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 →Access & User Management
- Added the ability to clone resource groups directly from the UI, enabling faster access control configuration.
- Added the ability to clone access control roles directly from the UI to easily reuse existing permissions.
- Resolved an security issue where API keys and personal access tokens remained active for deleted users; all associated tokens are now automatically removed.
- Fixed an issue that prevented user groups from loading properly when reusable roles with the same identifier were assigned across different scopes.
- Fixed a display issue where the resource scope dropdown showed incorrect values after a selected project or organization was deleted.
- Corrected the API response behavior when deleting users or user groups with partial view permissions.
APIs & Platform Administration
- Added request payload validation to Role Assignment filter API endpoints to provide clearer error responses.
- Improved the reliability and logging of the Purchase Credits API.
- Updated API documentation for the user impersonation endpoint to accurately reflect its success responses.
- Resolved an internal race condition to improve overall system stability.
- Restored a missing backend configuration to ensure correct platform services functionality.
Delegate
View full release notes →Cloud & Deployment Integrations
- Added support for OCI Helm repositories from Google Artifact Registry (GAR) sources.
- Resolved an issue where Amazon ECS scheduled scaling failed when start or end times included timezone offsets.
- Fixed an issue causing AWS connectors to fail with an unknown error message in Self-Managed Platforms.
- Resolved an issue where Salesforce deployment steps failed to respect the specified changeset ID.
Pipeline & Step Configurations
- Added runtime support for destination, header routing addition, and header routing removal fields in step configurations.
- Resolved an issue where Terraform Cloud Apply steps would intermittently retry due to lost log streaming connections, even after completing successfully.
- Resolved validation failures for Terraform Provider connectors when Git connectors and secret managers used different delegate selectors.
- Resolved an issue where GitOps Update Release Repo steps intermittently hung under high concurrency due to GitHub token locking.
Platform Security & Dependencies
- Addressed security vulnerabilities in the Netty dependency.
- Resolved a dependency error in Serverless Lambda deployments by updating the go-template tool compatibility with the Lambda runtime environment.
- Fixed an error reporting failure in Continuous Delivery services when password resolution returned null.
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Continuous Delivery & GitOps
View full release notes →Deployments & Integrations
- AWS CDK Deploy steps now automatically skip execution if no infrastructure changes are detected, reducing deployment times.
- Added support for custom command flags, such as --server-side and --force-conflicts, in the Kubernetes Dry Run step to ensure accurate dry-run validations.
- Added support for using OCI-based Helm charts stored in Google Artifact Registry as a manifest source for Helm deployments.
- The Artifactory connector now supports credential-free OIDC authentication using short-lived tokens.
- Added an option to preserve the original directory structure when copying configuration files in the Command step to prevent file overwrites.
- Fixed an issue where custom artifact polling failed intermittently during concurrent parallel stage executions due to temporary file name conflicts.
- Fixed an issue where the runtime YAML of an ECS deployment template did not fully render for the OPA testing framework.
- Fixed an issue where the download artifact step's progress indicator incorrectly outputted to standard error instead of standard output.
Pipeline Orchestration
- Added support for Approval steps inside Container Step Groups, featuring automatic pod lifecycle extension to support longer approval response times.
- Added a Fire and Forget option for Email steps to allow pipelines to continue executing immediately without waiting for delivery confirmation.
- Added support for storing monitored services in Git, enabling version control and code review workflows for verification configurations.
- Added logical AND/OR filtering options when searching and filtering pipeline executions by tags.
- Fixed an issue where a pipeline continued to execute after a user marked it as failed.
- Fixed an issue where webhook events failed to trigger because repository URL comparisons did not ignore the .git suffix.
- Fixed an issue where selecting input lists during step execution failed.
- Fixed an issue where reconcile errors for failure strategies persisted even after a successful save.
Templates & Reusability
- Added support for semantic template labels, allowing you to reference template versions using friendly names instead of static version numbers.
- Fixed an issue that prevented users from creating a template directly from a pipeline.
- Fixed an issue where a template's referenced entities list displayed incorrect or outdated pipeline references.
- Fixed an API error that occurred when attempting to list all templates in an organization.
Continuous Integration
View full release notes →Cache & Build Performance
- Added support for Azure Blob Storage as a backend option for Docker Layer Caching.
- Optimized build initialization for Kubernetes-based pipelines to reduce startup payload size and speed up build times.
- Added support for Azure Blob Storage as a storage backend for CI build cache operations.
- Fixed an issue where Cache Intelligence steps failed due to credential conflicts when AWS credentials were exported as output variables.
- Fixed a cache key collision issue in Docker Layer Caching when running parallel multi-platform builds.
Infrastructure & Connectivity
- Added support for custom container images from private registries in cloud-based builds.
- Enhanced system stability by transitioning to versioned CLI binaries, improving management and rollback capabilities.
- Improved private network connectivity reliability by automatically configuring default selectors when none are specified.
- Fixed a permission denied error during rootless Git operations in self-managed environments.
