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 & User Management
- Added the ability to clone existing Access Control roles directly from the UI to speed up role creation.
- Added the ability to clone existing Resource Groups directly from the UI to simplify RBAC setup.
- Improved SCIM user group provisioning to prevent identifier collisions and maintain accurate group memberships.
Secrets & Integrations
- Added support for project IDs in dynamic expressions to enable cross-project access to Google Cloud Secret Manager secrets.
- Fixed an issue where project-scoped service account identifiers displayed inconsistently when editing notification rules.
Delegate
View full release notes →Security & Dependency Updates
- Resolved multiple security vulnerabilities across core dependencies and runtime libraries.
- Upgraded the bundled Source Code Management (SCM) service binary to the latest version for improved security and stability.
Helm & Kubernetes Deployments
- Fixed an issue in Helm blue-green deployments where stage deployment step output caused the traffic swap step to behave incorrectly.
- Ensured Horizontal Pod Autoscalers (HPA) and Pod Disruption Budgets (PDB) are automatically recreated during blue-green scale-up steps.
- Updated non-critical Helm messages and validation warnings to log as warnings instead of errors to avoid confusion during deployments.
Pipeline Steps & Integrations
- Fixed an issue where dot-notation variables created flat keys instead of nested objects when generating new release repository files.
- Improved Jenkins and CloudBees build trigger error handling to provide clear error messages when expected response headers are missing.
Code Repository
View full release notes →Pull Request Experience
- Added support for ordering reviewers by status to quickly view review states.
- Added direct file editing functionality from the pull request view.
- Enabled image pasting directly into pull request comment threads.
- Added a shortcut button to jump to the top of long file diffs.
- Fixed an issue where opening a pull request from the review requested list redirected to the repository homepage.
- Fixed pull request filtering by label key-value pairs to accurately return matching results.
Branching & Merging
- Added a branch rule to block merges when the target branch commit is not an ancestor, supporting automatic rebasing during merge.
- Fixed the auto-merge dropdown to display only the merge strategies enabled for the repository.
- Fixed an issue where branch links on pull request pages resulted in 404 errors.
- Fixed visual highlighting issues in branch search results.
Repository & Tag Management
- Fixed an issue where tags from a previous repository remained visible after switching repositories.
- Resolved an issue where comparing tags returned 404 errors or incorrectly reported no differences.
- Improved error handling and messages when contributor permissions are missing during Helm changes.
AI for DevOps & Automation
Continuous Integration
View full release notes →Networking & Proxy Support
- Enhanced egress proxy support by passing proxy configuration at the step level, resolving secret resolution issues in secured pipelines.
- Added custom certificate authority path support for Docker and Buildx plugins, enabling seamless builds behind TLS-intercepting proxies.
Build Performance & Capacity
- Introduced global queuing for macOS builds on Harness Cloud to maximize capacity utilization and reduce build failures.
- Added an opt-in stage-level optimization to significantly reduce initialization time for pipelines with large step configurations.
- Improved Build and Push step performance on Kubernetes by streamlining image output processing without intermediate file operations.
Platform & Pipeline Execution
- Added Windows Server 2025 support for Cache, GCS, S3, Artifactory, and Buildx plugins.
- Fixed an issue where pipeline sequence IDs failed to resolve during manual builds for Harness Code repositories.
- Added actionable guidance to switch to alternative registries when plugin image pulls encounter rate limits on cloud runners.
Container Builds & Security
- Fixed an issue where Kaniko builds failed when validating valid symbolic links.
- Resolved intermittent image pull failures in BuildKit-based Build and Push steps.
- Fixed an issue where secrets were not properly resolved during codebase clone steps on Kubernetes build infrastructure.
- Fixed an issue where runtime security policies blocked Git plugin execution in database change workflows.
- Upgraded core CI plugins and CLI dependencies to patch security vulnerabilities and improve stability.
Infrastructure as Code Management
View full release notes →Workspace & Cost Management
- Redesigned the Workspace Overview tab to display resource counts, live cloud costs, optimization recommendations, and recent activity at a glance.
- Introduced Ephemeral Workspaces to automatically tear down infrastructure and remove records when workspaces expire.
AWS CDK Integration
- Expanded language support in AWS CDK workspaces to include Java, JavaScript, and Go in addition to Python and TypeScript.
- Added Drift Detection and Destroy pipeline steps for managing CloudFormation stacks in AWS CDK workspaces.
- Added an approval step to allow manual review of diff outputs before executing AWS CDK deployments.
Security & Module Governance
- Added lifecycle management rules in the Module Registry to automatically classify versions as Supported, Update Required, or Deprecated.
- Fixed an issue that prevented provisioner downloads behind TLS-intercepting corporate proxies by adding support for custom CA certificates.
Artifact Registry
View full release notes →Artifact Lifecycle & Retention
- Added cleanup rules to automatically soft-delete artifact versions based on age, count, or name patterns while retaining recovery options.
- Introduced retention rules to safeguard critical artifacts from automated and manual deletion.
Governance & Rule Management
- Enabled hierarchical rule configuration across account, organization, and project levels.
- Added a dry-run mode to preview and validate rule criteria before applying deletions.
Monitoring & Notifications
- Added execution history logs to track which artifact versions were deleted or retained during each run.
- Integrated centralized notifications to alert users when cleanup rules or dry runs complete.
AI for Testing & Resilience
Feature Management & Experimentation
View full release notes →General Updates
- View the Feature Management & Experimentation release notes page for detailed updates for this period.
