Q1 2024 ReleaseIntroducing Buildkite hosted agents
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Q1 2024 Release
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Buildkite now supports more use cases, with managed offerings for Mac and Linux.
M2 Macs by the minute→
Building and testing on macOS made easy.
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Run pipelines on Buildkite’s hosted Linux agents.
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New features
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Fresh ways to improve your workflow.
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Group flaky tests by team→
Assign flaky tests to the teams responsible for fixing them.
Pipeline templates are now open source for all→
Check out and contribute to a gallery of templates for popular tech stacks.
Get insights into Cypress tests→
A new test collector sends your data for Cypress test suites to Test Analytics.
Enhancements
Quality of life improvements
Those small changes that just feel right. 😌
★ Pro and Enterprise plans
Investigate jobs from the waterfall view→
Quickly jump from the waterfall view to a job's logs.
Save clicks when debugging agents→
New links help you jump between jobs and agents to diagnose issues early.
Bulk stop agents→
Manage your agents from the command line.
Faster reassignment for lost agents→
Spend less time waiting for lost agents.
Find test suites faster→
Bookmark your most visited test suites, and get run data at a glance.
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Manage teams through the REST API→
Parity between APIs for those who prefer REST.
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Integrations
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Plugin updates for better integration with your favorite tools.
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1% improvements
Some smaller features, fixes, and updates from our team to yours.
| Fix | Interpolate environment variables as part of group configuration. | Pipelines |
| Fix | Fix the 404 issue when clicking rebuild. | Pipelines |
| Fix | Fix the UI bug with parallelism by including the number in the build header. | Pipelines |
| Fix | Correctly terminate single-job instances in elastic-ci-stack. | Pipelines |
| Fix | Ensure audit logs include all pipeline update steps. | Pipelines |
| Feature | Allow for ordering annotations by priority using `--priority`. | Pipelines |
| Fix | Prevent cluster queues from becoming the default when changing their descriptions. | Pipelines |
| Fix | Transition builds to `started` when no longer failing. | Pipelines |
| Fix | Fix slow response times when getting `repositories.json` file. | Pipelines |
| Fix | Fix title element for default cluster queue page. | Pipelines |
| Fix | Fix `Unknown` Slack notifications on skipped builds. | Pipelines |
| Enhancement | Add `soft_failed` attribute to trigger jobs API presenter. | Pipelines |
| Fix | Fix signed pipelines with wait steps. | Pipelines |
| Fix | Resolve `github_commit_status` from `Pending` when using groups and wait steps. | Pipelines |
| Fix | Ensure agent registration happens when using clusters. | Pipelines |
| Fix | Display correct UI status for group step pills that contain skipped and running jobs. | Pipelines |
| Fix | Move jobs in `WAITING_FAILED` and to `CANCELED` when a build is canceled. | Pipelines |
| Fix | On Windows, allow case-insensitive interpolation of runtime environment variables. | Pipelines |
| Enhancement | Add `ClusterId` to Buildkite environment variables. | Pipelines |
| Enhancement | Add support for pipeline templates in the Terraform provider. | Support |
| Enhancement | Release v0.2.0 of the Migration CLI. | Support |
| Fix | Fix `--target` option implementation in the docker-compose plugin. | Support |
| Feature | Add `--buildkite-inline-cache` property to the docker-compose plugin. | Support |
| Fix | Fix an issue with the usage of `list-object-v2`. | Support |
| Enhancement | Add device-level IO limit options to the Docker plugin. | Support |
| Enhancement | Container-definitions configuration is now optional on the ECS plugin. | Support |
| Enhancement | Improve SSO IP pinning for users on IPv6 addresses. | Platform |
| Enhancement | Expand Buildkite emoji library. | Platform |
| Enhancement | Notify organizations when reaching either 50% or 80% of inclusion usage. | Platform |
| Enhancement | Allow CSV export of organization members. | Platform |
| Enhancement | Improve display of hidden API access token values. | Platform |
| Enhancement | Identify inactive notification services via `Last sent` timestamps. | Platform |
| Enhancement | Include more information in the empty state when no data is available due to data retention. | Test Analytics |
| Fix | Fix missing suite reliability chart hover tooltip. | Test Analytics |
| Fix | Adjust suite title and public badge positioning to account for long titles. | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Update docs to reflect currently available test frameworks. | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Remove `beta` reference in docs for languages out of beta. | Test Analytics |
| Fix | Remove double footer border on Test Analytics views. | Test Analytics |
| Fix | Ensure test runner exits with correct exit code in the JavaScript Test Collector. | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Refresh run issues documentation. | Test Analytics |
| Fix | Remove `Continue setup` link when user doesn't have full access to the suite. | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Remove ActiveSupport dependency from test collector Ruby gem. | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Update JUnit XML setup instructions to guide users to the Buildkite plugin. | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Clearly indicate which API calls require access token authentication. | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Promote organizations and add new teams endpoints to API documentation. | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Provide detail on how to manage clusters, queues, and agent tokens via UI or API. | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Explain how to migrate unclustered agents and pipelines to a cluster via UI or API. | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Create new documentation section for Buildkite Packages, including a step-by-step tutorial. | Documentation |
| Feature | Add `--allowed-environment-variables` option to agent start. | Agent |
| Enhancement | Cap agent retries to 24 hours for cases that previously tried forever. | Agent |
| Fix | Prevent agent from retrying more requests that will never succeed. | Agent |
| Enhancement | Upgrade agent to run on Go 1.22. | Agent |
| Enhancement | Log enabled experiments on agent start. | Agent |
| Enhancement | Extend graceful cancellation from checkout phase to all job phases. | Agent |
| Enhancement | Allow silencing of specific warning logs using `--disable-warnings-for`. | Agent |
| Fix | Resolve Git commit information automatically when using a custom checkout hook. | Agent |
| Fix | Fix PowerShell hooks on Windows. | Agent |
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