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v0.15 release - February 2022

Note: existing machines will need to be reloaded, and might need to be
recreated after this update!

- AWS is now supported as a provider 👏
  - ready-made and publicly available boxes for Linux, Windows, and macOS
  - configure a security group that allows traffic only from the host's
    public IP address
  - key-based ssh authentication using the host user's key pair
  - optional auto-shutdown support to stop idle instances
  - with VNC GUI access via vnc-server role (needs to be added explicitly)
    to Linux
- base box maintanance 🔧
  - Windows 10 Azure image upgraded to 20H2
  - macOS 11 and 12 upgraded to latest available versions
  - keyboard navigation is now enabled on macOS, unit tests relying on
    focus changes by tabbing now pass
- provisioning improvements 🛠
  - android-emulator improvements
  - vnc-server role implemented for Linux using x11vnc
  - linux-desktop role falls back to Xvfb if there's no screen, enabling
    it on cloud instances
  - install provisioners are now merged correctly
- job improvements 🏃
  - pass the Qt host-tools path to projects when building on an Android
    builder box
  - update the qmake/qt-cmake wrapper scripts more frequently to make it
    easier to switch Qt versions
  - call the configure script explicitly using /bin/bash
- other plumbing 🐞
  - recreate mutagen sync when a machine's ssh port forwarding changes
  - fix the upgrade logic in the Windows installer script
  - old boxes are removed from the default minicoin.yml file

November 2021, week 45

From now on, macOS images will only be provided for the
VMware provider.

- macOS 11 image updated to 11.6.1
- macOS 12 image updated to 12.1 beta
- various improvements for the android-builder role
- ctest runner job: $ minicoin run ctest [machine]
- support for per-minicoin-run machine settings
- install-online job installs 6.2.0
- bump mutagen to v0.12.0, remove workaround for bug in
  v0.11.8

October 2021, week 41

- Windows 11 images for virtualbox and vmware_desktop
  providers now based on officially released version
- macOS 12: image for vmware_desktop available, based
  on beta version
- macOS: improved debug logging for sshfs plugin
- linux-builder: bump cmake version to 3.21.2
- OpenSUSE15: work around display driver issues with
  virtualbox
- OpenSUSE15: stream-line provisioning of KDE Plasma
  desktop
- Improved customization options for provider specific
  configurations
- build job fix: generate helper script when qmake target
  is built explicitly
- Azure provider: update to latest protocol changes

September 2021, week 36

- fix OpenSUSE 15.3 provisioning, the display driver installed in
  the box is buggy, resulting in a black screen after trying to
  start the plasma desktop. Uninstalling the driver works.
- Windows: auto-confirm the chocolatey upgrade prompts
- installer script supports debian host

August 2021 week 33

- update macOS 11 box to 11.5.2
- update Windows 10 box, latest security fixes applied
  (but still Windows 10 20H2)
- first version of box for Windows 11, based on beta
- remove windows7 machine from default minicoin.yml,
  add windows11
- minor fixes to base box maintenance scripts
- install gstreamer requirements for linux-builder

April 2021 week 14

- Provisioning fixes for Linux machines

- improved interaction with terminal for run command

- minor fixes to setup

- fix environment variable handling on host side

March 2021 week 12

- dialog to wake up or quit jobs between runs

- support crossplatform pre/post run scripts in ruby

- runner fixes on Windows host

- install-online works on Windows hosts

- various fixes to installer on Windows

Fixes for Azure

Improvements to Linux boxes:

- add OpenSUSE 15 box

- auto-login

- turn screen locker off

- better compiler search

- centos8 builder fixes

March 2021 Week 11

- environment variables for jobs

gui command

download command

- install-online job can search and sets up qmake/qt-cmake wrappers

use scheduled tasks on Windows

limit progress lines to terminal width

continuous builds, triggered by fs changes

mutagen wait and list subcommands

March 2021 Week 10 release

Further polishing of runner and interrupt handling

Improved output processing with per-job matchers

March 2021.3

More fixes to install scripts for Linux

March 2021.2

Fixes to setup script

Lots of run improvements

March 2021

February 2021