January 22th, 2012

Features & Improvements

New on deployments overview page

• Lists all environments for the repository.
• Easier access to environment and server settings, latest releases, and deployment statuses, deployment type (manual/automatic).

New on deployments detail page

• Now contains the environment's activity separated from other environments.
• Cancel and retry deployments
• Easier access to incident, revision range, revision date range, and deployment type (manual/automatic).
• Deployment states now include "Cancelled", and "skipped" has been renamed to "bypassed".
• Last deployment status visible in page title.
• Tooltips for failed, bypassed, and cancelled deployments include reason and user details.

New release notes

• New release notes page contains full log of changes made during a release, revision ranges, and included tickets (if ticketing integration is enabled).

New on server settings page

• Clearer overview of each server, includes tooltips with revision number and server IP address, easier to read local & remote paths, and date when deployment finished.
• Tooltip includes how up to date a server is, and how many revisions behind.

New on server settings edit page

• Set start revision for deployments.
• Optionally exclude file/folders.
• Deploy with SSH commands, including custom variables.
• Increased security by providing optional unique SSH keys for every SSH & SFTP server.

General updates

• New deployment email notifications for team.
• Added rollback support for Git deployments
• New and improved Features section on public site

January 18th, 2012

Features & Improvements

• Introduced support for recursive submodules in deployments
• Improved stability of SVN Externals/Git Submodules in deployments

Bugfixes

• Fixed file compatibility for some FTP deployments to Windows servers by detecting ASCII vs binary transfer mode.

January 14th, 2012

Features & Improvements

• Removed the admin-only permissions from Repository API methods for "show", "branches" and "tags".
• Removed the admin-only permissions from User API method "current".

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug in Edit tool that prevented changes to be applied to files with special characters in their names (like round brackets).

January 10th, 2012

Features & Improvements

• Improved sharing in Design Previews, allowing you to share new revisions without breaking old share URLs.
• Design Preview will now memorize what view type you had selected when sharing was enabled.
• Campfire integration will now post summary of commits for Git and Mercurial (beta) repositories.
• Fixed back button on Design Preview to take you to correct branch or tag.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a rare edge case when a diff tool would produce a 500 error.

December 20th, 2011

Features & Improvements

• It's now possible to post time entries for multiple users in Harvest integration.
• WebHooks integration is now available on Trial accounts.
• Improved error handling and incident notifications for custom S3 backups.

December 7th, 2011

Features & Improvements

• Added ability to select syntax highlighting language on the file page.
• Streamlined behavior of pop-up HUDs across the application.
• Repository's branches and tags are now available via the API.
• Insecure HTTP access has been disabled for the the API.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a rare edge case when editing Subversion commit messages wasn't possible for some commits.
• Fixed a bug that caused account commits to remain blocked even after storage space was freed.

November 15th, 2011

Features & Improvements

• Enabled admin users to unsubscribe from incident notifications.
• Improved reply-by-email for Git and Mercurial pushes that include a single commit.

November 7th, 2011

Features & Improvements

• Improved look of Subversion commit notifications in html.
• Added ability to reply to commit and comment notifications via email.

November 1st, 2011

Features & Improvements

• The account dashboard will now randomly rotate handy "Did You Know" tips.
• It's now possible to get diffs for a changeset via the API.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a rare edge case when an integration wasn't processed properly if another integration failed.

October 25th, 2011

Features & Improvements

• Improved performance of permissions page. No more timeouts!
• Added discount codes for Tower and Versions to the repository setup help page. Grab your code now!
• Changed the order of tags and branches on the Browse and Activity pages to natural sorting.

October 17th, 2011

Features & Improvements

• Introduced JSON output for all API methods.
• Added ability to create URL imports via API.
• Added ability to invite users via API.
• Added ability to search commits by user with his email address (eg. "+by ilya@wildbit.com").
• Added ability to search for Git commits by short commit hash (eg. "+hash 58a94892").

Bugfixes

• Fixed a rare edge case when Beanstalk couldn't accept an AWS S3 URL for import.

