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 Improvements
- Enhanced authentication security to prevent potential username exposure in error responses.
User Access Management
- Fixed an issue where user group permission checks were not being correctly applied by system controls.
Platform & UI Updates
- Resolved an issue where editing a Custom Secrets Manager with specific template configurations caused a blank error message.
- Updated internal dependencies to improve overall platform stability and performance.
Delegate
View full release notes →Security & Core Infrastructure
- Upgraded the Helm binary to improve overall security, stability, and performance.
- Updated the Go language runtime to incorporate the latest security patches and performance improvements.
- Improved secret management by allowing delegate selectors to take precedence during validation, ensuring secrets are decrypted correctly before Git operations.
Deployment & Orchestration
- Resolved an issue in Kubernetes Blue/Green deployments where Istio port configurations were lost during traffic shifts and swaps, ensuring correct routing for multi-port services.
- Enhanced the stability and resilience of GitOps rollout steps when handling transient errors.
- Fixed a system error that occurred during the initial execution of the Kubernetes Patch step.
Artifact Management
- Improved artifact reliability by validating that locally cached files match expected sizes before use.
- Added a configuration option to limit the number of Docker tags fetched per image, optimizing performance during artifact retrieval.
Cloud & Interface Improvements
- Fixed a region mismatch issue in cross-account AWS connectors that prevented listing EKS clusters.
- Corrected the formatting of pull request links within the console logs for better readability.
Code Repository
View full release notes →API & Developer Tools
- Enhanced the repository synchronization API to provide specific error feedback during merge conflicts, enabling more robust automation.
- Updated the API documentation to ensure status codes for fork operations are accurately defined.
Performance & Efficiency
- Optimized large file uploads by streamlining data processing, which significantly reduces memory consumption during transfers.
Repository Management
- Resolved an issue where repository lists would fail to load if the original source of a forked repository had been deleted.
AI for DevOps & Automation
Continuous Delivery & GitOps
View full release notes →Deployment & Infrastructure
- Support for ECS Scheduled Actions to enable time-based auto-scaling in service deployments.
- Added a dedicated ECS Scale step to adjust service capacity without running a full deployment.
- Support for Google Cloud Storage as a manifest source for Managed Instance Group deployments.
- Improved reliability of artifact transfers by validating cached files before reuse.
- Expanded Google Cloud Run support to include Docker connectors for runtime registries.
- Fixed an issue where port configurations were lost during Istio traffic shifting in Kubernetes deployments.
Pipeline Orchestration & Reliability
- Automated release of resource locks for failed executions to prevent deployment queuing blocks.
- Enhanced Barrier steps to correctly detect and propagate failures between concurrent pipeline stages.
- Resolved an issue where pipeline execution statuses became out of sync between the backend and the interface.
- Fixed an issue where Kubernetes rollout logs would stop streaming before the step was complete.
GitOps & Governance
- Integrated AI diagnostics for GitOps to troubleshoot application setup, manifest syntax, and connectivity errors.
- Added Open Policy Agent (OPA) integration for policy-based governance of GitOps applications.
User Interface & Notifications
- New notification events for when a pipeline pauses for user actions, such as approvals or manual interventions.
- Added clickable commit ID links in the pipeline execution list for faster navigation to source code.
- Resolved an interface crash when selecting input sets for remote pipelines.
- Improved connector validation to respect specific delegate selectors, ensuring correct routing in multi-account environments.
Secrets & Connectivity
- Improved support for decrypting Helm values using SOPS within service hooks.
- Support for independent credentials across different host groups in WinRM deployments, enabling granular access control.
Continuous Integration
View full release notes →Caching & Performance
- Added support for Azure Blob Storage with principal and OIDC-based authentication in Cache Intelligence.
- Enabled automatic dependency caching for Go builds on Linux.
- Introduced pipeline steps to save and restore cache using Azure Blob Storage and identity provider authentication.
- Resolved a permission error that prevented build cache usage from being recorded.
Security & Infrastructure Updates
- Upgraded Artifactory and Kaniko plugins to address known security vulnerabilities.
- Resolved a high-severity security vulnerability in the cache proxy server.
- Docker Build and Push steps now automatically detect and apply proxy environment variables.
- Fixed an issue where Kubernetes volumes were incorrectly mounted as read-write instead of read-only.
- Ensured pipelines correctly honor configured health check timeouts instead of defaulting to ten minutes.
Visibility & Monitoring
- Added real-time CPU and memory utilization metrics to the execution view for Harness Cloud builds.
- Updated Harness Cloud build logs to display descriptive machine size names for better resource visibility.
- Enabled real-time status updates for container-based step groups during execution.
- Improved error logging for secret fetch failures during the initialization phase to provide more actionable details.
Build Branching & Logic
- Introduced independent build numbering per branch with new branch-based version counters.
- Enabled branch-based versioning for pipelines with disabled codebases by using trigger event data.
- Standardized tag event expressions to return null instead of an empty string for missing values.
- Fixed an issue where incorrect repository URLs were returned for commit-based builds in Azure Repos.
Cloud Integrations & Secret Management
- Added support for delegate-based managed identity authentication when building and pushing to Azure Container Registry.
- Resolved an issue where secrets containing double quotes were not handled correctly during build steps.
Infrastructure as Code Management
View full release notes →Infrastructure Frameworks
- Expanded Terragrunt support with advanced expressions, security scanning, sensitive resource sanitization, and automated pull request comments.
- Added native AWS CDK support for workspace creation and pipeline execution alongside existing Terraform and OpenTofu options.
- Introduced a user interface for creating and managing Ansible inventory plugins.
