major Resolved
BAM-3408 Evaluation Expiry message for all products Major Resolved
BAM-3386 Cannot test IM notifications in Edit mode for non @talk.google.com accounts Minor Resolved
BAM-3341 All capability sets are imported as LocalCapablitySets regardless if they are remote or local Major Resolved
BAM-3339 Elastic Bamboo implementation, M4 Major Resolved
BAM-3335 Elastic Bamboo implementation M3 Major Resolved
BAM-3329 Bamboo ships with out-of-date version of ehcache settings Critical Resolved
BAM-3292 Global Variables list in Administration panel is sorted randomly Minor Resolved
BAM-3281 Previous button on page '5. Artifacts' goes to '6. Notifications' instead of '4. Requirements' Minor Resolved
BAM-3280 Allow users to use the bootstrap jar directly Major Resolved
BAM-3250 API for retrieving build artifacts Major Resolved
BAM-3246 Remote build logging can slow down a build Major Resolved
BAM-3243 Export fails with "Adding text to an XML document must not be null" Critical Resolved
BAM-3240 Local cvs repositories are not supported Major Resolved
BAM-3220 Can not test IM client while in edit mode Minor Resolved
BAM-3194 Build Hang Prediction shows no logs for '299' minutes, even when messages are coming through. Minor Resolved
BAM-3189 Tests summary screen always shows last 25 builds Major Resolved
BAM-3183 Test results directory can't be updated Blocker Resolved
BAM-3179 Ability to delete comments Major Resolved
BAM-3177 Artifact editing/viewing screens are inconsistent in the order of the columns Major Resolved
BAM-3176 Latest status of a build may clear comment form Major Resolved
BAM-3172 Allow underscore '_' character in Global Variable name Major Resolved
BAM-3168 Ability to Abandon a build Major Resolved
BAM-3166 Maven download logs should be filtered Major Resolved
BAM-3155 Build Configuration | Builder | Test Result Directory not persisted for Bash (Command type) Major Resolved
BAM-3141 Typo in LocalBuildResultProcessor 'Ignoriing' Trivial Resolved
BAM-3138 Scheduled builds and builds running on remote agents don't seem to switch to a new source root in the build directory Critical Resolved
BAM-3125 Allow 'wget' unix utility to access plan's artifacts by providing username and password Major Resolved
BAM-3122 Export of cusom data is not null safe Major Resolved
BAM-3120 Ability to download artifact via the REST API Major Resolved
BAM-3108 User Picker for build permissions lets you 2 when you can only add 1 Major Resolved
BAM-3105 Include failure details into Bamboo mail notification Major Resolved
BAM-3104 Send Bamboo messages as HTML formatted mails Major Resolved
BAM-3091 Incorrect error for editProfile when not logged in Major Resolved
BAM-3090 Access artifacts from the standard "pretty" URL Major Resolved
BAM-3089 Build results summary page relies on specific punctation in trigger reason. Major Resolved
BAM-3083 Bamboo email notifications should include the unit tests that failed Minor Resolved
BAM-3043 Change logging level of AccessLogFilter from INFO to DEBUG Major Resolved
BAM-2994 The LATEST URL redirect(s) only apply to top level artifacts. Major Resolved
BAM-2991 SVN URL change is not picked up by all the agent. Major Resolved
BAM-2989 Artifact collections with large numbers of small files take forever to copy Major Resolved
BAM-2983 The remote agent dies if a (remote) build is stopped while artifacts are being transferred. Major Resolved
BAM-2951 Add plugin point so that Agent/Build matching can be customised Major Resolved
BAM-2946 Bamboo should display source repository revision used for particular build. Major Resolved
BAM-2933 Ability to substitute to existing system variables for the System Environment field Major Resolved
BAM-2852 Improve log transfer between Bamboo agent and build server Major Resolved
BAM-2835 Bamboo should look for the BUILD FAILED message along with the BUILD SUCCESSFUL message to determine build out come. Major Resolved
BAM-2803 Reduced log spam from remote agents Major Resolved
BAM-2721 Artifacts should not be copied if builds fail. Major Resolved
BAM-2713 Remove Errors From Dashboard Major Resolved
BAM-2664 Tranfering artifacts of large size require too much CPU resources Major Resolved
