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 →User Management & Identity
- Configurable notifications for service account token events such as creation, rotation, and upcoming expiration.
- Resolved an issue that triggered incorrect warnings about deleting the last administrator when removing users.
- Fixed a sorting issue where user groups were not displayed by their creation date in the interface.
Governance & Project Management
- Introduced the ability to move projects between organizations while retaining full audit and execution history.
- Fixed an issue where policy warnings for service accounts and API keys were not correctly displayed.
Performance & Consistency
- Improved response times for the List Environments API by optimizing permission checks.
- Updated module name matching to be case-insensitive to ensure consistency across configurations.
Secrets Management
- Resolved a UI issue where editing a Custom Secrets Manager could display a blank error message.
Delegate
View full release notes →Security & Updates
- Addressed security vulnerabilities in cryptography libraries.
- Updated the Helm binary to improve performance and include the latest security patches.
- Enhanced the resilience of secret management operations with improved retry logic during transient network issues.
Authentication & Monitoring
- Added support for Google Cloud OIDC authentication for secure database connections without manual credentials.
- Resolved an issue where monitoring data collection from Dynatrace could fail or hang during queries.
- Improved error messaging to distinguish between external provider authentication failures and platform login issues.
- Fixed a configuration issue where internal code repositories were incorrectly identified.
- Improved visibility into connection errors by surfacing specific exception messages in the user interface.
Deployment & Infrastructure
- Introduced more accurate memory usage tracking using container group information.
- Included missing parameters for cloud service updates related to connectivity, volumes, and load balancing.
- Enhanced deployment freeze logic to better manage edits to active freeze windows.
User Experience & Documentation
- New users are now prompted to complete their profiles with company and contact details immediately after signup.
- Improved error messaging when deployment resources are missing or deleted during execution.
- Updated documentation to clarify how service override identifiers are automatically generated.
Delegate (Closed Beta)
View full release notes →Documentation & Resources
- View the latest updates and release history for the Delegate Closed Beta on the dedicated documentation page.
Code Repository
View full release notes →Security & Compliance
- Restricted forks of private repositories to private visibility to prevent accidental exposure of source code.
- Ensured branch protection rules are correctly enforced when using full Git branch references in API calls.
User Interface & Experience
- Added an automated programming language breakdown to the repository summary page to display language usage immediately upon import.
- Enabled public repository support, allowing unauthenticated access to view files, commits, and pull requests.
- Improved branch creation feedback with clear descriptions of naming rules and invalid characters.
- Updated branch comparison and pull request views to support pagination for navigating large commit lists.
- Fixed an issue in branch rules that prevented selecting a validation pipeline before its first run.
- Resolved an issue where file attachments in pull request descriptions were lost when using templates or AI-generated summaries.
API & Developer Tools
- Updated the fork synchronization API to return a clear conflict status code when merge conflicts are detected.
- Refined the gitignore template API to exclude non-template files and provide more accurate error responses.
- Improved the reliability of repository listing APIs when handling forks whose source repositories have been deleted.
- Updated API documentation for fork-related endpoints to reflect correct status codes.
System Performance & Stability
- Enhanced file upload performance for large assets by streaming content during processing, significantly reducing memory usage.
- Added length validation to status check reports to ensure system stability when handling large data payloads.
AI for DevOps & Automation
Continuous Delivery & GitOps
View full release notes →Cloud & Infrastructure Updates
- Simplified AWS connector validation by removing the requirement for specific EC2 region permissions.
- Added support for ECS Scheduled Actions to manage time-based auto-scaling policies within deployments.
- Introduced a dedicated ECS Scale step to adjust service instances without running a full deployment stage.
- Enabled Host Groups for WinRM deployments, allowing independent credentials for different sets of servers within a single infrastructure.
- Added support for Google Cloud Storage as a manifest source for Managed Instance Group deployments.
- Fixed an issue where ECS Service Connect settings were not correctly applied during deployment.
Pipeline & Workflow Automation
- Added notifications for when pipelines pause for user action, such as approvals or manual interventions.
- Expanded Harness AI to support GitOps, providing automated diagnosis and suggestions for manifest errors and setup issues.
- Enhanced error handling to provide meaningful messages instead of system errors during transient pipeline failures.
- Fixed an issue where Barrier steps failed to resolve correctly when used within chained pipelines or step templates.
Deployment Tooling & Frameworks
- Improved support for SOPS and value overrides in Native Helm service hooks to allow secure decryption of files during deployment.
- Resolved performance issues and timeouts when processing large Terraform plan outputs.
- Fixed a communication error between the delegate and manager during secret decryption in Terraform steps.
- Ensured remote templates are correctly listed as references in their associated Git connectors.
Security & Secrets Management
- Automatically masks sensitive Terraform outputs in the pipeline interface while maintaining access for downstream logic.
- Improved error clarity for HashiCorp Vault when a secret path exists but contains an empty value.
- Resolved a configuration error when saving remote pipelines that use Git connectors backed by AWS Secret Manager.
User Experience & Reporting
- Redesigned the pipeline execution history with a card-based layout and consolidated service/environment summaries.
