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 & Governance
- Introduced configurable notifications for service account token events, such as creation, rotation, and upcoming expiration.
- Fixed an issue where policy warnings for service accounts and API keys were not correctly displayed in the interface.
System Performance
- Improved response times for listing environments by optimizing permission checks and preventing potential timeouts.
User Interface & Consistency
- Enhanced configuration consistency by making module name matching case-insensitive.
- Resolved an issue where editing a Custom Secrets Manager could trigger a blank error message popup.
Delegate
View full release notes →Deployment & GitOps
- Fixed an issue in Kubernetes Blue/Green deployments where destination ports were dropped during Istio traffic shifting and swapping steps.
- Improved the stability and resilience of GitOps rollout steps when handling transient errors.
Cloud Connectivity & Security
- Upgraded the Helm binary to include security patches and performance improvements.
- Resolved an issue where S3 plugins failed when using AWS connectors with IAM role-based connectivity.
- Fixed an issue with EKS cluster listing where the incorrect region was used for cross-account AWS connectors.
- Introduced a setting to prioritize secret manager delegate selectors over connector selectors during validation and Git operations.
Resource & Artifact Management
- Added an option to configure memory usage thresholds using container group information for more accurate resource tracking.
- Improved artifact handling by ensuring locally cached files match their expected size before use.
Logging & Visibility
- Enhanced structured logging to preserve context and data fields when streaming output.
- Resolved a display issue where pull request links in the console logs appeared incorrectly.
Delegate (Closed Beta)
View full release notes →New Features & Enhancements
- Updates for this period are documented on the Delegate (Closed Beta) release notes page.
Code Repository
View full release notes →Security & Visibility
- Forked private repositories are now restricted to private visibility to prevent accidental source code exposure.
- Public repositories are now fully supported in the updated interface, allowing unauthenticated users to browse files, commits, and pull requests.
- Branch protection rules are now correctly enforced when using full branch references in API requests.
User Experience & Collaboration
- The repository summary now includes an automatic breakdown of programming languages, including for newly imported projects.
- Improved error messages for branch creation now provide specific details on naming requirements and invalid characters.
- Added navigation for large commit lists in branch comparisons and pull requests, allowing users to view history beyond the initial 15 commits.
- Resolved an issue where file attachments in pull request descriptions were removed when using templates or AI-generated content.
- Branch protection settings now allow the selection of validation pipelines that have not yet been triggered.
API & Developer Tools
- Improved API conflict detection by ensuring fork-sync operations return correct error codes during merge conflicts.
- Added validation for status check reports to prevent oversized data from causing processing errors.
- Refined the gitignore template API to ensure it only returns valid templates and provides clearer error responses.
- Updated API documentation to ensure fork-related operations return consistent and correct status codes.
Performance & Reliability
- Optimized Large File Storage uploads by reducing memory consumption when handling large file transfers.
- Fixed a system error that prevented repository lists from loading when a fork's original source repository had been deleted.
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Continuous Delivery & GitOps
View full release notes →Cloud & Infrastructure
- Simplified AWS connector validation by removing the requirement for region-specific IAM permissions.
- Support for ECS Scheduled Actions to define time-based auto-scaling policies.
- New ECS Scale step for scaling services up or down without requiring a full deployment stage.
- Support for Host Groups in Physical Data Center deployments allows assigning independent credentials to different server groups.
- Google Cloud Storage is now supported as a manifest source for Managed Instance Group deployments.
- Terraform Provider now correctly respects delegate selectors when validating AWS Secrets Manager connectors in multi-account setups.
Security & Secrets Management
- Terraform fields marked as sensitive are now automatically masked in pipeline outputs.
- Improved support for decrypting Helm value overrides using service hooks before deployment.
- Enhanced secret decryption in multi-account AWS environments by prioritizing the secret manager’s delegate selector.
- Fixed a rendering issue where invalid secret references caused values.yaml generation to fail during Helm deployments.
Deployment Reliability
- Fixed an issue where missing metrics caused errors during Canary deployment verification.
