Core upgrade to Spring Libraries is the Critical step and will be managed as the first step in this release. Thus Milestone 1 will only contain the Spring upgrade with no additional changes.
Once M1 has been stabilized and run through a full QA cycle then new features and bugfixes around Enterprise Support and Scalability and Team Concept will be added and rolled into the main Release Candidate 1 for QA and community testing.
We intend to allow 4 weeks for RC1 testing and will then, assuming no significant issues are raised, go to final release
From the Hudson Core point of view, this will be a drop in release with no changes to Job format. However, because we're taking this release as an opportunity to upgrade Spring and Spring security this will undoubtedly cause knock on effects in the plugins that you might be using. For this reason there will be new plugin versions to pick up as part of an upgrade to the release.
External work on the plugins is documented in the Hudson-ci wiki.
We have already managed the migration of key-plugins to be compatible with the new Spring version and these amended plugins are hosted on a parallel update center that Hudson 3.2 users will automatically connect to. This should reduce the chance of any issues on upgrade. providing that users upgrade their plugins at the same time as core.
As with all Hudosn releases, internationalization is a community effort and users can further enhance the available translations using the available Hudson Translation Assistance plugin.
As usual Hudson will support any platform that runs Java 1.6 or above.
| Name | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| M1 | 2014/05/15 | First release for sanity testing of the core Spring Upgrade. New versions of plugins should also be available at this point |
| RC1 | 2014/06/27 | Release Candidate containing Spring Upgrade plus new features in Team Concept and Performance |
| Release | 2014/08/15 | Proposed release date |
Enterprise Support
Spring 3 Upgrade
Team Concept
UI Polish