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 & Governance
- Added the ability to clone existing Resource Groups directly from the UI to quickly reuse resource selections and scope.
- Added the ability to clone existing Access Control roles directly from the UI to easily create new roles from baseline permissions.
- Fixed an issue where editing notification rules displayed incorrect project-scoped service account identifiers.
- Fixed an issue that prevented access to Audit Logs from Account and Organization Settings within module-specific views.
Security & Integrations
- Added support for dynamic project IDs in Google Cloud Secret Manager expressions, enabling 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 Apache CXF, Go system libraries, and bundled Source Code Management binaries to address security vulnerabilities.
- Fixed an issue where secret values were displayed as unmasked references or variable names in step logs, ensuring all secret outputs are properly masked.
Deployment & Cloud Integrations
- Added support for OCI Helm repositories using Google Artifact Registry as a source.
- Resolved Terraform Provider connector validation failures when connectors and secret managers use different delegate selectors across multiple AWS accounts.
- Ensured Terraform Apply and Destroy steps route to the specific delegate holding the stored plan file when inheriting plans.
- Resolved execution library compatibility errors during Serverless Lambda deployments.
- Fixed Salesforce deployment steps to properly recognize and process specified changeset IDs.
Pipeline Execution
- Fixed pipeline sequence ID expressions evaluating to null during manual builds using Harness Code repositories.
- Improved error handling for file upload API operations.
Performance & Scalability
- Optimized aggregate project data fetching to reduce API latency in environments with a large number of organizations.
Self-Managed Enterprise Edition
View full release notes →Documentation & Resources
- Updated release documentation for this period is available on the Self-Managed Enterprise Edition release notes page.
AI for DevOps & Automation
Continuous Integration
View full release notes →Security & Compliance
- Added support for custom CA certificates and egress proxies in Docker and Buildx plugins to support secure enterprise networks.
- Improved API security by enforcing strict account-tenant isolation across CI endpoints.
- Resolved security vulnerabilities in the cache plugin container image.
- Fixed an issue where secret values were displayed as unmasked object references in logs.
- Fixed intermittent credential authentication failures when running multiple container push steps in parallel.
Performance & Optimization
- Added a stage-level setting to reduce pipeline initialization time for stages with large configurations.
- Accelerated container image build and push operations on Kubernetes by eliminating redundant image serialization.
- Optimized background processing by preventing unnecessary connector parsing when Test Intelligence is disabled.
Build Infrastructure & Platform Support
- Added Windows Server 2025 support across Cache, GCS, S3, Artifactory, and Buildx plugins.
- Introduced CPU and memory utilization metrics for pipeline stages running on VM build infrastructure.
- Upgraded key build plugins and runtime components, including Drone Git, Docker, Buildx, BuildKit, and Cache plugins.
Pipeline Execution & Reliability
- Improved troubleshooting visibility by displaying secret identifiers in failure logs during stage initialization.
- Fixed an issue where pipeline sequence ID expressions failed to resolve during manual build triggers.
- Fixed Git clone failures occurring in advanced repository configurations.
- Fixed an issue where third-party security drift control tools blocked Git plugin execution.
Infrastructure as Code Management
View full release notes →Pipeline & Deployment Controls
- Added Drift detection and Destroy steps for AWS CDK workspaces to identify out-of-band resource modifications and delete managed stacks.
- Added an Approval step to pause AWS CDK deployments until users review and approve diff outputs.
Workspace & Module Management
- Expanded AWS CDK workspace language support to include Java, JavaScript, and Go.
- Introduced Module Version Lifecycle Management to automatically classify module versions as Supported, Update Required, or Deprecated based on recency.
Security & Networking
- Resolved provisioner binary download failures behind TLS-intercepting proxies by adding support for custom corporate CA certificate bundles.
Artifact Registry
View full release notes →Artifact Lifecycle & Retention
- Automate artifact cleanup by soft-deleting versions based on age, version count, or name patterns, while retaining recoverability during a configured grace period.
- Protect critical artifacts from automatic and manual deletion using priority retention rules.
Policy Management & Safety
- Create and manage policies at the account, organization, or project level and apply them across multiple registries.
- Preview which artifact versions will be affected using dry-run mode before enabling new rules.
Audit Logs & Notifications
- Review detailed execution logs for every rule run to monitor deleted and retained artifact versions.
- Receive centralized notification alerts whenever cleanup rules or dry runs complete execution.
AI for Testing & Resilience
Feature Management & Experimentation
View full release notes →Documentation & General Updates
- Updated documentation and release notes for Feature Management & Experimentation.
Chaos Engineering
View full release notes →Service & Infrastructure Management
- Onboard and manage services running custom chaos service agents alongside discovery-based onboarding.
