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CatLight Changelog

What's new in CatLight 3.5.1

Mar 19, 2024
  • In the new version, we address the issues with the app running out of memory on rare occasions when using GitHub or GitLab connection, when a lot of changes happen on the server.

New in CatLight 3.1.0 (Feb 2, 2023)

  • This release includes support for push notifications from Jenkins. Use the CatLight Jenkins plugin to set them up. You will get build notifications almost instantly, and the load on your Jenkins server will be reduced, as the CatLight app will do much less polling. See how to configure accelerated notifications for Jenkins.
  • This release also includes a number of small quality-of-life improvements:
  • Information about PR creator on the dashboard.
  • Feature to duplicate the dashboard and all of its settings.
  • Improved startup troubleshooting.

New in CatLight 3.0.8 Beta (Oct 27, 2022)

  • New dashboard with action center:
  • The new dashboard is split into two groups - the action list and the watch list.
  • The action list shows alerts and action items that are sorted by priority, so you can handle them from top to bottom. It includes broken build and release pipelines, incoming pull requests, and work items. You can define your own priority rules in settings. The action list will not show any items that are in a good state and don't need your attention.
  • Use a watch list to keep track of things that you care about, but which are not actionable at the moment. By default, it includes builds that you recently started and pull requests that you have created. You can customize it to include things like tasks that you created for other people.
  • You can add multiple watch and action lists to the dashboard, to group things by project, team, or other criteria.
  • After configuring the dashboard, you can share it with your team. Any changes to shared dashboard settings will be propagated to other team members automatically.
  • CatLight v3 can work with multiple dashboards. You can use them for additional grouping by teams, projects, roles, and activities. For example, you can create a dashboard for the on-call person, and a separate one for other engineers.
  • Upgrading from V2 and downgrading:
  • CatLight will automatically convert V2 dashboards to V3, trying to preserve the layout. But, we suggest you create a new dashboard and share it with the team to take advantage of new action- and watch lists.
  • If you have trouble upgrading or downgrading the app, you can reset the settings and re-configure it from scratch.
  • Other changes from V2:
  • Additional changes:
  • Improved initial app configuration wizard that will suggest users to join the team and use shared dashboards.
  • Redesigned monitoring settings UI. You can now add monitorable item from any server to any panel on the dashboard (previously, items were grouped by server connection).
  • Currently unavailable features that will be implemented later:
  • Team status
  • Removed features:
  • Global focus mode. It will be replaced by an ability to focus on specific action items.
  • Settings export and import. It is replaced by dashboard sharing.

New in CatLight 2.31.0 (May 18, 2020)

  • New version of CatLight will show a pull request on a dashboard when it is assigned to one of your teams
  • For Azure DevOps, the app needs additional permissions to determine team membership. You can click on "Reconnect" on the dashboard to update the permissions.

New in CatLight 2.30.0 (May 12, 2020)

  • Wildcard filtering on the dashboard

New in CatLight 2.27.3 (Jul 9, 2019)

  • New version of CatLight app can show pull requests from Azure DevOps and TFS 2018+.
  • You can select the relevant projects in settings, and pull requests from them will be displayed on the dashboard. CatLight will show notifications and alert developers when new pull request is created.

New in CatLight 2.26.1 (Mar 28, 2019)

  • In CatLight 2.26, VSTS was renamed to Azure DevOps.

New in CatLight 2.25.0 (Mar 21, 2019)

  • In CatLight 2.25 you can add a comment to your investigation. It will be shown to your team members on the dashboard.
  • Use comments to provide a status update, share the reason of the build breakage, or to provide the troubleshooting steps for the people that will investigate next time.
  • You can also open the list of previous comments through a context menu.

New in CatLight 2.24.0 (Feb 22, 2019)

  • You can export your dashboard and application settings to a file and then import it on another computer. You can use this feature to share the settings across the team.
  • Export and import is available in "CatLight" menu.

New in CatLight 2.23.2 (Nov 29, 2018)

  • In the new version of CatLight app, you can hide items from a context menu on a dashboard.
  • This can be useful to stop monitoring specific branches of multi-branch builds.
  • If you want to show all branches again, go to settings, and click on a branch icon near the build definition name.

New in CatLight 2.20.0 Beta (Oct 26, 2018)

  • New version of CatLight has improved reliability when monitoring TFS servers with hundreds of build definitions and work item queries.

New in CatLight 2.18.5 Beta (Aug 20, 2018)

  • CatLight 2.18 has a number of performance improvements, and should be able to start up quicker.
  • This version also includes a security fix for the problem discovered by Suhas Gaikwad.

New in CatLight 2.18.4 Beta (Aug 16, 2018)

  • Performance improvements:
  • CatLight 2.18 has a number of performance improvements, and should be able to start up quicker.
  • This version also includes a security fix for the problem discovered by Suhas Gaikwad.