Chaos Engineering
View full release notes →Execution & Visibility
- Introduced a dedicated Executions tab to view all chaos experiments and load test runs in one unified location.
- Added the ability to view experiment executions by service along with associated execution nodes.
- Refreshed the pipeline scan interface with a quick scan action and expanded details column.
Load Testing Improvements
- Added an Advanced Configuration section to configure worker pod resources and execution pod cleanup policies.
- Enabled support for pulling load testing images from custom container registries.
- Resolved an issue that caused errors when configuring the service field in load test template steps.
- Improved overall stability and reliability during load test configuration and execution.
Templates & Experiment Configuration
- Fixed an issue where variables and runtime inputs were omitted when adding fault, probe, or action templates at the account and organization levels.
- Resolved synchronization errors when updating action and probe templates.
- Improved reliability and sorting accuracy for pipeline and infrastructure scans.
Security & Infrastructure
- Resolved security vulnerabilities within chaos engineering communication components.
- Upgraded internal dependencies across Linux and machine infrastructure components to improve security and stability.
- Updated core infrastructure components including fault injection handlers, log watchers, and service discovery collectors.
AI Test Automation
View full release notes →General Updates
- Refer to the dedicated AI Test Automation Release Notes page for the latest updates and detailed release information.
Last updated Jul 23, 2026
Investigation & Root Cause Analysis
- Enhanced AI Investigator root-cause analysis by incorporating outputs from exposed runbooks, worker agents, and pipeline executions directly into investigation findings.
AI for Security & Compliance
Security Testing Orchestration
View full release notes →Integrations & Remediation
- Added support for GitLab and Bitbucket when creating pull requests directly from AI-generated remediations.
- Enhanced Jira integration to automatically include detailed vulnerability summaries and occurrence context in created tickets for improved triage.
Vulnerability Management
- Added the ability to submit bulk exemption requests across multiple vulnerabilities with unified scope, duration, and reason settings.
- Resolved an issue where remediated vulnerabilities were not accurately reflected in the Vulnerabilities tab across multi-target pipeline scans.
User Interface Improvements
- Fixed a display issue where code snippet highlighting in the issue panel rendered text unreadable.
Supply Chain Security
View full release notes →Access Control & Permissions
- Added support for Resource Groups to manage Supply Chain Security access across Account, Organization, and Project scopes.
- Resolved an issue where Repository Security Posture Management APIs did not consistently enforce role-based access control across scopes.
Bill of Materials (SBOM) Management
- Added support for AI Bill of Materials generation in CycloneDX format to track AI models, datasets, frameworks, and agents.
- Fixed an issue where SBOM processing failed to extract tool metadata from JFrog Xray CycloneDX SBOMs.
Integrations & Pipeline Enforcement
- Added support for GitLab CI/CD integration to generate SBOMs, enforce policies, verify SLSA provenance, and sign artifacts.
- Resolved intermittent pipeline execution failures during SBOM policy enforcement and SLSA verification.
AI for Cost & Optimization
Cloud Cost Management
View full release notes →AI Cost Tracking & Insights
- Added a Token Count column in AI Perspectives across Cost Explorer, perspective details, and reports to track token usage alongside total spend.
- Introduced a Trends and Histogram view in the Service Traces drawer to compare cost and token metrics over time and analyze percentile distributions.
- Added support for Cursor connectors to track and manage Cursor spend alongside OpenAI and Anthropic accounts.
- Updated the Service Traces drawer to automatically sort traces from highest to lowest cost.
- Added multi-level drill-down support for AI spend grouped by Principal, allowing breakdown by Provider, Sub Provider, Sub Account ID, Model, and Token Type.
- Updated AI chat quick actions to dynamically display relevant actions based on your current view in Cost Explorer or classic Perspectives.
Overview & Anomaly Monitoring
- Added the ability to filter the Overview page by cost category to focus overview tiles on specific cost segments.
- Enhanced the Overview page with time series charts and stale anomaly tracking in the Anomalies widget, along with a clearer Budgets widget.
- Fixed an issue where anomaly counts disappeared in Cost Explorer after updating and applying cost preferences.
Perspectives & Cost Reporting
- Fixed an issue where selecting chart elements failed to apply filters for certain group-by columns in Perspectives.
- Fixed an issue where 'contains' filters on derived metrics returned incomplete results.
- Fixed Perspective exports to include all matching results instead of only rows on the current page.
- Fixed GCP Kubernetes node cost calculations so total cluster costs accurately reflect GCP billing data.
Cost Recommendations & Commitments
- Added support for RDS Database Savings Plans across the Actions, Approvals, and Inventory views in Commitment Orchestration.
- Fixed an issue where manually applied recommendations incorrectly displayed an inferred-as-applied banner.
- Fixed an issue where manually applied Kubernetes workload recommendations remained stuck in evaluation.
- Fixed node pool recommendations to ensure current, recommended, and applied configurations display completely.
AutoStopping & Cluster Orchestration
- Added live status badges with countdown timers for active, scheduled, and disabled schedules in the Cluster Orchestrator Schedules table.
- Fixed an issue where RDS AutoStopping rules failed to retain the selected proxy when edited.
- Fixed AutoStopping tag-based rules to support tag values containing special characters such as colons.
AI DLC Insights
View full release notes →General Updates
- Refer to the dedicated AI DLC Insights documentation for detailed updates during this period.