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Posted by Craig Sutherland on 17 April, 2009
A Quick Update
I haven’t written a post for while now – not because I haven’t done anything, but because I’ve been focusing on getting a lot of my work into the trunk (that and my son is taking a lot of my time).
So here is a quick update on what has finally made it into the trunk.
1.4.4 Release
Some of my work was able to go into the 1.4.4 release. The following items have been included:
- Server extension points
- Simplified web administration
- Installation packages
- Package publisher
- NDepend task
- Extended source control exception handling
These changes have been added successfully and appear to be stable (let me know if there are any issues). Additionally I’ve also done a little bit of work on making the validator more useful (extended validation, its own installer, etc.)
These will all go out in the next release (hopefully soon!)
1.5.0 Release
This is the exciting one as security has finally made it! We did take a little step back and decided not to add either the messaging or communications client code as yet. Some of the security relies on this code, so it hasn’t been implemented yet (still pending a decision on whether we add this in the 1.5.0 release or wait for a future release).
Additionally I have added the build throttling extension and the task status break-down (just finished tonight).
I’m going to add the dynamic build parameters over the next week or so and then that will be most of my work finally committed to the trunk (with the main exception of messaging/communications client.) After this it will be a time of settling down and resolving any issues that come up (especially with security).
Visual Studio 2008
The other great news is we finally converted to Visual Studio 2008 for the solution and project files. This has both made my life easier (hence the new additions) and also allowed us to start using C# 3.0.
While we have not moved to .NET 3.5 yet, this is still a great step forward!
So a lot of work is happening behind the scenes and we are looking forward to a new release soon!
