Track CircleCI Updates

October 31, 2016

Emails now link you to your 'Failing Command'

feature Rishi Kumar, Product Manager

CircleCI offers the ability to link directly to build output steps. We've now extended this feature into build email notifications. You should now see a clickable 'Failing Command' on (failed) build notification emails which will open the build page to the failed command in your build output.

October 16, 2016

feature Alexander Mann

We have added a confirmation message to prevent users from accidentally stopping the builds on CircleCI.

October 10, 2016

Interactive ‘Build Timing’ graph

feature Alexander Mann

We have added functionality to click through the 'Build Timing’ graph to access different sections of the build.

September 29, 2016

Anchor to a particular step within build output

feature Alexey Klochay, Product Manager

Users can show share link to a particular step within their build output; Eg.https://circleci.com/gh/spotify/helios/5091#tests/containers/0/actions/4

September 17, 2016

Flash notifications for adding & deleting keys

feature Petra Jaros, Developer

We have added flash notification when users add or remove Apple Code Signing key, API permissions, SSH key or environment variables.

September 12, 2016

Tag builds to execute even when ‘Only build PR’ option is enabled

bugfix Frank Wang, Developer

We have fixed the issue where tag builds were 'not running' when the only build PR option was enabled.

August 29, 2016

'Not Run’ status messages

feature Frank Wang, Developer

We have added a message on the build output page when the current build is of 'Not Run' status.

August 15, 2016

Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty as the default OS for new projects

feature Hirokuni Kim, Developer

We've switched the default OS for new Linux projects to Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty. Please note that the change applies only to new projects added to CircleCI from today on. If you wish to change the OS of your existing projects, you can do so from the “Build Environment” tab under Build Settings on your project's settings page.

July 26, 2016

Rebuild from the builds dashboard

feature Ian Davis

We have added functionality to rebuild failed and timedout builds directly from circleci.com/dashboard. This feature is enabled automatically. If you have any feedback regarding rebuilding or the dashboard, please feel free to post on Discuss!

August 05, 2016

Browser Notifications

feature Andres Cuervo, Developer

We have begun to roll out a new feature that enables browser notifications for finished builds. If this feature is turned on by a user for a given browser, the user will receive browser notification when respective builds have finished. To learn more or to provide feedback, check out this Discuss Post.

August 03, 2016

Continuous Deployment with Amazon S3

documentation Ricardo N Feliciano, Community & Partner Engineer

We have added a new guide to CircleCI Docs that provides an example of how to deploy an app or static site to Amazon S3. Find it here.

July 25, 2016

Option to auto-cancel redundant builds

feature Carmen La, Developer

We have added functionality to auto-cancel redundant builds. If this feature is turned on, we will automatically cancel any queued or running builds on a branch when a newer build is triggered on that same branch. To enable this feature you can navigate to “Advanced Settings” for your project and enable the “Auto-cancel builds” option.

July 11, 2016

Only PR builds

feature Carmen La, Developer

We have added functionality to only run builds when a pull request is open. To enable this functionality you can navigate to “Advanced Settings” for your project and enable the “Only build pull requests” option.

July 11, 2016

Email UI Improvement

feature Andres Cuervo, Developer

We have finished a series of changes to our build results email templates (i.e., emails sent upon build completion). 1) We have moved all emails to one consistent pattern that should improve clarity and legibility. 2) When available, we now add a value identifying the user that triggered the build called 'Triggered By'. 3) We have optimized the width on the build results output to accomodate narrower viewports (e.g., emails on mobile screens). If you have any feedback regarding notifications, please feel free to post on Discuss!

June 27, 2016

Mobile UI Improvement

bugfix Rishi Kumar, Product Manager

We empathize that looking at CircleCI on a phone can be frustrating. We shipped a small fix to make choosing branches easier. We hope to dedicate time to more fixes in the future.

