Harness Release Notes Summaries
Explore release notes from the last 30 days across the Harness Platform and modules.
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Platform Release Notes
Platform
View full release notes →Security & Authentication
- Improved authentication security to prevent the disclosure of valid usernames in error responses.
Access Management
- Resolved an issue where user group permission checks were not correctly governed by feature flags.
System Stability
- Enhanced build reliability by standardizing internal dependency versions.
Delegate
View full release notes →Security & Infrastructure
- Upgraded core runtime dependencies to improve platform performance and security.
Integration Enhancements
- Optimized Jenkins integration to support CloudBees API requirements and prevent blocked requests.
- Enhanced GitOps functionality to allow direct file commits via SCM APIs, eliminating the need for full repository cloning.
Deployment & Artifacts
- Fixed an issue where Kubernetes Patch steps would fail during their initial execution.
- Introduced a configuration to limit the number of Docker tags retrieved per image, improving artifact management efficiency.
Code Repository
View full release notes →API & Integration
- The fork-sync API now returns a 409 status code during merge conflicts to provide more accurate error detection.
- Updated API documentation to ensure fork-related endpoints accurately reflect their expected status codes.
Performance & Efficiency
- Enhanced Git LFS upload performance by streaming file content to reduce memory consumption during large file transfers.
Repository Management
- Resolved an issue where listing repositories would fail if the original source of a forked repository had been deleted.
AI for DevOps & Automation
Continuous Delivery & GitOps
View full release notes →Cloud & Infrastructure Updates
- Added a dedicated step to scale ECS services up or down independently of a full deployment.
- Support for host groups in WinRM deployments, allowing independent credentials for different server groups.
- Added Google Cloud Storage as a supported manifest source for Managed Instance Group deployments.
- Fixed a data processing error in Azure resource provisioning steps that prevented the processing of valid templates.
GitOps & AI Capabilities
- AI-powered diagnostics for GitOps applications to identify and fix manifest errors, connectivity issues, and setup problems.
- Integrated policy-based governance and validation for GitOps applications.
- Optimized the performance of GitOps repository updates and pull request merges to reduce deployment times.
Pipeline Management & Resilience
- Resolved an issue where pipeline stages could stall in a queued state during reruns.
- Fixed a display issue where Git-triggered executions did not show codebase details in the execution list.
- Resolved a failure that occurred when running specific stages in pipelines using template blocks.
- Improved script handling to preserve multi-line formatting in output variables when using PowerShell.
Integrations & User Experience
- Resolved an issue where Jenkins build logs were not visible for multi-branch pipelines.
- Enabled Artifactory connectors to be used for routing plugin images, improving dependency tracking.
- Fixed an issue where data expressions were not evaluating correctly in notification templates.
- Corrected a rendering issue in the Pipeline Studio that displayed unintended text over the interface.
Continuous Integration
View full release notes →Security & Secret Management
- Upgraded core dependencies across the cache proxy, Test Intelligence, and Artifactory plugins to address security vulnerabilities.
- Added support for Azure Workload Identity authentication when building and pushing to Azure Container Registry.
- Improved the handling of secrets containing double quotes in pipeline execution steps.
- Enhanced error logs with actionable details when secret retrieval fails during build initialization.
Build Caching Improvements
- Enabled Cache Intelligence support for Azure Blob Storage using principal authentication and OIDC-based access.
- Introduced automatic dependency caching for Go projects running on Linux.
- Added dedicated pipeline steps to save and restore artifacts to Azure Blob Storage via YAML configuration.
- Resolved a file permission error that prevented the recording of build cache usage.
Pipeline Visibility & UX
- Integrated real-time CPU and memory usage metrics into pipeline execution logs for better resource monitoring.
- Enabled real-time status updates for individual steps within container-based step groups.
- Updated cloud build logs to display user-friendly machine size names instead of technical resource labels.
- Corrected repository URL resolution for commit-based builds using Azure Repos.
Docker & Build Tools
- Automated proxy configuration for Docker Build and Push plugins by detecting platform environment variables.
- Resolved issues with environment variable resolution in Docker Buildx Bake configurations across various runner types.
- Fixed a bug where tag event expressions returned empty strings instead of null, improving conditional logic reliability.
Pipeline Logic & Branching
- Introduced branch-based version counters, allowing build numbers to be tracked independently for each branch.
- Enabled branch-based versioning for pipelines with disabled codebases by utilizing trigger event data.
Infrastructure as Code Management
View full release notes →Infrastructure Tools & Integrations
- Native Vault integration to automatically pull secrets for Terraform and OpenTofu workflows.
- Enhanced Terragrunt support featuring automated PR comments, security integration, and advanced expression support.
- Native support for AWS CDK to define and manage infrastructure workspaces alongside existing options.
- New user interface for creating and managing Ansible inventory plugins.
Module Management & Reliability
- Ability to retrospectively add templates to existing workspaces via API for improved organization.
- Resolved errors encountered when editing or updating entries in the Module Registry.
- Fixed module testing failures that occurred when Git-based experiences were enforced.
- Corrected navigation links in the onboarding module to ensure smooth transitions between executions and details.
User Interface & Visibility
- Enhanced Terraform import experience with dedicated fields for resource addresses and IDs.
- Redesigned workspace creation interface for a more intuitive and standardized setup.
- New product analytics and telemetry to track infrastructure performance and user engagement.