October 11th, 2011

Features & Improvements

• Improved appearance of changeset diffs in GMail.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug when incidents weren't created for failed imports.

September 20th, 2011

Features & Improvements

• Improved performance of the Changesets API.
• Added Groovy syntax highlighting.
• Added pusher_id and pusher_name to WebHooks JSON.
• Added pagination to Users and Repositories API.
• Added optional order and order_field parameters to Changeset API.
• Added optional per_page parameter to all API methods with pagination.
• Added support for names with dots in the "assignee" commit command.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a rare edge case when email digest was delivered empty.
• Fixed a UI bug on large screens

August 29th, 2011

Features & Improvements

• Security Improvement - added button to close all open sessions on other computers. Available on the Profile & Settings page.
• User email addresses visible on Permissions page.
• New API method: retrieve all deployments for logged-in account with a single API call.

August 9th, 2011

Features & Improvements

• New API method: retrieve all comments for a user.
• Ensure that all repositories are scheduled for backup when S3 backups are turned on.

Bugfixes

• Fixed broken logic behind file path navigation toolbar in the file viewer.
• Fixed a problem with when the repository switcher blocks the Activity tab.
• Fixed a problem when the Back button is not working properly in the Editor with branches.
• Fixed a rare edge case when comments did not appear on the changeset page.
• Fixed a rare edge case when a user was logged out unexpectedly (for example after hitting Retry on deployment).

June 29th, 2011

Features & Improvements

• Introducing live file editor. You can now edit and commit files directly in the web UI.
• Treat files with .pm and .cs extensions as plain text.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a rare edge case when an incident couldn't be viewed.
• Minor improvements for email digests on mobile devices.
• Fixed a bug when SVN externals weren't deployed properly.

June 22nd, 2011

Features & Improvements

• Completely replaced all Prototype JS code with jQuery.
• Added read-only "owner" attribute to Users API.
• Increased timeout for Import from URL option. You should be able to import bigger dumps now.
• Minor improvements for the mobile optimized version of Beanstalk.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a rare edge case when a coupon wasn't applied properly on upgrade.

May 30th, 2011

Features & Improvements

• Introducing new Get Started guides for Git and SVN repositories. You can find them near the Repository URL on Activity page.
• Improved look of some pages in the mobile optimized version of Beanstalk.
• Improved signup steps for invited users.

May 26th, 2011

Features & Improvements

• Introducing a mobile optimized version of Beanstalk for iPhone, Android, and other handheld devices.
• Improved look of daily email digests on iPad and iPhone.
• Improved documentation of pre- and post-deploy hooks in API docs.
• Improved email notifications about incidents.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a rare edge case when an invitation couldn't be resent.

May 16th, 2011

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue when time zone wasn't applied properly to time stamps in email digests.

May 10th, 2011

Bugfixes

• Fixed a rare edge case when an invitation couldn't be accepted if the user who created it was deleted.

April 26th, 2011

Features & Improvements

• Introducing daily email digests for Git and SVN.

Bugfixes

• Fixed incorrect filesize that was displayed sometimes when downloading an export.

April 18th, 2011

Features & Improvements

• Added back the Resend button for user invitations.
• Display signup dates for every user in Users section.
• All navigation tabs (Activity, Dashboard, Repositories, etc.) are now clickable when in active state.
• Stopped deactivating integrations with incidents automatically.
• Added back integration badges in timeline.
• Added support for "git archive --remote".

Bugfixes

• Fixed a rare edge case where an invitation link was not working.
• Fixed a visual glitch in commit notifications diffs on GMail.

March 29th, 2011

Features & Improvements

• Introducing deployments permissions.
• Introducing Sifter integration.
• Introducing inline editor for Subversion commit messages.
• Completely reworked Users section.
• Greatly improved permissions selectors across the app.
• Introducing API for permissions management.

Bugfixes

• Make sure that newly imported repositories are scheduled for S3 backups right away. (Prior to that fix a commit was required to be made via Beanstalk before backups could be processed.)
• Fixed a rare issue where Git pushes on large repositories would trigger out of memory error on server

March 18th, 2011

Features & Improvements

• Completely reworked public keys UI.
• Added public key management to the API.
• Do not return HTML content for 404 and 500 errors for API requests.
• Return a proper error message when API is disabled in account settings.
• Restored changelog of API.

