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Go Community is Moving
Post posted April 13, 2012 by Morag Keirns
We are moving our Go Community and content over to Go Community & Support

As part of this move we have some great new community features for you.

Feature Requests - request new features and vote up other community requests.

Community Q & A - a great way to ask a question and add you voice to get questions answered.

A new Studios blog site is also coming soon.

We anticipate the content move to be complete and closing down this community by mid May.

Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns, you are welcome to start new posts on the new community.

Thanks

Studios Web Team
Go 12.2 released1
Post last edited March 28, 2012 by Sachin Sudheendra
The Go team is excited to announce the release of Go 12.2, ThoughtWorks Studios' Agile Release Management platform. Download now.

Go has changed it's release naming convention from the previous practice of major.minor.bugfix nomenclature. The major version will now be the year of release (YY). The minor version n will indicate the nth release for the year. For ex: 12.3 will be the third release in 2012.

The key features of this release include:

New Features
Use Environment Variables for passwords: Go's environment variables now have an encryption option so that you can comfortably and safely store and use passwords in Go. You and your auditors will be happy.

Store each artifact in one place and then fetch it whenever and wherever: You can now fetch artifacts from any ancestor pipeline. For example, this comes in handy when you want to deploy the same binaries using the same deployment process to various environments. This ensures you test your deployment process many times all the way out to production.
Enhancements

New environment variables for material revisions: Two additional environment variables GO_FROM_REVISION and GO_TO_REVISION have been introduced during the run of every task. This is useful when a pipeline instance picks up mutiple changesets from your SCM material and you have tasks that need information on which files have changed in this instance.
Bugs fixed

Fetch Artifact task can be used to fetch artifacts from a particular stage in an upstream pipeline or stages before it. Stages after the upstream stage can not be fetched from, because they may not be complete when the fetch task executes. Prior to 12.2 Go would allow fetching artifacts from stages after the upstream stage in the pipeline. This has been fixed in 12.2

For example: Let pipeline 'build' have 3 stages named 'compile', 'package' and 'test'. Let a downstream pipeline 'deploy' have a dependency on the 'package' stage of 'build'. With this dependency you can fetch artifacts from 'package' or any stage before that i.e 'compile'. From Go 12.2, you cannot fetch artifacts from the 'test' stage with this dependency. To fix this, you will have to change the dependency to the 'test' stage of 'build'. With this dependency you can fetch artifacts from any stage of the pipeline i.e 'test' or any stage before that.

This fix is not backward compatible. Hence, configurations violating this rule need to be fixed manually before upgrading to this version.
UPGRADE NOTE: If you are upgrading from a prior version, please be aware that the upgrade to Go 12.2 may take 10 minutes or longer depending upon the size of your Go database.

We'd like to thank everyone on this Community forum for your participation. Your comments and recommendations are invaluable for the continued success of Go.
Go 12.1 released
Post posted February 28, 2012 by Sachin Sudheendra
The Go team is excited to announce the release of Go 12.1, ThoughtWorks Studios' Agile Release Management platform. Download now.

Go has changed it's release naming convention from the current practice of major.minor.bugfix nomenclature. The major version will now be the year of release (YY). The minor version n will indicate the nth release for the year. For ex: 12.3 will be the third release in 2012.

The key features of this release include:

New Features

Support for TFS SCM : Use TFS as a material for your pipeline.

One-click backup : Use the administration interface to backup Go

Enhancements

Permanently pause pipelines: The state of a paused pipeline and comment is maintained across server restarts. Hence, you can now permanently disable pipelines without losing historical data for a pipeline.

UPGRADE NOTE: If you are upgrading from a prior version, please be aware that the upgrade to Go 12.1 may take 10 minutes or longer depending upon the size of your Go database.

We'd like to thank everyone on this Community forum for your participation. Your comments and recommendations are invaluable for the continued success of Go.
Announcing Go 2.431
Post last edited February 9, 2012 by Sachin Sudheendra , tagged Sticky
The Go team is excited to announce the release of Go 2.4, ThoughtWorks Studios' Agile Release Management platform. Download now.

