Buildstash
Software binary and release management
Launch Week → Day 5️⃣
Introducing ✨Portals✨
A custom-branded space you can link to, or host on your own website. Publish selected releases or entire builds streams on your portal.
Think GitHub releases but like way, way more powerful.
Or even think about any time you've seen some custom-built interface on a developers website for finding past builds by platform, looking through nightlies, viewing releases etc - Buildstash Portals can do all that out the box for you, customizable in a few minutes.
For:
• Open source projects: share stable build streams and nightlies with users, organizable by custom streams, labels, and platforms
• Client agencies: create beautiful custom-branded spaces on your website where you can securely share app deliveries with your clients
• Game studios: create custom spaces for sharing betas with a closed testing group
• Selling your own software? publish your releases out to customers via your branded portal
Try it: http://buildstash.com
Introducing ✨Markdown release notes✨
At last, you can flavor your Buildstash release notes with full support for GitHub Flavored Markdown.
Add styling, media, and code blocks to provide more engaging and helpful release notes for your users.
Introducing ✨Automations✨
Trigger Webhooks, send Slack notifications, or notify an email list - in response to events in Buildstash
Check it out - https://support.buildstash.com/changelog/8dfd6888-7598-47d3-8bb0-d9ac1b8d7d80
We're launching a new feature on Buildstash every day this week!
Today:
Our Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD plugins are now available.
This adds to our existing support across popular CI/CD platforms, making it as easy as possible to connect Buildstash to any existing build pipeline -
automating archival and organization or all your built binaries,
making it easy to find past builds via a purpose-made interface,
and unlocking powerful features in the Buildstash platform to share, distribute, and collaborate on your binaries.
You can find out more about all of our CI/CD integrations, as well as documentation to get up and running quickly, in our new Integrations Directory - https://docs.buildstash.com/integrations
Today we're launching off our waitlist, and letting anyone sign up to try out Buildstash - free and without any barriers. We're so excited to take this next big step in our mission to make better software binary and release management accessible to all software teams.
Plus, we've also launched a new Docs site, with comprehensive documentation for our platform, integrations, and API.
And, all of this is just "Day 1" of our first Launch Week - we'll be launching a new feature every single day this week.
The journey here
We started working on Buildstash after noticing a recurring pattern across software teams we'd worked on - whether in mobile apps, game development, work for clients, or in embedded - there was a shared problem:
Teams would of course version code; and if they had a good workflow in place, there would likely be some sort of CI/CD pipeline to build that code.. but once they had the built binary?
Most had no effective system for managing them. Maybe dumping past builds in a shared folder, providing someone remembers. Often mislabeled, or inconsistently versioned. Chaotic SharePoint and Google Drive folders with inflexible permissions. Frequently expired WeTransfer links when sharing with a client or publisher.
And when it comes to guiding software through to release, there's a ton of different tools for issue tracking, QA, and deployment - but while they all relate to built binaries - whether testing, reviewing, or deploying - they're all disconnected from them too. Teams often end up falling back to Slack to keep track of what builds are where; what's been signed off or hasn't. And a ton of copying and pasting build numbers back and forth between tools.
We're looking to solve all of this with Buildstash.
We set out to build a platform for managing all built software binaries - of any type, wherever they're produced, and wherever they're being deployed or distributed*.
(*distinct from the limited existing tools out there for managing build artifacts - which are more narrowly focused on the problem of package repository management)
And, a complete workflow for guiding binaries through to release - integrating with the tools you already use, letting you easily attach builds - for example directly to a bug report in your issue tracking tool, and maintaining context.
Buildstash is the platform for managing, collaborating on, and distributing your software binaries.
And with our launch of open sign up today, as well as the further major feature announcements rolling out this week, we're at a point we feel confident the platform is mature enough to easily integrate in your workflow, and transform how you collaborate around your binaries.
Our aim is that one day you'll look back, and a time before dedicated binary management will seem as antiquated as a time before source control.
No more waitlist
Waitlisters, wait no more.
While we've been slowly onboarding teams over the last year, we've been focused on supporting all of the varied workflows software teams have to steer their builds through test channels to release, and building integrations with the tools they already use.
