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Introducing: Flaky test assignment in Test Analytics
Lightning fast testing and delivery for all your software projects
Linking to jobs from waterfall view
Introducing: Teams REST API
Cypress support for Test Analytics
Clusters Generally Available
Linking to agents from jobs
Lower Agent Timeouts
Agent Job Tokens
REST API Rate Limit Changes
Today, we updated our REST API rate limits. This update will improve performance, enhance security, and ensure fair usage.
Docs updates to Pipelines landing page, GraphQL cookbook, and visual style
We tackled some quick wins across the docs in a general uplift.
Enforce edit permissions check when accessing pipeline provider webhook URLs
Pipeline edit permissions are now required to view pipeline.provider.webhook_url. If the user does not have the correct permissions, a blank string will be shown in place of the webhook URL.
Single Organization Access Tokens
Starting today, newly created API Access Tokens will only access one organization. This update aims to enhance organizations' security by simplifying access token management. Administrators should be aware that tokens cannot be modified to include their organization after they have been originally created.
Upcoming change to the Buildkite API
To enhance the overall reliability and scalability, we are implementing changes to how Buildkite handles API GET requests that include a body in the payload starting September 18th.
GraphQL Rate Limits
Buildkite has introduced new rate limits for the GraphQL API.
GraphQL Build Retention Objects Deprecation
On 13 July 2023, there will be some deprecations in the GraphQL API. The following objects from the pipeline will be deprecated: buildRetentionEnabled, buildRetentionNumber, and buildRetentionPeriod.
Agent Tokens Removed from Buildkite UI after Creation
Effective from 24 July 2023, agent tokens in the Buildkite UI will undergo a significant modification. They will now behave similarly to API tokens, meaning that after creation, they will no longer be visible in the UI.
Now available: June 2023 Release
Today we’re shipping 30+ new features to Buildkite. Check them out in our June 2023 Release.
API token expiry policies
Security is job zero, it’s important for organizations to harden their defenses against lost or leaked credentials. Buildkite’s token expiry policy will automatically revoke tokens that are no longer in use from accessing your organizational information
Access Token Notifications
Buildkite has implemented additional security notifications to keep your data safer.
Important Update to Terraform Provider
We're removing support for Import of agent tokens in the Terraform provider. This change coincides with the announcement in this changelog. From 4 July 2023 onwards, any resources or data-sources which are dependent on an agent token being present will likely fail to apply.
Agent Token being Deprecated from GraphQL APIs
At Buildkite we take your security seriously, because of that starting 22 June 2023 you will not be able to retrieve agent tokens for clustered and unclustered agents through the token attribute after it has been created through GraphQL APIs.
New Security settings section
Jenkins migration guide added to the docs
We’ve added a guide in the docs to help you migrate from Jenkins to Buildkite.
AWS Elastic CI Stack v5.19.0 release
The v5.19.0 version of the Elastic CI Stack is now avaliable. This includes a fix for an error encountered when creating a new stack from its cloudformation template due to an attempt to create an ACL for object ownership when they are now disabled by default.
Docs home page redesign
We've redesigned the documentation home page to make getting to the content you want easier.
Elastic CI Stack for AWS docs restructure
We've restructured the documentation for the Elastic CI Stack for AWS to create clearer and more focused pages that are easier to navigate.
Now available: March 2023 release
We've just shipped new features that'll help uplevel your build and test workflows with Buildkite, including some key announcements:
Agent Stack for Kubernetes
We've released a new way to run your Buildkite jobs in Kubernetes natively. The Agent Stack for Kubernetes will allow your Kubernetes cluster to orchestrate your Buildkite Pipeline steps as Kubernetes jobs.
Secure your organization with session IP address pinning
Prompt your users to re-authorize when their origin changes.
Clusters
Clusters allow you to organize agents into groups. These groups, or clusters, will enable the management of pipelines and queues within that cluster.
OIDC support is now available
You can now request an OpenID Connect (OIDC) token from the Buildkite Agent 🔑
Export audit logs to EventBridge
Explore organization change events in your existing AWS monitoring suite.
API access allowlist
Restrict API access to IP addresses and CIDR block ranges you trust.
New environment variables for group steps
Jobs that belong to group steps will now have access to information about their group's ID, key and label via environment variables.
