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What's new in 1.337 (2009/12/11)

• Matrix parent build shouldn't consume an executor. (issue 936)
• Exceptions in one publisher shouldn't block all other publishers from running. (issue 5023)
• Fixed OutOfMemoryError in JNLP slaves that are running for too long. (issue 3406)
• Auto installer for Maven couldn't be configured after the fact.
• Fixed a bug that the form field validation couldn't handle <select> box. (report)
• Fixed a possible "XYZ is missing its descriptor" storm. (issue 5067)
• Group available plugins in Plugin Manager by category.
• Add sorting and link to directory browser for artifact list and tree display. (issue 4976)
• Make links in build history for a view stay under that view. (issue 5021)
• Automatically install dependent plugins. (issue 4983)
• Implemented a proper serialization of multi-classloader object graph. (issue 5048)

What's new in 1.336 (2009/11/28)

• Update or remove lastSuccessful/lastStable symlinks on filesystem as appropriate when a build is deleted. (issue 1986)
• In-demand strategy could not relaunch slave nodes since 1.302. (issue 3890)
• Actual cause for slave going offline was always masked by channel-terminated cause.
• Improved display of why a slave is offline (don't incorrectly say "failed to launch").
• Improved the error diagnostics on the failure to establish connection with JNLP slaves early on.
• Fix so configure-slave permission actually allows configuration of slaves.
• User pages showed add/edit description link to users without permission to edit, and guests were allowed to edit the user profile for anonymous user.
• Debian package now demands full JRE, not just a headless JRE. (issue 4879)
• Avoid exception if a plugin provides null for a dynamic node label. (issue 4924)
• If restart is not supported, explain why. (issue 4876)
• Matrix configuration builds should continue even when Hudson is about to shut down. (issue 4873)
• Send build status email to valid addresses rather than aborting for one invalid address. (issue 4927)
• Smart JDK/Maven/Ant auto installers aren't available for existing tool configurations.
• Hudson can now run gracefully (albeit bit slowly) where JNA is not available. (issue 4820)
• Add ability to delete users from Hudson. (issue 1867)
• Gracefully detect the double loading of JNA instead of failing later with NoClassDefFoundError (detail)
• Introduced a structure around the initialization process for better reporting and etc.
• Debian packages creates Hudson user with /bin/bash to accomodate some tools that want a valid shell. (issue 4830)

What's new in 1.335 (2009/11/20)

• Space in axis value for matrix type project was lost on reconfiguration. (issue 2360)
• Remember me did not work with unix authentication. (issue 3057)
• Node variables not passed through to Maven jobs. (issue 4030)
• Fix handling of non-ASCII characters in external job submission. (issue 4877)
• Job assigned to label that no longer has any nodes generates exception since 1.330. (issue 4878)
• Custom workspace on Windows with just a drive letter or using forward slashes in path failed to build in 1.334. (issue 4894)
• Core version number in plugin manager warning message was missing in 1.334.
• Matrix build wasn't showing their full name in the executor list on the left.
• Hudson's UDP broadcast/discovery now supports IP multicast.

What's new in 1.334 (2009/11/16)

• Fixed a possible exception in submitting forms and obtaining update center metadata with Winstone in 1.333. (issue 4804)
• Remoting layer was unable to kill remote processes. Prevented Mercurial plugin from implementing poll timeout on slaves. (issue 4611)
• Display of console output as plain text did not work in browsers since 1.323. (issue 4557)
• Show "Latest Test Results" link even when a new build is running. (issue 4580)
• Fix broken links for failed tests on build page for a matrix type project. (issue 4765)
• "Enable project-based security" always comes up unchecked on configure pages in 1.333, so project permissions are lost if not rechecked before clicking Save. (issue 4826)
• Project read permission was not enforced via /jobCaseInsensitive/jobname path.
• Project configuration could be modified via POST to /job/jobname/config.xml with only "Extended Read" permission but not configure permission.
• Fixed the over zealous escaping in the inlined unit test failure report.
• Fixed OutOfMemoryError in Winp (issue 4058)
• Write log message and ignore unrecognized permissions when loading XML. (issue 4573)
• Fix in stapler so we don't redirect to "." which causes problem in some containers. (issue 4787)
• List counts for duplicate cause entries for a build rather than listing many times. (issue 4831)
• Plugin manager now shows warning for upgrade/install of plugins into a Hudson that is older than the plugin was built for. (issue 541)
• CLI "build" command now supports passing parameters.
• Job should provide doDescription to allow easy manipulation over http (issue 4802)
• Improvement in the caching of the view templates.
• Added new SaveableListener to be called when objects implementing Saveable are saved.

What's new in 1.333 (2009/11/09)

• Fixed a performance problem in the file upload with Winstone. (report)
• Allow non-absolute URLs in sidebar links that do not end with slash character. (issue 4720)
• Build other projects "even when unstable" option was not working with Maven projects. (issue 4739)
• When renaming a log recorder, check new name uses valid characters, remove config file for old name and redirect to new name after save.
• Fixed ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in my view. (report)
• Fixed a race condition in interrupting pending remote calls.
• Retry shouldn't kick in if the build is aborted during checkout.
• Hudson now sends "Accept-Ranges" header where it's supported. (report)
• Hudson is internally capable of supporting multiple update sites.
• Added a new "safe-restart" CLI command, also accessible at "/safeRestart", and used for post-upgrade/plugin install restart. (issue 4553)
• Added "delete-builds" CLI command for bulk build record deletion.
• Supported a relative path in the custom workspace directory, which resolves from FS root of the slave.
• Fixed another NotExportableException when making a remote API call on a project. Broke NetBeans integration and possibly others. (issue 4760)

What's new in 1.332 (2009/11/02)

• Fixed a regression in 1.331 where previously disabled plugins and their artifacts in build.xml can cause build records to fail to load. (issue 4752)
• Fixed NotExportableException when making a remote API call on a project. (report)
• Fixed IllegalArgumentException: name (report)

What's new in 1.331 (2009/10/30)

• Fixed a memory leak problem with the groovysh Hudson CLI command. (issue 4618)
• CVS changelog reports were incorrect if built from tags. (issue 1816)
• Upstream projects list was lost when saving matrix type project. (issue 3607)
• slave.jar now supports HTTP BASIC auth. (issue 4071)
• Fixed a problem where taglibs defined in plugins cannot be seen from other plugins. (report)
• Improved the UI of taking a node offline.
• Added improved logging for exceptions encountered when attempting to invoke Maven in Maven projects. (issue 3273)
• Automated tool downloads are made more robust by using HTTP download retries.
• SCM information is now exposed via the remote API.
• Added the "install-plugin" command to install plugins from CLI. (report)

What's new in 1.330 (2009/10/23)

