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 →Onboarding & Project Management
- New users are now prompted to complete their profile immediately after signup, including details like job title and company information.
- Introduced the ability to move projects between organizations while preserving audit and execution history.
Identity & Access Management
- Added configurable notifications for service account token events, such as creation, rotation, and expiration.
- Resolved issues where users were incorrectly flagged as the last administrator during deletion at the organization or project level.
- Fixed an issue where users with partial permissions received incorrect responses from the deletion API.
- Improved user metadata retrieval to ensure more accurate and consistent data display.
- Corrected the sorting of user groups in the interface to properly display the newest entries first.
Performance & Stability
- Optimized environment listing to improve response times and prevent API timeouts.
- Improved system stability and behavior consistency by resolving internal processing issues.
- Restored underlying system configurations to ensure proper platform functionality.
Secrets & Platform Configuration
- Fixed an issue where editing a Custom Secrets Manager could result in a blank error message.
- Updated module name matching to be case-insensitive for better configuration consistency.
Delegate
View full release notes →Security & Access
- Added support for Google Cloud OIDC authentication for JDBC connectors, enabling secure connections to Cloud SQL and Spanner without traditional credentials.
- Updated crypto libraries to address known security vulnerabilities.
- Enhanced the resilience of secret management operations with improved retry logic and exponential backoff.
- Resolved an issue where artifact fetching failed when using repository-level access tokens for Artifactory.
- Improved authentication error messaging to clearly distinguish between third-party credential failures and platform login issues.
Deployment & Infrastructure
- Updated service requests to include missing configuration parameters for VPC Lattice, volumes, and service connectivity.
- Improved error messaging for Auto Scaling Group deployments when a launch template is deleted.
- Corrected the logic for identifying internal code repositories based on the connector reference.
- Added validation when editing deployment freezes to account for active windows.
Performance & Reliability
- Introduced a configuration option to set memory usage thresholds based on container group memory information.
- Fixed a data collection issue that caused health monitoring queries for Dynatrace to fail or hang.
User Experience
- New users are now prompted to complete their profile information immediately after signing up.
- Surfaced more descriptive error messages for connection-related operations to simplify troubleshooting.
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Continuous Delivery & GitOps
View full release notes →Cloud & Infrastructure Support
- Deploy microservices directly to Azure Container Apps with support for canary deployments and automatic rollbacks.
- Improved performance for Windows deployments by reusing WinRM sessions, significantly reducing connection overhead.
- Enhanced validation for Azure Container Apps traffic configuration to ensure valid traffic distribution percentages.
- Optimized Azure Container Apps API performance by reducing redundant requests during resource configuration.
Security & Governance
- Enabled OIDC authentication support for AWS GovCloud regions.
- Simplified AWS connector validation by removing the requirement for specific IAM permissions.
- Automatically mask Terraform output fields marked as sensitive during pipeline execution for improved security.
- Improved error messaging for HashiCorp Vault to distinguish between missing paths and empty secret values.
Pipeline Visibility & Monitoring
- New Executions Management page provides account-level visibility into queued pipelines with options for bulk cancellation.
- Modernized the pipeline execution history with a card-based layout and improved summaries of service and environment mappings.
- Fixed backend connections for Continuous Verification to ensure reliable health data collection from monitoring sources.
Git & Trigger Integration
- Added support for referencing Git tags in input set configurations for more flexible version-controlled workflows.
- Resolved an issue where GitLab triggers failed due to incorrect scope resolution during webhook processing.
- Fixed template resolution failures when retrying pipelines that use templates stored in non-default Git branches.
- Enhanced error clarity when Bitbucket API rate limits are reached, replacing generic errors with specific notifications.
Configuration & Templates
- New dry run API allows validation of pipeline YAML, templates, and policies before committing changes to Git.
- Ensured ApplicationSet TemplatePatch configurations are correctly persisted and visible in the manifest editor.
- Resolved duplicate display and deletion issues for account-level templates in the template library.
- Fixed synchronization issues where input set overlays failed to reflect updates from base variables.
- Resolved validation errors that prevented the creation of new overlay input sets.
Continuous Integration
View full release notes →Security & Reliability
- Resolved an issue where Git Clone failed in FIPS-compliant environments due to missing SSH algorithm support.
- Enhanced security for Docker and cloud provider registry plugins by updating outdated image components.
