Ecosystem
The team made time for some general maintenance and updates to the Trigger Pipeline action. These included:
- Updating the deprecated configuration method.
- Adding extra parameters to create builds linked to pull requests and ignoring pipeline branch filters when triggering builds.
Ecosystem
Integrate thoroughly with your favorite tools.
Other integrations and plugins updates:
Docker plugin v5.7.0→
Increased variable support, new config options and enhanced AWS compatibility.
Cache plugin v0.4.0→
Improvements to avoid flooding logs in s3, and bug fixes.
Docker Compose plugin v4.14.0→
Programmatically propogating environment variables to containers alongside support for `skip-pull` and `quiet-pull`.
GitLab plugin v1.1.0→
Show build running status in GitLab.
Test Collector plugin v1.8.0→
Easily jump to the Test Analytics run report from a build annotation.
Buildkite Terraform provider v0.19.2→
Now even safer and easier, with documentation enhancements, default Pipeline steps, and deletion protection.
Google Cloud workload identity federation plugin→
Assume a Google Cloud service account using workload identity federation.
1% improvements
Our product and engineering teams are constantly adding enhancements, fixes, and features. Check out what we’ve pushed over the last quarter.
| Enhancement | Flock locking | Agent |
| Enhancement | Simplified first Pipeline experience | Pipelines |
| Fix | Build spinner not showing properly in the log output | Pipelines |
| Fix | Fix GitHub icon beside PR link in the build header | Pipelines |
| Enhancement | Return helpful error if API request has content type of application/x-www-form-urlencoded | Pipelines |
| Enhancement | Remove flaky information for tags#show | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Agents page doesn’t show running builds on agents | Pipelines |
| Fix | Long team names overlap in pipeline creation page | Pipelines |
| Enhancement | Add latest build status icons to the pipeline list on the pipelines page | Pipelines |
| Enhancement | Add p50 - p90 duration data to tags#show UI | Test Analytics |
| Fix | Disconnected agents show a running icon on agent detail page | Pipelines |
| Fix | Removing an API key from datadog request log section | Pipelines |
| Fix | GitHub failed commit status linking to the wrong job if it is a parallel job | Pipelines |
| Fix | Timeline tab not working | Pipelines |
| Enhancement | Only show builds within the last 28 days | Test Analytics |
| Fix | Fix GitHub status updates on the commit when the commit was on head SHA | Pipelines |
| Enhancement | Add failed test data to tags#show UI | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Sanitize configuration URLs for Slack integration | Pipelines |
| Fix | Fix public organization page rendering incorrectly | Pipelines |
| Fix | Fix cursor jumping in pipelines search | Pipelines |
| Enhancement | Display p50 p90 duration data in build header | Test Analytics |
| Fix | Fix GitHub commit status notifications for group steps | Pipelines |
| Enhancement | Display validation errors when saving build settings | Pipelines |
| Enhancement | Use new commit sha metadata | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Extend legacy GitHub support to customer notifiers | Pipelines |
| Feature | Show info annotiations in the Failures tab | Pipelines |
| Enhancement | Hide read_flaky_tests scope if inactive | Test Analytics |
| Fix | Fix dialog label overflow | Pipelines |
| Fix | Handle max timeout of 0 in step-level timeouts | Pipelines |
| Enhancement | Make entire card clickable in builds#index | Test Analytics |
| Fix | Consistently render borders in user rows in organization settings | Pipelines |
| Fix | Allow adding multiple tags to a Pipeline via GraphQL | Pipelines |
| Fix | Fix 400 errors on GitHub Enterprise Server App webhook ingestion | Pipelines |
| Fix | Apply limits to artifacts list in job rows | Pipelines |
| Enhancement | Update default project branch to main | Pipelines |
| Feature | Allow querying organization’s jobs by cluster or cluster queue in GraphQL | Pipelines |
| Fix | Gracefully handle nil tags when creating a Run via the Uploads API | Test Analytics |
| Feature | Allow querying organization’s pipelines by cluster in GraphQL | Pipelines |
| Enhancement | Update Buildkite build badge logo | Pipelines |
| Enhancement | Add flaky test data to build#show | Test Analytics |
| Fix | Fix rendering of images in logs where the artifact has a space in the name | Pipelines |
| Fix | Fix encoding error on agent token display | Pipelines |
| Fix | Improve handling of infinite maximum job timeout | Pipelines |
| Enhancement | Display run data for a build group | Test Analytics |
| Fix | Support non-string environment variables when using matrices | Pipelines |
| Feature | Allow copying AMI to all regions based on env variable in Scaler Lambda | Elastic CI Stack for AWS |
| Enhancement | Add IAM role to publish to OIDC for agent scaler | Elastic CI Stack for AWS |
| Enhancement | Update header in untagged build group | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Make it easier to substitute the buildkite-agent-scaler with a fork or branch | Elastic CI Stack for AWS |
| Fix | Error with docker experimental CLI | Elastic CI Stack for AWS |