New in CatLight 2.17.2 Beta (May 8, 2018)

  • CatLight 2.17 will automatically discover new builds, releases and work item queries. When you monitor the whole project, and new item is added to it, CatLight will start monitoring it automatically.
  • By default, discovery happens every 30 minutes, but you can trigger it at any time by pressing refresh button on the dashboard. Discovery period is configurable in application settings. Keep in mind that this process can create a significant load on your server, so we advise to do it infrequently.

New in CatLight 2.16.2 Beta (Feb 22, 2018)

  • Introducing CatLight Enterprise!
  • You can now run CatLight services on your own hardware behind the firewall. This will be useful for companies with strict security requirements.
  • Contact us at [email protected] for installation instructions and trial license.

New in CatLight 2.14.5 Beta (Oct 4, 2017)

  • When all your builds and tasks are in a good shape, CatLight icon will now turn green.

New in CatLight 2.11.8 (Jun 6, 2017)

  • In this release we have multiple UI updates in the app, and several bugfixes.

New in CatLight 2.10.3 (May 18, 2017)

  • New dashboard has a search field that will filter builds and task by name.
  • Additionally, you can search by id of the specific build or task to highlight it on the dashboard.

New in CatLight 2.9.4 (Apr 24, 2017)

  • CatLight can now monitor release definition status in TFS and VSTS.
  • New features:
  • Notifications about the status of every release environment
  • Separate notification when release is waiting for your approval
  • Overall status and history on the dashboard
  • Release investigations
  • Supported server versions:
  • VSTS
  • TFS 2017
  • TFS 2015 Update 2 and newer
  • For VSTS, you will need to re-authorize the app, as additional permissions are required.

New in CatLight 2.8.3 (Mar 29, 2017)

  • Sometimes the build is going to be red or yellow for a while. In CatLight 2.8, you can acknowledge it in context menu and focus on other builds.
  • You can use this feature to see up-to date status of other builds in a tray icon. When all broken builds are acknowledged, tray icon will show a yellow outline cat. If new build breaks down, tray icon will turn a solid yellow or red. This will remind you that you have new things to fix.
  • Other changes in this release:
  • Performance optimizations for Work Item monitoring[_cuted_]

New in CatLight 2.7.0 (Mar 20, 2017)

  • Faster polling times when only small number of jobs is monitored.
  • Reduced server load on Jenkins server that has hundreds of jobs.
  • Better integration with Multibranch Pipeline and GitHub organization plugins. CatLight will now show branch-jobs as branches. You can select top-level job in monitoring settings, and CatLight will automatically monitor child jobs for active branches. You can fine-tune branch monitoring in global app settings.

New in CatLight 2.5.10 (Mar 7, 2017)

  • CatLight 2.5 now works with Git branches, and will show a separate build history for each branch.
  • We divide branches in four categories:
  • Primary - they will be always visible on the dashboard. They include branches like master, develop, trunk, etc.
  • Short-lived - those are branches for pull requests. CatLight will show them for one day on the dashboard.
  • Other - this is a category for feature, bugfix and release branches. They will be tracked while they are active, and had at least one build in the past week.
  • Ignored - those branches will not be monitored. You can[_cuted_]

New in CatLight 2.4.0 (Feb 22, 2017)

  • Sorting order for the dashboard can be configured in settings
  • Force-refresh button at the bottom of the dashboard
  • Don't show work item changes that I made myself - configured in settings
  • Showing total work item count in full-screen view

New in CatLight 2.3.1 (Feb 5, 2017)

  • Since the beginning of the project, we announced that CatLight will be free for small teams, and there will be a paid version for bigger companies.
  • We are introducing CatLight Pro - a version of the app for business users. This version can monitor any number of build definitions and work item queries. It also includes priority support. You can buy a monthly or annual subscription to CatLight Pro using a credit card. For pricing details

New in CatLight 2.2.4 Beta (Jan 28, 2017)

  • VSTS is going to have a breaking change in the API: unique account id will have a different value in a couple of months. We are rolling out an update that will make CatLight compatible with this change.
  • Compatibility fix is implemented in v2.2.4

New in CatLight 2.1.2 Beta (Nov 22, 2016)

  • Catlight 2.1 can now track the status of TeamCity builds.
  • We support TeamCity 8+.

New in CatLight 2.0.13 Beta (Oct 31, 2016)

  • Exciting news - CatLight 2.0 beta is here!
  • Work item status tracking
  • CatLight can now track work items in TFS 2015 and VSTS. You can select an existing query and choose a tracking mode:
  • Show all - use this for queries that should return empty result when everything is ok, and for queues of short-term work. For example: "Important open bugs", "Urgent tasks", "Bugs to verify today".
  • Show changes - use this to track changes in long-term queues of work, like "My tasks", "Backlog", "Recent bugs".

New in CatLight 1.8.2 Beta (Jun 17, 2016)

  • Multi-column view. Make it full-screen to see dozens of builds at once. Also should work great as a shared build screen, visible for the whole team.
  • Broken builds are now collected from all connections and are moved to the top.
  • Grouping by project is gone to fit more builds on the screen.
  • Build history & progress.
  • Dynamic updates - no more flashes.