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, including creation, rotation, and expiration alerts.
- Resolved an issue where policy warnings for service accounts and API keys were not correctly displayed in the interface.
- Fixed an issue where editing a Custom Secrets Manager triggered a blank error message after template variable changes.
User Management & Access
- Corrected an issue where an incorrect last admin warning appeared when deleting users at the organization or project level.
- Fixed a sorting issue to ensure user groups can be correctly ordered by creation date.
System Performance & Configuration
- Optimized environment list requests to improve response times and prevent timeouts.
- Updated module name matching to be case-insensitive for improved consistency across platform configurations.
Delegate
View full release notes →Security & Authentication
- Added support for Google Cloud OIDC authentication for JDBC connectors, enabling secure connections to databases without traditional credentials.
- Upgraded the Helm binary to the latest version to incorporate the latest security patches and performance improvements.
- Ensured secret manager delegate selection takes priority during validation and Git operations to guarantee reliable secret decryption.
- Improved security by preventing secret values from being logged in plaintext during connection tests.
- Resolved an issue where storage plugins failed when using AWS IAM role-based authentication.
Deployment & Git Operations
- Updated deployment workflows to ensure tests only trigger after the environment has fully reached a steady state.
- Resolved data retrieval failures for large Git repositories by implementing paginated file fetching.
- Fixed a Kubernetes deployment issue where specific port configurations were lost during traffic shifting in service mesh environments.
Performance & Monitoring
- Introduced a new configuration option to use container-level memory information for more accurate resource usage calculations.
- Improved troubleshooting by surfacing specific error messages in the interface during connectivity failures.
- Enhanced logging capabilities to support structured formats, preserving important context for external monitoring tools.
Documentation & APIs
- Clarified documentation regarding how service override identifiers are automatically generated.
- Expanded API documentation with detailed descriptions and examples for updating configurations through YAML.
Delegate (Closed Beta)
View full release notes →Documentation & General Updates
- Updated the Delegate (Closed Beta) documentation to include the latest release details for this period.
Code Repository
View full release notes →User Interface & Experience
- Added programming language breakdowns to repository summary pages, including automatic calculations for imported repositories.
- Enabled full unauthenticated access to public repositories, including file browsing, commits, and pull requests.
- Improved error messages for branch creation to clearly explain naming rules and invalid characters.
- Fixed a pagination issue that prevented the full list of commits from appearing when comparing branches or viewing pull requests.
- Fixed an issue where file attachments in pull request descriptions were lost when using templates or AI-generated summaries.
Security & Governance
- Restricted forked repositories to private visibility to prevent accidental public exposure of private code.
- Ensured branch protection rules are correctly enforced when using full branch references in API calls.
- Enabled selecting any validation pipeline in branch rules without requiring the pipeline to have been triggered previously.
API & Developer Tools
- Updated the fork-sync API to return a specific conflict status for better detection of merge issues.
- Fixed the gitignore template API to return accurate results and standard error messages.
- Resolved system errors when listing repositories or spaces where the original source of a fork was deleted.
- Updated the API documentation to reflect correct status codes for fork operations.
Performance & Reliability
- Optimized Git LFS uploads by streaming file content, significantly reducing memory usage for large file transfers.
- Added size limits to status check reports to ensure system stability and prevent data issues.
AI for DevOps & Automation
Continuous Delivery & GitOps
View full release notes →Infrastructure & Cloud Platforms
- Added support for ECS Scheduled Actions to define time-based auto-scaling policies.
- Introduced a dedicated ECS Scale step to adjust service capacity without running a full deployment stage.
- Supported Google Cloud Storage as a manifest source for Google Managed Instance Group deployments.
- Enabled Host Groups for WinRM deployments to allow independent credentials for different server groups.
- Fixed an issue where new version or template files in GitHub were not visible in the interface.
Security & Secret Management
- Simplified AWS connector validation by using identity checks that require fewer IAM permissions.
- Automatically mask sensitive Terraform output fields in the pipeline interface while keeping them accessible for downstream steps.
- Enhanced Native Helm deployments to allow decryption of values overrides using tools like SOPS during the pre-deployment phase.
- Fixed an issue where incorrect secret references prevented Helm configuration files from rendering correctly.
- Resolved connectivity issues in multi-account AWS setups by improving delegate selector precedence for secret decryption.
Pipeline Execution & Reliability
- Added a notification event that triggers whenever a pipeline pauses for user input, manual intervention, or approval.
- Improved reliability of Git file fetching for large repositories by implementing pagination for data requests.
- Fixed an issue where pipeline barrier steps would stall or be incorrectly bypassed.
