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CruiseControl 2.8 ReleasedNovember 21

Along with a number of bug fixes and enhancements (release notes) there have been a number of significant below the surface changes that should be invisible out of the box but will be a GoodThing:

Java 5 required to run: this allows us to update the code to more modern Java and to take advantage of the libraries that are part of Java 5 but not Java 1.5. (Of course you can still compile your projects with JDK 1.4.)
Upgraded Jetty: along with the upgrade we are also exposing the Jetty configuration files to allow more extensions to the default behavior.
Updated to Servlet API 2.5 and JSP API 2.1
Specify Log4j config file: there is now a command-line switch (-log4jconfig) to specify the Log4j configuration file. Importantly, this can be either in the .properties format or the .xml format. The .xml format is more verbose (no surprise) but also allows more configuration options. From the Log4j tutorial:

"The properties file does not support some advanced configuration options like Filters, custom ErrorHandlers and a special type of appenders, i.e. AsyncAppender. ErrorHandlers defines how errors in log4j itself are handled, for example badly configured append

Final days to register for CITCON AmsterdamSeptember 18

CITCON Amsterdam is October 3rd & 4th and the final day to register is tomorrow, September 19th. We currently have 124 people registered from across Europe, ready to talk all about Continuous Integration, Testing and related topics. Hope to see you there!

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Mundane excellence in software, intensive care, and bombing missionsSeptember 16

In this blog entry I talk about how simple changes can produce dramatically different results. Developer testing is one of the practices, one of those little things, that add up to excellence:

"… there is no secret; there is only the doing of all those little things, each one done correctly, time and again, until excellence in every detail becomes a firmly ingrained habit, an ordinary part of one’s everyday life."