- Improved reliability of Jenkins trigger responses within pipelines to prevent intermittent failures.
- Enhanced artifact transfer reliability by validating cached file integrity before use.
Visibility & Pipeline Control
- Added automated notifications for pipelines waiting for user approvals or manual interventions.
- Harness AI now provides diagnostic and remediation suggestions for GitOps configuration errors.
- Fixed an interface issue that prevented the selection of environment groups.
- Standardized filters and status types in the execution list API for better consistency.
- Enabled access to non-default branches for monitored service templates.
- Ensured continuous log streaming for Kubernetes rollout steps in the user interface until completion.
Continuous Integration
View full release notes →Security & Compliance
- Restricted the ability to mount secrets through Kubernetes pod spec overlay YAML to enhance security.
- Upgraded core execution engine dependencies to resolve known security vulnerabilities.
- Addressed security vulnerabilities in the Artifactory and Kaniko plugins by upgrading their underlying runtimes.
- Resolved a high-severity vulnerability in the cache proxy by upgrading the monitoring SDK.
- Fixed an issue where custom health check timeouts were not being respected, preventing premature pipeline timeouts.
Caching & Performance
- Added support for Azure Blob Storage in Cache Intelligence using principal and identity-based authentication.
- Enabled automatic dependency caching for Go projects running on Linux.
- Introduced dedicated pipeline steps to save and restore build caches using Azure Blob Storage.
- Fixed a compatibility issue that caused Bazel builds to fail when using specific repository cache options.
- Resolved an issue with Docker Layer Caching when using Google Cloud Storage as a backend for external registries.
- Fixed a permission error in the cache proxy that prevented build cache usage from being recorded.
Build Management & Visibility
- Added real-time CPU and memory usage metrics to the execution view for Harness Cloud builds.
- Introduced branch-specific version counters, allowing build numbers to be tracked independently for each branch.
- Enabled branch-based versioning for pipelines without a configured codebase by using trigger event data.
- Enabled real-time status updates for container-based step groups during execution.
- Updated Harness Cloud build logs to display clear machine size names instead of internal resource labels.
Infrastructure & Integrations
- Automated proxy configuration for Docker Build and Push plugins using platform environment variables.
- Fixed build status reporting to Bitbucket when using email-based API authentication.
- Resolved an issue where storage volumes in Kubernetes infrastructure were incorrectly mounted as read-write instead of read-only.
Infrastructure as Code Management
View full release notes →New Features & Enhancements
- Updates for this period are documented on the Infrastructure as Code Management release notes page.
Artifact Registry
View full release notes →General Updates
- Updated release documentation to include all current enhancements and fixes for the Artifact Registry.
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Feature Management & Experimentation
View full release notes →Governance & Standards
- Enforce organizational standards consistently across all feature flag projects.
- Implement Policy as Code to manage feature flag governance programmatically.
- Customize enforcement behavior by choosing to warn users or block actions that violate policies.
- Review a full audit history of policy evaluations for all configuration attempts.
Configuration Quality
- Prevent misconfigurations by requiring essential details like descriptions, owners, and valid naming.
- Validate targeting rules, rollout percentages, and treatments automatically at save time.
Workspace Management
- Hide retired flags from default views to reduce clutter in feature flag lists and rollout boards.
- Improve organization and navigation in projects containing high volumes of feature flags.
Feature Flags
View full release notes →New Features & Enhancements
- Updates for this period are documented on the Feature Flags release notes page.
Chaos Engineering
View full release notes →User Interface & Experience
- Added experiment variables to the side navigation for quicker access and improved navigation.
- Resolved visual issues in the Chaos Studio Graph where nodes would incorrectly span across the interface.
- Fixed a display error in the scheduler that incorrectly showed afternoon times as morning times.
- Streamlined the platform experience by consolidating legacy features into the modern interface.
Experiment Logic & Customization
- Added support for using expressions within experiments and templates for more dynamic configurations.
- Introduced the ability to create and manage custom variables and utility functions for faults, templates, and probes.
- Resolved an issue where fault inputs were not correctly retrieved during Disaster Recovery stages.
