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 →User & Access Management
- New users are now prompted to complete their profiles immediately after signup, including details like job title and phone number.
- Improved the accuracy and consistency of user metadata retrieval across the platform.
- User groups are now correctly sorted by their creation date in the interface.
- Resolved an issue where deletion requests for users or user groups could incorrectly trigger last administrator warnings.
- Fixed incorrect last administrator warnings when deleting users at the organization or project scope.
Security & Compliance
- Configure notifications for service account token events such as creation, rotation, and expiration across selected channels.
- Policy evaluation warnings for service accounts and API keys now display correctly in the interface.
- Fixed an issue where editing a Custom Secrets Manager could result in a blank error popup.
Platform Administration
- Move projects between organizations while preserving audit and execution history.
- Optimized the List Environments API to improve response times and prevent timeouts.
- Updated module name matching to be case-insensitive for improved configuration consistency.
Delegate
View full release notes →Security & Reliability
- Added support for Google Cloud (GCP) OIDC authentication for JDBC connectors, enabling secure connections to Cloud SQL and Spanner without traditional credentials.
- Resolved security vulnerabilities in cryptography libraries.
- Improved the resilience of secret management operations with a new retry mechanism to better handle transient network failures.
User Experience & Messaging
- New users are now prompted to complete their profile information immediately after signing up.
- Improved clarity of authentication errors from external Helm providers to distinguish them from internal login failures.
- Enhanced error visibility for SSH-related operations to provide detailed exception messages in the interface.
- Improved error messaging when deployment failures are caused by missing launch templates.
- Clarified documentation regarding the automatic generation of service override variable identifiers.
Deployment & Resource Management
- Introduced a configuration option to set memory usage thresholds based on system-level memory information.
- Added support for missing service update parameters, including VPC Lattice and Availability Zone rebalancing configurations.
- Implemented checks for active windows when editing deployment freezes.
Connectivity & Integrations
- Fixed an issue where Dynatrace Grail health source data collection could fail or stop responding during polling.
- Resolved an issue where internal code repositories were not correctly identified via connector references.
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Continuous Delivery & GitOps
View full release notes →Cloud & Infrastructure Support
- Added direct deployment support for Azure Container Apps, including canary strategies and OIDC authentication.
- AWS GovCloud regions now support OIDC authentication with automatic regional endpoint routing.
- Fixed an issue where ECS deployments failed to enable Service Connect even when defined in the service configuration.
Security & Data Protection
- Terraform output fields marked as sensitive are now automatically masked in the pipeline execution view.
- AWS connector validation now functions without requiring specific EC2 region description permissions.
- Improved error clarity for Vault secrets to distinguish between missing paths and empty values.
- Resolved a validation error when using Git connectors configured with AWS Secrets Manager.
Execution & Visibility
- Introduced a centralized management view to monitor and cancel queued pipeline executions across the account.
- Redesigned the pipeline execution history with a card-based layout for better visibility into service and environment mappings.
- Added new notification triggers for pipelines waiting on user actions like approvals or manual interventions.
- Fixed a UI issue where manifest template patches were not visible after being configured.
Git & Automation Workflow
- Enabled the use of Git tags for referencing remote input sets, allowing for versioned configuration management.
- Resolved an issue in multi-source GitOps applications to ensure correct mapping between sources and repositories.
- Fixed a bug where remote templates were not appearing in the references list of their associated Git connectors.
- Corrected an issue where Barrier steps failed to execute properly within nested pipeline templates.
Performance & System Reliability
- Enhanced Windows deployment performance by implementing session pooling for WinRM connections.
- Improved stability and error handling when processing large Terraform plan files.
- Resolved intermittent communication resets between the delegate and manager during infrastructure deployments.
- Updated Bitbucket integrations to provide clear notifications when API rate limits are reached.
- Improved error reporting for transient system failures to provide more actionable information during pipeline execution.
Continuous Integration
View full release notes →Build Optimization
- Enabled automatic caching for NuGet dependencies using environment variables.