AI for Testing & Resilience
Chaos Engineering
View full release notes →Workflow & Automation
- Create and manage custom variables and utility functions for chaos faults, templates, probes, and actions.
- Added support for defining execution iterations within chaos actions.
- Quickly clone load tests using the action menu.
- Fixed an issue where variable updates were not saving correctly for probes, actions, and templates.
- Resolved issues encountered when migrating variables to input fields.
Infrastructure & Fault Support
- Integrated load testing with machine infrastructure and the machine-chaos management system.
- Introduced native Windows network chaos faults for machine infrastructure.
- Fixed a bug where Organization and Account-level Environments could not be used during infrastructure creation.
User Interface Improvements
- Added descriptive tooltips for APM Probe properties and overview pages.
- Enhanced the Discovery Graph to highlight connections for selected services.
- Updated the module branding and banners.
- Improved display rendering for secrets, connectors, and dynamic input expressions in action and probe details.
- Fixed a display error in cron schedules where PM times were incorrectly shown as AM.
AI Test Automation
View full release notes →Jira & External Integrations
- Enabled Jira integration for improved workflow tracking and management.
- Added direct links to test runs within Jira tickets for better visibility and traceability.
Test Execution & Workflow
- Introduced support for nested tasks to help organize complex test scenarios.
- Resolved an issue where Copilot tasks were appearing multiple times in the task list.
- Renamed the 'Validate Test' action to 'Run Test' to more accurately describe the process.
- Introduced a status indicator for active processes and updated internal naming for better consistency.
User Interface & Automation
- Added an environment filter to the Test Run page for faster navigation and searching.
- Implemented a new drag-and-drop command to simplify interactions with slider elements during tests.
- Enabled parameter support within the AI Prompt Enhancer to allow for more flexible and customized inputs.
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Integrations & Runbooks
- Native ServiceNow actions in runbooks for managing incidents without manual webhook configuration.
- Reusable webhook templates for consistent payloads and faster integration setup.
- Improved Jira ticket URL validation to prevent notification failures in connected apps.
- Enhanced support and data persistence for multi-select fields, labels, and custom fields in Jira actions.
On-Call & Mobile Experience
- Native mobile apps for iOS and Android to acknowledge, escalate, and resolve incidents from anywhere.
- Expanded on-call alert methods including SMS, voice calls, and push notifications.
- Support for targeting individual users within escalation policies.
- A new active pages view for monitoring ongoing incidents, responder status, and escalation progress.
Incident Management & Alerts
- Service subscriptions for automated status updates to stakeholders during incidents.
- Customizable incident severity and alert priority mappings to align with organizational standards.
- Custom display names for alert rules to improve rule identification and management.
- Reorganized documentation with specialized onboarding paths for administrators and incident responders.
AI for Security & Compliance
Security Testing Orchestration
View full release notes →Security Scanning & Analysis
- Enabled source code scanning to identify security vulnerabilities, exposed secrets, and vulnerable dependencies.
- Introduced container image scanning for operating system packages and libraries with reachability-based risk prioritization.
- Resolved an issue where file names for Mend scanner vulnerabilities were displayed incorrectly on the Issue Overview page.
Workflow & Integrations
- Fixed an error that prevented the successful creation of pull requests within the Harness Code Repository.
Governance & Visibility
- Corrected a display issue where the security exemptions page showed incorrect approval timestamps.
Supply Chain Security
View full release notes →SBOM & Dependency Insights
- Users can now filter SBOM components by dependency type (Direct, Indirect, or No Relationship) to better track and classify repository components.
- SBOM vulnerability reporting now supports all Security Testing Orchestration (STO) scanners, providing a more comprehensive view of security risks.
- Fixed the Known Vulnerabilities filter on the SBOM page to ensure accurate risk assessment.
- Resolved an inconsistency where SBOM counts differed between the Overview page and the SBOM tab.
Compliance & Traceability
- Enhanced the Chain of Custody to include deployment events during artifact redeployments for better end-to-end traceability.
- Improved SLSA generation to automatically default to the latest tag when none is provided, preventing pipeline step failures.
Platform & API Updates
- Updated the Supply Chain Security plugin to support the latest Docker base images, ensuring compatibility with modern container environments.
- Updated the SBOM Score API to correctly process repository names that include the HTTPS protocol prefix.
AI for Cost & Optimization
Cloud Cost Management
View full release notes →Dashboards & Visibility
- Fixed an issue where the anomaly drilldown list failed to display details when multiple resources were present.
- Resolved an issue where Kubernetes service anomalies reported total cluster costs instead of specific service costs.
- Fixed a data mismatch issue that caused anomaly data for AWS perspectives to return empty results.
Cost Optimization & Recommendations
- Improved the reliability of Asset Governance recommendations by ensuring background data processes automatically retry if delayed.
- Fixed a display issue where overridden savings for AWS passthrough recommendations were missing from the details page.
User Interface & Configuration
- Updated budget input fields to prevent accidental amount changes while scrolling.
- Simplified memory limit configuration by automatically applying the correct unit when numeric values are entered.
- Resolved a validation error that occurred when saving cost category rules that reference other categories.
API & Integrations
- Fixed an issue where comments were not saved when creating Jira tickets for cost recommendations.
- Enhanced the Perspective and Budget APIs with improved folder validation, support for duplicate names, and better audit logging.