Weekly Virtual Machine / Stack updates - 2018.10.13

[ghaabor]

Highlights

# Monthly release of Bitrise CLI tools and summary of updates (Oct)

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 (1.23.0) 1. Tools update envman version bumped to: 2.1.0 stepman version bumped to: 0.10.4 2. Default plugins update wo…

Bitrise CLI 1.23.0 is now preinstalled on all stack types.

Android/Linux stacks

• Latest: Android NDK r18 is the new default installed NDK update NDK to r18 by koral-- · Pull Request #145 · bitrise-io/android-ndk · GitHub (thanks @koral for the PR! )

Xcode stacks

• Xcode 10.1 beta2 arrived! - #2

Visual Studio for Mac stacks

• Stable and Beta: We’ve synchronized the Android tool/SDK versions with the Linux/Android images so some older packages got removed and some newer ones were added.

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]

In case if you get No toolchains found in the NDK toolchains error, due to the NDK upgrade, please see this discussion which explains multiple possible solutions: Android Builds failing : No toolchains found in the NDK toolchains

[FWIgor]

@viktorbenei I’m unable to build Android projects. And it started close to this update: Bitrise - Mobile Continuous Integration and Delivery - iOS & Android Build Automation

Did this updated crashed some Android build system?

Build constantly failing when installing Android dependencies

Bitrise Build Issue Report template Description of the issue The android builds are constantly failing when running ./gradlew dependencies. Usually for bintray downloads, but there is many occurrences, that fails for many reasons Environment: Where did the issue happen? Bitrise.io stack Android & Docker, Ubuntu 16.04 Which build Step causes the issue and which version of the step? install-missing-android-tools Reproducibility Does a “Rebuild” help? (You can trigger a rebuild from the …

[viktorbenei]

Please see the mentioned discussion for details and solutions. All we did is we installed the latest Android NDK. Android Builds failing : No toolchains found in the NDK toolchains

[FWIgor]

@viktorbenei The mentioned project do not use NDK (and do not have it linked), and I can link you another 4 projects facing problems!

[viktorbenei]

Then it’s most likely not related to this change. The new stacks are in production since 13th.