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 Control & Permissions
- Added the ability to clone Access Control roles directly from the UI to quickly replicate permissions.
- Added the ability to clone Resource Groups directly from the UI to simplify resource selection and scoping.
- Fixed an issue where project-scoped service account identifiers rendered incorrectly when editing notification rules.
Security & Integrations
- Added support for project IDs in Google Cloud Secret Manager references to enable cross-project secret access.
- Added request payload validation for Role Assignment filter API endpoints to provide clearer error responses.
Delegate
View full release notes →Security & Dependencies
- Updated core libraries and dependencies, including crypto, networking, and Apache packages, to resolve security vulnerabilities.
- Updated the bundled Source Code Management service to the latest version.
- Fixed an issue where secret values could appear as unmasked references in step execution logs.
Terraform & Deployment Improvements
- Added support for Google Artifact Registry as an OCI Helm repository source.
- Fixed Terraform Apply and Destroy steps failing when referencing plan files stored on specific delegates.
- Fixed Terraform connector validation when connectors and secret managers use different delegate selectors across accounts.
- Fixed Salesforce deployment steps to properly honor changeset ID parameters.
- Resolved execution environment library compatibility issues during Serverless Lambda deployments.
Platform & Pipeline Performance
- Optimized project listing operations to significantly reduce latency in large environments.
- Fixed pipeline sequence ID expressions returning empty values for manual builds in Harness Code repositories.
- Improved error handling for file upload operations.
Self-Managed Enterprise Edition
View full release notes →Documentation & Updates
- Updated release documentation and notes for Self-Managed Enterprise Edition.
AI for DevOps & Automation
Continuous Integration
View full release notes →Security & Secret Management
- Added support for custom TLS and CA certificates in Docker and Buildx plugins to enable builds behind egress proxies.
- Enforced stricter account and tenant isolation across API endpoints to enhance security.
- Resolved security vulnerabilities in the cache plugin container image.
- Fixed an issue where secret values were printed as unmasked object references in logs instead of being masked.
- Included secret identifiers in failure logs during stage initialization to simplify troubleshooting.
Performance & Optimization
- Improved Build and Push step performance on Kubernetes by eliminating intermediate image serialization.
- Added a stage-level setting to reduce pipeline initialization time for stages with large step configurations.
- Reduced unnecessary processing overhead by skipping connector parsing when Test Intelligence features are disabled.
Infrastructure & Platform Support
- Added Windows Server 2025 support for Cache, GCS, S3, Artifactory, and Buildx plugins.
- Added CPU and memory utilization metrics for pipeline stages running on VM build infrastructure.
- Upgraded core CI plugins and dependencies, including Git, Docker, Buildx, Buildkit, and Cache plugins.
Pipeline Execution & Integrations
- Fixed credential conflicts when running parallel ECR Build and Push steps using different connectors within the same stage.
- Fixed pipeline sequence ID expression resolution for manual builds using Harness Code repositories.
- Fixed Git clone failures occurring in advanced pipeline configurations.
- Resolved an issue where security drift controls blocked Git operations during database change workflows.
Infrastructure as Code Management
View full release notes →AWS CDK Integration
- Added Drift detection to report out-of-band resource modifications and Destroy steps to remove CloudFormation stacks.
- Introduced an Approval step to gate deployments on manual review of diff outputs before applying changes.
- Expanded AWS CDK workspace support to include Java, JavaScript, and Go alongside Python and TypeScript.
Module Management & Governance
- Added automated lifecycle management rules to classify module versions as Supported, Update Required, or Deprecated.
Security & Connectivity
- Added support for custom CA certificate bundles to enable provisioner downloads through TLS-intercepting corporate proxies.
Artifact Registry
View full release notes →Artifact Lifecycle & Retention
- Automatically soft-delete artifact versions based on age, version count, or name patterns while keeping them recoverable during a configured period.
- Protect critical artifacts from all automated and manual deletion attempts using priority retention rules.
Policy Management & Scoping
- Create and attach management rules hierarchically across account, organization, or project levels.
- Preview impacted artifact versions in dry-run mode to safely validate rule criteria before enabling them.
Monitoring & Notifications
- Review detailed execution logs tracking deleted and retained artifact versions for every rule run.
- Trigger centralized notifications when cleanup rules or dry-run previews complete execution.
AI for Testing & Resilience
Feature Management & Experimentation
View full release notes →General Updates
- Updated documentation for Feature Management & Experimentation release notes.
Chaos Engineering
View full release notes →Service Onboarding & Management
- Added support for onboarding and managing custom agent-based services alongside discovery-based onboarding.