Signal and signal reason in automatic retry rules
Jobs can now be automatically retried based on the signal received by the command process that caused it to exit, in addition to the job's exit code.
Build Matrix support for plugins and agents
Build Matrix has been extended to support matrix variable interpolation inside the plugins and agents attributes of command steps.
Build waterfall view
The waterfall view visualizes the timeline of each step in a build. You can see this summary in your Builds page a toggle–enabling to switch between list and waterfall views.
Go straight from failed jobs to Test Analytics
Quickly view insights about failed tests by going directly from a job to its related information in Test Analytics.
Test Analytics now automatically detects flaky tests
Build UI improvements
We've updated the Build UI to be more intuitive with the following improvements:
Pipeline tags
Pipeline tags make it easier to sort through and filter multiple pipelines. Tag names support both text and emojis. You can now tag your pipelines and use the search bar to find tags.
Usage breakdown: understand your usage by pipeline and test suite
Analyze your usage by pipeline or test suite, with the option to view monthly or daily breakdowns. Delve into previous billing periods, and conveniently export your data for offline analysis.
Agent v3.45.0 and AWS Elastic Stack v5.18.0 release
The latest agent release includes the job-api experiment, which enables an HTTP API within the agent, allowing jobs to inspect and mutate their environment without using bash. This is a big step towards supporting hooks and plugins in other languages.
Pipelines glossary added to the docs
We've added a glossary to highlight and explain the core concepts of pipelines.
Agent v3.44 + AWS Elastic Stack v5.17 release
The 3.44.0 version of the buildkite-agent and the 5.17.0 version of the AWS elastic stack are now available.
New pipelines will have a default branch of 'main' from April
Over the past two years, GitHub, GitLab, and other Git services have updated their default branch names from "master" to "main" – you can read more about the motivation for the change in this statement from the Software Freedom Conservancy.
UI Improvements
If you've ever thought "I need more purple in my life" then we've got some exciting news for you... 💜
Updated docs navigation
We've updated the navigation in the documentation to help you find the content you need quickly. 🎉
New builds now default to the current branch
Pipelines now considers your current branch when surfacing options for a new build. This removes the friction of a new build defaulting to main.
New docs for using GitHub merge queues
We’ve added a guide to help you set up merge queues in your pipelines. Merge queues are a feature of GitHub to improve development velocity on busy branches. ✨
Agent v3.43.1 + Elastic Stack v5.16.1 release
The v3.43.1 version of the buildkite-agent and the v5.16.1 version of the AWS elastic stack are now available.
Agent v3.43.0 and AWS Elastic Stack v5.16.0 release (addressing Git CVEs)
The 3.43.0 version of the buildkite-agent and the 5.16.0 version of the AWS elastic stack are now available.
Configure your SSO session duration
Customers using SSO authentication can now easily configure the SSO session duration via the settings UI–enabling greater control over your security posture.
Announcing the Developer plan
We’ve released the Developer plan, which replaces the legacy Free plan. The Developer plan continues to be free-of-charge, with the following updates:
Agent v3.41.0 and AWS Elastic Stack v5.14.0 release
The 3.41.0 version of the buildkite-agent and the 5.14.0 version of the AWS elastic stack are now available.
Introducing: Themed Job Logs
Job logs now have the addition of light theme on build summaries – ensuring those that find lower contrast easy-to-read have an alternative option.
Agent v3.40.0 and AWS Elastic Stack v5.13.0 release
The 3.40.0 version of the buildkite-agent and the 5.13.0 version of the AWS elastic stack are now available.
Multiple GitHub Enterprise Servers support
Today we’re introducing the ability to configure multiple GitHub Enterprise Servers.
Buildkite and OpenSSL (CVE-2022-3786, CVE-2022-3602)
Last week a serious vulnerability (CVE-2022-3786, CVE-2022-3602), was disclosed in the OpenSSL library. We’ve ensured that Buildkite internal systems, and our open source projects, are not vulnerable to this exploit.
Agent v3.39.1 and AWS Elastic Stack v5.11.2 release
The 3.39.1 version of the buildkite-agent and the 5.11.2 version of the AWS Elastic Stack are now available.