Some of the key features of this release include:

Performance Enhancements
- Tune Go for Better Performance: Go has been tested with a large number of pipelines, agents and load. Performance will vary based on your server configuration and usage patterns. Use this guide to optimize performance.
- Faster Dashboard: The Pipelines Dashboard renders much faster even with a large number of pipelines.
- Faster Artifact Transfers: We reduced artifact upload and download times.
- Other: We improved how Go manages memory.
New Features
- Filter on Agents page: Use tag:value style syntax to easily find the agents you want to manage.
- Auto registration of remote agents: You can now auto approve remote agents without having to enable them through the agents dashboard.
Enhancements
- Personalize the Pipelines Dashboard: This is now a user preference in Go.
- The online documentation now has search so you can quickly get help.
- Get the list of scheduled jobs using API.
- Configure site urls using the server configuration UI.
- Users will get a warning if the Go license is about to expire
Bugs fixed
- GO_P4_CLIENT environment variable had different behaviour when destination directory is set for perforce materials.
UPGRADE NOTE: If you are upgrading from a prior version, please be aware that the upgrade to Go 2.4 may take 10 minutes or longer depending upon the size of your Go database.

We'd like to thank everyone on this Community forum for your participation. Your comments and recommendations are invaluable for the continued success of Go.
Recent Comments (3 of 3)
- November 21, 2011 by Scott Baldwin: Thanks for the clarification Sachin.
- November 20, 2011 by Sachin Sudheendra: Hi Scott, The agentAutoRegisterKey value can be any String. There's no...
- November 18, 2011 by Scott Baldwin: When adding agentAutoRegisterKey to the server config, is the key any...
Announcing Go 2.3.1
Post last edited September 28, 2011 by Santosh
The Go 2.3.1 release has a few bug fixes. Download now.
- Pipeline group admin could not edit material and user permissions for a pipeline group.
- Trying to clone a pipeline that is referencing itself as a material for a fetch artifacts task fails
- Files within the agent working directory would be locked on windows when clean working directory is set for the stage.
We recommend upgrading to Go 2.3.1. We'd like to thank everyone on this Community forum for your participation.

Click here to see what's new in Go 2.3.

UPGRADE NOTE: If you are upgrading from a prior version, please be aware that the upgrade to Go 2.3.1 may take 10 minutes or longer depending upon the size of your Go database.
Announcing Go 2.311
Post last edited February 9, 2012 by Santosh
The Go team is excited to announce the release of Go 2.3, ThoughtWorks Studios' Agile Release Management platform. Download now.

Some of the key features of this release include:
- Visualize build duration over time: Visualize trends in your build's duration with a brand new graphical chart
- Trace a pipeline instance back to its configuration: Go now maintains a history of all changes made to its configuration allowing you to audit all configuration changes. You can view the Go configuration for each run in the Config tab for a stage.
- Artifact integrity verification: Go verifies every file retrieved from its repository to ensure it hasn't been tampered with.
- Job history on an agent: You can view the history of all the work done by an agent. Analyze problems in your execution environment to identify flaky jobs on particular agents.
- 3 Step Pipeline Wizard: Use the new pipeline wizard to create a pipeline is 3 easy steps.
- Clone a pipeline: Use the admin UI to clone an existing pipeline.
- Job Timeout: Non-responsive jobs are now detected by Go and can be configured to automatically cancel after a timeout period.
- Auto purge old artifacts: Configure Go to manage server disk space by automatically purging old artifacts.
We’ve also made the following enhancements:
- Perforce users can now make use of the GO_P4_CLIENT environment variable which indicates the name of the perforce client.
- Configure and manage custom tabs for your jobs using the admin UI.
- You can now browse the history to select a pipeline on the Pipeline Compare screen.
- The Stages XML feed now includes additional details on the material check-in that triggered the pipeline and information on related mingle cards.
- Usernames and roles are case insensitive. Existing roles or usernames which have multiple entries that differ only in case will be replaced by a single instance.
UPGRADE NOTE: If you are upgrading from a prior version, please be aware that the upgrade to Go 2.3 may take 10 minutes or longer depending upon the size of your Go database.

We'd like to thank everyone on this Community forum for your participation. Your comments and recommendations are invaluable for the continued success of Go.

Special thanks to those who participated in our Early Access program. The EA program is free and a great way to interact with the Go team and get intimate with Go's overall vision. Keep an eye out for announcements regarding the Go 2.4 EA program.
Recent Comments (1 of 1)
- September 5, 2011 by Santosh: The following bugs were fixed in Go 2.3 Pipelines and pipeline groups...