- Added support for overriding Azure-specific fields in Cache Intelligence settings.
- Added support for automatic dependency caching for Go projects on Linux.
- Resolved an issue causing timeouts during codebase tasks for large pull requests.
- Optimized Kubernetes initialization processes to reduce pipeline start times.
- Fixed a delay in build intelligence that was increasing total execution time.
Security & Authentication
- Restored support for EKS pod identity authentication for AWS connections.
- Restricted the ability to mount secrets through Kubernetes configuration files to enhance security.
- Added support for Azure Blob Storage using principal authentication and OIDC.
- Updated build images and container registry plugins to address security vulnerabilities.
- Hardened build engine components by upgrading core dependencies.
Infrastructure & Configuration
- Added the ability to override cache storage connectors at the stage level via YAML.
- Improved reliability for containerless builds by standardizing the download path for step binaries.
- Configured Docker build plugins to automatically inherit platform proxy settings.
- Fixed an issue where repository environment variables were not correctly passed to build pods.
- Resolved a parsing error that caused cache storage steps to fail when using specific directory paths.
Pipeline Visibility
- Added real-time CPU and memory usage metrics to the pipeline execution view for better resource monitoring.
- Enabled branch-based version counters for pipelines without a codebase configured.
- Fixed a display issue where Cache Intelligence step names were not showing correctly on self-hosted infrastructure.
Infrastructure as Code Management
View full release notes →Infrastructure Provisioning
- AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is now available in beta, supporting infrastructure definition via TypeScript, Python, Java, C#, and Go.
- Terragrunt support is now generally available with full feature parity for drift detection, security scanning, and policy enforcement.
- Resolved an issue where Terraform provider connector settings were being reset to null.
- Fixed an issue where cost estimation details failed to load for Terragrunt workspaces.
Security & Performance
- Patched a security vulnerability within the git integration library.
- Improved the reliability of large infrastructure plan uploads by preventing timeout errors for files over 177 MB.
- Resolved an issue causing image pull failures for self-managed platform installations.
Platform & Visibility
- Updated the Module Registry with native triggers for automated testing pipelines and improved error messaging during updates.
- Enhanced dashboard analytics now provide resource-level data for deeper insights into infrastructure lifecycles.
- Fixed a data persistence issue to ensure resources are correctly displayed within the workspace dashboard.
Artifact Registry
View full release notes →Swift Package Support
- Manage Swift packages natively with support for login, publish, and resolve commands
- Securely host proprietary Swift packages within your private environment
- Accelerate build times by caching external Swift packages using upstream proxies
File Storage & Transfer
- Access build artifacts and shared configurations directly via path-based storage
- Transfer files using standard HTTP clients like curl without the need for specialized plugins
- Improve reliability by caching files from external HTTP sources
Data Management & Protection
- Restore deleted packages, versions, and registries from a dedicated recovery area
- Easily manage related items with cascading soft-deletes for registries
- Customize data retention periods at the account, organization, or project level
- Ensure immediate data removal with a permanent delete option
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Feature Management & Experimentation
View full release notes →Organization & Standardization
- Enforce naming conventions for environments to maintain a consistent and predictable structure across projects.
- Standardize user group definitions by enforcing naming conventions for segments.
- Improved validation for segment rules and exclusions to ensure accurate and safe user targeting.
Governance & Compliance
- Apply Policy as Code to govern and secure feature management and experimentation workflows.
- Utilize the Harness Policy Engine to enforce organizational standards and compliance for feature flags.
Workflow Automation
- Integrate feature management and experimentation directly into Harness Pipelines for streamlined delivery.
- Automate the identification and removal of stale feature flags using pipeline templates and automated pull requests.
- Remove feature flags directly within existing pipeline workflows using specialized stage templates.
- Standardize repetitive management tasks using expanded support for reusable templates.
Feature Flags
View full release notes →New Features & Enhancements
- Updates for this period are documented on the Feature Flags release notes page.
Chaos Engineering
View full release notes →Visibility & User Interface
- View output variables directly within the experiment timeline view.
