Version 5.1

[kinook]

Released on November 4, 2003

New Features

New action for Seapine Surround SCM.

New action for SourceGear Vault.

New action for ZeroG InstallAnywhere.

Add PerlScript to script language drop-downs, and add several PerlScript system scripts.

Add user option to show full path to project file in title bar (at Tools | User Options | General).

Enhancements

Toolbar/status bar enhancemements: 1) Support show/hide and of toolbars and status bar; 2) Support docking/undocking of toolbars; 3) Support customization of actions shown on toolbar and Insert Step dialog (at Tools | Application Options | Actions).

Execute failure steps on failure of step script events.

Support Build Step Group functionality with Process Files steps and steps with repeating build rules.

Update .NET global macros to initialize properly for .NET Framework 1.1.

Ignore validation on checkbox/listbox/radio button fields using field overrides.

InstallShield action: 1) Support IS DevStudio 9; 2) Support additional IS Developer options; 3) capture log file contents for PackageForTheWeb projects.

Make VS.NET action: 1) Improvements to locating web projects, including support for project not located on the default web site; 2) Intelligently locate correct VS.NET compiler version based on solution/project file version; 3) Add option to post-process successfully built projects on solution build failure; 4) Change labeling of revison / build fields to 3rd / 4th field due to ambiguity of Microsoft naming of version fields.

Send Mail action: 1) Support sending of HTML message content; 2) Support non-ASCII characters in message field; 3) support POP-before-SMTP authentication.

Set Current Dir action: Fail the step if unable to set directory.

Wise action: Support additional Wise for Windows Installer flags.

ZIP Files action: Default to regular compression instead of deflate method, since some ZIP utilities don't support deflate.

Bug Fixes

Logging: 1) Correctly log default step property for Run Program and Subroutine actions; 2) Truncate long default property (> 500 characters) when logging property value.

Prevent inclusion of collapsed steps in multiple selection when editing multiple steps at once.

Prevent error when creating a scheduled task if the project filename contains multiple dots or other invalid task name characters.

Fix File Locations dialog to properly reflect global macros file location when /macros command-line switch used.

Fix to drag/drop of file to add step to insert on current step tab.

Expand macros/script and show in tooltip for step name/description columns on step grid.

Fix handle leak when executing external programs from build.

Fix failure to start on NT 4 in some circumstances when Office 2000 installed.

Make VB6 action: 1) Handle non-existence of TEMP environment variable; 2) fix to log error message on build failure when continue on failure option checked.

Make VC6 action: 1) Always locate target filename specified as absolute path without drive letter; 2) fix to log error message on build failure when continue on failure option checked; 3) properly increment file version field values ending with " instead of \0"; 4) fix validation of version options.

Make VS.NET action: 1) Correctly locate AssemblyInfo project files for version set/increment even if specified as relative or absolute path (or with ".\" prefix); 2) fix validation of version options.

Perforce action: 1) Fix 'Unexpected error' when Perforce action sync command completes with a large amount (~5,000 files) of output; 2) Yes/no options on Client tab were being ignored; 3) Fix to add space at beginning of each line of a multi-line changelist description; 4) Submit command deletes named changelist (or skips submit step for default changelist) if revert option checked and all opened files reverted; 5) Submit command uses Folders/files field if provided for unnamed changelists; 6) Support entries longer than 1K characters in the Client Spec / Change List description, Jobs and View fields.

Process Files action: correctly support ? character as optional wildcard.

Replace in File action: Fix hang on literal replace if replace string contained search string.

Run Program action: Fix to properly validate Success Codes field if only a single range specified.

Send Mail action: Prevent error when attaching empty files.