• Fixed NoSuchMethodError error during error recovery with Maven 2.1. (issue 2373)
• RemoteClassLoader does not persist retrieved classes with package structure (issue 4657)
• Update center switched over from https://hudson.dev.java.net/ to http://hudson-ci.org/
• Use tree view to show 17-40 build artifacts on build/project pages. (issue 2280)
• When showing why a build is pending, Hudson now puts hyperlinks to node/label/project names.
• Custom workspace is now subject to the variable expansion. (issue 3997)

What's new in 1.329 (2009/10/16)

• Fixed UI selector (hetero-list) to handle nested selectors (resolves conflict between Promoted Builds and Parameterized Trigger plugins). (issue 4414)
• Fixed incremental Maven build behavior to properly handle new modules without hitting NPE. (issue 4624)
• Added the "build" CLI command that can not only schedule a new build, but also wait until its completion.
• Made visibility rules of test result remote API consistent with those for individual test cases.
• Fixed a bug in the HTTP Range header handling. (report)
• Fixed a bug in .cvspass form field persistence. (issue 4456)

What's new in 1.328 (2009/10/09)

• Overview of all SCM polling activity was never showing any entries. (issue 4609)
• Fixed a bogus IOException in the termination of CLI.
• Fixed a bug in the form submission logic of the SMTP authentation configuration. (report)
• Hudson shouldn't store SMTP auth password in a clear text. (report)
• Improved the form validation in global e-mail configurations. (report)

What's new in 1.327 (2009/10/02)

• Worked around a possible Windows slave hang on start up. (details)
• Inability to access hudson.dev.java.net shouldn't prevent Hudson from working. (issue 4590)
• Added a CLI command install-tool to invoke a tool auto-installation from Hudson CLI. (report)
• Added column on plugin updates page showing currently installed version.
• Build page now shows where the build was done.
• Job-enabling API should reject GET requests (issue 3721)
• Added an extension point for inserting actions across all projects without configuration. (report)
• stdout, stderr, error details and the stack trace can be filtered out of the remote API representation of a test case with the depth parameter. (discussion)

What's new in 1.326 (2009/09/28)

• Hudson fails to update a plugin due to a bug in the up-to-date check logic. (issue 4353)

What's new in 1.325 (2009/09/25)

• Self restart was not working on Solaris 64bit JVM.
• Fixed a possible NoSuchElementException in Hudson start up.
• "Redeploy Maven artifacts" GUI causes NPE.
• Permission check was missing for file mask validators.
• Fixed a problem regarding SCM plugin evolution and SCM browser settings, as observed in the Mercurial plugin. (issue 4514)
• Update center wasn't capable of updating bundled plugins, such as subversion.
• Fixed a problem in the up-to-date check of the plugin extraction. (issue 4353)
• Fixed a bug in the Debian package init script. (issue 4304)
• Fixed an NPE in MavenBuild$RunnerImpl.decideWorkspace (issue 4226)
• "Test e-mail" feature in the system configuration page wasn't taking most of the parameters from the current values of the form. (issue 3983)
• If a Maven project is built with "-N" or "--non-recursive" in the goals, it will not attempt to load and parse the POMs for any modules defined in the root POM. (issue 4491)
• Update center will create *.bak files to make it easier for manual roll back of botched upgrades.
• Vastly improved the default MIME type table of the built-in servlet container.
• Javadoc location is now subject to the variable expansions. (issue 3942)
• JNLP clients now report the reason when the connection is rejected by the master. (issue 3889)

What's new in 1.324 (2009/09/18)

• Added call to MailSender in RunnerImpl.cleanUp so that mail gets sent for top-level Maven project as well as individual modules. This means mail will be sent if there are POM parsing errors, etc. (issue 1066)
• Default value for password parameter in a parameterized project was not saved. (issue 4333)
• Run sequentially option for Matrix project was not visible unless Axes was checked. (issue 4366)
• Fix launching Windows slave for slave name with space or other characters needed encoding. (issue 4392)
• Support authentication when running java -jar hudson-core-*.jar using username/password included in HUDSON_HOME URL; also removed dependency on winstone.jar. (issue 4400)
• Fixed links on age values in JUnit test reports. (issue 4402)
• Maven project POM parser now ignores empty modules or modules only containing whitespace, matching Maven's behavior. (issue 4442)
• Fixed setting of "blockBuildWhenUpstreamBuilding" for AbstractProject - wasn't being set at all, or displayed. (issue 4423)
• Handling of URLs with encoded character at end of a path component did not work in 1.323. (issue 4454)
• Fixed some field validators to work for values including + character.
• Fixed the charset encoding handling when different encodings are involved between the master and slaves. (patch)
• Fixed a bug in the workspace archive support. (issue 4039)
• Added client-side validator for required fields and used this to replace some AJAX calls.
• JNLP clients perform periodic ping to detect terminated connections and recover automatically. (report)

What's new in 1.323 (2009/09/04)

• Creation of symlinks failed (or created in wrong location) since 1.320. (issue 4301)
• Fixed a NoClassDefFoundError problem that happens in remoting+maven+3rd plugin combo. report
• Raw console output was doing XML escaping for '&' and '<' but it shouldn't.
• Manually wiping out a workspace from GUI can cause NPE with some SCM plugins.
• Fixed ClassCastException in JavaMail with some application servers. (issue 1261)
• Fixed a bug in the tabular display of matrix projects. (issue 4245)
• Avoid division by zero error in swap space monitor. (issue 4284)
• Avoid duplicate My Views links after Reload configuration from disk. (issue 4272)
• Removed need for hack that lowered build health scores by one, so now 4/5 is reported as 80 instead of 79. (issue 4286)
• Fixed renaming a job to a name that includes a + character.
• Matrix project did not properly handle axis values with some special characters such as slash. (issue 2670)
• Added validation for axis names in Matrix project.
• Ajax validator for name of a new job now warns about invalid characters.
• Maven builder in freestyle projects now supports "Use private repository" option. (issue 4205)
• Maven incremental builds now rebuild failed/unstable modules from previous builds, even if they are unchanged. (issue 4152)
• Labels are listed in lexicographic order. (report)
• Labels for nodes are shown in a tag cloud style. (patch)
• Exposing load statistics to the remote API. (report)
• Make dynamic labelling of nodes clearer and easier to work with.
• Plugins can mark themselves as incompatible with earlier versions to notify users during upgrade. (issue 4056)
• Footer now includes a timestamp.
• Advanced option now available for all project types to keep builds in queue while upstream projects are building. Off by default. (issue 1938)
• Fixed a bug in Winstone that hides the root cause of exceptions.