Security Advisory for Buildkite Agent and Bash 5.2
Bash 5.2 uses a new quoting style for environment variables containing newlines, and may cause values to be revealed by the Agent
Introducing: The Build Issues Tab
Failed builds now jump straight to a new Issues tab on the build page 🗂
Build Retention
You can now configure pipelines to remove old builds over time ⏰🧨
Finding failures faster
Today we're rolling out some updates to Buildkite Pipelines to make it easier to find and fix failing builds.
New GraphQL API schema browser
We've released a new schema browser for our GraphQL API 🎉
Agent v3.38.0 and AWS Elastic Stack 5.11.0 release 🎉
Buildkite agent v3.38.0 and AWS Elastic Stack v5.11.0 are now available!
Default timeouts for command steps
You can now specify default timeouts for command steps ⏰💥
Failing builds fast
We're introducing a new "failing" build state for faster feedback 🏃♂️💨
New environment variable: Pull request draft
For customers triggering builds via GitHub, we've added a new environment variable to track the draft status of a pull request:
Specify Team Access Levels in Create Pipelines API
Using the Create Pipeline REST API you can now specify the access level for each associated team 🔏
Automatic job expiration after 30 days
Starting August 1st 2022, jobs which are not run within 30 days will automatically expire 🧹
Improved Docs navigation bar
After releasing Test Analytics, we've been working on improving the navigation bar in the Docs to make it easier for you to find and read docs on both Pipelines and Test Analytics.
Agent names no longer support "%n"
Using %n in agent names is deprecated and will soon be removed 👋
Filter busy agents
The agents page can now be filtered to only busy agents 🕵️♀️🕵️♀️🕵️♀️
Buildkite Test Analytics: Identify, track, and fix problematic tests
We know how frustrating finding and fixing flaky tests can be. And how costly your test suite performance degradations can become over time. We’ve been working to solve these problems for good, with our newest product — Buildkite Test Analytics.
Agent v3.36.1 + AWS Elastic Stack v5.9.0 Release
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Pull request repository URL protocol
We're changing $BUILDKITE_PULL_REQUEST_REPO from the unauthenticated git protocol to https 🔒
AWS Elastic Stack v5.8.0 release
The 5.8.0 version of the AWS elastic stack is now available. 🚀
Agent v3.35.0 release
The 3.35.0 version of the buildkite-agent is now available. 🚀
Schedules no longer have a user
As announced in 2019, Schedules no longer need a user 🏃🏼♂️💨
Build Matrix for Multi-step Pipelines
We've added Build Matrix so you can create multiple jobs from a single, multi-variant step definition. 🧮
Agent v3.34.0 release
The 3.34.0 version of the buildkite-agent is now available. 🚀
Group steps with the `group` config option
We've added a new group pipeline step type so you can group steps together, set dependencies between them, reduce YAML repetition, and clean up your build pages 🏗✨
GraphQL API Allowed IP Addresses
API Access Tokens now honor Allowed IP Address restrictions via the GraphQL API
Buildkite and Log4j CVE-2021-44228
Buildkite internal systems, and our open source projects, are not vulnerable to this exploit.
AWS Elastic Stack v5.7.2 release
The 5.7.2 version of the AWS elastic stack is now available. 🚀
Datadog CI Visibility Integration
For teams using Datadog, we've recently made it easier to send information about your Buildkite pipelines to Datadog’s Continuous Integration Visibility. This is a simple integration that any organization using both Datadog and Buildkite can enable to get insights into their pipeline’s performance over time. 📈
Elastic Mac for AWS
For teams that run Buildkite Pipelines and build Xcode based software projects for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and watchOS apps, you can now run your Buildkite Builds on AWS EC2 Mac instances using a CloudFormation template. 🎉
Test Analytics private beta
Identify, track, and fix problematic tests with ✨Test Analytics✨, now in private beta.
BUILDBOX_* environment variables removed from Buildkite
In November 2018, we posted a changelog deprecating BUILDBOX_* environment variables from generating for new jobs.