June 25, 2016

Mitigation for Error Code 65 Issues for OS X

feature Rishi Kumar, Product Manager

In response to an uptick in Error Code 65 issues for OS X customer, we no longer charge minutes for builds that fail this way and we now auto-retry such failures up to 3x. Read more about it here

June 14, 2016

Email Alerts for OS X Overages

feature Rishi Kumar, Product Manager

This additional feature pertains to customers using OS X plans. Prior to this, we provided only alerts in-app regarding approaching and passing minute limits. With this change, we now trigger an email to a plan's billing-email when usage for a given billing period passes 80% and again when it passes 95%.

June 10, 2016

SSH functionality on OS X builds

feature Rishi Kumar, Product Manager

This change enables users to always see the SSH button on OS X builds. This brings OS X builds to parity with Linux builds in this regard. Users have found that one of the the best ways to troubleshoot problems is to SSH into a running or finished build to look at log files, running processes, and more.

May 28, 2016

Override Slack channel in Chat Notifications settings

feature Carmen La, Developer

You can now override the channel your Slack notifications are sent to directly in the Chat Notification settings of your project. This is particularly handy for larger organizations where dev teams have a hard time getting new Slack webhook URLs provisioned.

May 02, 2016

Unable to load test results under “Test Summary” section

bugfix Petra Jaros, Developer

We have fixed the issue where users were noticing a loading spinner rather than the test results under the “Test Summary” section.

April 28, 2016

Commit information not displayed for builds triggered via API

bugfix Alexey Klochay, Product Manager

We have fixed the issue where users were unable to see commit information for builds triggered via API.

April 22, 2016

Email address getting switched issue

bugfix Le Wang, Developer

We have fixed the issue where user email addresses were getting switched on “Notification” under “Account Settings”. There was problem in our Github user information synch cron job for a period of 10 days where we overwrote the user's preferences using Github's default email. This was a result of unexpected interaction of two seemingly unrelated areas. We really apologize for all the inconvenience it has caused.

April 22, 2016

Unable to “Follow” & “Unfollow” under Project Settings

bugfix Edward Reed, Developer

We have fixed the issue where users were unable to click “Follow” or “Unfollow” button under “Project Settings”.

April 08, 2016

API token issue

bugfix Ian Davis

We have fixed the issue where users were unable to delete the API token on “API permissions” under “Project Settings”.

April 05, 2016

Ability to select email notification per GitHub organization

feature Le Wang, Developer

You would now be able to select email notifications for each individual GitHub organization. Please navigate to the following link to update your notification settings.

March 31, 2016

Ability to select “Build Environment”

feature Edward Reed, Developer

We have added a new section called “Build Environment” under “Project Settings”. You can now select between Ubuntu 12.04 or Ubuntu 14.04 images. If you are building an OS X project, you can enable it under the “Build OS X project” section on “Build Environment” settings page.

March 31, 2016

Browser being unresponsive issue

bugfix Ian Davis

We have fixed a number of issues contributing to build pages rendering browsers unresponsive. We are currently displaying the first 400,000 lines of console output and provide you with the ability to download your full log.

March 28, 2016

API to retrieve latest build artifacts for a particular branch

feature Frank Wang, Developer

We have added functionality to retrieve build artifacts for the latest completed, successful, or failed build on a given project branch. Read more about it here.

March 23, 2016

Build parameters now supported for tagged builds

feature Frank Wang, Developer

Tag builds now support build_parameters, making it consistent with other build triggering APIs. Read more about it here.

March 21, 2016

Test summary now displays XML parse errors

feature Le Wang, Developer

We now display JUnit format XML output parse errors under the 'Test Summary' tab. If the build generates an invalid XML we will display a warning with filename and the line number where the error occurred.

March 17, 2016

Tag build API

feature Frank Wang, Developer

We now support both annotated and lightweight tags. You can now supply 'tag' as a key in the JSON body for POST request. Read more about it here.

