Weekly Virtual Machine / Stack updates - 2018.05.12

[ghaabor]

Highlights

Monthly release of Bitrise CLI tools and summary of updates (May, 2018) - CLI v1.16.0

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 (1.16.0) 1. Secret filtering updates Bitrise cli got a new flag to enable/disable redacting secret values in the output log…

Android/Linux stacks

• Latest: NDK updated to r17 (thanks @koral )
  • Official Android NDK changelog: Changelog r17 · android/ndk Wiki · GitHub

Xcode stacks

• No significant change

Visual Studio for Mac stacks

• Stable channel: https://releases.xamarin.com/release-15-7/
• Beta channel: https://releases.xamarin.com/15-8-preview-1/

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.

All stacks passed our tests and scheduled to be deployed on Saturday.

Happy Building!

[viktorbenei]

New stacks deployed and are available in production

[viktorbenei]

Note: if you want to use a previous Android NDK version you can find the related guide here:

How to install a specific Android NDK version on the Android/Linux stack

If the NDK version which is preinstalled on the Android stack is not the one you want to use, you can install any version via a Script step. Simply add a Script step as the very first step in the workflow, with the following content: #!/usr/bin/env bash set -ex # set env vars export ANDROID_NDK_VERSION='r15b' export ANDROID_NDK_HOME='/opt/android-ndk' # expose for subsequent steps envman add --key ANDROID_NDK_HOME --value "$ANDROID_NDK_HOME" # -----------------------------------------------…