# Weekly Virtual Machine / Stack updates - 2017.02.18

**URL:** <https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/weekly-virtual-machine-stack-updates-2017-02-18/835>\
**Category:** Changelog\
**Tags:** stack-updates\
**Created:** [February 17, 2017, 2:49pm UTC](https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/weekly-virtual-machine-stack-updates-2017-02-18/835 "2017-02-17T14:49:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![viktorbenei](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discuss.bitrise.io/viktorbenei/32/18_2.png) [@viktorbenei](https://discuss.bitrise.io/u/viktorbenei)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 2:49pm UTC](https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/weekly-virtual-machine-stack-updates-2017-02-18/835/1 "2017-02-17T14:49:55Z")

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## Highlights

All stacks: Bitrise CLI 1.5.4 and stepman 0.9.28 update

> [@Monthly release of Bitrise CLI tools and summary of updates (Feb, 2017)](http://discuss.bitrise.io/t/monthly-release-of-bitrise-cli-tools-and-summary-of-updates-feb-2017/763):
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> We ship a new bitrise cli version on the second Tuesday of every month. The new release will be available on the [bitrise.io](https://www.bitrise.io) virtual machines on the weekend after the CLI release, unless we discover any serious bug / regression. Read on to learn more about this month’s [Bitrise CLI](https://github.com/bitrise-io/bitrise) release and about the changes around bitrise tools and steps. New version of Bitrise CLI ([1.5.4](https://github.com/bitrise-io/bitrise/releases/tag/1.5.4)) To allow bitrise-cli to use [stepman](https://github.com/bitrise-io/stepman)’s new features we updated the required minimal stepman version to [0.9.28](https://github.com/bitrise-io/stepman/releases/tag/0.9.28). The…

### Android/Linux stacks

- Pre-installed [Yarn](https://yarnpkg.com)
  - huge thanks to @bootstraponline for the PR! ( [Add yarn by bootstraponline · Pull Request #78 · bitrise-io/bitrise-base · GitHub](https://github.com/bitrise-docker/bitrise-base/pull/78) )

- Pre-installed `libsqlite3-dev` package, as well as `gem update --system --no-document` run during provisioning, to ensure the latest RubyGems (spec) is available
  - huge thanks to @bootstraponline for the PR! ( [Add libsqlite3-dev to Ubuntu by bootstraponline · Pull Request #75 · bitrise-io/bitrise-base · GitHub](https://github.com/bitrise-docker/bitrise-base/pull/75) )

### Xcode stacks

- Pre-installed [Yarn](https://yarnpkg.com)
  - only on the Xcode Edge stack right now (new/upcoming Xcode stacks will have it too)
  - huge thanks to @bootstraponline for the PR! ( : [https://github.com/bitrise-io/osx-box-bootstrap/pull/35](https://github.com/bitrise-io/osx-box-bootstrap/pull/35) )

### Xamarin stacks

- Beta & Alpha update: [https://releases.xamarin.com/release-candidate-cycle-9-rc6-refresh/](https://releases.xamarin.com/release-candidate-cycle-9-rc6-refresh/)

## This week’s changes (diffs)

> <https://github.com/bitrise-io/bitrise.io/pull/124>

## Stack System Reports

You can find the full system report of all of the available Stacks on GitHub: [https://github.com/bitrise-io/bitrise.io/tree/master/system\_reports](https://github.com/bitrise-io/bitrise.io/tree/master/system_reports).

If you’d like to add additional tools to be pre-installed you can find the instructions on [GitHub](https://github.com/bitrise-io/bitrise.io#request-a-tool-to-be-pre-installed-on-a-build-machine), for both the Linux and for the macOS stacks.

_Information about **Stack types & update schedules** can be found here: [discuss.bitrise.io/t/281](http://discuss.bitrise.io/t/how-are-the-bitrise-io-stacks-updated-and-with-what-frequency/281)._

**Happy Building!**

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**Author:** ![viktorbenei](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discuss.bitrise.io/viktorbenei/32/18_2.png) [@viktorbenei](https://discuss.bitrise.io/u/viktorbenei)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 2:50pm UTC](https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/weekly-virtual-machine-stack-updates-2017-02-18/835/2 "2017-02-17T14:50:19Z")

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All stacks passed our tests and ready for tomorrow’s deploy 🚀

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**Author:** ![viktorbenei](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discuss.bitrise.io/viktorbenei/32/18_2.png) [@viktorbenei](https://discuss.bitrise.io/u/viktorbenei)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2017, 12:35pm UTC](https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/weekly-virtual-machine-stack-updates-2017-02-18/835/3 "2017-02-18T12:35:48Z")

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New stacks deployed and are available in production now 🎉