March 16, 2016

Support for both [ci skip] or [skip ci]

feature Ian Davis

We now support both '[skip ci]' and '[ci skip]' standard for ignoring builds. Read more about it here.

March 11, 2016

Python symlink behavior change

feature Frank Wang, Developer

We have updated our handling of Python virtual environment. Previously, we created a symlink in your project root to the system 'venv' directory. We will no longer do this for projects created after March 11, 2016. If you need the new defaults to be overridden per-project or per-org, please email us at support@circleci.com.

March 10, 2016

Admin-only permissions

feature Le Wang, Developer

We have added logic to restrict any non-admin Github users from modifying project settings. If you would like to enable this feature for your organization, or specific projects within your organization, please email us at support@circleci.com.

February 19, 2016

New environment variables

feature Marc O'Morain, Senior Staff Engineer

We have added 2 new environment variables, `CIRCLE_REPOSITORY_URL` and `CIRCLE_BUILD_URL`. These variables are available in your builds and give easy access to the URL of your repo on GitHub and the URL of the build on CircleCI. This very handy for adding metadata to automated deployments. You can read more about our environment variables in the Environment Variables section of our documentation.

January 22, 2016

Maven dependency caching

feature Cayenne Geis, Developer

Maven builds are now using `dependency:go-offline` instead of `dependency:resolve` during the dependency phase, so they should save all dependencies to the cache before running tests.

January 07, 2016

feature Jared Volpe, Product Designer

We added text labels under the sidebar navigation icons. UX win!

December 23, 2015

Filtering on container status

feature Le Wang, Developer

You can now filter on container status using 'All', 'Successful' or 'Failed'. For failed builds, 'Failed' container status is selected by default.

December 22, 2015

Announcing GA for our new look

feature Kunal Jain, Product Manager

We are excited to announce GA of our new look. Read more about it here.

December 14, 2015

Sorting and filtering on Insights

feature Le Wang, Developer

We have added functionality to sort on 'Recent' and 'Alphabetical' values on Insights dashboard. Additionally, you can filter on build statuses.

December 11, 2015

Know your slowest test

feature Marc O'Morain, Senior Staff Engineer

You can now view the slowest test under the 'Test Results' tab after your build is successful. Need help setting up test results tab? View our test metadata collection doc.

December 11, 2015

Detecting GitHub SSH Key Audits

feature Marc O'Morain, Senior Staff Engineer

If you have not built a project for a few months, GitHub will sometimes ask you to verify the credentials that CircleCI uses to checkout your project. GitHub does this to keep your account safe. CircleCI will now automatically detect when your SSH keys require verificitation and will put a link on your build page to the GitHub page where you can re-authorize CircleCI's deployment keys.

December 03, 2015

Announcing public beta for our new look

feature Dan Beere, Designer

We are excited to announce public beta for our new look. Starting today all our users will have the ability to opt-in to the new design with the click of a button. Read more about it here.

November 24, 2015

Announcing our new build timing graph

feature Justin Cowperthwaite, Engineering Manager

Available for all paid and open source customers, the build timing graph gives you an overview of your build execution across all containers.

November 18, 2015

New iOS build image: Xcode 7.1.1, fastlane, and more

feature Alexey Klochay, Product Manager

We are actively working on our mobile iOS offering to prepare it for general release. For our beta users Xcode 7.1.1 is now available for all iOS builds. In addition, Fastlane and Carthage are now installed by default. Cocoapods and xctool have also been updated to the latest versions. Users in the current iOS beta should see more information here.

November 18, 2015

Failed build notification emails updated

feature Tim Reinke, Developer

We have updated the failed email template to be more responsive.

November 17, 2015

Announcing our new Insights feature

feature Kunal Jain, Product Manager

Available for all paid and open source customers, Insights is an interactive visual dashboard enabling you to see and understand all your builds for CircleCI at a glance. Read more about it here, and look for the new button on the navigation.