What's new in 1.322 (2009/08/28)

• NPE in Subversion polling problem. (issue 4299)
• Changing credential in Subversion can still result in "svn authentication cancelled" (issue 3936)
• Debian init script now uses "su" to properly initialize the environment. (issue 4304)

What's new in 1.321 (2009/08/21)

• "Tag this build" was failing. (issue 4018)
• Build history AJAX update was buggy.
• Failed Junit tests will display error message and stacktrace even when no additional TestDataPublishers are attached to the project. (issue 4257)
• Maven test failures will again properly mark a build as unstable, even if later task segments are successful. (issue 4177)
• Matrix permissions with LDAP now properly validates group names using configured prefix and case settings; added help text about these settings. (issue 3459)
• CVS changelog reports were incorrect if built from tags. (issue 1816)
• Improved the debian package to set USER and HOME. (report)
• Failed to look up an e-mail address for LDAP users shouldn't cause a build to fail. (report)
• Fixed a possible NPE in Hudson.removeNode (report)
• Debian start-up script should inherit LANG and other key environment variables.
• Dynamic label computation wasn't re-done properly for the master node. (issue 4235)
• Form validation for the remote FS root of slaves was not functioning.
• Privilege escalation on Solaris without username was not working.
• Hudson can make mistakes in binding plugins to their right /plugin/NAME/ URLs. (report)
• Hudson wasn't working on WebLogic on Windows. (report)
• Fix New Job and Edit View links when default view is not "All" jobs. (issue 4212)
• Revert logger settings when a log recorder is deleted. (issue 4201)
• Add xml header on RSS/atom feeds and fix RSS URLs in header for non-default views. (issue 4080, issue 4081)
• Plugin installation / Hudson upgrade are made more robust in the face of possible connection abortion. (report)
• Global and per-node environment vars are made available to SCM checkout. (issue 4124)
• Implemented touchstone builds for matrix projects. You can mark certain combinations to build first. Only if these complete successfully will the rest be started.
• You can designate certain combinations in a matrix project as 'touchstone builds'. These will be run first, and the rest of the combinations will run if the touchstone builds are successfull. (issue 3979)
• Added BUILD_URL and JOB_URL to the exposed environment variables. (request)
• Added restart CLI command.

What's new in 1.320 (2009/08/14)

• Fixed an encoding problem in CVS changelog calculation. (issue 3979)
• Environment variables are considered in test paths. (issue 3451)
• A failing test is recorded when JUnit XML is invalid (issue 3149)
• Fixed possible Unable to call getCredential. Invalid object ID race problem. (issue 4176)
• If the timing coincides between polling and build, Hudson ended up creating multiple workspaces for the same job, even when concurrent build is off. (issue 4202)
• Fixed a "Releasing unallocated workspace" assertion error. (issue 4206)
• Fixed NPE in various Maven reporters caused by Hudson core problem. (issue 4192)
• Show warning if zero value entered for #builds/#days to save for discarding old builds (issue 4110)
• Added create-job CLI command.
• Hudson now tracks why a slave is put offline. (issue 2431)
• User-settable descriptions for tests.
• A history page with test count and duration charts. (issue 2228)
• A collapsible panel with test error details on the overview pages.
• Skipped tests counts are included in tables. (issue 1820)
• New tests are shown in bold. (issue 2046)
• JUnit report improvements: A new extension point for contributing to test reports.

What's new in 1.319 (2009/08/08)

• Improved the start up error handling with slave.jar -jnlpUrl option. (report)
• Made hetero-list's include of descriptor config pages optional, so that descriptors without config.jelly files don't break page rendering. (See here for background.
• Moved Maven help files to maven-plugin. (issue 3527)
• Hudson shouldn't immediately launch a slave newly created via copy. report
• Added support for optional alternate Maven settings file for use in embedded Maven for POM parsing as well as actual Maven execution. (issue 2575)
• Added a test button to the PAM configuration to make sure Hudson has read access to /etc/shadow (report)
• Users can define their own views
• Added a /me url that points to the current user
• Added a new password parameter type to the parameterized builds. (report)
• Matrix projects can now run sequentially (issue 3028)
• Hudson now allows builds of a single project to execute concurrently.

What's new in 1.318 (2009/07/31)

• Removed a problematic MIME type entry that prevents Hudson from deploying on JOnAS. (report)
• Hudson can't restart itself on Mac, so don't pretend that it can. (report)
• Fixed Maven plugin to properly use private repository (when specified) when parsing POMs. (issue 4102)
• Edit Description worked incorrectly when default view is changed from All jobs. (issue 4070)
• Fixed a bug in JDK auto-installation to Windows with directories with whitespaces. (issue 4118)
• Added support for incremental Maven project builds, using Maven's make-like reactor mode.
• Script console can now see classes from all the plugins, not just core. (issue 4086)
• slave.jar now has the -auth option to specify the credential for accessing Hudson (report)
• Debian package now depends on java2-runtime-headless instead of java2-runtime
• Actions can now contribute environment variables. (report)
• Modified the reconnection logic for slaves connecting via JNLP so that it works better with protected Hudson. (report)

What's new in 1.317 (2009/07/24)

• Fixed a bug in inferring root DN in non-anonymous LDAP environment. (report)
• Fixed a MissingResourceException for "Ajp13Listener.ShortPacket" (issue 4053)
• Fixed 500 error when requesting the zip URL. (issue 4039)
• Debian package now has 750 permission on /var/run/hudson and /var/lib/hudson to make ssh work (issue 4047)
• Fixed LinkageError in PAM authentication on Solaris. (issue 3546)
• Fixed a JDK path separator issue between Windows master and Unix slaves.
• Fixed a memory leak in the remoting layer. (issue 4045)
• Fixed Maven dependency build order logic. (issue 2736)
• Renaming views and jobs, and deleting jobs should use POST instead of GET. (discussion)
• Improved the error diagnosis of "Processing failed due to a bug in the code"
• Slaves expose more information via the remote API now.
• Exported BUILD_ID to the remote API. (report)
• Don't let the slave TCP/IP connection port failure to prevent Hudson start up. (report)
• If the user sets up "Hudson's own" security realm, UI now asks the first admin user to be created.
• Windows service now does log rotation and handles whitespace in path correctly. (This is only applicable to newly installed services.) (report)

What's new in 1.316 (2009/07/17)

