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Artifact Registry Release Notes

The release notes describe recent changes to Harness Artifact Registry.

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📌 Release Deployment Status by Cluster​

Progressive deployment: Harness deploys changes to Harness SaaS clusters on a progressive basis. This means that the features described in these release notes may not be immediately available in your cluster. To identify the cluster that hosts your account, go to your Account Overview page in Harness. In the new UI, go to Account Settings, Account Details, General, Account Details, and then Platform Service Versions.

October 2025​

2025.10.v1​

Enhancements and Fixes​

Public Registry

Users can now define the visibility of an artifact registry as Private or Public. This enhancement allows better control over access to registry contents and image pulls.

By default, all registries are created as Private.

  • Public registries make the registry contents and images accessible to all users external to your organization.
  • Private registries restrict both visibility and image pulls to authorized users or service accounts with valid permissions or tokens.
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To enable public artifact registries, the feature flag PL_ALLOW_TO_SET_PUBLIC_ACCESS must be activated. Contact Harness Support to enable it. After activation, navigate to Account Settings > Authentication and enable Allow public resources to make your registry publicly accessible.

Public Registry

Check out our documentation to know more about Creating an Artifact Registry

September 2025​

2025.09.v2​

New Features​

Artifact Quarantine

Protect your software supply chain with Artifact Quarantine! You can now quarantine artifacts to prevent them from being used in pipelines or pulled by users. This powerful security feature works hand-in-hand with built-in container scanning and policy enforcement.

Artifact Quarantine

Key Capabilities:

  • Manual Quarantine: Quarantine any artifact with a documented reason via the 3-dot menu
  • Automated Quarantine: When integrated with Harness Supply Chain Security, artifacts are automatically scanned using AquaTrivy, and Security Tests policy sets can automatically quarantine artifacts based on vulnerability severity
  • Easy Management: Remove artifacts from quarantine when they're safe to use again

This feature is available for Docker and Helm registries and provides an essential layer of protection to ensure only secure, compliant artifacts make it into your production environments.

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This feature requires the feature flag HAR_ARTIFACT_QUARANTINE_ENABLED. Contact Harness Support to enable it.

Learn more: Artifact Quarantine

Digest Viewing / Image Referencing

Harness Artifact Registry now provides complete visibility into all your container images with digest-based viewing and flexible tag selection, giving you more control over how you reference and manage images.

Untagged Images

Untagged Images Made Visible: Images without tags now appear clearly in the UI with an “N/A” label next to their digest. They remain fully pullable via their digest, so even untagged or cleaned-up images are easy to track and verify. Multi-architecture Docker and OCI images are also grouped neatly by platform, making navigation effortless.

Flexible Tag and Digest Selection: You can now select a tag or version for all artifact types directly from the header selector. For Docker and OCI images, you can also select by digest to reference an immutable version.

  • Use Tags to browse familiar labels such as latest or 1.25.2.
  • Use Digests to pinpoint a specific, unchanging image for verification or debugging.

Deployment details appear only when a tag is selected.

This enhancement offers a clearer, more dependable way to browse, reference, and inspect your images—whether tagged, untagged, or multi-architecture.

Learn more: Selecting by Tag | Image Referencing

Enhancements and Fixes​

NuGet Visual Studio Integration

We're excited to provide Visual Studio integration for NuGet package management! .NET developers can now configure Harness Artifact Registry as a package source directly within Visual Studio, enabling native IDE integration with secure token-based authentication.

Configure your registry in Visual Studio and start pulling packages from Harness registries with ease.

Learn more: Install and Use NuGet Packages

2025.09.v1​

Enhancements and Fixes​

  • Delete Version API: Improved error handling for invalid non-OCI versions. Instead of returning a confusing 500 Internal Server Error, the API now responds with a clear 404 Not Found. This makes debugging easier and ensures a more consistent developer experience. [AH-1302]

  • List Versions API: Fixed an issue where requests for unavailable images incorrectly triggered a 500 Internal Server Error. The API now returns a proper 404 Not Found, giving developers accurate feedback and reducing troubleshooting time. [AH-1829]