- Added infrastructure type selection during service onboarding to associate services with the correct infrastructure from the start.
- Automated probe tuning in the Experiment Studio by pre-populating probe inputs inherited from linked Chaos Services.
Load Testing
- Added the ability to associate load tests directly with a service from the user interface.
- Added image registry support for load testing runs to pull images from configured registries at runtime.
- Enforced JMeter load profiles consistently across script, zip, and custom-image execution modes.
- Fixed an issue where Kubernetes load tests remained stuck in a pending state when a task failed.
- Improved the overall execution and configuration reliability of load tests.
Templates & Experiment Studio
- Fixed an issue where step template variables and runtime inputs were not displayed at the account and organization scopes.
- Resolved a synchronization issue with action and probe templates.
- Fixed a persistent loading indicator in the experiment selection reference field.
- Fixed a display error affecting the help panel.
Security & Dependencies
- Upgraded core component runtimes and SSH libraries to fix critical and high-severity security vulnerabilities.
- Updated database connection packages across infrastructure components to resolve known security issues.
AI Test Automation
View full release notes →Performance Improvements
- Faster AI Task execution powered by the agentic executor.
Test Configuration
- Task-level configuration overrides with automatic browser relaunch.
Test Creation & Export
- Ability to generate and download test cases in natural language.
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AI & Root Cause Analysis
- Enrich AI Root Cause Analysis by incorporating outputs from runbooks, worker agents, and pipeline executions into investigation results.
On-Call Management
- Selectively import on-call configurations from PagerDuty, OpsGenie, and xMatters by specific services or groups, complete with a pre-sync preview and background execution.
Runbook Automation
- Duplicate existing runbooks with all configurations, actions, and metadata preserved to easily create variations without starting from scratch.
AI for Security & Compliance
Security Testing Orchestration
View full release notes →Integrations & Scanner Support
- Added support for Cortex Cloud integration in security pipelines.
- Resolved an issue where remediation tracking and automatic ticket closure were not recorded for certain scanners, including Aqua Trivy, Anchore, and Grype.
Vulnerability Governance & Exemptions
- Added CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) tracking to the Issues and Vulnerabilities views, along with policy controls to warn or block pipelines based on KEV counts.
- Added custom duration options for exemption requests and allowed approvers to modify requested durations during the review process.
Remediation & Dependency Management
- Fixed an issue in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) remediation and automated pull requests that caused incorrect dependency upgrade suggestions and prevented PR creation when scan results contained only file names.
Supply Chain Security
View full release notes →Security & Compliance
- Repository Security Posture Management (RSPM) compliance scans now evaluate security settings inherited from GitHub organizations and accounts, reducing false positives in repository compliance results.
AI for Cost & Optimization
Cloud Cost Management
View full release notes →Cost Visibility & Data Sync
- Filter Overview page tiles by specific cost categories to focus on key areas.
- Easily identify external data sources like Snowflake in Perspectives with updated badges and tooltips.
- Fixed broken navigation links within Cost Explorer.
- Resolved an issue where healthy GCP connectors showed empty cost data.
AI Cost Tracking & AI Assistant
- Drill down into AI spend by Principal, Provider, Sub Provider, Account ID, Model, and Token Type.
- AI chat quick actions now dynamically match the terminology of your current page.
- View available OpenTelemetry and upcoming SDK setup paths side by side for AI Cost telemetry.
Anomaly Detection & Budgeting
- Enhanced Overview page widgets featuring time series anomaly charts and clearer budget status views.
- Cloud Service Provider filters in Cost Explorer now correctly filter anomaly results.
- Duplicate multi-day cost spikes are now properly linked and grouped into single anomaly streaks.
- Resolved an issue where anomaly detection stopped running for accounts using cost pre-aggregation.
- Hidden non-calculable percentage change metrics on multi-day anomalies with zero expected spend.
- Fixed non-responsive clear filter icons in Anomaly alert settings.
Commitment & Resource Optimization
- View live status badges and countdown timers for schedules in Cluster Orchestration.
- Track and approve RDS Database Savings Plan purchases alongside existing commitments.
- Resolved a crash on the Recommendations page when filtering by Cloud Account ID.
Reports & Integrations
- Fixed a crash when scrolling through report dropdown menus in Saved Reports.
- Scheduled Perspective reports and email notifications now generate and deliver reliably.
- Jira and ServiceNow ticketing APIs now return clear validation errors when recommendation IDs are missing.
- Creating Jira tickets from recommendations now properly validates and requires a resource type.
AI DLC Insights
View full release notes →Documentation & Updates
- Access the latest feature updates and release details on the AI DLC Insights documentation page.