Agent v3.33.3 and AWS Elastic Stack v5.7.0 release
The 3.33.3 version of the buildkite-agent and the 5.7.0 version of the AWS elastic stack are now available. 🚀
Job Priority Attribute for Pipeline Steps
For teams running a lot of jobs who want more control over what order their jobs run in, we've introduced the Job Priority attribute to specify its priority within its queue. 🙋🏻♀️
SCIM deprovisioning support for Okta and Azure AD
Enterprise teams using Okta or Azure AD for SSO can optionally enable SCIM to automatically deprovision users
Eager Concurrency
Traditionally, concurrency groups enforce strict ordering of the jobs within them. Concurrent jobs will be limited to the number set for the group, and will only start executing in the order they were created. 📝
Agent v3.32.3 and AWS Elastic Stack v5.6.0 release
The 3.32.3 version of the buildkite-agent and the 5.6.0 version of the AWS elastic stack are now available.
New Build Artifact Retention Limits
From 1 October 2021, build artifacts hosted by Buildkite will be retained for six months from time of upload, after which they will be deleted. Artifacts uploaded before 1 April 2021 will also be deleted at this time.
Elastic CI Stack for AWS v5.5.0 released ☁️
We've released v5.5.0 of the Elastic Stack CI for AWS ☁️
Agent v3.32.0 released 🦾🤖
We've released v3.32.0 of the Buildkite Agent 🦾🤖
One-shot agents with the acquire-job flag
For teams running their own compute scheduler or those needing single-use agents, we've added the --acquire-job flag to the Buildkite Agent 🧰
HMAC signed webhooks
Send HMAC signatures with your Webhook Notification services 🔐
Buildkite CLI v1.2.0
We've released v1.2.0 of the Buildkite CLI 📎💪🏼🪟
Conditional webhooks
For complete control over when to trigger builds, use conditional expressions to filter incoming webhooks 📥
Terraform Provider v0.4.0
The latest release of the Buildkite Terraform provider adds buildkite_meta: a data source providing the IP addresses Buildkite uses for webhooks ✨
PagerDuty Change Events Integration
Send Change Events to your PagerDuty services whenever a build completes 🚨
GraphQL API state change for broken jobs
To simplify querying jobs with GraphQL we're shipping a fix to make sure broken jobs return a "BROKEN" state 🚦
Announcing the Buildkite Newsletter
A handy digest of our favorite features, updates, and blog posts delivered directly to your inbox
Keep your secrets safer
Nobody likes accidentally leaking secrets in a build log. The Buildkite agent can now redact secrets present in your environment variables.
New in the Buildkite Agent: Remove a build annotation
With the release of v3.28.1 of the Buildkite Agent, we've introduced a new command to remove existing annotations from a build 📝🚫
Datadog tracing for CI builds
Support for configuring Datadog as a tracing backend on the Buildkite agent to help monitor build and job metrics
New outbound IP addresses
To support customers with inbound network firewalls, Buildkite's Meta API lists the IP addresses that Buildkite uses to send outbound traffic such as webhooks and commit statuses.
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Manage buildkite config as code with the official Buildkite terraform provider
Build only branches, tags, or both
A new pipeline setting to control building tags, pushes, or both.
AWS Elastic Stack support for ARM instances 🚀
Elastic Stack for AWS v5.1.0 is out, with support for ARM instances
Introducing early access to Buildkite’s Managed macOS CI
We are excited to announce this exclusive program for our macOS agents managed service, providing the first scalable CI platform for Mac and iOS development.
Copy environment variables to clipboard
Those occasional times when you need to grab a copy of all the environment variables on a job, wouldn't it be great if there was a button for that? 🤔
Apple Silicon support in the Buildkite Agent
The Buildkite agent runs natively on Apple's new M1-powered computers
Archive Pipelines 🗃
We’ve added the ability to archive pipelines in the UI or GraphQL API.
GraphQL resource id is available on the REST API
As part of the transition to GraphQL, we have added graphql_id for the following REST API resources. The graphql_id is used to target specific resources when running queries and mutations on GraphQL API.
Quickly toggle UTC times on Buildkite
We’ve added the ability to toggle between local time and UTC by clicking on a timestamp
Webhooks can be auto-created for GitHub repositories
We've updated our GitHub app, adding the option to automatically create webhooks for new pipelines 🔀
Share git checkouts with the git-mirrors Agent experiment
Have a single git clone per host, to help speed up git operations and reduce network and disk usage 👯
Custom states for blocked builds
With the new block step attribute, blocked_state, you can specify what state the build should have when it’s blocked by each block step — green passed, yellow running, or red failed.
