New Features:
- Option to add a custom message (#49, #78)
- Build Server URL defaults to Jenkins URL when the slack plugin is first configured (#42, #90)
UI Improvements:
- Move
Test Connection
button in slack job config to the advanced section (#64) - Improvements to
Test Connection
button. It now provides feedback in the Jenkins UI when it succeeds or fails to connect to the slack instance (#51, #81)
Improvements:
- Improve 'started' message with proper cause (#37)
- The separator for specifying posting to multiple slack channels is more robust. It now allows spaces, commas, and semicolons as a separator (#56)
- Notifications start with full project name when using Cloudbees folders plugin. This includes the folder and the project in the notification (#61)
- Search upstream causes when gathering commit list (#67)
- Change repeated failure message improvement with
Still Failing
. Makes it easier to understand if it is the first or repeated failure in a build (#77) - Add unit tests for
doTestConnection
method (#82, #84)
Bug fixes:
- Fix
Include Test Summary
andNotify Repeated Failure
options being reversed when saving settings in the UI (#63) - Change
.getPreviousBuild()
to allow for higher concurrency (#70) - Solve
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError
when running unit tests (#82, #83) - Adding ability for environment variables and parameters (#31, #80, #89)
New features:
- Advanced settings
- Team domain and token can be specified per project; falls back to global config if not specified (#19)
- Post a list of commits with the build notification (title and author of commit) (#30, #44, #45)
- Include JUnit test summary in build notifications (#25)
- Use colors when sending a message using slack (#20, #24). Also, the start notifications use the color of the last build result (#43)
- Support for authenticated proxies (#14)
- Test Connection button (#46, #28)
- Option to disable subsequent notifications on build failures (#46, #15)
Improvements:
- Report 'return to normal' on transition from unstable to success (#21).
- Improved logging.
Bug fixes:
- When changing the global slack settings the slack config in jobs are updated as well (#26, #12)
- Fix NullPointerException and output log message if slack is not configured (#35, JENKINS-26066)