• Matrix configuration should show a test trend. (issue 840)
• Fixed a possible NPE in installing Windows service. (report)
• Fixed a possible NPE in CrumbFilter.getCrumbIssuer. (issue 3986)
• Login may result in 403 if the user realm is delegated to container. (issue 1235)
• The --logfile option stopped working on Windows. (issue 3272)
• On-demand retention policy almost immediately turns off slaves. (issue 3972)
• Fixed "incomplete LifecycleExecutor" warning with Maven 2.2 (issue 2373)
• Fixed a bug in Winstone that may result in "unable to create new native thread" error (report)
• Fixed a possible NPEs with the slavestatus plugin. (report)
• Fixed a possible StringIndexOutOfBoundsException with Windows process execution. (issue 4034)
• Fixed an NPE when environment variables are enabled but no variables are set. (issue 4032)
• Added ibm-web-bnd.xmi to simplify the automated deployment with WebSphere. (issue 3270)
• When deleting the workspace of a matrix project, do so for all configurations. (issue 3087)
• Enclose URLs in angle brackets when sending mail. (issue 3647)
• Plugins can now hide classes in the core so that they can ship their own versions. (report)
• The default view is now configurable.
• Tentatively added additional extension points to control queue behaviors. (patch)
• Added support for proxy authentication on non-NTLM systems (issue 1920)
• Added MIME type mapping for several well-known file extensions so that it works everywhere. (issue 3803)

What's new in 1.315 (2009/07/10)

• Hudson failed to notice a build result status change if aborted builds were in the middle. (report)
• TCP/IP hostname calculation of slaves may fail due in high latency network. (issue 3981)
• Expose MAVEN_OPTS as env. var, in addition to set it to Maven JVM. (issue 3644)
• Fixed winp.dll load problem on WebSphere (report)
• Subversion checkouts created files for symlinks (issue 3949)
• Hudson CLI now tries to connect to Hudson via plain TCP/IP, then fall back to tunneling over HTTP.
• Added ability to exclude by author and revision property with Subversion polling trigger.
• CLI slave agents show details of how it failed to connect. (report)

What's new in 1.314 (2009/07/02)

• Fixed a possible "Cannot create a file when that file already exists" error in managed Windows slave launcher. report
• Made Hudson more robust in parsing CVS/Entries report
• Fixed a regression in the groovy CLI command report
• Fixed regression in handling of usernames containing <, often used by Mercurial. (issue 3964)
• Allow Maven projects to have their own artifact archiver settings. (issue 3289)

What's new in 1.313 (2009/06/26)

• Added copy-job, delete-job, enable-job, and disable-job command.
• Fixed a bug in the non-ASCII character handling in remote bulk file copy. (report)
• Supported self restart on all containers in Unix (report)
• Added Retry Logic to SCM Checkout
• Fix bug in crumb validation when client is coming through a proxy. (issue 3854)
• Replaced "appears to be stuck" with an icon. (issue 3891)
• WebDAV deployment from Maven was failing with VerifyError.
• Subversion checkout/update gets in an infinite loop when a previously valid password goes invalid. (issue 2909)

What's new in 1.312 (2009/06/23)

• 1.311 jars were not properly signed
• Subversion SCM browsers were not working. (report)

What's new in 1.311 (2009/06/19)

• Gracefully handle IBM JVMs on PowerPC. (issue 3875)
• Fixed NPE with GlassFish v3 when CSRF protection is on. (issue 3878)
• Fixed a bug in CLI where the state of command executions may interfere with each other.
• CLI should handle the situation gracefully if the server doesn't use crumb.
• Fixed a performance problem in CLI execution.
• Don't populate the default value of the Subversion local directory name. (report)
• Integrated SVNKit 1.3.0
• Implemented more intelligent polling assisted by commit-hook from SVN repository. (details)
• Subversion support is moved into a plugin to isolate SVNKit that has GPL-like license.
• Fixed a performance problem in master/slave file copy. (issue 3799)
• Set time out to avoid infinite hang when SMTP servers don't respond in time. (report)

What's new in 1.310 (2009/06/14)

• Ant/Maven installers weren't setting the file permissions on Unix. (issue 3850)
• Fixed cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, thanks to Steve Milner.
• Changing number of executors for master node required Hudson restart. (issue 3092)
• Improved validation and help text regarding when number of executors setting may be zero. (issue 2110)
• NPE fix in the remote API if @xpath is used without @exclude. (patch)
• Expose the node name as 'NODE_NAME' environment varilable to build.
• Added a CLI command to clear the job queue. (report)
• Sundry improvements to automatic tool installation. You no longer need to configure an absolute tool home directory. Also some Unix-specific fixes.
• Generate nonce values to prevent cross site request forgeries. Extension point to customize the nonce generation algorithm.

What's new in 1.309 (2009/05/31)

• Reimplemented JDK auto installer to reduce Hudson footprint by 5MB. This also fix a failure to run on JBoss. (report)

What's new in 1.308 (2009/05/28)

• Unit test trend graph was not displayed if there's no successful build. (report)
• init script ($HUDSON_HOME/init.groovy) is now run with uber-classloader.
• Maven2 projects may fail with "Cannot lookup required component". (issue 3706)
• Toned down the form validation of JDK, Maven, Ant installations given that we can now auto-install them.
• Ant can now be automatically installed from ant.apache.org.
• Maven can now be automatically installed from maven.apache.org.

What's new in 1.307 (2009/05/22)

• AbstractProject.doWipeOutWorkspace() wasn't calling SCM.processWorkspaceBeforeDeletion. (issue 3506)
• X-Hudson header was sent for all views, not just the top page. (report)
• Remote API served incorrect absolute URLs when Hudson is run behind a reverse proxy. (report)
• Further improved the JUnit report parsing. (report)
• External job monitoring was ignoring the possible encoding difference between Hudson and the remote machine that executed the job. (report)
• Slave launch log was doing extra buffering that can prevent error logs (and so on) from showing up instantly. (report)
• Some failures in Windows batch files didn't cause Hudson to fail the build. (report)

What's new in 1.306 (2009/05/16)

• Maven 2.1 support was not working on slaves. (report)

What's new in 1.305 (2009/05/16)

• Fixed a bug that caused Hudson to delete slave workspaces too often. (issue 3653)
• If distributed build isn't enabled, slave selection drop-down shouldn't be displayed in the job config.
• Added support for Svent 2.x SCM browsers. (issue 3357)
• Fixed unexpanded rootURL in CLI. (report)
• Trying to see the generated maven site results in 404. (issue 3497)
• Long lines in console output are now wrapped in most browsers.
• Hudson can now automatically install JDKs from java.sun.com
• The native m2 mode now works with Maven 2.1 (issue 2373)

What's new in 1.304 (2009/05/08)

• CLI didn't work with "java -jar hudson.war" (report)
• Link to the jar file in the CLI usage page is made more robust. (issue 3621)
• "Build after other projects are built" wasn't loading the proper setting. (issue 3284)
• Hudson started as "java -jar hudson.war" can now restart itself on all Unix flavors.
• When run on GlassFish, Hudson configures GF correctly to handle URI encoding always in UTF-8
• Added a new extension point to contribute fragment to UDP-based auto discovery.
• Rolled back changes for HUDSON-3580 - workspace is once again deleted on svn checkout. (issue 3580)

What's new in 1.303 (2009/05/03)

• Fixed a binary incompatibility in UpstreamCause that results in NoSuchMethodError. Regression in 1.302. (report)
• The "groovysh" CLI command puts "println" to server stdout, instead of CLI stdout.

