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 resource groups directly from the UI to simplify scope and permission configuration.
- Added the ability to clone existing access control roles from the UI to quickly create new roles with matching permissions.
- Improved SCIM user group provisioning to prevent identifier collisions and ensure accurate group membership.
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 editing notification rules displayed incorrect project-scoped service account identifiers.
Delegate
View full release notes →Security & Dependency Updates
- Addressed security vulnerabilities across third-party dependencies including Jackson Core, gRPC, Mongo Driver, and TLS packages.
- Updated the bundled Source Code Management service binary to the latest version.
Deployment & Orchestration
- Fixed Kubernetes Blue-Green deployments to re-create Horizontal Pod Autoscalers (HPA) and Pod Disruption Budgets (PDB) after scaling up workloads.
- Resolved an issue where Amazon ECS Blue-Green rollbacks timed out when rolling back to an existing active service version.
- Updated benign Helm messages during fresh installs and validation warnings to log as WARN instead of ERROR to reduce log clutter.
Pipeline Execution & Integrations
- Fixed squash and merge failures in Bitbucket and Azure DevOps pull request pipelines when commits are pushed during execution.
- Ensured session tags, such as pipeline IDs and metadata claims, are correctly populated during container step initialization.
- Improved error handling for file upload API requests.
Self-Managed Enterprise Edition
View full release notes →Documentation & Release Notes
- Updated documentation for the Self-Managed Enterprise Edition release notes.
AI for DevOps & Automation
Continuous Integration
View full release notes →Build Performance & Pipeline Optimization
- Added support for stage-level opt-in to reduce CI initialization times for stages with large step configurations.
- Improved Build and Push step performance on Kubernetes by eliminating intermediate tar serialization during image export.
- Introduced global queuing for macOS builds on Harness Cloud to reduce stockout failures and improve capacity utilization.
Container Build Tools & Plugins
- Added Windows Server 2025 support across Cache, GCS, S3, Artifactory, and Buildx plugins.
- Fixed a Kaniko issue where overly strict symlink validation caused build failures on valid symbolic links.
- Resolved intermittent image pull failures for BuildKit-based Build and Push steps by stabilizing the default image.
- Added actionable guidance when plugin image pulls fail on GCP runners due to rate limits.
Network & Proxy Configuration
- Improved egress proxy support by scoping proxy environment variables to the step level to resolve secret resolution issues.
- Added custom CA certificate support for Docker and Buildx plugins, enabling builds behind TLS-intercepting egress proxies.
Pipeline Execution Fixes
- Fixed secret resolution failures during database schema clone steps on Kubernetes build infrastructure.
- Fixed an issue where the pipeline sequence ID expression returned null during manual builds using Harness Code repositories.
- Resolved an issue where security drift controls blocked git plugin execution in database change workflows.
Security & Dependency Updates
- Upgraded CLI components and container addon images to address security vulnerabilities.
- Updated Drone Git, Drone Docker, Buildx, and Kaniko plugin images to their latest stable releases.
Infrastructure as Code Management
View full release notes →AWS CDK Integration
- Expanded AWS CDK workspace support to include Java, JavaScript, and Go alongside Python and TypeScript.
- Added Drift detection and Destroy pipeline steps for AWS CDK to identify unmanaged infrastructure changes and remove CloudFormation stacks.
- Introduced an IaCM Approval pipeline step to require human review of diff outputs before deploying AWS CDK changes.
Workspace & Governance Improvements
- Introduced Ephemeral Workspaces to automatically tear down infrastructure and clean up records for expired workspaces.
- Added Module Version Lifecycle Management to automatically classify module versions as Supported, Update Required, or Deprecated based on recency.
Network & Security
- Added support for custom CA certificate paths to enable downloading provisioner binaries through TLS-intercepting corporate proxies.
Artifact Registry
View full release notes →Artifact Lifecycle Management
- Automatically soft-delete artifact versions based on age, version count, or name patterns while keeping them recoverable during a configured grace period.
- Protect critical artifacts from deletion by defining retention rules that override all automatic and manual deletion attempts.
Governance & Rule Configuration
- Define management rules at the account, organization, or project level to apply policies across multiple registries.
- Preview which artifact versions will be affected by a rule in dry-run mode before enabling it.
Monitoring & Notifications
- Track rule executions with detailed logs showing which artifact versions were deleted or retained.
