We send about 14,000 notification emails every day.
We understand that these emails are critical for you
in order to stay on top of the projects’ status.
It is important that our notifications are meaningful and helpful.
When we change the notification policy, therefore, it is paramount that
we keep you informed about the change well in advance.
Note
This change affects only the builds triggered by pushes
to the repository.
The builds initiated by pull requests are not affected.
Current policy
The current policy is to notify owners of the repository, as well as
the committer and the author of the commit we test.
These email addresses were taken from the commit itself.
This resulted in some unwanted email; for example,
the author of a commit we test can receive email from us
when the build occurred on a fork of a repository over which
she has no control.
New policy
The new policy will be as follows:
If the commit occurs on the default branch,
then the owners of the repository will be notified.
If the commit occurs on a non-default branch, the author and the
committer of the commit who are also owners of the repository will be
notified.
We will use email address on our database.
Effective date
This new policy is scheduled to go into effect for
both Travis CI and
Travis Pro next Wednesday, November 27, 2013.
We know that patch authors of popular repositories were overwhelmed by
our notifications.
For this, we apologize.
This new policy will reduce the noise.
So, continue to be awesome and send your awesome patches to any project
you want without fear of spam from us!
We’re thrilled to announce that our Mac platform is now running on Mac OS X
10.8.5, with Xcode 5 and iOS 7 installed.
On top of that, we offer five different iOS SDKs: 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 6.1, and, of
course, 7.0.
With this long-overdue upgrade, we’re also deprecating a few things.
Projects running on the Mac platform are now required to specify the scheme and
project or the workspace in their .travis.yml. If your project didn’t have this
set up before, you will have to update your configuration.
Now go, get started and upgrade your projects. Your new commits will be built on
our new platform.
Happy shipping!
Please note that RubyMotion is currently not available on the Mac environment,
we’re working on bringing it back. Sorry for the inconvenience. When the Mac
environment has been updated, RubyMotion will be available in the currently
latest version.
Our thanks to Sauce Labs for continuing to provide us
with the infrastructure and the resources to get this update done and out. Much
<3 from the Travis CI team!
What else is new?
The usual suspects, you know, Ruby, have been updated to their newest releases.
Homebrew is up-to-date as well, so you can install dependencies to your heart’s
content.
What took you so long with the update?
We’d like to apologize for the long delays in getting this upgrade out the door.
As part of the upgrade, we had to change the underlying virtualization. We
switched from a setup based on kvm/qemu to a VMware-based setup.
This required a complete resetup of the entire environment.
Unfortunately we ran into some issues porting everything over, and we have to
work on improving this entire setup over time to make sure future upgrades are
going smoother than this one.
We’re preparing a rollout of fresh updates and new features for our build
environment, and wanted to keep you in the loop on what’s coming, what’s
changing, and what’s possibly breaking.
We’ll be rolling out these changes to https://travis-ci.org on Wednesday,
November 20. The changes will be rolled out to https://travis-ci.com the
following week, on November 26.
A big thank you goes to Gilles Cornu, who’s been
helping a lot with this upgrade. He’s contributed one of the biggest features
added with this update, the ability to switch PostgreSQL versions.
Here are all the details on what’s new.
Language Updates:
C/C++
Clang has been updated to 3.3.
Go
Go 1.1.2 now preinstalled and set as the default.
Java
All JDKs have been updated to their latest releases.
Support for Java 8 via OracleJDK 8 EA, see below for more details.
Gradle has been updated to v1.8
Leinigen has been updated to v2.3.1
Maven has ben updated to v3.1.1
Erlang / OTP
Erlang releases 16B, 16B02, 16B01 are now available.
Node.js
Node.js releases have been updated to 0.8.25, 0.8.26, 0.10.22, and 0.11.8.
For backwards compatibility, 0.8.23, 0.8.25, and 0.10.18 are still available.
PHP
PHP releases have been updated to 5.3.27, 5.4.22, and 5.5.6 respectively
New PHP modules are available by default: kerberos, imap, imap-ssl
Python
Python 2.5 has been removed due to very low overall usage and breaking changes
in pip and virtualenv.
PyPy was updated to 2.2
Ruby
Ruby versions have been updated to their latest patchlevel releases: 2.0.0-p247 and 1.9.3-p448
Ruby 2.1.0-preview1 is available.
Ruby and JRuby head are now continuously up-to-date with latest changes.
Support for Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.7 2011.12 (please remember that this
version has been declared End Of Life, and is not supported anymore in
production)
Build download time improved for Scala projects: Scala and sbt boot libraries
are now preinstalled for following Scala versions: 2.11.0-M5, 2.10.3, 2.10.2,
2.10.1, 2.10.0, 2.9.3, 2.9.2
Scala SBT and JVM default tunings will now only be effective when language:
scala is selected (see https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-build/pull/154).
It means that having an other language in .travis.yml will lead to use default
settings from sbt-extras (which should be good enough).
Maven is installed from Apache packages, which solves an annoying
bug
where builds wrongly assume Java 1.3 to be the source version when compiling
code.
Updates to the pre-installed database services and tools
Support for PostgreSQL 9.1, 9.2, and 9.3. You can select the version that’s
running in your build environment in your .travis.yml.
All PostgreSQL versions are pre-configured with PostGIS 2.1 and other modules.
Breaking change: memcached and redis-server are not auto-started anymore, make sure to add them to the services section in your .travis.yml.
Cassandra v2.0.2
ElasticSearch: v0.90.5
MongoDB: v2.4.8
Neo4J: v1.9.4
PhantomJs: v1.9.2
Redis: v2.6.16
Riak: v1.4.2-1
Sphinx 1.10 was removed, versions 2.0.9, 2.1.3, and 2.2.1 are now available
Other changes to the build environment
The data partition shared by PostgreSQL and MySQL has been increased to 768 MB
available disk space.
New Features
Java 8 is now available thanks to the early access releases of OracleJDK 8. Select oraclejdk8 to start testing with it.
Known Issues
At the moment, Gradle does not work with Oracle JDK 8 on Travis CI virtual machines. We’re investigating and should have an update soon.
Travis CI is still equipped by default with gcc-4.6, but we are aware that C++11 projects need gcc-4.8 and we are working on an update.