What's new in 1.302 (2009/05/01)

• The elusive 'Not in GZIP format' exception is finally fixed thanks to cristiano_k's great detective work (issue 2154)
• Hudson kept relaunching the slave under the "on-demand" retention strategy. (report)
• Extra slash (/) included in path to workspace copy of svn external. (issue 3533)
• NPE prevents Hudson from starting up on some environments (report)
• Workspace deleted when subversion checkout happens. (issue 3580)
• Hudson now handles unexpected failures in trigger plugins more gracefully.
• Use 8K buffer to improve remote file copy performance. (issue 3524)
• Hudson now has a CLI
• Hudson's start up performance is improved by loading data concurrently.

What's new in 1.301 (2009/04/25)

• When a SCM plugin is uninstalled, projects using it should fall back to "No SCM".
• When polling SCMs, boolean parameter sets default value collectly.
• Sidebar build descriptions will not have "..." appended unless they have been truncated. (issue 3541)
• Workspace with symlink causes svn exception when updating externals. (issue 3532)
• Hudson now started bundling ssh-slaves plugin out of the box.
• Added an extension point to programmatically contribute a Subversion authentication credential. (report)
• You can now configure which columns are displayed in a view. "Last Stable" was also added as an optional column (not displayed by default). (issue 3465)
• Preventive node monitoring like /tmp size check, swap space size check can be now disabled selectively. (issue 2596, issue 2552)
• Per-project read permission support. (issue 2324)

What's new in 1.300 (2009/04/17)

• Javadoc browsing broken since 1.297. (issue 3444)
• Fixed a JNLP slave problem on JDK6u10 (and later)
• Added @ExportedBean to DiskSpaceMonitorDescriptor#DiskSpace so that Remote API(/computer/api/) works
• Fixed a Jelly bug in CVS after-the-fact tagging

What's new in 1.299 (2009/04/10)

• Cross site scripting vulnerability in the search box. (issue 3415)
• Auto-completion in the "copy job from" text box was not working. (issue 3396)
• Allow descriptions for parameters (issue 2557)
• support for boolean and choice parameters (issue 2558)
• support for run parameters. Allows you to pick one run from a configurable project, and exposes the url of that run to the build.
• JVM arguments of JNLP slaves can be now controlled. (issue 3398)
• $HUDSON_HOME/userContent/ is now exposed under http://server/hudson/userContent/. (report)

What's new in 1.298

Release process failed in a wrong part and we ended up skipping this release number.

What's new in 1.297 (2009/04/06)

• Fixed a plugin compatibility regression issue introduced in 1.296 (issue 3436)

What's new in 1.296 (2009/04/03)

• Programmatically created jobs started builds at #0 rather than #1. (issue 3361)
• Drop-down combobox to select a repository browser all had the same title. (report)
• Disk space monitoring was broken since 1.294. (issue 3381)
• Native m2 support is moved to a plugin bundled out-of-the-box in the distribution (issue 3251)
• Hudson now suggests to users to create a view if there are too many jobs but no views yet.

What's new in 1.295 (2009/03/30)

• NPE in the global configuration of CVS. (issue 3382)

What's new in 1.294 (2009/03/28)

• Generated RSS 2.0 feeds weren't properly escaping e-mail addresses.
• Hudson wasn't capturing stdout/stderr from Maven surefire tests.
• Improved the error diagnostics when retrieving JNLP file from CLI. (report)
• Making various internal changes to make it easier to create custom job types.
• Introduced a revised form field validation mechanism for plugins and core (FormValidation)
• Hudson now monitors the temporary directory to forestall disk out of space problems.
• XML API now exposes information about modules in a native Maven job.

What's new in 1.293 (2009/03/20)

• ZIP archives created from workspace contents will render properly in Windows' built-in "compressed folder" views. (issue 3294)
• Fixed an infinite loop (eventually leading to OOME) if Subversion client SSL certificate authentication fails. (report)
• NPE from artifact archiver when a slave is down. (issue 3330)
• Hudson now monitors the disk consumption of HUDSON_HOME by itself.

What's new in 1.292 (2009/03/13)

• Fixed the possible "java.io.IOException: Not in GZIP format" problem when copying a file remotely. (issue 3134)
• Tool location name in node-specific properties always showed first list entry instead of saved value. (issue 3264)
• Parse the Subversion tunnel configuration properly. (report)
• Improved JUnit result display to handle complex suite setups involving non-unique class names. (issue 2988)
• If the master is on Windows and slave is on Unix or vice versa, PATH environment variable was not properly handled.
• Improved the access denied error message to be more human readable. (report)

What's new in 1.291 (2009/03/10)

• api/xml?xpath=...&wrapper=... behaved inconsistently for results of size 0 or 1. (issue 3267)
• Fixed NPE in the WebSphere start up. (issue 3069)
• Fixed a bug in the parsing of the -tunnel option in slave.jar (issue 2869)
• Updated XStream to support FreeBSD. (issue 2356)
• Only show last 150KB of console log in HTML view, with link to show entire log (issue 261)
• Can specify build cause when triggering build remotely via token (issue 324)
• Recover gracefully from failing to load winp. (report)

What's new in 1.290 (2009/03/06)

• Fixed a regression in 1.286 that broke findbugs and other plugins. (report)
• Fixed backward compatibility problem with the old audit-trail plugin and the old promoted-build plgin. (report, report)
• On Solaris, ZFS detection fails if $HUDSON_HOME is on the top-level file system.
• Fixed a regression in the fingerprinter & archiver interaction in the matrix project (report)
• Added usage screen to slave.jar. Slaves now also do ping by default to proactively detect failures in the master. (from IRC)

What's new in 1.289 (2009/03/05)

• Could not run java -jar hudson.war using JDK 5. (issue 3200)
• Infinite loop reported when running on Glassfish. (issue 3163)
• Hudson failed to poll multiple Subversion repository locations since 1.286. (issue 3168)
• Avoid broken images/links in matrix project when some combinations are not run due to filter. (issue 3167)
• Add back LDAP group query on uniqueMember (lost in 1.280) and fix memberUid query (issue 2256)
• Adding a slave node was not possible in French locale (issue 3156)
• External builds were shown in Build History of all slave nodes
• Renewed the certificate for signing hudson.war (report)
• Do not archive empty directories. (issue 3227)
• Hyperlink URLs in JUnit output. (issue 3225)
• Automatically lookup email addresses in LDAP when LDAP authentication is used (issue 1475)