Branch filter pattern changes
You can now mix positive and negative branch filter patterns for more precise control over which branches to build 🔀
Elastic CI Stack for AWS v5.0.0
Buildkite Elastic CI Stack v5.0.0 has been released.
An all new Timeline tab
Debugging job and agent issues has become a whole lot easier with the shiny updates we've just released to the Timeline tab 📖
GitHub App integration
See exactly which repo permissions are requested by Buildkite with our new GitHub App
New Repository Providers page
We've made it easier to manage multiple source control integrations 🔀 You can now find a list of connected and available integrations on the new Repository Providers page
Build page history fix
Previously when you clicked through a series of jobs in a build, using the browser's back button to step back through the jobs would not always work as expected 👾
Introducing the YAML Steps editor ✨
After 2 years in beta, we are thrilled to promote the YAML Steps editor to our recommended way of managing your pipelines 🎉
Additional permissions controls for Enterprise
Enterprise organization admins can now choose to make pipelines read-only, as well as managing the ability to create, edit, or delete at an organization level 🔐
Skipped builds now use "error" for GitHub commit statuses
Build skipping no longer creates misleading "success" commit statuses on GitHub.
Laying the groundwork for Buildkite on Apple Silicon Macs
We’ve taken some steps to ensure that the Buildkite Agent is ready for upcoming Macs running on Apple Silicon. 👩🏻💻✨
Phabricator integration docs
We've released a step-by-step guide to setting up automated builds from your Phabricator commits ✨
New Help menu
We've added a new Help menu to Buildkite that combines documentation search, suggested docs for the current page, and a link to support 👋
Bazel docs and example pipeline
We've added new documentation on how to run Bazel on Buildkite, including a GitHub repository and example pipeline 📗
New plugins directory and documentation
To make it easier to find and create Buildkite plugins, we've launched the Buildkite Plugins Directory and updated the plugins documentation 🔨
Search in Buildkite Documentation
We’ve rolled out search to the Buildkite documentation site, so it’s easier than ever to find an answer to your questions 🕵🏻♀️📚
Amazon EventBridge Partner Integration
Stream your data from Buildkite to Amazon EventBridge with our new first-class integration 👩🏻🔬
Discontinuing support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 🔒
We're discontinuing support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 as part of regular efforts to improve the security of the Buildkite platform, effective 1st Marsh, 2020.
New pipeline attribute: notify 🌟
Send notifications to email addresses, Basecamp Campfires, or Slack Channels with the new notify pipeline YAML attribute 💎
12 new conditionals now available
Since adding conditionals support we've added the following 11 new variables and one new function 🎉
Blocked builds now considered "Fixed"
Buildkite will now send build fixed notifications to your Slack channels when a build becomes blocked.
Timed out jobs that exit with 0 will now pass
Previously, the build would consider a timed out job as "failed", regardless of its exit status 🙃
Introducing pipeline step dependencies
We've added support for defining step dependencies in your pipeline configuration, allowing you to minimize the wait times in your builds ⏭
Embed colored terminal output in Annotations
You can now more easily embed colored terminal output in annotations. 🌈
Archiving build logs to private S3 buckets
There is a new feature available on our Enterprise plan: you can now choose to archive build logs to your own private S3 bucket, instead of storing them at rest with Buildkite 📦🔐
Date fields in outgoing webhooks now use the correct ISO8601 format
We've rolled out a fix for an issue where dates we presented in Webhooks were using an unusual ISO8601 format. This didn't match the one we document, or the one the REST API returned.
