The Cruise team is proud to announce the release of Cruise 1.1, an upgrade to our Continuous Integration and Release Management tool.

This release builds on the unique features of 1.0: deployment pipelines to model your build, deploy, test and release cycle, and the most scalable and easy-to-set-up build cloud on the market.

This release includes a number of features requested by our users, including:

• Support for Perforce and Git;
• Role-based security;
• The ability to lock down who can trigger manually approved stages;
• The ability to re-run a stage so you can re-deploy known good versions of your software to your environments, and resolve environmental issues;
• Better reporting of server errors;
• Logging of source control and publishing activities that occur on the Agent to the Agent console output;
• Improvements to the UI;
• Significant performance improvements: you can now run thousands of builds a day using our build cloud on commodity hardware with unparalleled performance and reliability.

We've also updated the licensing process so that you don't need to answer so many questions to get your hands on Cruise, and so you get issued a one year 2 agent license right off the bat. Of course if you want a trial license with unlimited agents, you can still email studios@thoughtworks.com to get one.

Please go to our download page to get your free copy of Cruise 1.1. You can read the full release notes on our discussion forum. In our online documentation you'll find a rundown of our new features and an upgrade guide, and on our site you'll find detailed information on how to use pipelines and more on our build cloud.

Thank you for choosing Cruise, and I look forward to your feedback and suggestions.