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JetBrains has launched the Warm Agents plugin for TeamCity, which automatically maintains a specified number of pre-warmed cloud build agents to reduce the waiting time for CI/CD tasks. However, reducing wait times comes at the cost of consuming build licenses and incurring operating costs for idle cloud resources.
JetBrains calls for moving software quality assurance from a final pre-release test to a continuous process integrated into development stages and CI/CD. The article reviews the roles of static analysis, unit, integration, interface, performance, and security testing, while emphasizing that artificial intelligence tools require human verification.
Aikido warned that email addresses for the GitLab feature that sends work items to projects are sometimes published in public documentation, potentially allowing attackers to create issues and merge requests with the victim account’s permissions. Depending on the account’s privileges, this could enable code modification, CI/CD job execution, or access to private repositories and secrets.