What's new in 1.288 (2009/03/03)

• The project-based security configuration didn't survive the configuration roundtrip since 1.284. (issue 3116)
• Form error check on the new node was checking against job names, not node names. (issue 3176)
• Plugin class is now optional.
• Display a more prominent message if Hudson is going to shut down.
• Builds blocked by the shut-down process now reports its status accordingly. (issue 3152)

What's new in 1.287 (2009/02/27)

• Custom widgets were not rendered. (issue 3161)
• Fixed a regression in 1.286 about handling form field validations in some plugins. (report)
• Improved the robustness in changlog computation when a build fails at check out. (report)
• Fixed a bug in loading winp.dll when directory names involve whitespaces. (issue 3111)
• Switched to Groovy 1.6.0, and did so in a way that avoids some of the library conflicts, such as asm. (report)

What's new in 1.286 (2009/02/26)

• Fixed NPE in Pipe.EOF(0) (issue 3077)
• Improved error handling when Maven fails to start correctly in the m2 project type. (issue 2394)
• Improved the error handling behaviors when non-serializable exceptions are involved in distributed operations. (issue 1041)
• Allow unassigning a job from a node after the last slave node is deleted. (issue 2905)
• Fix "Copy existing job" autocomplete on new job page if any existing job names have a quote character.
• Keep last successful build (or artifacts from it) now tries to keep last stable build too. (issue 2417)
• LDAP authentication realm didn't support the built-in "authenticated" role. (report)
• Added RemoteCause for triggering build remotely.
• Hudson is now capable of launching Windows slave headlessly and remotely.
• Better SVN polling support - Trigger a build for changes in certain regions. (issue 3124)
• New extension point NodeProperty.
• Internal restructuring for reducing singleton dependencies and automatic Descriptor discovery.

What's new in 1.285 (2009/02/19)

• Build parameter settings are lost when you save the configuration. Regression since 1.284. (report)
• Indicate the executors of offline nodes as "offline", not "idle" to avoid confusion. (issue 2263)
• Fixed a boot problem in Solaris < 10. (issue 3044)
• In matrix build, show axes used for that build rather than currently configured axes. (issue 2407)
• Don't let containers persist authentication information, which may not deserialize correctly. (report)
• Always use some timeout value for Subversion HTTP access to avoid infinite hang in the read.
• Better CVS polling support - Trigger a build for changes in certain regions. (issue 3123)

What's new in 1.284 (2009/02/17)

• ProcessTreeKiller was not working on 64bit Windows, Windows 2000, and other minor platforms like PowerPC. (issue 3050, issue 3060)
• Login using Hudson's own user database did not work since 1.283. (issue 3043)
• View of parameters used for a build did not work since 1.283. (issue 3061)
• Equal quiet period and SCM polling schedule could trigger extra build with no changes. (issue 2671)
• Fix localization of some messages in build health reports. (issue 1670)
• Fixed a possible memory leak in the distributed build. (report)
• Suppress more pointless error messages in Winstone when clients cut the connection in the middle. (report)

What's new in 1.283

• Fixed a concurrent build problem in the parallel parameterized build. (issue 2997)
• Maven2 job types didn't handle property-based profile activations correctly. (issue 1454)
• LDAP group permissions were not applied when logged in via remember-me cookie. (issue 2329)
• Record how each build was started and show this in build page and remote API. (issue 291)
• Added the --version option to CLI to show the version. The version information is also visible in the help screen. (report)
• Hudson's own user database now stores SHA-256 encrypted passwords instead of reversible base-64 scrambling. (issue 2381)
• Built-in servlet container no longer reports pointless error messages when clients abort the TCP connection. (report)
• On Solaris, Hudson now supports the migration of the data to ZFS.
• Plugin manager now honors the plugin URL from inside .hpi, not just from the update center. (report)
• Hudson will now kill all the processes that are left behind by a build, to maintain the stability of the cluster. (issue 2729)

What's new in 1.282 (2009/02/08)

• Matrix security username/groupname validation required admin permission even in project-specific permissions
• Fixed a JavaScript bug in slave configuration page when locale is French. (report)
• File upload from HTML forms doesn't work with Internet Explorer. (report)
• Jobs now expose JobProperties via the remote API. (issue 2990)
• Hudson now responds to a UDP packet to port 33848 for better discovery.
• Improved the error diagnostics when XML marshalling fails. (report)

What's new in 1.281 (2009/02/05)

• Remote API access to test results was broken since 1.272. (issue 2760)
• Fixed problem in 1.280 where saving top-level settings with LDAP authentication resulted in very large config.xml (issue 2958)
• Username/groupname validation added in 1.280 had broken images, and got exception in groupname lookup with LDAP. (issue 2959)
• hudson.war now supports the --daemon option for forking into background on Unix.
• Remote API supports stdout/stderr from test reports. (issue 2760)

What's new in 1.280 (2009/02/01)

• Fixed unnecessary builds triggered by SVN polling (issue 2825)
• Hudson can now run on JBoss5 without any hassle. (issue 2831)
• Matrix security configuration now validates whether the username/groupname are valid.
• "Disable build" checkbox was moved to align with the rest of the checkboxes. (issue 2951)
• Added an extension point to manipulate Launcher used during a build.

What's new in 1.279 (2009/01/28)

• Fixed a security related regression in 1.278 where authorized users won't get access to the system. (issue 2930)
• Possible subversion polling problems due to debug code making polling take one minute, since 1.273. (issue 2913)
• Computer page now shows the executor list of that computer. (issue 2925)
• Maven surefire test recording is made robust when clocks are out of sync (report)
• Matrix project type now supports sparse matrix. (issue 2813)
• Plugins can now add a new column to the list view. (issue 2862)

What's new in 1.278 (2009/01/23)

• The "administer" permission should allow a person to do everything. (discussion)
• Parameterized projects supported for matrix configurations (issue 2903)
• Improved error recovery when a build fails and javadoc/artifacts weren't created at all.
• Support programmatic scheduling of parameterized builds by HTTP GET or POST to /job/.../buildWithParameters (issue 2409)
• Create "lastStable" symlink on the file system to point to the applicable build. (report)

What's new in 1.277 (2009/01/20)

• "Installing slave as Windows service" feature was broken since 1.272 (issue 2886)
• Top level People page showed no project information since 1.269. (report)
• Slave configuration page always showed "Utilize as much as possible" instead of saved value since 1.271. (issue 2878)
• Require build permission to submit results for an external job. (issue 2873)
• With the --logfile==/path/to/logfile option, Hudson now reacts SIGALRM and reopen the log file. This makes Hudson behave nicely wrt log rotation.