An absolute focus of ours is that wherever you make your builds, it should be extremely fast and easy to connect the source to Buildstash, and have your binaries seamlessly sent into the platform.
We've also obsessed over an improved onboarding experience - guiding you through setting up your first Workspace, connecting your build pipeline, and making use of our powerful distribution options for your binaries, build streams, and releases.
Improved docs
Along with us opening the platform up to everyone today, it was as important to also launch our improved and comprehensive documentation - covering each step in getting your workspace setup, and getting the most out of the Buildstash platform.
As well as our new integrations directory, and API reference guide - look out for announcements relating to both of these later in the week!
Join us
So if you're working on any kind of software - an app, game, embedded firmware - whatever it may be..
Whatever your current build pipeline or stack might look like.. whether solo or in a large enterprise -
Sign up and see how Buildstash can transform your build-to-release workflow today.
We're running our first launch week, launching a new feature every day.
And Monday's a big one: as we launch off our waitlist, and let anyone sign up instantly and free for Buildstash today.
Plus, we also just launched a new Docs site, to help you get onboarded: https://docs.buildstash.com
Read more: https://buildstash.com/launch-week
So far Buildstash has plugins to grab build artifacts from GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Fastlane.. with Jenkins being rolled out!
What CI/CD integration should we tackle next? Maybe Unity Cloud Build for games?
What build platform or use case is desperate for better artifact/binary management? 🤔
Did a new demo video for the Buildstash platform - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4Fr6M_vIIc
And it's been a big week as we came out of closed beta - https://buildstash.com/get-started
and launched public pricing - https://buildstash.com/pricing
We've been working flat out on this product update, obsessing over a lot of details.
In this update particularly we've had a big focus on embedded teams and solving the problems around build and release management they've been telling us they have.. So let's get to it -
Metadata artifacts
Metadata artifacts can now be attached to your builds. These might include SBOM (software bill of materials) files in formats such as SPDX or CycloneDX, build logs, test reports, or any related files or artifacts from your build process you'd like to keep organised.
Metadata artifacts can be uploaded and managed via the web interface and API, and we're rolling support out to our CI/CD integrations now.
Custom targets
We already provide a number of powerful ways to organise your builds - whether by target platform, stream, labels, or supported architectures.
Sometimes when it comes to target platform you might want to get more granular, or define your own targets. For example, maybe you're in the embedded space, and have firmware specific to each of your devices. Or, the platforms you're targeting are otherwise bespoke or obscure, and you'd like built in support to group builds beyond our built-in or "Generic" platform, or falling back another approach like labels.
All these use cases are now served by the ability to create your own custom "targets" within platforms.
Support for 42 more platforms, including embedded targets
We've just added built-in support for a ton more platforms.
You can now specifically target any major Linux distribution, additional enterprise Unix distros like HP-UX or IBM AIX, and new mobile platforms including Fitbit OS, Tizen, and HarmonyOS.
In the embedded space, we've added a wide array of popular RTOS like Zephyr, FreeRTOS, ThreadX, and many more.
Workspace labels
We've improved labels - which can now also be created at the Workspace level, and used across all your applications!
Existing application labels can be easily merged into workspace labels to promote them.
Default streams
Out of the box Buildstash creates some helpful default streams in all your new apps.
Sometimes you might wish to have your own default streams for any new apps you create, rather than having to manually customise them every time. Now, it's easy to do! Set stream details, including retention policies.
Improved enterprise single sign-on
We've added support for further enterprise SSO providers. Enterprise SSO support is available to teams on the Ultra and Enterprise plans - contact us if you'd like it enabled on your workspace.
Two-factor authentication
2FA is now available on all accounts. Go to your user settings to enable it today for improved security.
Excited to share more product updates with you soon! Tell us what we should build next :)
We've been building like crazy this month, and just launched a massive new update out to Buildstash users.
Distribution groups 👥 share your app releases with groups of testers with a click
Better iOS and Android distribution 📲 with guided install flows
Instant release share links 📤 releases just got a load more powerful
Massive UI updates right across the app 🧹 we have light mode now!
And we just launched a public roadmap, to share what's next.
Comment