- Resolved a conflict where delegate selectors at the connector level were incorrectly overriding step-level configurations.
GitOps & AI Diagnostics
- Introduced AI-powered diagnostics to help identify and fix common setup, syntax, and connectivity errors in GitOps configurations.
- Fixed an issue where GitOps synchronization steps would hang when auto-sync was enabled.
- Corrected a bug where runtime inputs for GitOps clusters and environments were not clearing properly.
Continuous Integration
View full release notes →Security & Compliance
- Restricted the ability to mount secrets through Kubernetes pod spec overlay YAML to enhance security.
- Restored support for AWS EKS pod identity authentication in CI steps.
- Upgraded core components and plugins, including Artifactory and Kaniko, to address known security vulnerabilities.
- Resolved a high-severity security vulnerability in the cache proxy server.
Caching & Build Optimization
- Expanded Cache Intelligence support to include Azure Blob Storage with principal and OIDC authentication.
- Enabled automatic dependency caching for Go builds on Linux.
- Resolved a compatibility issue that caused certain Bazel builds to fail when using caching.
- Corrected an issue where Docker Layer Caching failed to work with specific cloud registries when using Google Cloud Storage as a backend.
Visibility & Insights
- Added real-time CPU and memory utilization metrics to the Harness Cloud execution view for better resource monitoring.
- Enabled real-time status updates for steps within container-based groups during execution.
- Updated build logs to display descriptive machine sizes instead of generic resource labels.
- Resolved an issue where build status was not reported to Bitbucket when using email and API token authentication.
Infrastructure & Build Tools
- Configured Docker Build and Push plugins to automatically detect and apply platform proxy settings.
- Introduced branch-based version counters to track build numbers independently for each branch, including for pipelines with the codebase disabled.
- Fixed an issue where read-only permissions were not correctly applied to persistent volumes on Kubernetes infrastructure.
- Ensured that custom health check timeouts are correctly honored to prevent premature pipeline timeouts.
Infrastructure as Code Management
View full release notes →Security & Authentication
- Integrated Vault connectors to automatically pull secrets during infrastructure runs, reducing manual secret management.
- Improved identity protocol compatibility for more reliable enterprise-grade authentication.
- Enhanced authentication reliability for service account tokens used in API requests.
Frameworks & Developer Tools
- Expanded Terragrunt support including advanced expressions, security scanning integration, and automated pull request comments.
- Introduced native support for AWS CDK alongside existing Terraform and OpenTofu options.
- Added a new CLI command to securely plan infrastructure changes from local developer environments.
- Introduced a dedicated interface for managing Ansible inventory plugins.
Workspace & Module Management
- Enabled the ability to retrospectively assign templates to existing workspaces via API for better organization.
- Added flexibility to workspace templates with support for remote codebases and custom Git configurations.
- Resolved errors preventing users from editing or updating entries in the Module Registry.
- Fixed issues that blocked the creation of test pipelines when specific Git settings were enforced.
User Interface & Experience
- Simplified the Terraform import process with dedicated UI fields for resource IDs and addresses.
- Redesigned the workspace creation interface for a more streamlined and intuitive setup process.
- Fixed broken navigation links in the onboarding module to ensure smoother movement between executions and details.
- Improved cost estimation feedback by fixing stuck loading indicators and adding clear empty states.
Platform Reliability & Insights
- Improved the reliability of infrastructure state data uploads to prevent intermittent failures.
- Fixed connection and pathing issues within the provider registry to ensure smoother resource discovery.
- Implemented platform telemetry to better monitor system performance and improve user onboarding.
Artifact Registry
View full release notes →General Updates
- Review the latest documentation for comprehensive details on recent Artifact Registry features and updates.
AI for Testing & Resilience
Feature Management & Experimentation
View full release notes →Traffic & User Distribution
- Redistribute users across treatments to collect unbiased feedback without altering existing targeting rules.
- Reallocate traffic and reset user bucketing programmatically via a new API.
- Improved guidance on how bucketing ensures a consistent and reliable user experience.
Warehouse Native Experimentation
- Run experiments directly on your own data warehouse using a built-in statistical engine for accurate measurement.
- Easily connect your data warehouse to integrate your own data sources for experimentation and analysis.
- Apply custom filters to experiments and metrics to focus on specific user populations.
Governance & Data Privacy
- Maintain data privacy by running experiment queries directly in your warehouse without storing raw event data externally.
- Prevent production errors by validating feature flag configurations, such as naming and ownership, before they are deployed.