Workspace Management
- Integrated native Vault support to securely pull secrets for infrastructure workflows directly within workspaces.
- Enhanced the Terraform import interface with dedicated fields for resource addresses and IDs to simplify the import process.
- Redesigned the workspace creation interface to provide a more intuitive and standardized setup experience.
- Added API support for retrospectively assigning templates to existing workspaces for better organization.
Module Registry Improvements
- Resolved errors and script failures occurring when editing or updating entries in the Module Registry.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the creation of module test pipelines when specific Git settings are enforced.
Platform Experience
- Corrected navigation links between onboarding modules and execution details to prevent navigation errors.
- Implemented platform telemetry to better understand user engagement and improve the onboarding journey.
AI for Testing & Resilience
Chaos Engineering
View full release notes →Experiment Design & Customization
- Added support for using expressions within experiments and experiment templates.
- Introduced customizable variables and utility functions to better manage faults, templates, probes, and actions.
- Added support for defining execution iterations within chaos actions.
- Fixed variable support issues when creating, updating, or importing fault templates.
User Interface & Visualization
- Added user interface support for Splunk observability probes.
- Enhanced the Discovery Graph to highlight connections for selected services.
- Added descriptive tooltips to probe properties to provide better context for monitoring configurations.
- Resolved a display issue where afternoon task schedules were incorrectly shown as morning times.
Platform & Infrastructure
- Integrated load testing capabilities with machine infrastructure and chaos workflows.
- Resolved authentication errors that prevented access to the subscription management page.
- Consolidated legacy settings to provide a more streamlined and consistent Linux chaos engineering experience.
- Improved backend performance and stability by optimizing internal application frameworks.
- Updated core service components and discovery collectors to ensure overall system reliability.
AI Test Automation
View full release notes →External Integrations
- Introduced Jira integration for streamlined issue management.
- Added direct links to test runs within Jira tickets for faster navigation.
Workflow & Task Management
- Added support for nested tasks to better organize complex testing workflows.
- Resolved an issue where duplicate tasks were displayed in the Copilot interface.
Test Authoring & AI
- Added a new drag-and-drop command to simplify interactions with sliders.
- Enhanced the prompt tool with parameter support for more precise and flexible automation.
User Experience Improvements
- Added the ability to filter test runs by environment name.
- Renamed 'Validate Test' to 'Run Test' to more accurately reflect the action.
- Added status indicators to provide visual feedback when the system is processing tasks.
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Mobile & On-Call Management
- Launched native mobile apps for iOS and Android to acknowledge, escalate, and resolve incidents remotely.
- Added a centralized Active Pages view to monitor responder status and escalation progress across all in-progress pages.
- Expanded on-call notification options to include SMS, push notifications, and voice calls.
- Updated escalation policies to support targeting individual users alongside groups and schedules.
Workflow Automation & Integrations
- Introduced native ServiceNow actions in runbooks to manage incidents without manual webhook configuration.
- Enabled reusable webhook templates that can be saved and shared across the organization to simplify integration setup.
- Resolved issues in Jira runbook actions where custom fields were not saving or rendering correctly.
- Improved integration reliability by validating Jira ticket URLs to prevent downstream notification failures.
Alerting & Platform Configuration
- Enabled fully customizable incident severity levels and alert priority mappings to match organizational standards.
- Introduced custom display names for alert rules to simplify rule identification and management.
Service Visibility & Support
- Enabled service subscriptions in the Service Directory to automate status updates for impacted users during incidents.
- Reorganized documentation into dedicated paths for administrators and incident responders to streamline onboarding.
AI for Security & Compliance
Security Testing Orchestration
View full release notes →Security & Vulnerability Scanning
- Enabled source code scanning to identify security issues, exposed secrets, and vulnerable dependencies.
- Introduced container image scanning to detect vulnerabilities in operating system packages and libraries with reachability-based risk prioritization.
User Interface & Reporting
- Fixed a display issue where file names for Mend scanner findings were not appearing correctly on the Issue Overview page.
- Corrected the approval timestamp display on the security exemptions page to ensure accurate reporting.
Collaboration & Workflow
- Resolved an error that prevented the creation of pull requests within the code repository.
Supply Chain Security
View full release notes →Dependency Management
- Filter Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) components in code repositories by dependency type, such as direct or indirect relationships, to better manage repository risk.
Security & Compliance
- Improved the reliability of SLSA generation by ensuring container images without specified tags default to the latest version instead of causing a step failure.
AI for Cost & Optimization
Cloud Cost Management
View full release notes →Cloud Recommendations
- Node pool recommendations now incorporate cloud billing tags, such as AWS allocation and environment tags.
- Tags are now displayed across node pool and workload recommendations for consistency with EC2 recommendations.
- Improved the reliability of Asset Governance recommendations by adding an automatic retry mechanism for data loading jobs.
- Resolved a interface error that occurred when adding an AWS region to node pool presets.
- Fixed an issue that caused the recommendation presets screen to become unresponsive when viewing EC2 presets.
Cost Anomaly Detection
- Fixed a cost reporting error where Kubernetes service anomalies incorrectly showed total cluster costs instead of specific service costs.
- Corrected the anomalies drilldown view to properly display resource names when multiple resources are involved.
- Fixed an issue where workload anomalies incorrectly displayed as undefined in the service label field.
External Integrations
- Resolved an issue where the reporter field in the Jira creation flow was not passing the correct value.
- Fixed a bug that prevented comments from being saved when creating Jira tickets for cost recommendations.
AutoStopping & Governance
- Corrected a display error for RDS rules where the wrong traffic-based rule type was shown.
- The AutoStopping rule edit button is now automatically disabled if its associated connector has been deleted.