October 27, 2015

Fixed auto-scrolling on build output page

bugfix Brady Lill, Product Engineer

You can now follow the build output while the build is running.

October 20, 2015

Build output page now shows if the build was triggered by the API

feature Petra Jaros, Developer

'Triggered By' field on build output page will show `API` if the build was triggered via API.

October 20, 2015

Parallel containers are released before the deploy phase

feature Cayenne Geis, Developer

We now release your parallel containers at the beginning of the deploy phase, so that you can use them for other builds.

October 15, 2015

New Discuss forum

feature Frank Wang, Developer

Now you can ask us (and each other) questions and give feedback on the new Discuss forum. See for more details.

October 14, 2015

Tag builds will now be honored even if you have [ci skip] in its message

feature Cayenne Geis, Developer

Tag build will work as expected even if your previous commit messages have [ci skip] in them.

October 13, 2015

Directly link to tabs on build output page

feature Cayenne Geis, Developer

You can now link to different sections on the build output page (and can safely send someone the URL you are viewing to link directly to that section). The anchors are: #commits, #config, #usage-queue, #tests, #artifacts, #build-parameters, #ssh-info

October 07, 2015

Fixed the 'click to scroll' button on build output

bugfix Brady Lill, Product Engineer

You can now scoll to the bottom of the page by hitting the down-arrow button on the build output page.

October 07, 2015

New API end points

feature Tim Reinke, Developer

We have added new endpoints to make it easy for you to configure your projects. See the documentation for more details.

August 25, 2015

Recency sort for branches

feature Tim Reinke, Developer

You can now filter your branches using 'Recent' on the branch picker which shows you the last several builds sorted by recent activity.

August 24, 2015

Updates to build notification email subject

feature Ian Duncan, Developer

To make it more readable we have updated the title to [Build] : on / build ()

August 14, 2015

Fixed the detailed commit message on the build page

bugfix Ian Duncan, Developer

Detailed commit message that shows on hover on build page was fixed to not be cropped.

August 11, 2015

Run builds on pushing tag commits

feature Tim Reinke, Developer

In addition to deploying based on branch, you can deploy based on tags. See the documentation for details on usage.

August 07, 2015

Improvements to documentation search

feature Travis Vachon, Developer

Searching our docs now shows contextual snippets containing your search term, making it quicker to get to the right doc.

August 05, 2015

Fewer unwanted email notifications

feature Travis Vachon, Developer

We won't send you an email on your first push if you have set your preference to Fixed/Failed Only.

August 04, 2015

Show the pusher, not the author on build pages

feature Tim Reinke, Developer

We changed the build page to show the person who pushed the commit instead of the person who authored the commit and may have had nothing to do with the push at all.

August 04, 2015

Improvements to the Add Projects page

update Cayenne Geis, Developer

The Add Projects page is now faster to load and won't bog down if you have a large number of projects. Also, collaborators will now have an easier time following your projects, and we fixed a few annoying UI quirks.

August 04, 2015

More frequent GitHub sync

update Tim Reinke, Developer

We are now refreshing user and organization data from GitHub more regularly, so you should see fewer inconsistencies.

July 28, 2015

Stop building a project more easily

feature Travis Vachon, Developer

There's a new 'Stop Building on Circle' button on the Project Settings page you can use to remove the project from CircleCI entirely.

July 16, 2015

Fixed cleaning up closed pull requests from branch list

bugfix Cayenne Geis, Developer

Pull request entries in the branch list (created when building pull requests from forks that are not set up on circle) now get cleaned up when pull requests are closed

July 08, 2015

Hall integration removed

bugfix Cayenne Geis, Developer

Hall was acquired by Atlassian and shut down at the end of June. If you used Hall and have moved to HipChat, you can set up HipChat integration in your project settings.