- Improved security for Git-related images by replacing end-of-life components.
- Upgraded core engine components to address known security vulnerabilities.
Caching Improvements
- Added support for caching NuGet dependencies based on environment variables.
- Enabled the ability to override Azure-specific fields when configuring cache storage settings.
- Introduced stage-level configuration for connectors used in self-hosted build cache storage.
- Fixed a parsing error that caused cache steps to fail when using S3 directory buckets as a mount path.
- Corrected a display issue where the cache step name appeared incorrectly for self-hosted infrastructure.
Performance & Build Efficiency
- Improved test splitting accuracy by using historical average durations for more balanced parallelism.
- Resolved an issue where large pull requests caused codebase and task timeouts during execution.
- Reduced pipeline initialization times on Kubernetes by optimizing command fields in the initial step.
- Fixed a system error that caused delays and increased total build times during the intelligence processing step.
Infrastructure & Connectivity
- Standardized step binary download paths for containerless builds to improve reliability and reduce network dependencies.
- Fixed an issue where the repository link environment variable was not correctly passed to build pods.
Infrastructure as Code Management
View full release notes →Provisioning Support
- AWS CDK is now supported in beta, allowing infrastructure definition in languages such as TypeScript, Python, Java, C#, and Go.
- Terragrunt support is now generally available with drift detection, security scanning, and native approval workflows.
- Resolved an issue where the Terraform provider connector would intermittently reset to an empty state.
Platform Security & Reliability
- Patched a security vulnerability in the underlying git library to ensure secure repository operations.
- Improved stability for uploading large infrastructure plans to prevent timeouts during the deployment process.
- Resolved an issue that caused image pull failures in certain self-managed environments.
Monitoring & Visibility
- Dashboard analytics now provide detailed insights into resource-level changes and infrastructure lifecycles.
- Fixed a persistence issue to ensure infrastructure resources appear correctly and consistently in the workspace view.
- Resolved loading state issues to ensure cost estimations display correctly for Terragrunt workspaces.
Module Management
- Updated the Module Registry to support native triggers for automated testing pipelines, removing external dependencies.
- Improved the Module Registry interface with better state handling and more descriptive error messaging.
Artifact Registry
View full release notes →Swift Package Support
- Full integration with Swift Package Manager for standard login, publishing, and resolution workflows.
- Secure private hosting for proprietary Swift packages within your account.
- Accelerate builds and improve reliability by caching Swift packages from external sources via upstream proxies.
Generic Artifact Management
- Manage build artifacts, reports, and shared configurations using direct path-based storage.
- Simplify file transfers using native HTTP clients like curl without the need for specialized plugins.
- Optionally cache files from external HTTP sources to reduce external dependencies.
Data Protection & Lifecycle
- Restore accidentally deleted packages, versions, or registries from a dedicated recovery area.
- Manage complex deletions with cascading soft-deletes that allow for easy restoration of entire registry hierarchies.
- Configure custom data retention windows at the account, organization, or project level.
- Execute immediate and permanent data removal when non-recoverable deletion is required.
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Feature Management & Experimentation
View full release notes →Governance & Standards
- Enforce naming conventions for environments to maintain a consistent and predictable project structure.
- Standardize user group definitions by enforcing naming conventions for segments.
- Automate governance and compliance for feature flags and environments using Policy as Code.
Targeting & Segmentation
- Validate segment rules and exclusions to ensure high-priority users are correctly managed.
- Enhance targeting precision by using custom attributes for user groups.
- Quickly find and add matching identities to targeting rules with key type-ahead suggestions.
- Simplify rule validation and debugging with identity tooltips that display full attribute details.
Integration & Developer Tools
- Integrate feature management workflows directly into Harness Pipelines for automated deployments.
- Programmatically manage identity data and attributes using the Identities API.
Feature Flags
View full release notes →General Updates
- Review the latest Feature Flags enhancements and fixes on the official documentation page.
Chaos Engineering
View full release notes →Infrastructure & Setup
- Updated Kubernetes, Linux, and Machine chaos infrastructure components.
- Removed the legacy chaos infrastructure option from the experiment setup wizard.
- Fixed the Windows CLI installation script to correctly apply custom log file retention settings.
Experiment & Probe Management
- Fixed filtering for probe and action templates during Kubernetes experiment creation.
