ANN: Anthill Pro v.2.1.4 (2.1 preview) now available

Version 2.1.4 of Anthill Pro is now available.  This version focused
mostly on a few bug fixes as well as implementing a few requested 
features.  The list of changes is below.

You can download this latest release at
https://www.urbancode.com/products/anthillpro/secure/protected/download.jsp

Thanks,

--The Anthill Team


-- issue #480 -- "Build as" build optionally not reset the version for 
future builds.  The "build as" option now contains two text boxes -- the 
first text box specifies the version to be used for this build and it is 
required; the second text box specifies the version number to be used on 
the build after this one (this text box is optional).  With these two 
text boxes, if you are currently at version "1.2.3" and want to build as 
"1.2.4 alpha" but then want to drop the alpha designation from all 
future builds, you'd enter "1.2.4 alpha" in the first text box and 
"1.2.5" in the second text box.  This example assumes that the version 
format is "x.y.b" where b is the build number.

-- issue #569 -- Multi-threaded builds throwing VSS errors.  This 
problem occurred on Windows because the VCS Driver library creates 
temporary batch files that hold the VCS commands.  The problem was that 
the patch files always had the same name.  So if two threads were doing 
a build at the same time, both of them may try to write to and then 
execute the same batch file.  This has been fixed so each generated 
batch file now has a unique name, thus guaranteeing that there are no 
thread collisions.  This does not completely fix the multi-threaded 
build problem, since the logs are still not bound to any one thread; 
they are shared by all threads and thus can contain output from other 
concurrently running builds.

-- issue #576 -- Ant builder commands not being quoted.  This problem 
was introduced in version 2.1.3.346 when we started using a new utility 
library to execute Ant commands.  The problem manifests itself as 
strange Ant builder failures when any of the paths or the version number 
contain spaces.

-- issue #577 -- Specification Property Based Versioning Strategy 
exception during edit.

-- issue #578 -- Support for environment variables in Make builder.  The 
Make builder now supports the setting of environment variables just like 
the Ant builder does.

-- issue #579 -- Maven builder goals not getting restored or copied. 
This problem was introduced in 2.1.3.346.

-- issue #580 -- Project Counter is not being created when a new project 
is created.  A new project level Counter is now being created whenever a 
new project is created or copied from an existing project.

-- issue #581 -- Maven builder not handling Maven return codes.  The 
Maven builder now inspects the Maven return code and prints out a 
message indicating the cause of the failure.  The build is marked as 
having failed in the event of a Maven return code that indicates a Maven 
build failure.

-- issue #582 -- Maven builder exceptions after deletion.  Maven 
builders were not being deleted completely from Build Tracks, causing 
possible exceptions after attempted deletion.