June 01, 2015

files: and pwd: config options work together

bugfix Cayenne Geis, Developer

Fixed a bug where using the files option for manual parallelization didn't work when an alternate pwd was configured

June 01, 2015

More flexible SSH builds

feature Cayenne Geis, Developer

Now multiple people can ssh to the same build to collaborate on debugging, and you can ssh to a build that is already running instead of having to start a new one. Just click the "Enable SSH for this build" button in the "Debug via SSH" tab.

May 05, 2015

Safely build pull requests from forks by default

feature Emile Snyder, Software Engineer

Enables automatic safe builds of fork PRs for public repositories (you can see if tests pass before merging without the fork-er using CircleCI.) See the documentation for details on what configuration information is denied to these builds for security reasons.

April 20, 2015

Xcode 6.2 Support

update Rob Zuber, CTO

Xcode 6.2 is now supported as an option for iOS builds. See the documentation for details on usage. 6.3 coming soon!

April 10, 2015

Changelog notifications

feature Marc O'Morain, Senior Staff Engineer

We have added a new notification system to CircleCI to let you know when we update the changelog. When there is new changelog entry, you will see an icon to highlight the Changelog link on the left nav.

March 31, 2015

Experimental setting to block/allow branches for chat channel build notifications

feature Emile Snyder, Software Engineer

We inaugurated a new circle.yml 'experimental:' section with the ability to specify exactly which branches you should receive build notifications from in your chat channels - see https://circleci.com/docs/1.0/configuration/#per-branch-notifications for more information.

March 12, 2015

Faster iOS builds: Automatic Caching of CocoaPods and Ruby Gems

performance Marc O'Morain, Senior Staff Engineer

At CircleCI we are committed to performance, and we are always trying to find ways to run your builds faster. Today we have added the ability to cache dependencies when building on iOS. By default we will automatically cache any CocoaPods or Ruby Gems that are downloaded during your build. You can also cache any other build dependencies that you need, just like you can on Linux builds - see https://circleci.com/docs/1.0/configuration/#cache-directories for more information.

March 20, 2015

Improved Android support

update Lizzie Dixon, Developer

We've significantly improved support for Android builds -- we now pre-install more tools and packages, so setting up new projects should be quicker and easier. Check out our documentation for details.

April 30, 2015

Only use phpunit on the PATH

bugfix Chris Swenson, --

We no longer automatically look for phpunit in the repo, but always use the composer-installed or system-wide versions.

February 19, 2015

Improved Gradle support

update Lizzie Dixon, Developer

We have updated our Gradle builds to build using a local Gradle wrapper if one is present. If no Gradle wrapper is present we will build using the system installation of Gradle, as before.

February 18, 2015

Automatically retry iOS tests when the simulator fails to launch

update Gordon Syme, Developer

Circle will now automatically re-run iOS tests if the simulator fails to launch. This allows us to work around known issues with the iOS simulator that have been causing builds to fail.

February 17, 2015

Split iOS compilation and testing to improve iOS simulator stability

update Marc O'Morain, Senior Staff Engineer

We have changed the default steps that we take to build an iOS project. We have split the compilation phase and the testing phase in two. This improves the stability when running tests in the iOS simulator.

February 12, 2015

Extend the default command timeout to 10 minutes

update Gordon Syme, Developer

We've extended the default timeout for build commands to 10 minutes where the command produces no output. Longer running quiet commands now have more breathing room to complete without needing to modify circle.yml.

February 02, 2015

Automatically collect XCode crash reports

update Marc O'Morain, Senior Staff Engineer

During the iOS beta we have noticed that XCode can sometimes fail unexpectedly. When this happens CircleCI will now automatically capture relevant XCode log files and store them with your build's artifacts.

January 30, 2015

List individual tests in notifications and build emails

feature Cayenne Geis, Developer

If your build produced test metadata, we will now include the specific failing test names in chatroom and email notifications, so you more immediately know what to act on.

