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June 27, 2006
IncrediBuild v2.60 has been released and is available for download here.
Users evaluating IncrediBuild can install this version to reset the evaluation period to 30 days.
IncrediBuild 2.x users who are within their maintenance license period are entitled to a free upgrade to this version, and can use their IncrediBuild 2 license
file with this version. Upgrade terms for other users can be found in our pricing page.
Version Highlights
- Windows Vista (beta 2) support.
- New Build Monitor graphics, including system graphs monitoring disk, network and other system parameters.
- Visual Studio 2005 support improved, now with full support for custom rules and user macros.
- Improved Network Connectivity Test application for tracing Agents with slow-performing network connections.
- Various other fixes and improvements.
User Interface Changes
- Improved the Build Monitor Progress, Projects, Summary and Messages page looks.
- Added new "system graphs" feature to Build Monitor Progress page, which allows visual monitoring of various system parameters throughout builds.
- Build Monitor Progress page zoom in/out action is now smoothly animated.
- Build Monitor Progress page now allows panning by holding the mouse button and moving the mouse.
- Build Monitor Progress page now includes a time bar showing elapsed time throughout the build.
- All dialog box graphic elements have been revised.
- Projects that skipped linking because of a failed dependency are no longer marked as an error in Build Monitor.
- Build Monitor files can now be saved before build has completed.
- Added IncrediBuild logo to MS Visual Studio splash screen.
- Added choice between building the entire solution and building the startup project before starting a debug session.
- Fixed bug that could cause incorrect an warning/error count.
- "Network Connection" Coordinator Monitor column now contains additional network adapter information.
- Fixed bug that caused Intel-converted projects not to be displayed in Solution Settings dialog.
- BuildConsole now supports devenv.exe-style "/projectconfig" command line argument.
- Fixed bug that caused the Visual Studio IDE to freeze if closed while a build was running.
- Fixed Bug that could cause the Build Monitor Expand/Collapse plus sign to show up misaligned with the correct warning/error line.
- Tooltip is not shown immediately when mouse is held over Build Monitor left-pane menu icons.
- Double-clicking on a "Linking" bar now skips to the build output text even if link step did not produce any output.
Build System Changes
- VS2005: User macros in Property Sheets are now supported.
- VS2005: Custom rules are now supported.
- VS2005: Fixed bug that could cause incorrect Xbox 360 deployment.
- Intel C/C++ Compiler precompiled headers are now supported (requires latest Intel 9.1 patch).
- Fixed bug that could cause link failures when IncrediLink was used.
- Fixed bug that could cause the compiler to fail to initialize in certain conditions involving differently-named Windows folders across machines.
- Fixed bug that could cause miscalculation of __TIMESTAMP__ macro.
- Fixed bug that could cause miscalculation of $(FrameworkSDKDir) macro if both versions 1.0 and 2.0 were installed.
- VS2005: Fixed bug that could cause projects missing the win32 platform to fail.
- Fixed bug that could cause the compiler to fail to initialize in certain conditions involving a third party build product.
- VC7: Added new "Link library dependencies" option to Solution Settings dialog.
- VS2005: Fixed resgen.exe command line bug.
- Fixed rare bug concerning external compilation of PCH's that could cause endless bars if compilation failed.
- Fixed bug that caused missing environment variables to be reported even if the projects triggering the error were not included in the built solution.
- Fixed rare bug that could cause modification of C# project files in IDE-initiated builds.
- Fixed bug that failed builds whenever an environment variable was specified without a closing parenthesis.
- Solutions not containing any C/C++ projects are now supported.
- Fixed bug that could cause certain warnings to be filtered from the build output on Windows 2003/Vista machines.
- Fixed bug that could fail builds in solutions containing website projects.
- Fixed bug that could result in partial execution of manifest step.
Other Changes
- Added support for Windows Vista (beta 2).
- Network Connectivity Test tool revised and improved.
- Performed various internal performance improvements.
- optimized file network transfer to multi-CPU remote machines.
- Added new option to write output files to the disk in the background.
- Build System shut-down is now more robust.
- Fixed bug that could cause an Agent to turn into a Helper Agent randomly.
- Fixed rare access violation in Coordinator service.
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