Weekly Virtual Machine / Stack updates - 2017.11.18 - Previous Xamarin, Visual Studio for Mac, Stable channel, on macOS

[ghaabor]

Highlights

Starting this week, we have a new stack type:

New stack type: "Previous Xamarin, Visual Studio for Mac, Stable channel, on macOS"

We are introducing a new stack type this week: Previous Xamarin, Visual Studio for Mac, Stable channel, on macOS. This stack is the previous, snapshot version of “Xamarin, Visual Studio for Mac, Stable channel, on macOS”. When we roll out an updated version of “Xamarin, Visual Studio for Mac, Stable channel, on macOS” we will keep the last one as the new “previous”. Once a machine image is marked as “previous” we only update the Bitrise CLI and caches on it. This stack type can come i…

Bitrise CLI 1.10.1 is preinstalled on all stacks:

Monthly release of Bitrise CLI tools and summary of updates (November, 2017) - CLI v1.10.1

We ship a new bitrise cli version on the second Tuesday of every month. The new release will be available on the 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 release and about the changes around bitrise tools and steps. New version of Bitrise CLI (1.10.1) 1. workflows command update Acceptable command formats printed corrently in the command help, the valid formats …

Android/Linux stacks

• Android NDK upgrade to r16 - thanks to jereksel’s PR

Xcode stacks

• No significant change

Visual Studio for Mac stacks

• Visual Studio for Mac, Beta: https://releases.xamarin.com/15-5-preview-4/
• New stack type: Previous Xamarin, Visual Studio for Mac, Stable channel, on macOS

Hybrid stacks

• No significant change

This week’s changes (diffs)

Weekly VM updates

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.

If you’d like to add additional tools to be pre-installed you can find the instructions on GitHub, for both the Linux and for the macOS stacks.

Information about Stack types & update schedules can be found here: discuss.bitrise.io/t/281.

Happy Building!

[viktorbenei]

All stacks passed our tests and ready for deploy on Saturday

[viktorbenei]

New stacks deployed and are available in production