Access build annotations via the REST API
We’ve added the annotations endpoint to our REST API for retrieving a build’s annotations 🗃
Schedules no longer need a user
Builds created from schedules will no longer be associated with users 🏃🏼♂️💨
Deploying with Buildkite
There’s a whole new section in the docs: ✨Deployments ✨
New Artifactory support and documentation
We've added new documentation on Buildkite Agent's new Artifactory support for uploading build artifacts to JFrog's Artifactory 🎉
Conditional expressions for pipeline steps
We've added a new `if` property that uses a boolean expression to decide whether a step will be run or skipped 💫
Audit old and unused API tokens with API Access Audit
We've added a new API Access Audit section in your Organization Settings, so you can identify old and unused tokens, and revoke their access to your organization’s data 🕵️
Buildkite socks now available in the Shop 🧦
The swag you've all been waiting for is finally available in the shop: Buildkite socks 🧦
Identify if you’re running an agent version with known issues
To make it easier to see if you’re running an agent version with a known issue, we've updated the agent list, job timeline, and agent page to show a warning and a link to upgrade instructions 🐛
Configure and manage your single sign-on providers
We've added a new Single Sign-On section to your Buildkite organization settings, allowing you to setup, test, activate and manage your SSO configuration:
Artifacts glob_path and original_path fields are deprecated
The Artifacts API will no longer return the glob_path and original_path fields from 1st September 2019.
Scheduled Builds now allow specifying a time zone
We’ve added support for setting the timezone of your Scheduled Builds, so you’re no longer limited to just UTC ⏰
Job navigation now stays on-screen as you scroll
To make it easier to navigate long build pages, we’ve updated the job navigation so that it sticks to the top of your browser window as you scroll 🔝
Link directly to build annotations
We've added the ability to link to build annotations, so you can more easily share them with your team, and link to them in your build output 🔗
Support for rotating pipeline webhook URLs
We've added a pipelineRotateWebhookURL GraphQL mutation for rotating the webhook URL that connects a pipeline with your source control. And a github-webhook-rotate CLI tool for automating the process with GitHub 🌪
Inspect and revoke API Access Tokens via the REST API
We've added a new set of REST APIs for managing an API Access Token, including the ability to immediately revoke the current token 🗑
IP limiting for self hosted source code
To help increase the security between Buildkite and your Github Enterprise, Gitlab Community/Enterprise, or Bitbucket Server, you can now limit which IP address ranges are allowed to send build events to Buildkite 🚧
Guidelines for managing pipeline secrets
We've added a new Managing Pipeline Secrets guide to help you understand how to securely store and access secrets, and some of the anti-patterns you should avoid 🔐
Support for selecting multiple options in block steps
We’ve added a new multiple property to block steps, giving you the ability to select multiple options when unblocking builds ☑️
View all branches on the pipelines overview page
Your pipeline overview page uses each pipeline’s default branch to calculate the graphs and statistics. We've added support for setting a pipeline's default branch to a blank value (which you can now do directly on the pipelines page), allowing you to see the graphs and stats for all builds in a pipeline 📊
Compromised password protection
To protect accounts from being accessed using compromised passwords, we've integrated haveibeenpwned.com into all of our authentication systems, allowing us to verify that known compromised passwords can't be used to access Buildkite data 🚷
Self-signed certificate support for GitHub Enterprise
To help you get started with GitHub Enterprise installs that use self-signed certificates, we've added the ability to disable TLS certificate verification in your GitHub Enterprise Buildkite settings 🔓
Trigger builds on GitHub fork creation
In addition to running builds when code is pushed to GitHub forks, you can now trigger builds when forks are created 🍽🤖
Removal of the “All Organizations” scope for API Access Tokens
To improve API Access Token security we have removed the “All Organizations” scope from tokens. When managing your tokens you now explicitly select each organization 🔐
New in the Elastic Stack: Experimental Lambda-based Scaler
The latest version of the stack, v4.3.1, introduces a new parameter: EnableExperimentalLambdaBasedAutoscaling.