March 10th, 2011

Features & Improvements

• Improved Search indexing: faster and more reliable.
• Made it possible in the API to find a Repository by name.
• Made Releases's user_id attribute visible in the API.

March 7th, 2011

Features & Improvements

• New design for the Sign Up welcome page.
• Added ability to find a Server Environment by name to the API.
• Added new API method User.current to fetch info about current user.
• Messages posted to Basecamp will now include Git hash ids.

Bugfixes

• Fixed an error on Search results page when trying to find a comment by a deleted user.
• Fixed an error on Server settings page when trying to use a really long password.
• Fixed a bug when a commit command [deploy:live] would deploy to any environment that has "live" in it's name.

February 9th, 2011

Features & Improvements

• Introducing Beanstalk Rewards Program.
• Allow up to 25 characters in Server Environment name.
• Added revision indicator to Blame page.
• Hide Blame button for files of unsupported format.
• Allow longer repository names to be visible on the Dashboard sidebar and Repository page.

Bugfixes

• Fixed occasional Repository Corrupted errors when viewing Blames.
• Fixed Gravatars on Blame page.

January 31st, 2011

Features & Improvements

• Introducing Blame tool for Git and SVN.
• Introducing Diff tool for Git.
• Revamped interface for SVN Diff tool.
• Revamped JavaScript for Changeset page.
• Added retry method to Releases API.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a series of Node Missing errors in Browse and Design Preview.
• Fixed an error that occurred when user tried to rename a repository to the same name.

January 24th, 2011

Features & Improvements

• Enabled Subversion over SSL for Trial accounts.
• Payments can now be deducted from Account Balance partially.

January 17th, 2011

Features & Improvements

• Migrated background jobs from Amazon SQS to Resque.
• Improved active FTP mode support for FTP deployments.
• Support SSL in Zendesk integration.
• Made author name, login and email available through Comments API.
• Make committer email available through Changesets API.
• Added destroy action to ReleaseServers API.
• Improved security of Design Preview sharing keys.
• Preview and Download buttons should lead to the HEAD revision by default.
• Changeset's comment should remain visible even after it's author was deleted.
• Increased width of the repository switcher menu.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug that made it impossible to comment on a changeset if a deleted user has been subscribed to it before.
• Fixed a bug that reset deployment branch back to master when a user tried to edit a server environment.

December 27th, 2010

Features & Improvements

• It's now possible to change a repository URL.

December 24th, 2010

Bugfixes

• Fixed an error that appeared when user tried to setup an integration for Zendesk account that has a lot of users.

December 16th, 2010

Features & Improvements

• Introducing Design Preview.
• New design for file pages in Browse.
• Improved layout's maximum width for large displays.

December 9th, 2010

Features & Improvements

• Enabled SSL for API requests. Updated our Rails gem to always use SSL.
• Automatically detect if Basecamp integration requires SSL or not.
• Improved appearance of code comments in search results.
• Improved appearance of integrations badges in commit email notifications.

November 10th, 2010

Features & Improvements

• Force SSL for the entire web application.
• Improved performance of custom S3 backups.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug which incorrectly rendered non-ASCII characters in commit messages.

November 2nd, 2010

Features & Improvements

• Now using Dynect REST API v2.

Bugfixes

• Fixed link to a help article about post-release hooks.
• Fixed IE7 problems with custom invoice data form.
• Fixed Something Went Wrong when tried to upgrade with wrong coupon code.

November 1st, 2010

Bugfixes

• Fixed search for one-digit revisions when creating new deployment.
• Do not count skipped deployments when calculating how much trial deployments left.

October 25th, 2010

Features & Improvements

• Display only 10 most recent repositories in the Dashboard sidebar.
• Ability to specify custom Bill To information to be displayed in your invoices.
• New User API methods: create, update, destroy.
• Added option to post private messages in Basecamp integration.
• Added support for decimal time format for Harvest, Freckle and Basecamp time tracking.
• Made HTML default format for commit notifications for new users.
• Added RSS to this changelog.