- Fixed a bug that prevented fault templates from correctly applying variables when created or updated.
System Performance & Stability
- Improved experiment execution stability and prevented timeouts by optimizing backend indexing.
- Enhanced the security and reliability of core execution components.
- Implemented stricter validation for load tests to ensure they only run when explicitly configured.
- Updated underlying system components to improve overall platform stability.
Platform Access & Integrations
- Added integration support for Splunk observability probes within chaos experiments.
- Fixed an authentication issue that prevented users from accessing the subscription management page.
- Updated supported Linux environments to ensure better compatibility and performance.
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Incident & On-Call Management
- Manage incidents on the go using native mobile apps for iOS and Android, including critical alert overrides for silenced devices.
- Expanded on-call notifications to include SMS, voice calls, and push notifications.
- Track all active pages, responder assignments, and escalation progress from a new centralized dashboard view.
- Added the ability to target individual users directly within escalation policies.
- Automate stakeholder communication by allowing users to subscribe to specific services for incident status updates.
- Customizable incident severity and alert priority levels to align with your organization's internal standards.
Integrations & Workflow Automation
- Perform ServiceNow actions like creating or updating incidents directly from runbooks without manual setup.
- Create reusable templates for webhooks to simplify integration management across the organization.
- Fixed issues where custom fields and multi-select labels in Jira runbook actions were not saving or displaying correctly.
- Improved integration stability by ensuring invalid Jira ticket URLs are properly validated to prevent notification failures.
Visibility & User Support
- Assign custom names to alert rules for easier identification and management.
- Access specialized documentation paths tailored specifically for either administrators or incident responders.
AI for Security & Compliance
Supply Chain Security
View full release notes →Dependency Management
- Added a new dependency table that displays both direct and indirect dependencies within a repository for better visibility.
User Interface Updates
- Relocated the Supplier field from the main overview table to the details panel for a cleaner and more focused user interface.
Security & Scanning
- Improved the reliability of security scans by providing flexible configuration options for vulnerability data sources and authentication.
AI for Cost & Optimization
Cloud Cost Management
View full release notes →Recommendations & Insights
- Kubernetes node pool recommendations now support cloud billing tags from AWS cost data for better resource attribution.
- Node pool and workload recommendations now display associated tags for improved visibility.
- Improved the reliability of Asset Governance rules by adding an automated retry mechanism for recommendation generation.
- Fixed a navigation issue on the recommendation presets screen that occurred when managing specific resource settings.
Cost & Commitment Optimization
- Introduced a 'Disable Atomization' option for Commitment Orchestration to provide lower costs for stable, long-term workloads.
- Fixed an issue where RDS rules incorrectly displayed traffic-based rule types.
- AutoStopping rules now disable the edit function if the associated cloud connector has been deleted.
Monitoring & Anomaly Detection
- Corrected Kubernetes cluster anomaly reporting to show specific service costs instead of total cluster totals.
- Resolved rendering issues in the anomaly drilldown list when viewing multiple resources simultaneously.
- Fixed an issue where service labels within workload anomalies were incorrectly displayed as 'undefined'.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the anomaly drilldown view for cluster resources from loading correctly.
Platform & Integrations
- Resolved issues in the Jira integration where reporter information and comments were not saving correctly.
- Fixed a UI error occurring when adding AWS regions to node pool presets that prevented navigation back to the main page.
Software Engineering Insights
View full release notes →Integrations & Data Sources
- Introduced a new ServiceNow integration to support data ingestion from IT service management tools.
- Enabled the use of ServiceNow data within DORA metrics to provide more comprehensive performance tracking.
Analytics & Performance Insights
- Enhanced Engineering Efficiency reports to provide deeper visibility into development workflows and bottlenecks.
- Improved Productivity Insights for better assessment of team output and delivery trends.
Team & Profile Configuration
- Added Efficiency Profiles to allow customized configurations for measuring development performance.
- Updated Team Settings to support dedicated configurations for IT service management data.
- Enhanced team configuration options for source control management settings.