- Improved command probes to return properly formatted strings instead of raw source specifications.
- Updated core chaos components and service discovery collectors to improve system reliability.
Platform Stability
- Ensured full backward compatibility for all existing experiments, reports, and third-party integrations.
- Maintained consistent access control and RBAC permissions across the platform.
- Optimized system performance by removing deprecated internal feature flags.
AI Test Automation
View full release notes →Task Management & Control
- Introduced a maximum nesting depth for tasks to improve organizational structure.
- Updated general tasks to run exclusively as manual actions for better execution oversight.
Database Integrations
- Expanded database query support to include Oracle and MS SQL Server.
Environment Configuration
- Resolved an issue where base URL paths were incorrectly duplicated across different environments.
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Incident Intelligence & Reporting
- Automatically generate structured post-incident reviews that summarize impact, root cause, and key lessons learned.
- Detect and track action items in real-time from chat messages and meeting transcripts during active incidents.
- Automatically link external change records to active incidents to help identify potential root causes during investigation.
Communication & Collaboration
- Send structured status updates to service stakeholders via pre-populated emails directly from an incident.
- Collaborate on incidents in real-time using a new native integration for Google Chat.
- Trigger automation workflows directly from Slack using short, customizable commands.
Workflow & Automation
- Manage external service tickets and comments directly through native automation actions without custom configuration.
- Save and reuse integration configurations as templates to streamline setup across the organization.
Visibility & Alerting
- Monitor all active on-call pages, responder assignments, and escalation progress from a single centralized view.
- Assign custom display names to alert rules for easier identification and management.
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Security Testing Orchestration
View full release notes →Security Reporting & Insights
- Access a comprehensive security posture view with a redesigned Issues page featuring trend analysis and summary graphs.
- Fixed an issue where status updates on security issues required a page refresh to display correctly.
Scanner & Infrastructure Updates
- Expanded scanner compatibility to include support for Linux ARM architecture.
- Added FIPS compliance support for Nexus IQ and Prisma Cloud scanners.
Account & Trial Features
- Enabled self-service 45-day trials for Harness Code and Container scanners directly within the platform for administrators.
Supply Chain Security
View full release notes →Artifact Security & Integrity
- Generate SLSA build integrity records for non-container artifacts, including Java packages, Helm charts, and native binaries, to ensure artifact traceability.
- Implement keyless signing and verification using cloud identity providers like AWS, GCP, and Azure to eliminate the need for managing long-lived cryptographic keys.
- Integration with Artifact Registry for signing and verification steps is now generally available.
Open Source Management
- Remediate open-source vulnerabilities with intelligent dependency upgrades that reduce security risks while minimizing breaking changes.
- Customize the generation of Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) using new flags to control scan scope and dependency resolution.
Reliability & Stability
- Fixed a validation error that occurred when viewing or recreating Artifact Verification stage templates in the YAML editor.
- Resolved permission errors in Kubernetes-based workflows that prevented the successful completion of artifact signing and SBOM generation steps.
AI for Cost & Optimization
Cloud Cost Management
View full release notes →Access & Permissions
- Enforced access controls in Cost Settings to ensure users with view-only permissions cannot modify preference settings.
Reporting & Visualization
- Standardized Overview page charts to display time in UTC, removing ambiguity across different time zones.
- Improved GCP invoice month filters to accurately reflect the current month when viewed on month-end dates.
Recommendations & Budgets
- Relocated rejected and ignored recommendation lists to the main view to support direct data exporting.
- Updated the budget alert interface to display specific labels corresponding to the configured budget type.
Software Engineering Insights
View full release notes →Integrations & Connectivity
- Added integration with GitHub Copilot to provide insights into AI-assisted development activities.
- Introduced ServiceNow integration to ingest service management data into the SEI platform.
- Expanded engineering efficiency analytics to include ServiceNow data in DORA metric calculations.
SEI Canvas Workspace
- Introduced the SEI Canvas feature, providing a new visual workspace for engineering data analysis.
- Enabled full management of SEI Canvases, including the ability to create, edit, view, and delete dashboard layouts.
Governance & Access Management
- Implemented Harness Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to manage user permissions specifically for SEI features.
- Updated platform permission references to include granular access controls for all SEI-related roles.
- Enhanced team configuration settings with support for custom variables and tool-specific adjustments.