BAM-2612 Make latest artifact link an HTTP redirect instead of a meta-refresh browser redirect Major Resolved
BAM-2606 Global Variables should be available in the Custom Data Map for a build Major Resolved
BAM-2605 Bamboo doesn't trim spaces, when entering email addresses in the build notifications screen Trivial Resolved
BAM-2560 Add links to order form on pages that notify customers their maintenance has expired Major Resolved
BAM-2541 "Comment Added" Notification Condition Major Resolved
BAM-2530 Scheduled Builds With no changes say, "This is an initial or manual build" Major Resolved
BAM-2494 Bamboo home is logged as blank in the logs during start-up Major Resolved
BAM-2479 Build Action status on "Currently Building ..." Screen doesn't update Minor Resolved
BAM-2475 Bamboo re-index code, doesn't handle cases where the buildresults XML file is null Major Resolved
BAM-2466 Swap order of source directory and pattern columns in artifacts admin UI Trivial Resolved
BAM-2450 Email Bamboo admins when builds start failing due to issues with the repository. Major Resolved
BAM-2402 Reimplement "latest" artifact URLs as 302 redirects, rather than client-side refreshes Major Resolved
BAM-2399 Document the ability to link to the latest version of an artifact Minor Resolved
BAM-2298 Allow for global variable substitution in the private key field, of the source repository page. Major Resolved
BAM-2227 Dependencies should pass down meta data about the dependency chain Major Resolved
BAM-2209 Only "stop build" is available from the Build Actions drop down menu even when the build has completed Major Resolved
BAM-2198 The URL filter fails if there are special characters in the testcase name Major Resolved
BAM-2168 Make Global System Variables accessible on the post actions page. Major Resolved
BAM-2080 Elastic Bamboo implementation, M2 Major Resolved
BAM-2059 Directory clean on repository change may fail in distributed agent environment Major Resolved
BAM-2047 trivial typo on plan Notifications screen: 'commited' should have a double 't' Trivial Resolved
BAM-2018 Emails sent based on Build Notification Minor Resolved
BAM-1999 Add artifacts section to build notification emails. Major Resolved
BAM-1991 "BUILD SUCCESSFUL" appearing shortly before a final "BUILD FAILED" message is misinterpreted as a successful build Minor Resolved
BAM-1839 Agent bootstrapper restart if server goes down / communication error occurs Major Resolved
BAM-1831 HTML Emails Major Resolved
BAM-1736 Incorrect message in error page when configuring notification for invalid groups/users Minor Resolved
BAM-1706 Ability to specify SMTP port in order to connect to SMTP server. Major Resolved
BAM-1592 Ability to disable/delete IM Server Major Resolved
BAM-1497 Next build arrow image has stray pixels Minor Resolved
BAM-1413 Support for MSBuild Major Resolved
BAM-1403 Add more detail to the broken build e-mail - compiler error or broken test Major Resolved
BAM-1396 Have a time limit on builds Major Resolved
BAM-1394 Add "Build Actions" menu to Build Results page Major Resolved
BAM-1375 Labeller plugin assumes that build log contains instances of SimpleLogEntry rather than LogEntry Minor Resolved
BAM-1360 Bamboo should explicitly build projects when user triggers a build ON manual build stratergy Major Resolved
BAM-1355 Ability to remove Mail Server of IM Server Configuration Major Resolved
BAM-1299 Improve the Notification Framework in Bamboo, to register listeners Major Resolved
BAM-1177 Run builders on Amazon cloud Major Resolved
BAM-1107 Broadcast IM comments Major Resolved
BAM-947 Dependant builds of the same source tree should build the same source as the parent Major Resolved
BAM-849 Ajaxy panels don't behave properly when a full page is returned from bamboo. Minor Resolved
BAM-846 Customisable emails. Major Resolved
BAM-810 UI is left in a confused state on build failure Major Resolved
BAM-695 Build email doesn't contain enough information in the case of build failure Major Resolved
BAM-614 When a build fails I only want 1 error for artifacts Minor Resolved
BAM-509 Timeout builds when they take too long Major Resolved