Command steps can now be made to soft fail
We've added a new soft_fail property to command steps, so you can ensure that some jobs never fail the build 🎈
Time formatting now respects your language settings
We've updated the way times are displayed, and they now respect your browser’s preferred language settings 🌏
Updated Environment Variables documentation
The Environment Variables documentation has had a major update 🤩
View pipeline uploads in the job Timeline tab
To help debug your dynamic pipeline uploads you can now view pipeline uploads in the job Timeline tab 🆙
Buildkite Changelog now has an Atom feed
You can now pipe updates from the Buildkite Changelog directly into your Slack channels, or other team chat tool, using the new Atom feed 🐶🗞
New Agent Tokens documentation
We’ve added a new Agent Tokens page to the documentation. It explains default organization tokens, creating and revoking tokens using GraphQL, session token exchange, and more 🕵🏻♀️
Upgrades to Single Sign-On support
We've been rolling out some big upgrades to Buildkite’s Single Sign-On (SSO) support based on your feedback 📣
Unblocker environment variables
Block steps record the person who unblocks them, and this information is available to subsequent steps via $BUILDKITE_UNBLOCKER environment variables. 👮♂️
Build messages are now optional
To make testing new pipelines easier, you no longer need to specify the "Message" of a build. Buildkite now automatically resolves the message, based on the git commit, when the build starts 🎉
SSO setup guides now available
We've added a new SSO section to the documentation, with instructions for setting up Single-Sign On with Google OAuth, Okta, OneLogin, and ADFS, and custom SAML providers ✨
Public build pages for open source
Buildkite pipelines can now made publicly visible, allowing them to be opened up to the world for the first time! 🌏
Updated syntax for using plugins in your pipeline YAML
Back in October, Buildkite Agent v3.5.0 included a bug fix to ensure that plugins are always executed in the correct order. In the process of fixing that bug, we've updated our recommended syntax for using plugins to use an array instead of a map, to make it clearer that the plugins are executed in order.
Run pipelines locally with bk cli 🤖
We've been working on a command-line tool for Buildkite for a while. Recently it's been upgraded with a local pipeline runner for testing out pipelines locally on your development machine.
A new artifact delete button and two new delete APIs
You can now delete artifacts in a job’s artifacts tab
Parallel jobs now show as a single group
We’ve updated the pipeline view of parallel jobs, so instead of showing every individual job they’re now shown as a single, expandable group 🎲
Agent Improvements in v3.6 - v3.8
Happy 2019! To kick off the year, we've got some new agent changes fresh off the press!
New 🚀 Sticker in the Buildkite Shop
Everyone's favourite illustration from the Buildkite website has been repackaged and deployed as a set of transparent stickers, ready for you to launch onto any surface you choose ✨
Link to jobs from annotations
You can now link directly to a job from a build annotation! 🔗
Upload user avatars and organization icons
You can now upload a user avatar directly on Buildkite. 🤳🏻 You’ll find the option to either drag-and-drop, or browse for an avatar in your Personal Settings!
Elastic Stack for AWS v4.0.0
We've released a new major version of Elastic Stack for AWS.
Autocomplete for your pipeline.yml files
The Buildkite pipeline schema is now available in the JSON Schema Store and on GitHub, allowing you to autocomplete and validate your pipeline YAML files as you write them 📝✨
New Screencast: Docker
There's a new screencast available at buildkite.com/screencasts/docker 🎉
Agents prior to 2.0 are no longer supported
From today, `BUILDBOX_*` environment variables won't be generated for new jobs.
Canceled builds now show who canceled
We've just shipped a small update to the build page to include the user who canceled the build 🙅♀️🙅♂️
Defining Pipeline Build Steps with YAML
We've just shipped a new beta feature giving you the ability to define your initial build steps using the same pipeline YAML format that you use in source code.
Two-Factor Authentication
Two-factor authentication for user accounts has just been released 🚀📟✨
Docker Plugin v2
Buildkite Docker Plugin v2.0.0 has been released.