- Select infrastructure types during service onboarding to associate services with the correct infrastructure from the start.
- Automatically pre-populate probe inputs in the Experiment Studio using values from linked Chaos Services.
Load Testing
- Associate load tests directly with services from the user interface.
- Support pulling load test images from configured custom image registries at runtime.
- Enforce load profiles consistently across script, zip, and custom-image JMeter load tests.
- Fixed an issue where Kubernetes load tests remained stuck in a pending state when delegate tasks failed.
- Improved the overall execution and configuration reliability of load tests.
Experiment Studio & Templates
- Fixed an issue where variables and runtime inputs were missing at account and organization scopes when adding step templates.
- Resolved template synchronization issues for actions and probes.
- Fixed a persistent loading spinner in the experiment selection reference field.
- Resolved an error that prevented the help panel from displaying properly.
Security & Platform Updates
- Patched critical and high-severity security vulnerabilities in SSH dependency libraries.
- Upgraded core component runtimes and infrastructure packages to enhance platform security and reliability.
AI Test Automation
View full release notes →Test Execution & Performance
- Accelerated AI task execution speed using the agentic executor.
- Added support for task-level configuration overrides with automatic browser relaunch.
Test Creation & Management
- Generate and download test cases in natural language format.
Last updated Jul 23, 2026
AI & Incident Investigation
- Enrich AI Investigator root-cause analysis by integrating Harness pipeline and worker agent outputs into investigation workflows.
On-Call & Integrations
- Selectively import and sync on-call schedules, teams, and escalation policies from PagerDuty, OpsGenie, and xMatters with pre-import previews and background sync tracking.
Runbook Automation
- Duplicate existing runbooks to quickly create workflow variations while preserving all action configurations, steps, and metadata.
AI for Security & Compliance
Security Testing Orchestration
View full release notes →Integrations & Scanner Support
- Added support for Cortex Cloud integration.
- Resolved an issue where remediation recording and automated ticket closures failed for scanners such as Aqua Trivy, Anchore, and Grype.
Vulnerability & Policy Governance
- Introduced CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities tracking on vulnerability views and added policy controls to warn or block pipelines based on findings.
- Enhanced exemption workflows by allowing custom expiration durations during submission and enabling approvers to modify requested timeframes.
Automated Remediation & Dependencies
- Fixed an issue in dependency remediation where automated pull requests suggested incorrect upgrade versions or became unavailable for file-only scan results.
Supply Chain Security
View full release notes →Security & Compliance
- Enhanced Repository Security Posture Management (RSPM) compliance scans to evaluate inherited security settings from GitHub organizations and accounts, reducing false positives in compliance results.
AI for Cost & Optimization
Cloud Cost Management
View full release notes →Dashboards & Reporting
- Filter the Overview page by cost category to focus dashboard tiles on specific spend categories.
- View enhanced Overview widgets with time-series charts for anomalies and updated budget status tracking.
- Identify external data sources like Snowflake in Perspectives with distinct badges, tooltips, and custom styling.
- Fixed an issue with broken navigation links within Cost Explorer.
- Fixed a crash on the Saved Reports page when creating a new report and scrolling through perspectives.
- Resolved an issue that prevented scheduled Perspective reports and email notifications from being delivered.
AI Cost Management
- Drill down into AI spend by Principal, Provider, Sub Provider, Sub Account ID, Model, and Token Type.
- Access context-aware AI chat quick actions that adapt to your current view in Cost Explorer or Perspectives.
- View OpenTelemetry and Harness SDK setup options side-by-side during AI cost telemetry configuration.
Anomaly Detection & Alerts
- Apply Cloud Service Provider filters in Cost Explorer to accurately filter detected anomalies.
- Group duplicate cost spikes into continuous multi-day anomaly streaks across the UI and notifications.
- Resolved an issue that halted anomaly detection for accounts using cost pre-aggregation optimizations.
- Fixed misleading percentage calculations in multi-day anomaly drill-downs when expected spend is zero.
- Corrected non-functional filter clear buttons in Anomaly alert settings.
Cost Optimization & Commitments
- Track and approve RDS Database Savings Plans across commitment Actions, Approvals, and Inventory views.
- Monitor cluster schedules with live status badges displaying active, upcoming, and disabled states alongside countdown timers.
- Fixed a crash on the Recommendations page when filtering and navigating back and forth by Cloud Account ID.
Connectors & Integrations
- Fixed an issue where healthy GCP connectors failed to sync cost data.
- Improved error handling in Jira and ServiceNow recommendation ticketing APIs when a recommendation ID is missing.
- Added validation requiring a resource type when creating Jira tickets via recommendation APIs.
AI DLC Insights
View full release notes →General Updates
- Updated the AI DLC Insights release notes documentation with the latest platform changes.