| Enhancement | Display slowest 5% durations for tests | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Bumping python from 3.7 to 3.10 | Elastic CI Stack for AWS |
| Enhancement | Display run data for a build when no test groups exist | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Any variables that are *_private_key will be auto redacted | Agent |
| Enhancement | Unknown experiments will be warned in logger | Agent |
| Fix | Fix JSON ingestor to handle nested testsuite | Test Analytics |
| Feature | New AWS specific agent tags being added to agents running on AWS | Agent |
| Feature | Added support for getting metadata per build | Agent |
| Enhancement | Add failed test data to UI | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Include abbrev-commit in buildkite:git:commit meta-data | Agent |
| Enhancement | Prevent job cancellation during checkout from retrying | Agent |
| Enhancement | Avoid long --no-patch arg added to git show in v1.8.4, to e.g. support CentOS 7 | Agent |
| Fix | Downcase all env keys when creating a run | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | ArtifactUploader API calls: faster timeout & retry | Agent |
| Enhancement | build#show page displays insights about the build | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Give a nicer error when empty strings are used as metadata values | Agent |
| Enhancement | Show empty state on run page when run is processing | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Errors in the git checkout process are now easier to diagnose | Agent |
| Enhancement | Alpine images updated to Alpine 3.18 | Agent |
| Enhancement | Display test groups for each build | Test Analytics |
| Fix | New flag --upload-skip-symlinks (on artifact upload) allows skipping symlinks when uploading files. --follow-symlinks has been deprecated and renamed to --glob-resolve-follow-symlinks | Agent |
| Enhancement | Update styles for build#index page | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Preserve plugin config env var names with consecutive underscores | Agent |
| Fix | Remove streamy inny graph | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Wipe checkout directory on git checkout and git fetch failure and retry | Agent |
| Fix | Fix origin for mirrored submodules | Agent |
| Fix | Removed incorrect command attribute for trigger job | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Bump test collector to v2.3.1 | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Add ‘Configuring build export’ to the build retentions page | Documentation |
| Fix | Fix analytics builds sort order | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Differentiate GraphQL nullable and non-null types | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Add section in GHE docs about configuring multiple GHE integrations | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Update SSO docs (Okta) with extra detail around account provisioning | Documentation |
| Fix | Fix web_url attribute on Flaky Tests API | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Add GraphQL queries for getting job run time and total build run time | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Added a troubleshooting section for agent lost | Documentation |
| Fix | Not able to backfill run meta for runs when suite is soft deleted | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Add note about block/input step not supported | Documentation |
| Fix | Fix example in retry docs | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Avoid race conditions in upload state transitions | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Updated explanation when maximum timeout will be used | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Add JSON content type header to all curl examples with JSON data | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Reject blank payloads from queue multi fetch | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Prefer main over master everywhere it makes sense | Documentation |
| Fix | Remove Mercurial support from Bitbucket page | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Add sections to GraphQL cookbook | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Bump collector version | Test Analytics |
| Fix | Fix GraphQL script IA | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Make all clickable elements accessible | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Add images to the Block step page | Documentation |
| Feature | Add ability to render H3s in Table of Contents | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Sort tests before bulk insert/update | Test Analytics |
| Feature | Style external links | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Rework the elastic stack section | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Filter nil suites | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Note for session IP pinning to work | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Note triggering steps are no longer stuck when triggered builds fail | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Reject duplicate uploads based on payload digest | Test Analytics |