January 27, 2015

Document CircleCI with GitHub third party application restrictions

update Emile Snyder, Software Engineer

Explain how to get CircleCI builds working again after turning on third-party access restrictions for GitHub organizations

January 22, 2015

Improve individual test failure messages for Xcode

update Cayenne Geis, Developer

Better support for showing all the useful information for some junit formatter behavior, including that of xcode

January 19, 2015

Failure messages in the failed test list

feature Cayenne Geis, Developer

You can now access the full failure message for each test from the list in the failures tab. There's variation in exactly how test runners output this information, so let us know if we're not showing you quite what you'd like to see.

January 09, 2015

Test metadata for python nose tests

feature Cayenne Geis, Developer

Python tests using our inferred nose commands now produce and use test metadata; this will list the specific tests when builds fail, and produce better splits between containers based on test runtime

November 24, 2014

New add project UI

redesign Ian Duncan, Developer

The "add projects" page has a new look!

November 19, 2014

New retina-friendly vector status badges.

redesign Lizzie Dixon, Developer

Danny made some new SVG badges -- check it out.

October 29, 2014

Sourcemaps for the frontend

feature David Lowe, Software Engineer

For those of you who like to look under the hood: we've added sourcemaps to our (open source!) frontend. Now we can debug without losing our minds!

October 27, 2014

Tree-shaped artifacts list UI

redesign Brandon Bloom, Software Engineer

Artifacts are now displayed with a directory-style layout to make them easier to navigate. Read more about build artifacts in our docs.

October 24, 2014

List failed tests on build page

feature Daniel Woelfel, Software Engineer

Lists failed tests at the top of the build. Currently only works with our inferred RSpec and Cucumber steps, but we're working hard to add support for custom test steps and all test runners.

October 23, 2014

New container image with lots of small improvements

feature Mahmood Ali, Developer

Lots of small improvements to the container image: added JRuby 1.7.16, pypy versions 2.3.1 and 2.4.0, and php 5.6; updated the node.js default to v0.10, Java 8 to build 25 (up from build 20), and lxc to 1.0.6.

October 17, 2014

Yet another git edge case

bugfix David Lowe, Software Engineer

We now handle git "unable to create symlink (File name too long)" errors as gracefully as possible, instead of crashing horribly.

October 17, 2014

bugfix Danny King, Designer

Recent changes to Firefox's flex model broke our sidebar layout. Fixed by adding an explicit flex-basis property.

October 19, 2014

Populate CI_PULL_REQUEST and CI_PULL_REQUESTS

feature Chris Swenson, --

Added the CI_PULL_REQUEST and CI_PULL_REQUESTS environment variables to assist external services wanting to know more build information, and added documentation in resources/assets/docs/1.0/environment-variables.md. This is populating information similar to what coveralls does.

October 01, 2014

Rewrote the frontend to be much more stable and open-sourced it

update Daniel Woelfel, Software Engineer

We rewrote our frontend in React.js/Om. We've seen a nice bump in stability -- React's component lifecycle events have made memory leaks a thing of the past. It's now safe to leave a tab open overnight! The code is also open-source: please check it out and contribute at https://github.com/circleci/frontend.

September 29, 2014

Add first-class support for AWS credentials

feature Gordon Syme, Developer

If you're using AWS credentials in your build you can now set them at Project Settings > AWS keys rather than saving them as project environment variables.

September 19, 2014

Experimental setting for collecting detailed information about your tests

feature Daniel Woelfel, Software Engineer

If you're using our inferred RSpec or Cucumber commands, we've added an experimental setting to collect structured test output. You can toggle it from the Project settings > Experimental page. We currently use the data to give you better parallelism splits and we provide an API to access the test data for a given build.

September 09, 2014

Use github avatars

bugfix Cayenne Geis, Developer

GitHub avatars are now used for people who uploaded them directly to GitHub instead of Gravatar. This also cleans up some inconsistency for people with default avatars.

September 03, 2014

Add jobs/retry parameters to bundler command

feature Sean McAfee, --

Adds --jobs=4 and --retry=3 arguments to bundle command for Ruby projects.