- Receive centralized notifications whenever a cleanup rule or dry run finishes executing.
AI for Testing & Resilience
Feature Management & Experimentation
View full release notes →General Updates
- Documentation for the latest Feature Management & Experimentation changes has been updated.
Chaos Engineering
View full release notes →Load Testing & Configurations
- Added advanced configuration options in the load test interface to customize worker pod resources and set pod cleanup policies.
- Updated the Load Test Manager to support pulling images directly from custom container registries.
- Added feature flag controls to manage the visibility of risk services in load tests.
- Resolved an image registry issue affecting load test executions.
- Improved the overall reliability and execution stability of load test configurations.
Templates & Service Management
- Added visibility into experiment executions per service, including node execution details.
- Fixed an issue where account- and organization-scoped variables and runtime inputs were missing when adding fault, probe, or action templates.
- Resolved a synchronization issue affecting action and probe templates.
Security & Infrastructure
- Resolved vulnerabilities by updating gRPC packages across chaos components.
- Hardened pipeline and infrastructure scanning mechanisms for improved security.
- Updated internal Redis dependencies across infrastructure components.
- Fixed sorting functionality in the scan list API.
AI Test Automation
View full release notes →Documentation & Resources
- Updated the AI Test Automation release notes with the latest documentation.
Last updated Jul 23, 2026
Root Cause Analysis
- AI Investigator now incorporates outputs from custom pipeline executions and runbooks into root cause analysis, enabling deeper insights from automated log retrieval, service queries, and diagnostic tasks.
AI for Security & Compliance
Security Testing Orchestration
View full release notes →Vulnerability & Exemption Management
- Added support for requesting bulk exemptions across multiple vulnerabilities at once using a shared scope, duration, and reason.
- Fixed an issue where the Vulnerabilities tab only displayed remediated issues when they were resolved across all scanned targets in a pipeline execution.
Remediation & Integrations
- Added support for creating pull requests in GitLab and Bitbucket directly from AI-based remediations.
- Jira tickets created from security scans now automatically include vulnerability summaries and occurrence details to streamline triage and prioritization.
User Interface Updates
- Fixed an issue where code snippets in the issue panel rendered with unreadable yellow highlighting.
AI for Cost & Optimization
Cloud Cost Management
View full release notes →AI Cost Tracking & Tracing
- View token usage alongside cost in AI Perspectives, Cost Explorer, and reports with a new Token Count column.
- Analyze AI spend, instance counts, and token usage trends over time with histograms and percentile markers in Service Traces.
- Connect and manage Cursor accounts alongside OpenAI and Anthropic on the AI Cloud Providers tab.
- Identify top AI spenders faster with Service Traces sorted by cost from highest to lowest by default.
- Drill down through Principal, Provider, Sub Provider, Account ID, Model, and Token Type in AI Perspectives.
- Access contextual AI chat quick actions tailored to your current view in Cloud Cost Management.
Dashboards & Overview Updates
- Filter the Overview page by cost category to focus dashboard tiles on specific spending areas.
- Track budget health and stale anomalies more easily with updated Overview widgets and time series charts.
- Fixed an issue where filtering by cost categories with shared buckets caused dashboard tiles to fail to load.
Perspectives & Reporting Improvements
- Export full Perspective result sets rather than only the items displayed on the active page.
- Ensured Perspective report emails are reliably delivered when sent immediately.
- Improved Perspective query loading speeds by correctly applying monthly data rollups.
Recommendations & Orchestration
- Track and approve RDS Database Savings Plan purchases within Commitment Orchestration.
- Monitor cluster orchestrator schedule states at a glance with live status badges and countdown timers.
- Fixed an issue where manually applied Kubernetes workload recommendations remained stuck in pending evaluation.
- Resolved an issue where Kubernetes node pool recommendations displayed with empty configuration details.
Data Accuracy & Analytics
- Corrected GCP Kubernetes node cost calculations so total cluster costs accurately reflect billing data.
- Fixed search filters on derived metrics to ensure query results return complete data sets.
- Search across all pages of unit metrics instead of limiting search results to the current page.
- Improved inventory collection job scheduling for more reliable background data refreshes.
AI DLC Insights
View full release notes →General Updates & Documentation
- Access the latest feature updates and enhancements on the AI DLC Insights release notes page.