- Fixed a database error that prevented certain dashboard queries from running.
- Corrected the default port information displayed in WinRM connection verification error messages.
Continuous Integration
View full release notes →Caching & Performance
- Added the ability to override cache storage connectors at the stage level for self-hosted builds.
- Expanded Cache Intelligence to support Azure Blob Storage with OIDC-based access.
- Enabled automatic dependency caching for Go builds on Linux.
- Resolved an issue where Save and Restore Cache steps failed when using S3 directory buckets.
- Improved build execution speed by resolving a processing delay in the build intelligence step.
- Fixed a compatibility issue where Bazel 7 builds failed due to unrecognized cache options.
- Fixed Docker Layer Caching functionality when using Google Cloud Storage as a backend for cloud registries.
Security & Reliability
- Restricted secret mounting through Kubernetes pod spec overlay YAML to enhance build security.
- Upgraded core engine components to address known security vulnerabilities.
- Improved security for cloud-based build and push plugins by replacing deprecated components.
- Restored support for EKS pod identity authentication within build steps.
- Improved the reliability of containerless builds by optimizing the default download path for step binaries.
Build Insights & Monitoring
- Added real-time CPU and memory usage metrics to the execution view for cloud builds.
- Enabled real-time status updates for steps running within container-based groups.
- Fixed an issue where Cache Intelligence step names were not displaying correctly in self-hosted environments.
Workflow & Integrations
- Introduced branch-based version counters to allow independent build numbering per branch.
- Enabled branch-based versioning for pipelines even when codebase settings are disabled.
- Simplified proxy configuration by automatically detecting Harness proxy settings in Docker build plugins.
- Fixed build status reporting to Bitbucket when using email and API token authentication.
- Ensured repository link environment variables are correctly passed to build pods.
Infrastructure as Code Management
View full release notes →Security & Access Control
- Native integration with Vault to automatically manage sensitive credentials during infrastructure workflows.
- Improved authentication compatibility for enterprise environments using enhanced identity fields.
- Strengthened API security through improved service account token handling.
Frameworks & Integrations
- Expanded support for Terragrunt featuring automated pull request comments and enhanced security for sensitive values.
- Native AWS CDK support for infrastructure definition and pipeline execution.
- New CLI command for secure local infrastructure planning that integrates seamlessly with remote pipelines.
- Added user interface support for managing Ansible inventory plugins.
Workspace & Template Management
- Redesigned workspace creation interface for a more intuitive and standardized setup process.
- Enhanced workspace templates with support for custom folder paths and remote configurations.
- Ability to retrospectively assign templates to existing workspaces via API for better organization.
- Improved interface for importing existing infrastructure resources with clearer input fields.
Reliability & Stability
- Resolved intermittent failures when uploading infrastructure state data to the server.
- Fixed connectivity and protocol issues within the Provider Registry to ensure reliable downloads.
- Improved performance monitoring and usage tracking to support a more stable platform experience.
- Resolved pipeline creation failures for module testing when specific repository policies are enforced.
Artifact Registry
View full release notes →Swift Package Management
- Full support for native Swift package-registry commands including login, publish, and resolve.
- Securely host proprietary Swift packages directly within your environment.
- Accelerate build times by caching packages from external Swift sources using upstream proxies.
File Storage & Connectivity
- Store and address build artifacts, reports, and shared configurations using direct path-based storage.
- Streamline workflows by pushing and pulling files with standard HTTP clients like curl without specialized plugins.
- Reduce external dependencies by caching files from external HTTP sources.
Data Protection & Retention
- Easily restore accidentally deleted packages, versions, or registries from a recovery tab.
- Manage data safety with cascading soft-deletes that protect all packages and images within a registry.
- Configure account-wide retention policies to automate how long deleted data is stored before removal.
- Perform immediate, non-recoverable removal of data when permanent deletion is required.
AI for Testing & Resilience
Feature Management & Experimentation
View full release notes →Data Warehouse & Security
- Introduced support for connecting Google BigQuery to your experimentation workflow.
- Enabled native data warehouse connections to leverage existing data for feature testing.
- Introduced Warehouse Native Experimentation to allow direct analysis of feature impact on your existing data.
- Enhanced data privacy by processing analysis queries directly in your warehouse without storing raw event data.
Traffic & User Distribution
- Redistribute users across feature treatments to gather feedback from new populations without changing targeting rules.
- Gather unbiased feedback by assigning fresh user sets to existing feature experiments.
- Use the Reallocate Traffic API to reseed user bucketing for more flexible control over experiment populations.
- Improved bucketing logic to ensure a more consistent experience for users across feature variants.
Analytics & Reporting
- Leverage a built-in statistical engine to measure warehouse data experiments with accurate confidence intervals.
- Define custom filters to focus metrics and experiments on specific user populations using custom fields.
Chaos Engineering
View full release notes →Visibility & Reporting
- Introduced detailed experiment run reports directly in the user interface.
- Fixed an issue where the total fault count in experiment reports was displayed incorrectly.
- Redesigned probe and action details pages with a tabbed layout for better navigation.