September 04, 2014

Use monospace fonts for project configuration overrides.

update Ian Duncan, Developer

Config overrides in the project settings page are now monospaced inputs instead of using variable-width fonts.

September 02, 2014

Adds a list of pull requests to the build page

feature Sean McAfee, --

Added a new "PRs" section to the build page. It contains a list of links to all of the pull requests that the build was a part of (if any).

August 29, 2014

bugfix Ian Duncan, Developer

The sidebar UI used to show cancelled builds as failures in the sidebar. Now it shows up as cancelled instead.

August 27, 2014

Switch F/OSS on by default.

update Lizzie Dixon, Developer

The F/OSS experimental setting is now on by default for new projects, allowing them to use some free containers and giving them public build pages.

August 22, 2014

We've updated Ruby and PHP and fixed X-forwarding over SSH

update Daniel Woelfel, Software Engineer

We've added PHP 5.5.15 and Ruby 1.9.2-p330 to the base image. We've also fixed a bug that was preventing X-forwarding over SSH, which many of you use to debug webdriver tests.

August 21, 2014

leiningen is user-upgradable

update Gordon Syme, Developer

We've moved lein to ~/bin to make it easier for users to upgrade. To upgrade leiningen, add `lein upgrade` as a pre-dependency step to your build.

August 14, 2014

Publicly accessible dashboard and build pages for projects with the OSS feature flag set.

feature Emile Snyder, Software Engineer

Non-logged-in browsers of the site can now view OSS project dashboards and build pages. If you have an open source repo on GitHub, then you can enable public access to your build pages from the Project settings > Experimental page.

August 14, 2014

Fix Docker + Elastic Beanstalk documentation

update Ian Duncan, Developer

Docker documentation now includes installing the aws cli tools as part of deploying images to Elastic Beanstalk.

August 06, 2014

Reduce CPU usage for animations

performance Danny King, Designer

Replaced SVG SMIL animations with CSS3 animations for interface icons; reduces CPU usage significantly when icons are being animated.

August 05, 2014

Add GCE/Kubernetes example to Docker doc

update Kevin Bell, Solutions Engineer

Add an example of continuous deployment to a Kubernetes cluster manager running on Google Compute Engine.

August 04, 2014

Add Docker support

feature Mahmood Ali, Developer

We now support Docker! You may now build and deploy docker images from CircleCI directly.

August 04, 2014

Add changelog link to the aside.

redesign Ian Duncan, Developer

In the spirit of making our changelog a bigger priority, we've added a link to the navbar on the side of inner.

July 31, 2014

Experimental setting to build on pull requests from forks

feature Mahmood Ali, Developer

We now support building pull requests from forks. It's still experimental so you'll need to enable it from Project settings > Experimental settings page

July 29, 2014

Flesh out the Android documentation with lots of details

update Chris Swenson, --

Add detailed instructions for caching SDK components and testing against the Android emulator.

July 29, 2014

Add Sauce Labs doc

update Kevin Bell, Solutions Engineer

Add documentation explaining how to run tests against Sauce Labs.

July 28, 2014

Fix the giant success icon

bugfix Lizzie Dixon, Developer

An update to Chrome's SVG render revealed a bug in our CSS, leading to giant Circle icons in the invitations prompt. This fixes it!

July 24, 2014

Parallel django

feature David Lowe, Software Engineer

We will now automatically parallelize django test suites, for projects using django 1.6 or greater. You can enable parallelism on your project's Project Settings > Parallelism page.

July 16, 2014

Parallel nosetests

feature David Lowe, Software Engineer

We will now automatically parallelize 'nosetests' test suites. You can enable parallelism on your project's Project Settings > Parallelism page.

July 22, 2014

Update the simplecov warning.

update Lizzie Dixon, Developer

simplecov 0.9 was released, which no longer gives erroneous exit codes, so new builds with fixed versions won't trigger warnings.

