Hello guys, we are releasing this feature in version 6.3. The EAP is out if you want check it out. You can grab it here. Just go to the Bamboo variables page to learn how to use it.

If you need more information about EAP release you can find this page useful, but note EAP release notes doesn't include information about this feature.

If it can be done with a plugin, it should be simple to add this:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.collabsoft.plugins.bamboo.nestedVariables/server/overview

Not having this simple feature makes our build configuration 3 time harder than it needs to be. Why has this not been implemented?

It would be nice if it seemed like you cared. This is a real disadvantage compared with TeamCity and Jenkins.

It seems like Atlassian is dropping Bamboo in favor of bitbucket pipelines. This ticket (open for years now) is an example of the lack of support for paying customers.

With that said, I kept running into this issue and resolved it by writing python scripts checked into source. This is cumbersome and causes a lot of churn in the source code. I found an alternative that will let you write inline python scripts. Below is an over-simplified example. This would be used inside an inline shell script task:

function get_version() {
python - <<END
import os

release = os.environ['bamboo_deploy_release']
version = release.split('-')[0]
print(version)
END
}

VERSION=$(get_version)
echo $VERSION

Looks like sales or top management are not checking feature request often.
Sad, but we switched to jenkins instead of Bamboo because of only this missing feature.

We would really like to switch from Jenkins to Bamboo as we have JIRA, and the integration features rock.
BUT: As long as you don't have this feature as part of the core (not as a plugin), we will not switch and will probably use TeamCity instead.

Aren't you guys realizing that you are loosing customers? Why does this feature have minor prio?

TeamCity does also support this out-of-the-box. We most likely will choose TC.

Assignee: Unassigned
Will wait next 5 years.

So disappointed. Choose Jenkins. thx.

We want to override a custom variable "version" (1.1.1.0 for example) in a release brach in order to achieve something like "1.1.1.0RC${bamboo.buildNumber}". The idea is to obtain an incremental version number. Is any workaround to do this?