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GitHub Actions, Issues and PRs

The new version of CatLight v3 can monitor and show desktop notifications for GitHub actions, issues, and pull requests.

Get reminders about pending GitHub PRs and notify others that you are reviewing a PR with one click.

See the progress and ETA for your GitHub Actions workflows and jobs. Notify your team that you are investigating a broken job.

Get a prioritized list of your issues, alongside other action items for your project. See notifications about new tasks.

Available in CatLight 3.0.19+ . Download it from https://catlight.io/downloads

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CatLight v3 preview

CatLight v3 preview 1 is out, with a new Action Center, multiple dashboards, settings sharing, and more!

Check out the full description of new features

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Pull Requests

New version of CatLight app can show pull requests from Azure DevOps and TFS 2018+.

You can select the relevant projects in settings, and pull requests from them will be displayed on the dashboard. CatLight will show notifications and alert developers when new pull request is created.

We will continue to enhance pull request monitoring in the future. Please add your ideas and suggestions to our backlog , so we can see what needs to be improved next.

Download the latest version from https://catlight.io/downloads

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Investigation comments

In CatLight 2.25 you can add a comment to the investigation. Your team members will see it on the dashboard.

Use comments to provide a status update, share the reason of the build breakage, or to provide the troubleshooting steps for the people that will investigate next time.

You can also get the list of previous comments through a context menu.

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Team status

In CatLight 2.21, you can see the status of your team members on the dashboard.

Download it from https://catlight.io/downloads

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Large TFS and VSTS server improvements

CatLight 2.19 has improved reliability when monitoring TFS servers with hundreds of build definitions and work item queries.

Download it from https://catlight.io/downloads

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Speed improvements

CatLight 2.18 has multiple improvements in startup and run-time performance.

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Auto-discovery of new builds

CatLight 2.17 will start monitoring newly added build and release definitions automatically.

When you monitor the whole project, and new item is added to it, CatLight will start monitoring it automatically.

By default, discovery happens every 30 minutes, but you can trigger it at any time by pressing refresh button on the dashboard. Discovery period is also configurable in application settings.

Get the latest version from http://catlight.io/downloads 

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Enterprise Edition

Introducing CatLight Enterprise! 

You can now run CatLight services on your own hardware behind the firewall. 

This will be useful for companies with strict security requirements.

Contact us at [email protected] for installation instructions and trial license.  

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Green cat for good builds

In CatLight 2.14, tray icon will turn green when all your builds are successful and work items are in a good shape.

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Focus mode

Getting too many notifications? Try the new focus mode in CatLight 2.12.

In this mode, the app will show notification only if you break the build, and the CatLight icon will turn white.

Focus mode will stay active for 12 hours.

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Search on the dashboard

New dashboard has a search field that will filter builds and task by name.

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Release monitoring for TFS and VSTS

CatLight 2.9 can now monitor release definition status in TFS and VSTS.

New features:

Notifications about the status of every release environment

Separate notification when release is waiting for your approval

Overall status and history on the dashboard

Release investigations

Supported server versions:

VSTS

TFS 2017

TFS 2015 Update 2 and newer

For VSTS, you will need to re-authorize the app, as additional permissions are required.

Get the new version from https://catlight.io/downloads 

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Acknowledge build state

Sometimes the build is going to be red or yellow for a while. In CatLight 2.8, you can acknowledge it in context menu and focus on other builds.

You can use this feature to see up-to date status of other builds in a tray icon. When all broken builds are acknowledged, tray icon will show a yellow outline cat. If new build breaks down, tray icon will turn a solid yellow or red. This will remind you that you have new things to fix.

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Jenkins improvements (performance + branches)

We have a new Jenkins adapter implementation in CatLight 2.7. It has several improvements:

Faster polling times when only small number of jobs is monitored.

Reduced server load on Jenkins server with hundreds of jobs.

Better integration with Multibranch Pipeline and GitHub organization plugins. CatLight will now show branch jobs as branches. You can select top-level job in monitoring settings, and CatLight will automatically monitor jobs for active branches. You can fine-tune branch monitoring in global app settings.

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Open protocol for integration with continuous delivery servers

Introducing CatLight Protocol 1.0 - an open standard for continuous delivery servers. CatLight app can now connect to any server that implements this protocol.

New protocol is a replacement for obsolete cc.xml format that was created over a decade ago, and no longer meets the feature set of modern build systems.

CatLight protocol has native support for branches, folders, consistent build history, authentication, caching and selective loading. It provides enough information for CatLight app features like build investigations, automatic branch tracking and personalized build dashboard.

We invite developers of continuous delivery servers to implement this protocol to get an amazing notifier for their own platform.

 CatLight is a status notifier for developers that runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It works with Jenkins, TeamCity, TFS, VSTS, Travis CI and AppVeyor. We hope to see your system in this list soon!

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CatLight 2.5 - Monitor builds for Git branches

CatLight now works with GIT branches, and will show a separate build history for each branch.

 We divide branches in four categories:

Primary - they will be always visible on the dashboard. They include branches like master, develop, trunk, etc.

Short-lived - those are branches for pull requests. CatLight will show them for one day on the dashboard.

Other - this is a category for feature, bugfix and release branches. They will be tracked while they are active, and had at least one build in the past week.

Ignored - those branches will not be monitored. You can hide branches from previous categories by adding them to ignored.

By default, CatLight will show all active branches, but you can configure it to only show branches with your changes.

Note for Jenkins and TeamCity: this feature is available only for authenticated users. If you connected using anonymous or guest account, please re-connect with your personal account to use it. 

Branches are supported across all platforms: TFS, VSTS, TeamCity, Jenkins, Travis CI and AppVeyor. 

Known issue: build investigations are not shared between new v2.5 and old v2.4 app versions. To fix this, please upgrade your team apps to new version.

Try it out https://catlight.io/downloads  and share your thoughts on http://catlight.helprace.com/