July 14, 2014

Added calendar module to all PHPs

update Daniel Woelfel, Software Engineer

All PHP versions now have the calendar module included by default.

July 06, 2014

We've upgraded Python, Node, Go and Android SDK

update Mahmood Ali, Developer

We have added Python 2.7.8 and 3.4.1, Node.js 0.11.3, and Go 1.3. We also updated Android SDK to r23

June 18, 2014

Add configurable artifacts directories

feature berdario

Now you can configure arbitrary locations from which circleci will collect artifacts.

June 12, 2014

Add `username` and `reponame` to `projects` API

bugfix Joshua Ballanco

This adds `username` and `reponame` to the response from calling GET on 'api/v1/projects'.

June 05, 2014

Fix cached node_modules

bugfix Lizzie Dixon, Developer

Previously we would cache node_modules even if it was checked in; applying the cache would cause builds to use old versions. No longer!

June 04, 2014

Warn for multiple deployment sections

bugfix Lizzie Dixon, Developer

We arbitrarily choose a deployment section when more than one applies. Now we warn about it.

June 03, 2014

Experimental Settings Page

feature Lizzie Dixon, Developer

We made a settings subpage for things we're still working on. Notably, you can switch on the container-oriented build page yourself! Check it out -- it's in the project settings, under 'Tweaks'.

June 02, 2014

Stopped using user keys for checkout, except for project GitHub users

bugfix David Lowe, Software Engineer

A long-standing bug caused us to check out using users' personal GitHub keys, instead of deploy keys, even for projects without a configured GitHub user. A small number of projects relied on this bad behavior: the fix is to specify a GitHub user for your projects, from the Project settings > Checkout SSH keys page.

May 31, 2014

Added support for GitHub's new Combined Commit Status API

feature Daniel Woelfel, Software Engineer

Consumers of GitHub's commit status API will now see "ci/circleci" in the context field of the API response. You won't see any changes to the merge button on the Pull Request page until GitHub moves the feature out of preview mode. Read more about the Combined Status API on GitHub's blog: https://developer.github.com/changes/2014-03-27-combined-status-api/

May 30, 2014

Added support for interacting with the browser on the test containers over VNC

update Daniel Woelfel, Software Engineer

Debugging Selenium browser tests can be a frustrating experience, especially when they're running on a remote machine. To help tighten the feedback loop, we've added support for connecting to the test container over VNC. With VNC, you can interact with browser tests as they run on CircleCI.

May 23, 2014

We've add an experimental API for parameterized builds

feature Gordon Syme, Developer

We've added an experimental API for creating parameterized builds. This API lets you pass environment variables into your build environment which you can then use to customize your build steps, e.g. nightly builds.

May 19, 2014

Updated our address

update Lizzie Dixon, Developer

We moved!

May 19, 2014

We've upgraded Ruby, PHP, Node, and Heroku toolbelt

update Mahmood Ali, Developer

We have added Ruby 2.1.2 and 2.0.0-p481, JRuby-1.7.12, Rubinius 2.2.6, PHP 5.5.11, and Node.js 0.10.28. We also updated Heroku toolbelt to 3.7.3.

May 12, 2014

We added paging to the build dashboards

feature Gordon Syme, Developer

We've added the much-requested feature of paging to the build dashboards. And not just on the frontend, behind the scenes we're using our recent addition of paging to the recent builds API which is also available for scripting goodness.

April 30, 2014

We updated our pricing

update Nick Gottlieb, --

We've updated our pricing to be more simple and transparent. For more information, read our blog post.

April 22, 2014

Fork-specific deployments

feature David Lowe, Software Engineer

If you do continuous deployment of a project with multiple forks, you can now specify which fork of the project a deployment subsection applies to.

April 09, 2014

We added a Changelog

feature Paul Biggar, Founder

We've added a ChangeLog, also available as an RSS feed. Check it out!

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