All new Buildkite Shop
Starting today, you can now grab yourself a screen printed Buildkite tee or vinyl sticker from our new online store: shop.buildkite.com 🎉 Our new Buildkite tees are screen printed with discharge…
Control layout and styling in Build Annotations
Buildkite’s Build Annotations let you add your own info to the top of build pages and notification emails using the buildkite-agent annotate sub-command. Generate and display coverage information…
Agent v3 Release
The Buildkite Agent is one of the most important pieces of Buildkite—it runs on your machine and infrastructure, and allows you to massively scale your builds whilst keeping control of performance…
Job Retries
We’ve recently introduced some improvements to Job Retries. We’ve added some new attributes to our pipeline.yml command steps for automatically retrying failed jobs under certain conditions…
All new site and look
After much wrangling of HTML, browsers, words, and illustrations we’re excited to share an all-new website on buildkite.com 🎉 We’ve added a bunch of new pages, all jam-packed with information about…
Teams Permissions
We’ve just released a new permissions system for Buildkite, allowing you to control exactly who gets access to which pipelines in your organization 🙅🏼🔐 Each team allows you to add users and…
Improved Pipeline Headers
To compliment the recently reorganized pipeline settings, we’ve rolled out upgrades to the pipeline header. It includes a quick link to your source code, works better on smaller screens, and has even…
Reorganized Pipeline Settings
To make it easier to manage your Buildkite pipelines, we’ve just rolled out completely reorganized Pipeline Settings. There’s now a navigation sidebar, easier to find source control settings and…
My Builds
There’s a new way to interact with your Buildkite builds 😯 Instead of sifting through the builds from everyone in your organisation to find the ones you’ve started, we’ve collected them for you all…
Block Step Input Fields
Getting data into pipelines can be hard. Instead of wrangling APIs and chatops, you can now add custom forms directly to your Buildkite pipelines 🙌🏻 Getting input from your team has never been…
Blocked Builds
Build pipelines that finish with a click to unblock step now have a new state: Blocked! 🚧
Buildkite Agent 2.2
We’ve just released Buildkite Agent v2.2 (Brangelina) 💑💔
Improved organization invitation system
Today we’ve shipped some changes to simplify the Buildkite invitation system, including revamped invitation emails, automatic email address verification and a new screen for you to double check invitations before accepting them.
Buildkite Agent 2.1.14
It's a cold winter's day here in Melbourne, but never too cold for new Buildkite Agent release: v2.1.14 (Frosty) ⛄️
Elastic CI Stack for AWS
To make it easier for you to setup a build stack on AWS we've released the Elastic CI Stack for AWS ⚡ a pre-built CloudFormation stack that gives you autoscaling based on build metrics, centralized CloudWatch agent logging, and S3 bucket support for configuring pipeline secrets.
Export build pipelines as YAML
Transitioning your build pipeline definitions from the web into your source control used to mean rewriting them by hand, which in same cases could have taken a while and made you a sad panda...
Buildkite now available as a StatusPage.io Third-Party Component
If you use StatusPage.io you'll be pleased to know you can now find Buildkite in the Third-Party Component list, so when Buildkite experiences an outage (which is hopefully never) then your StatusPage will automatically update. Such automation! ✨
Buildkite Agent Homebrew Updates
If you’ve installed the Buildkite Agent using Homebrew recently you might have noticed warnings about the use of SHA1:
Skipped jobs are now hidden by default
To make it easier to see which jobs were run in a build and which ones were skipped, we’ve updated build pipelines to hide skipped jobs by default ✨
Buildkite Agent 2.1.9
We’ve just released Buildkite Agent v2.1.9 (Purple Rain) ⚛️
Webhook payloads now include an event property
If you’ve tried processing Buildkite webhooks with AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Functions you'll know dealing with HTTP headers can sometimes be more painful than dealing with plain old JSON body properties.
API updates and community releases
After a long weekend full of 🍫🐰 we’re happy to share some of the recent API updates that we’ve made based on your feedback 🛰️✨
Delete uploaded job logs
Have you ever accidentally output something sensitive in a build log before? 😣 If you have, that's ok - we've got your back…
Buildkite Agent 2.1.8
We’ve just released Buildkite Agent v2.1.8 (Triantiwontigongolope 🐛) 🎉
Buildkite Agent 2.1.6
Hot on the heels of the previous release comes Buildkite Agent 2.1.6. 🔥
Buildkite Agent 2.1.5
We've just released a new Buildkite Agent stable version: 2.1.5 🎉
Shell-friendly job environment variables
If you’ve ever needed to re-run a job locally using the same environment variables that were used in a build, we’ve some good news: the Environment tab on each job now shows the values in a shell-friendly format for easy copy and pasting. :page_facing_up:🐢
All New Emojis! 👏🏿🤗
We've just shipped upgrades to one of the most important systems within Buildkite's infrastructure 😏
Projects are now Pipelines
Welcome to the first Changelog update! ✨ This is where we’ll keep you up-to-date with the small improvements we’re constantly rolling out. The big stuff will still make it onto the blog, but if you’re a daily Buildkite user there’s lots of other changes you’ll want to know about.
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