What's new in 1.276 (2009/01/16)

• Ok button on New View page was always disabled when not using project-specific permissions. (issue 2809)
• Fixed incompatibility with JBossAS 5.0. (issue 2831)
• Unit test in plugin will now automatically load the plugin. (discussion)
• Added direct configuration links for the "manage nodes" page. (discussion)
• If a build has no change, e-mail shouldn't link to the empty changeset page.

What's new in 1.275 (2009/01/15)

• Display of short time durations failed on locales with comma as fraction separator. (issue 2843)
• Saving main Hudson config failed if more than one plugin used Plugin/config.jelly.
• Added a scheduled slave availability.
• Hudson supports auto-upgrade on Solaris when managed by SMF.
• Removed unused spring-support-1.2.9.jar from Hudson as it was interfering with the Crowd plugin. (report)
• Debian package now has the RUN_STANDALONE switch to control if hudson should be run as a daemon. (report)

What's new in 1.274 (2009/01/12)

• Failure to compute Subversion changelog should result in a build failure. (issue 2461)
• XML API caused NPE when xpath=... is specified. (issue 2828)
• Artifact/workspace browser was unable to serve directories/files that contains ".." in them. (report)
• Hudson renders durations in milliseconds if the total duration is very short. (report)
• On Unix, Hudson will contain symlinks from build numbers to their corresponding build directories.

What's new in 1.273 (2009/01/11)

• Load statistics chart had the blue line and the red line swapped. (issue 2818)
• Artifact archiver and workspace browser didn't handle filenames with spaces since 1.269. (issue 2793)
• The executor status and build queue weren't updated asynchronously in the "manage slaves" page. (issue 2821)
• If SCM polling activities gets clogged, Hudson shows a warning in the management page. (issue 1646)
• Added AdministrativeMonitor extension point for improving the autonomous monitoring of the system in Hudson.

What's new in 1.272 (2009/01/10)

• Sometimes multi-line input field is not properly rendered as a text area. (issue 2816)
• Hudson wasn't able to detect when .NET was completely missing. (report)
• Fixed a bug where the "All" view can be lost if upgraded from pre-1.269 and the configuration is reloaded from disk without saving. (report)
• If for some reason "All" view is deleted, allow people to create it again. (report)
• JNLP slave agents is made more robust in the face of configuration errors. (report)
• Upgraded JNA to 3.0.9 to support installation as a service on 64bit Windows. (report)
• Remote XML API now suports the 'exclude' query parameter to remove nodes that match the specified XPath. (report)

What's new in 1.271 (2009/01/09)

• Fix URLs in junit test reports to handle some special characters. (issue 1768, issue 2788)
• Project name for external job was not shown in Build History.
• SecurityRealms can now better control the servlet filter chain. (report)
• Configuration of slaves are moved to individual pages.
• Hudson now tracks the load statistics on slaves and labels.
• Labels can be now assigned to the master. (issue 754)
• Added cloud support and internal restructuring to deal with this change. Note that a plugin is required to use any particular cloud implementation.

What's new in 1.270 (2009/01/05)

• Hudson version number was not shown at bottom of pages since 1.269.
• Hudson system message was not shown on main page since 1.269.
• Top level /api/xml wasn't working since 1.269. (issue 2779)
• Fix posting of external job results. (issue 2786)
• Windows service wrapper messes up environment variables to lower case. (report and WINSW-161)
• Construct proper Next/Previous Build links even if request URL has extra slashes. (issue 1457)
• Subversion polling didn't notice when you change your project configuration. (report)

What's new in 1.269 (2009/01/05)

• Manually making a Maven project as upstream and free-style project as a downstream wasn't working. (issue 2778)
• Allow BuildWrapper plugins to contribute project actions to Maven2 jobs (issue 2777)
• Error pages should return non-200 HTTP status code.
• Logger configuration wasn't working since 1.267.
• Fix artifact archiver and workspace browser to handle filenames that need URL-encoding. (issue 2379)
• Only show form on tagBuild page if user has tag permission. (issue 2366)
• Don't require admin permission to view node list page, just hide some columns from non-admins. (issue 1207)
• Fix login redirect when anonymous user tries to access some pages. (issue 2408)
• Redirect up to build page if next/previousBuild link jumps to an action not present in that build. (issue 117)
• Subversion checkout/update now supports fixed revisions. (issue 262)
• Views are now extensible and can be contributed by plugins. (issue 234)

What's new in 1.268 (2008/12/28)

• Fixed a bug in Subversion http check out over HTTP 1.0 server. (report)
• Show badge in bug history only when artifacts are redeployed successfully. (issue 2764)
• Some plugins cause NPE in the form validation of the config screen since 1.267. (issue 2771)

What's new in 1.267 (2008/12/24)

• If a view name or job name contains whitespace, the navigation bar doesn't show the current positions correctly. (issue 2748)
• Field validators in configure screen shouldn't require the admin permission where possible. (issue 2715)
• Field validators for workspace file/directory/mask were missing a permission check. (issue 2755)
• Project-based permissions granted to Anonymous were not applied to Everyone. (issue 2745)
• Add health report in build history widget on project pages. (issue 2763)
• If AWT doesn't work, Hudson reports an error now.
• Improved logging facility.
• Working around HttpServletResponse.sendRedirect() problem in WebSphere. (report)

What's new in 1.266 (2008/12/19)

• If there was no successful build, test result trend wasn't displayed. (report)
• Windows service installer wasn't handling the situation correctly if Hudson is started at the installation target. (report)
• Always display the restart button on the update center page, if the current environment supports it. (report)
• slave.jar now supports the -noCertificateCheck to bypass (or cripple) HTTPS certificate examination entirely. Useful for working with self-signed HTTPS that are often seen in the intranet. (discussion)
• Add extension point to allow alternate update centers. (issue 2732)
• Improved accessibility for visually handicapped.

What's new in 1.265 (2008/12/17)

• PluginWrapper.getLongName() always returned short name because it uses wrong property name. (discussion)
• Follow up fix to the StAX issue. (issue 2547)
• Fixed inconsistencies in matrix security / authorization. (issue 1345)
• Fixed NPE in Subversion enter credential page. (issue 2698)
• UI fix for per-project security mode. (issue 2727)
• Removed some links from the computer page if the current user lacks permissions. (issue 2730)
• Show description on slave node status page (issue 1061)
• Views should show display actions contributed to the top page. (issue 2713)
• In project-based matrix security, global setting should be inherited to per-job setting. (issue 2186)

What's new in 1.264 (2008/12/16)

• Hudson reportedly used to invoke Java plugin unnecessarily. This is fixed. (issue 2694)
• Added anonymous usage statistics tracking with opt-out. (discussion)
• Add available artifacts to XML API. (issue 2249)
• Bumped up Groovy to 1.5.7. (issue 2191)
• Can now append /*plain* to directory browsing in the workspace to get a plain-text dir listing.