Security & Compliance
- Added the ability to configure network egress restrictions for cloud build virtual machines directly from the user interface.
- Patched known container image vulnerabilities in the CI add-on component.
- Resolved critical and high-severity security vulnerabilities in the cache server.
- Ensured log sanitization patterns are consistently applied across both delegate-executed and container-based steps on Kubernetes.
- Resolved high-severity vulnerabilities in the Harness CLI component.
Test Management & Analytics
- Introduced a new test management dashboard to track and monitor the health and history of flaky and quarantined tests.
- Fixed an issue in self-managed environments where the Test Intelligence agent download did not respect the configured vanity URL.
Pipeline Execution & Logging
- Added project and organization identifiers to the log streaming payload to improve traceability across multi-tenant environments.
- Improved log-streaming resilience by gracefully handling redirect and error responses during stream and upload operations.
- Fixed an issue where pipeline execution tags with empty values were incorrectly filtered out.
- Fixed an issue where steps within custom stages were incorrectly counted against the CI build license quota.
Artifact Registry
View full release notes →Artifact Lifecycle Management
- Automate the soft-deletion of artifact versions based on age, count, or name patterns, with the ability to recover them during a configured period.
- Protect critical artifacts from all automated and manual deletion attempts using overriding retention rules.
Policy Administration
- Create and apply artifact rules flexibly at the account, organization, or project levels.
- Preview which artifact versions will be affected by a rule before enabling it to safely validate your criteria.
Visibility & Alerts
- Track policy executions with detailed logs showing which artifact versions were deleted or retained.
- Receive centralized notifications when cleanup rules or dry runs finish executing.
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Feature Management & Experimentation
View full release notes →Pipeline & Workflow Integrations
- Integrated Feature Management and Experimentation capabilities with Harness Pipelines to streamline and automate deployment workflows.
Developer APIs
- Introduced a new Admin API endpoint to fully update feature flag definitions within an environment.
Chaos Engineering
View full release notes →Security & Governance
- Added audit trail support for the image registry, including YAML difference visualization.
- Resolved high-severity security vulnerabilities in various chaos components, including the source-probe, chaos-ddcr, and log-watcher.
Experiment Setup & Execution
- Added support for Linux and Windows Chaos Experiment Templates within the pipeline Chaos Step template.
- Fixed an issue where optional parameters incorrectly became mandatory when set as runtime inputs in experiment templates.
- Fixed an issue where the worker count was not passed when running a Kubernetes load test from the list page.
- Added support for extra volume mounts and volumes in background processor jobs.
Probes & Monitoring
- Improved the handling of probe timeouts, durations, and retries.
- Fixed an issue where probes could run longer than their configured timeout.
- Fixed load test dashboard graphs to prevent gaps when metric snapshots are dropped during temporary gateway failures.
User Interface & Usability
- Added the ability to copy output variables directly from the timeline view node.
- Fixed missing action icons and titles on the input set screen when running an experiment.
- Restored missing tooltips for advanced configuration options during the onboarding process.
- Corrected an inaccurate error message displayed during permission errors.
AI Test Automation
View full release notes →Playwright Integration
- Integrated the Playwright execution engine to expand testing capabilities.
- Added drag-and-drop support for Playwright tests.
- Added clipboard support for copying and pasting within Playwright tests.
Test Management & Creation
- Enabled generating and downloading test cases in natural language.
- Prevented the accidental creation of duplicate test suites.
- Resolved an issue where nested tasks were not correctly enabled when creating a task from test steps.
- Configured general tasks to run strictly as manual actions.
Execution & Performance
- Accelerated AI task execution speeds using an optimized execution model.
- Introduced task-level configuration overrides that automatically relaunch the browser.
- Blocked manual click interactions during automated test execution to prevent interference.
User Experience & Session Management
- Added clear session expiry warnings and enhanced overall timeout handling.
- Improved the visual formatting and alignment of session components.
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On-Call Integrations
- Import on-call configurations selectively from PagerDuty, OpsGenie, and xMatters by choosing specific services or groups, featuring a preview step, automatic user invites, and a dedicated sync history view.
Runbook Management
- Duplicate existing runbooks directly from the runbook menu, preserving all configurations, actions, and metadata to easily create variations without starting from scratch.
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Cloud Cost Management
View full release notes →Cost Explorer Updates
- Fixed an issue where opening a shared Perspective link in Cost Explorer cleared the applied filters, Group By settings, and time range.
- Fixed an issue where anomalies in Cost Explorer ignored the Cloud Service Provider filter.
Platform & Integration Usability
- Updated the AI Cost telemetry setup page to show both OpenTelemetry and Harness SDK options side by side, with the Harness SDK option marked as coming soon.
- Fixed the Perspective navigation link in Anomalies details and the Perspective icon in Cloud Integrations.
- Fixed the 'View Costs' navigation link in the Kubernetes Clusters tab.
AI DLC Insights
View full release notes →Documentation & Updates
- Refer to the dedicated AI DLC Insights release notes page for the latest updates and detailed documentation.
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