- Updated the default view for infrastructure tables to sort by the most recently updated items.
- Enhanced the visual rendering of information on probe and action details pages.
Infrastructure & Cloud Support
- Added support for Docker labels-based chaos injection on Amazon ECS.
- Fixed an issue in the Windows installation script where custom log file age settings were ignored.
- Updated core platform components and service discovery collectors to improve stability.
- Improved logging for service discovery processes to assist with troubleshooting.
Governance & Configuration
- Added namespace label filtering to ChaosGuard conditions for more granular control.
- Expanded expression support to include variables from project, organization, and account scopes.
- Fixed a data formatting error in command probes to ensure properties are mapped correctly.
- Streamlined the interface by removing legacy log viewing options for specific infrastructure types.
Performance & Reliability
- Optimized AI-driven recommendations by batching requests to reduce latency and improve response times.
- Added live logging and improved error handling for backend execution tasks.
AI Test Automation
View full release notes →Task Management
- Introduced task versioning to track changes and manage updates effectively.
- Added the ability to set a maximum nesting depth for better task organization.
Database Integrations
- Expanded database query support to include Oracle and MS SQL.
Environment Configuration
- Resolved an issue where base URL paths were being duplicated across different environments.
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Automated Integrations
- Use native ServiceNow actions in runbooks to create and update incidents directly, removing the need for manual webhook configuration.
- Save and reuse webhook configurations as organization-wide templates to simplify the setup of third-party integrations.
Incident Tracking & Visibility
- Identify and manage alert rules more effectively by assigning custom display names.
- Monitor all active on-call pages from a centralized view to track responder status and escalation progress in real-time.
Learning & Resources
- Access restructured documentation with dedicated onboarding paths tailored specifically for administrators and incident responders.
AI for Security & Compliance
Security Testing Orchestration
View full release notes →Exemption Management
- Resolved an issue on the Exemptions page where filtered result counts incorrectly showed as zero across different status tabs.
User Interface Improvements
- Updated the Issues and Exemptions pages to allow for independent filtering, ensuring that settings applied in one view do not impact the other.
Supply Chain Security
View full release notes →Dependency Management
- View direct and indirect dependencies within a repository using a new dedicated dependency table.
User Interface Updates
- Relocated supplier information to the SBOM overview panel to simplify the main table view and improve readability.
Security Scanning
- Enhanced scan reliability by adding support for OSS Index authentication and the option to use NVD as a fallback vulnerability data source.
AI for Cost & Optimization
Cloud Cost Management
View full release notes →Recommendation Management
- Moved Rejected and Ignored lists to the main Recommendations view to enable direct exporting.
- Added support for cloud billing tags in Kubernetes node pool recommendations, alongside existing node labels.
- Improved visibility by adding tags to node pool and workload recommendations, ensuring consistency with AWS EC2 data.
- Fixed a UI issue where adding an AWS region to node pool presets caused the application to break.
- Resolved an issue where the recommendation presets screen failed to load due to certain AWS configurations.
Anomaly Detection & Analysis
- Fixed a data accuracy issue where Kubernetes anomalies reported total cluster costs instead of specific service costs.
- Updated the anomalies drilldown list to correctly render multiple resource names instead of showing empty results.
- Resolved an issue where service labels in workload anomalies displayed as undefined.
- Fixed a loading failure in the anomaly drilldown view for cluster resources.
Dashboards & Visibility
- Standardized chart tooltips and axes to display time in UTC, ensuring consistent data visualization across time zones.
- Corrected the GCP invoice month filter to accurately reflect the current month when viewed on the last day of the month.
- Updated budget alerts to display the correct labels based on the specific budget type configured.
Cloud Governance & Orchestration
- Introduced an option to disable atomization in Commitment Orchestration for greater control over long-term, stable workload strategies.
- Implemented an automated retry mechanism for Asset Governance rules to ensure recommendations are generated consistently.
- Updated AutoStopping rules to automatically disable the edit button if the associated cloud connector is deleted.
- Fixed a configuration display error where RDS rules showed the incorrect traffic-based rule type.
Integrations & Access Control
- Updated Cost Settings to fully respect role-based permissions, ensuring view-only users cannot modify preferences.
- Fixed a bug in the Jira integration where comments were not being saved during ticket creation.
- Resolved an issue where the reporter field in Jira tickets was not passing the correct data.
Software Engineering Insights
View full release notes →Dashboards & Analytics
- Introduced full lifecycle management for SEI Canvases, including the ability to view, create, edit, and delete dashboards.
- Enhanced the SEI Canvas interface to provide more intuitive data visualization and reporting.
Access Control & Team Management
- Implemented Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to manage user permissions specifically for the SEI module.
- Updated platform permission references to include granular access levels for engineering insights.
- Improved team configuration workflows to allow for more flexible tool and variable settings.
Integrations & Efficiency Metrics
- Added support for ServiceNow integration to expand data ingestion and connectivity options.
- Enabled the use of ServiceNow data within DORA metrics for enhanced engineering efficiency reporting.
- Introduced Efficiency Profiles to help teams standardize and track performance metrics.