What's new in 1.263 (2008/12/11)

• Fixed a problem in handling of '\' introduced in 1.260. (issue 2584)
• Fixed possible NPE when rendering a build history after a slave removal. (issue 2622)
• JNLP descriptor shouldn't rely on the manually configured root URL for HTTP access. (discussion)
• Use unique id which javascript uses when removing users from Matrix-based security. (issue 2652)
• Hudson is now made 5 times more conservative in marking an item in the queue as stuck. (issue 2618)
• Improved the variable expansion mechanism in handling of more complex cases.
• XPath matching numbers and booleans in the remote API will render text/plain, instead of error.

What's new in 1.262 (2008/11/14)

• Fixed a Java6 dependency crept in in 1.261. (issue 2623)
• Setting up a manual dependency from a freestyle project to a Maven project didn't work. (report)
• Use Project Security setting wasn't being persisted. (issue 2305)
• Slave installed as a Windows service didn't attempt automatic reconnection when initiail connection fails. (report)
• Maven builder has the advanced section in the freestyle job, just like Ant builder. (report)

What's new in 1.261 (2008/11/11)

• Using Maven inside a matrix project, axes were not expanded in the maven command line. (report)
• Fixed authentication so that login successfully after signing up. (issue 2594)
• Fixed Project-based Matrix Authorization Strategy reverting to Matrix Authorization Strategy after restarting Hudson (issue 2305)
• LDAP membership query now recognizes uniqueMember and memberUid (issue 2256)
• If a build appears to be hanging for too long, Hudson turns the progress bar to red.

What's new in 1.260 (2008/11/05)

• Fixed tokenization handling in command line that involves quotes (like -Dabc="abc def" (issue 2584)
• Hudson wasn't using persistent HTTP connections properly when using Subversion over HTTP.
• Fixed svn:executable handling on 64bit Linux systems.
• When a build is aborted, Hudson now kills all the descendant processes recursively to avoid run-away processes. This is available on Windows, Linux, and Solaris. Contributions for other OSes welcome.
• Improved error diagnostics in the update center when the proxy configuration is likely necessary. (discussion)
• Improved error diagnostics when a temp file creation failed. (issue 2587)

What's new in 1.259 (2008/11/03)

• If a job is cancelled while it's already in the queue, remove the job from the queue. (report)
• Installing Hudson as a Windows service requires .NET 2.0 or later. Hudson now checks this before attempting a service installation.
• On Hudson installed as Windows service, Hudson can now upgrade itself when a new version is available.
• Hudson can now be pre-packaged with plugins. (report)
• Supported the javadoc:aggregate goal (issue 2562)
• Bundled StAX implementation so that plugins would have easier time using it. (issue 2547)

What's new in 1.258 (2008/10/30)

• Fixed a class incompatibility introduced in 1.257 that breaks TFS and ClearCase plugins. (report)
• Fixed a NPE when dealing with broken Action implementations. (issue 2527)

What's new in 1.257 (2008/10/28)

• Fixed an encoding issue when the master and a slave use incompatible encodings.
• Permission matrix was missing tooltip text. (report)
• Parameter expansion in Ant builder didn't honor build parameters. (report)
• Added tooltip for 'S' and 'W' in the top page for showing what it is. (report)
• Expanded the remote API to disable/enable jobs remotely.

What's new in 1.256 (2008/10/24)

• Hudson had two dom4j.jar that was causing a VerifyError in WebSphere. (issue 2435)
• Fixed NPE in case of changelog.xml data corruption (issue 2428)
• Improved the error detection when a Windows path is given to a Unix slave. (report)
• Automatic dependency management for Maven projects can be now disabled. (issue 1714)

What's new in 1.255 (2008/10/01)

• Project-level ACL matrix shouldn't display "CREATE" permission. (report)
• Fixed the serialized form of project-based matrix authorization strategy.
• Fixed a bug where Hudson installed as service gets killed when the interactive user logs off. (report)
• Timer-scheduled build shouldn't honor the quiet period. (report)
• Hudson slave launched from JNLP is now capable of installing itself as a Windows service.

What's new in 1.254 (2008/09/26)

• IllegalArgumentException in DeferredCreationLdapAuthoritiesPopulator if groupSearchBase is omitted. (report)
• Fixed "Failed to tag" problem when tagging some builds (issue 2213)
• Hudson is now capable of installing itself as a Windows service.
• Improved the diagnostics of why Hudson needs to do a fresh check out. (report)

What's new in 1.253 (2008/09/24)

• Fixed FormFieldValidator check for Windows path (issue 2334)
• Support empty cvs executable and Shell executable on configure page (issue 1851)
• Fixed parametric Project build when scheduled automatically from SCM changes (issue 2336)
• "Tag this build" link shouldn't show up in the navigation bar if the user doesn't have a permission. (issue 2380)
• Improved LDAP support so that it doesn't rely on ou=groups.
• Project-based security matrix shouldn't show up in project config page unless the said option is enabled in the global config
• Fixed NPE during the sign up of a new user (issue 2376)
• Suppress the need for a scroll-bar on the configure page when the PATH is very long (issue 2317)
• Now UserProperty objects can provide a summary on a user's main page. (issue 2331)
• Validate Maven installation directory just like Ant installation (issue 2335)
• Show summary.jelly files for JobProperties in the project page (issue 2398)
• Improvements in French and Japanese localization.
• JNLP slaves now support port tunneling for security-restricted environments.
• slave.jar now supports a proactive connection initiation (like JNLP slaves.) This can be used to replace JNLP slaves, especially when you want to run it as a service. (issue 779)
• Added a new extension to define permalinks
• Supported a file submission as one of the possible parameters for a parameterized build.
• The logic to disable slaves based on its response time is made more robust, to ignore temporary spike.
• Improved the robustness of the loading of persisted records to simplify plugin evolution.

What's new in 1.252 (2008/09/02)

• Fixed a queue persistence problem where sometimes executors die with NPEs.
• PageDecorator with a global.jelly is now shown in the System configuration page (issue 2289)
• On security-enabled Hudson, redirection for a login didn't work correctly since 1.249. (issue 2290)
• Hudson didn't give SCMs an opportunity to clean up the workspace before project deletion. (issue 2271)
• Subversion SCM enhancement for allowing parametric builds on Tags and Branches. (issue 2298)

What's new in 1.251 (2008/08/22)

• JavaScript error in the system configuration prevents a form submission. (issue 2260)

Older changelogs can be found in a separate file