- Enhanced the Disaster Recovery tests list with new search, filter, and sorting capabilities.
- Improved troubleshooting by displaying the Show Logs button for experiments in a pending state.
- Updated sorting for custom faults to display the most recently modified items first.
Probes & Fault Management
- Improved probe conditions to support the use of hyphens.
- Updated referenced probes and actions to be non-editable, ensuring they link directly to their source templates.
- Resolved an issue where command probes returned raw specifications instead of formatted strings.
- Fixed a template filtering issue when building Kubernetes-based chaos experiments.
Performance & Intelligence
- Upgraded the underlying AI model to improve processing accuracy.
- Optimized the performance and latency of experiment recommendations by improving data processing efficiency.
Security & Infrastructure
- Enhanced ChaosGuard with support for namespace label filters to provide more granular experiment control.
- Fixed an issue where custom log retention settings were ignored during the Windows infrastructure installation process.
AI Test Automation
View full release notes →Task Management & Organization
- Set limits on task nesting depth to better manage workflow complexity.
- Introduced task versioning to track and manage changes over time.
Connectivity & Environment Setup
- Expanded database query support to include Oracle and Microsoft SQL.
- Resolved an issue where base URL paths were incorrectly duplicated across different environments.
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- Detect and track action items in real-time from chat messages, meeting transcripts, and incident notes using AI.
- Automatically correlate ServiceNow change records with active incidents to identify potential root causes alongside deployment and code changes.
Incident Collaboration
- Send pre-populated status updates to service stakeholders via email directly from active incidents.
- Collaborate on incidents within Google Chat with support for dedicated incident spaces and real-time updates.
- Execute runbook automations directly from Slack using custom short commands.
Integrations & Workflows
- Use native runbook actions to create and update ServiceNow incidents without manual webhook configuration.
- Create and reuse custom webhook templates to simplify integration setup across your organization.
Visibility & Management
- Assign custom display names to alert rules for easier identification and management.
- Track all active pages, assigned responders, and escalation progress in a single centralized table.
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Security Testing Orchestration
View full release notes →Scanner & Infrastructure Updates
- Expanded infrastructure support to include Linux ARM for all security scanners.
- Added FIPS compliance support for Nexus IQ and Prisma Cloud scanners.
Visibility & Platform Experience
- Redesigned the security issues dashboard to provide a project-wide view of security posture, including trend analysis and performance graphs.
- Introduced self-serve 45-day trials for code and container scanners, allowing admins to start evaluations directly within the platform.
- Fixed a synchronization issue to ensure security status updates are reflected immediately on the overview page without requiring a manual refresh.
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Cloud Cost Management
View full release notes →User Access & Permissions
- Enforced access controls in Cost Settings to ensure users with view-only permissions cannot modify preferences.
- Updated the Recommendations and Anomalies pages to ensure preference settings correctly respect user management permissions.
Optimization & Budgets
- Relocated rejected and ignored lists to the main Recommendations view to facilitate easier access and direct data export.
- Updated budget alert labels to accurately reflect the specific budget type being viewed.
Reporting & Visualization
- Improved the accuracy of Google Cloud Platform invoice month filters when viewed on the last day of the month.
- Standardized overview chart labels and tooltips to display time in UTC for consistent reporting across time zones.
Software Engineering Insights
View full release notes →Access & Administration
- Implemented Harness Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to manage user permissions for Software Engineering Insights.
- Added granular permissions for viewing, creating, editing, and deleting SEI Canvases.
- Updated the Platform Permissions Reference to include all SEI-specific actions.
- Enhanced team setup with support for custom tool-specific variables and settings.
Data Integrations
- Introduced a new integration for GitHub Copilot to track and analyze AI-assisted development productivity.
- Added ServiceNow integration support to ingest and synchronize service management data.
Dashboards & Analytics
- Launched the SEI Canvas feature for building and managing custom data visualizations.
- Enabled the use of ServiceNow data in DORA metrics to provide more comprehensive engineering efficiency reporting.