| Fix | Fix the heading generation in CLI script | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Handle malformed/unexpected Hash object for runs.env["message"] | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Update BUILDKITE_MESSAGE empty scenario | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Explain about local and global hooks | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Skip duplicate executions within a batch | Test Analytics |
| Feature | Create Build retention page. Update Build export page | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Added table documenting the JWT claims for the OIDC cli command | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Improve deleted suite handling | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Consolidate GraphQL nav into regular nav | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Use Vite for compiling assets | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Remove flash of empty state on tables | Test Analytics |
| Fix | Update matrix limits to correct values | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Add note that agent-startup hook is supported | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Creator variables clarifications | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Skip expiring runs that belong to destroyed suites | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Generate sitemap | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Update flake detection time period | Documentation |
| Fix | Fix table headers | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Clarification on pipeline upload order | Documentation |
| Fix | Update sample test in pages/plugins/writing.md | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Execute run finished worker in default queue | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Build Log Archiving on Custom S3 Buckets | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Change worker priorities | Test Analytics |
| Feature | Update docs on Elastic CI Stack Parameters to v5.20 | Documentation |
| Fix | Fix link to annotate subcommand in annotation API doc page | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Update empty state for no flaky tests found in the last 7 days | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | General style update to Bamboo migration guide | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Add documentation around prefix third-party fork branch names | Documentation |
| Feature | Add Pausing Cluster Queues documentation | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Add url validation to api upload controller | Test Analytics |
| Fix | Correcting storage duration information for build exports | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Add metrics-datadog-distributions documentation | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Make linked card shadows sharper | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Added how to get number of builds between two dates | Documentation |
| Feature | Polyglot hooks docs | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Change note about okta/azuread scim being avail for enterprise | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Update empty state for test collector | Test Analytics |
| Feature | Add documentation for listing and getting clusters with the REST API | Documentation |
| Feature | Add documentation for creating, updating and deleting clusters with the REST API | Documentation |
| Feature | Add documentation for cluster tokens rest api | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Restructure the Clusters page into a new section | Documentation |
| Fix | Correct the recipe for concurrency group filter | Documentation |
| Feature | Add Clusters Queues list/get documentation for REST API | Documentation |
| Feature | Document adding pipelines to a cluster | Documentation |
| Feature | Update agent docs for v3.47.0 | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Get all builds for pipeline graphql | Documentation |
| Fix | Fix web_url attribute on Flaky Tests API | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Additional info on using WAIT with BLOCK | Documentation |
| Fix | Fix link to agent lifecycle hooks | Documentation |
| Feature | Add documentation for pausing and resuming cluster queues with the REST API | Documentation |
| Feature | Document setting default queue for clusters with the REST API | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Trigger step soft_fail doesn’t accept exit_status | Documentation |
| Feature | Add Analytics REST API suite#show docs | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Make "local" an official BUILDKITE_SOURCE | Documentation |
| Feature | Add documentation on tests#show Test Analytics REST API endpoint | Documentation |
| Fix | Add missing "#" to notify → slack → channels example for step-level Slack notifications | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Find pull request number for the current branch | Documentation |
| Feature | Update docs for Agent v3.48.0 | Documentation |
| Feature | Add docs for creating, update and deleting cluster queues with REST API | Documentation |
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