Chaos Engineering
View full release notes →Reporting & Analytics
- Introduced experiment run reports directly in the user interface.
- Unified the report generation pipeline and introduced an API to retrieve report data in JSON format.
- Fixed an issue where the total fault count in experiment run reports was inaccurate.
Observability & Logging
- Integrated Delegate and component logs into a new timeline view to provide better visibility during experiment runs.
- Added live logging and improved error handling for backend load test execution.
- Improved logging reliability within the service discovery service.
- Streamlined the interface by removing legacy log options for older infrastructure types.
Configuration & Governance
- Expanded expression support to include project, organization, and account-level variables.
- Enabled centralized management of deprecated faults via the Enterprise Hub Sync.
- Fixed a bug that prevented fault creation when using organization-level templates.
- Implemented stricter validation to ensure load tests only execute when the appropriate configuration is enabled.
Reliability & User Experience
- Improved the reliability of Java-based faults by adding a fallback mechanism for process discovery.
- Redesigned probe and action details pages with a tabbed structure for better navigation.
AI Test Automation
View full release notes →Task Management
- Track and manage changes to automation tasks with new versioning support.
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Automation & Integrations
- Manage ServiceNow incidents directly within runbooks using native actions that dynamically retrieve fields from your connected instance.
- Create reusable webhook templates to simplify the setup of future integrations across your organization.
Incident Tracking & Visibility
- Monitor on-call activity through a new active pages view that tracks responder status, acknowledgment states, and escalation progress.
- Assign custom display names to alert rules to make them easier to identify and manage across the platform.
Help & Onboarding
- Access reorganized documentation with tailored onboarding paths specifically designed for administrators and incident responders.
AI for Security & Compliance
Security Testing Orchestration
View full release notes →Scan Results Management
- Opening an issue now correctly displays the specific scan details, even when multiple issues share the same title within a pipeline execution.
Exemption Tracking
- Exemption tab counts now accurately update and match the displayed list when filtering by 'Approved By'.
Supply Chain Security
View full release notes →Dependency Insights
- View direct and indirect dependencies for any repository item within a new, comprehensive dependency table.
Interface & Usability
- Streamlined the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) view by moving supplier details to a dedicated overview panel.
Scanning & Pipeline Stability
- Improved the reliability of OWASP scans by adding options to configure authentication or switch to alternative vulnerability data sources.
AI for Cost & Optimization
Cloud Cost Management
View full release notes →Cost Recommendations & Visibility
- Kubernetes node pool recommendations now include cloud billing tags from AWS cost data for improved categorization.
- Node pool and workload recommendations now display associated tags for better consistency across cloud resources.
- Fixed a user interface error that occurred when adding AWS regions to node pool presets.
- Resolved an issue where the recommendation settings screen would fail to load due to incomplete EC2 preset support.
Savings & Commitment Strategies
- Introduced an option to disable atomization in the Commitment Orchestrator, providing more control for organizations preferring stable, long-term capacity commitments over flexible monthly renewals.
Anomaly Detection & Reporting
- Fixed an issue where service labels in workload anomalies were displayed incorrectly as undefined.
- Resolved a rendering error in the anomalies drilldown list that prevented resource names from appearing when multiple resources were present.
- Corrected an issue where Kubernetes service-level anomalies reported total cluster costs instead of specific service costs.
- Fixed a loading error in the drilldown view for cluster resource anomalies.
Governance & Resource Management
- Resolved an issue where custom asset governance rules stopped generating new recommendations.
- Fixed a display error in RDS governance rules that showed the incorrect rule type.
- Updated AutoStopping rules to prevent editing when the associated connector has been deleted.
Collaboration & Integrations
- Fixed a data mapping issue in the Jira integration where the reporter field value was not passing correctly.
- Resolved an issue that prevented comments from saving when creating Jira tickets for cost recommendations.
Software Engineering Insights
View full release notes →Dashboards & Visualization
- Introduced the SEI Canvas feature with full capabilities to view, create, edit, and delete canvases.
- Added comprehensive documentation for configuring and navigating the SEI Canvas interface.
Access Control & Security
- Implemented Harness Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to manage user permissions specifically for Software Engineering Insights.
- Updated the platform permissions reference to include detailed role descriptions for SEI modules.
Integrations & Team Management
- Added a new integration for ServiceNow to bring service management data into the platform.
- Enhanced team configuration settings to support custom tool variables and streamlined setup.
Analytics & Efficiency Metrics
- Enabled the use of ServiceNow data in DORA metrics to improve tracking of engineering efficiency.
- Introduced new documentation and configuration options for managing Efficiency Profiles.