Bugfixes

• Fixed default avatar appearance in HTML commit notifications.
• Corrected typos in ReleaseServer API docs.
• Fixed an error when trying to export a Git repository on Account Suspended.

October 12th, 2010

Features & Improvements

• Introduced new plan names.
• Added 10 free deployments to the Trial plan.
• Added more repositories to Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond plans.
• Added more users to the Diamond plan.
• Ability to backup repositories to your own S3 bucket. (Account > Backups section)
• Sophisticated Sign In tracker. View who and when logged into your account. (Account > Security section)
• Ability to force SSL for all SVN requests. (Account > Security section)
• Completely refined interface of Account page.
• Updated design of our Landing site.
• Improved print version of the invoice page.
• Plans are now accessible via API.
• Full timestamp is now displayed when hovering "X hours ago" in deployments timeline.

Bugfixes

• Fixed Landing site appearance on iPad.

October 7th, 2010

Features & Improvements

• Improved appearance of commit notification emails.
• Parallel uploading for deployments.

Bugfixes

• Decreased timeout for Git diff generation to 60 seconds.
• Fixed a bug when a successful deployment would appear as failed at first.

September 13th, 2010

Features & Improvements

• Oauth support for Twitter integration.
• Improved appearance of plain text commit notification emails.
• Display plain dates instead of relative ones on Search results page.
• Improved behavior of URL converter script on New Repository page.

Bugfixes

• Fixed layout issue on Getting Started page in IE.
• Fixed problem with Olark not displaying a chat-unavailable message properly.
• Fixed a bug that caused How Do You Like Beanstalk emails being sent twice.
• Fixed an API bug that caused some Changeset attributes served empty.
• Fixed a problem when line commenting on a changeset was unavailable.

August 31st, 2010

Features & Improvements

• Improved error message when trying to access repository via HTTPS on free account.
• Improved background gradient image on some pages.
• Subscribe/Unsubscribe link on Repository Activity page will now work with JS disabled.
• Added diffs to single-commit git pushes notifications.
• Added pagination to releases API.
• Updated API docs.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug that caused paying signup to be stuck on Credit Card form in rare occasion.
• Fixed minor visual glitch in Firefox on redeploy page.
• Fixed a bug that caused color label not to be saved when creating new deployment environment.
• Fixed Browse section appearance when viewing directory named "error".
• Various Git caching fixes.

August 17th, 2010

Features & Improvements

• New design for sidebars across the application.
• New integrated chat support system by Olark.
• New Welcome popup for new accounts to help get started.
• It's now possible to reactivate disabled email address via Postmark API by clicking a "Reactivate" link right inside Beanstalk UI.
• Retry deployments with recoverable errors automatically right away.
• After you edit deployment server, we now ask if you like to redeploy the files to new server/path.
• Caching added to source browser's preview and download pages.
• Display unhighlighted source in Code Viewer when Beanstalk fails to highlight it properly.

Bugfixes

• Improved performance of login/logout actions.
• Sometimes Next Charge date was calculated incorrectly in invoice emails.
• Removed all mentions of old Campfire chat support room.
• Improved SVN error message when hitting storage limit.
• Improved RSS security. Warning page is displayed when trying to access the feed.
• Improved account cancellation and downgrade forms.
• Many various issues in processing Git pushes were fixed.
• Improved performance of Git pushes.
• Bug fixes for Deployments.
• Source browser tries harder to highlight syntax in source files.
• Fixed issue where Subversion repository re-imported in Beanstalk as Git repo would trigger old integration commands that were in commits.
• Updated API documentation with latest details about Deployments.
• Revision search on Manual Deployment page for Subversion repositories that happened in some cases is fixed.
• Stuck spinners in Git browser fixed.
• Preview for code in Git branches now works properly for HTML with assets using relative paths.
• Git caching daemon issue was fixed when it was ignoring some cache.
• Fixed duplicated commits in Git push notifications.