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 Onboarding & Interface
- New users are now prompted to complete their profile after signup, including details such as company name, job title, and phone number.
- Fixed an issue where user groups were not correctly sorted by creation date in the UI.
- Resolved an issue where editing a Custom Secrets Manager could display a blank error popup if its template variables were modified.
Access & Security
- Introduced configurable notifications for service account token events, including creation, rotation, and upcoming expiration.
- Fixed an issue where users with specific view permissions received incorrect responses when using the delete API for users or user groups.
- Corrected an issue where deleting a user at the organization or project level would show an inaccurate 'last admin' warning.
- Improved the accuracy and consistency of user metadata retrieval for account-level data flows.
Organization & Project Management
- Enabled the ability to move projects between organizations while preserving all audit and execution history.
- Updated module name matching to be case-insensitive to ensure more consistent configuration across the platform.
System Performance & Reliability
- Optimized the List Environments API to improve response times and prevent timeouts by streamlining permission checks.
- Resolved a race condition to improve overall system stability and ensure consistent behavior.
- Restored backend configurations required for proper system functionality.
Delegate
View full release notes →Security & Authentication
- Added support for Google Cloud OIDC authentication for JDBC connectors, enabling secure connections to databases like Cloud SQL and Spanner without traditional credentials.
- Patched security vulnerabilities identified in cryptographic libraries.
- Enhanced the reliability of secret encryption and decryption operations by implementing a retry mechanism with exponential backoff.
- Updated authentication error handling for Helm providers to correctly identify third-party credential failures.
Deployment & Cloud Infrastructure
- Added missing configuration parameters for AWS service updates, including Service Connect, Volume, and VPC Lattice settings.
- Resolved an issue where artifact fetching from Artifactory failed when using repository-level access tokens for deployments.
- Enhanced deployment freeze management by adding validation checks for active windows during edits.
- Fixed a logic error that incorrectly identified the source control repository type based on the connector reference.
User Experience & Troubleshooting
- New users are now prompted to complete their profile information, including job title and company details, immediately after signup.
- Improved error visibility by surfacing specific exception messages during SSH-based operations for easier debugging.
- Improved error messaging for Auto Scaling Group deployments when a launch template is deleted.
Performance & Monitoring
- Introduced a configuration option to use CGroup data for more accurate memory usage threshold calculations.
- Resolved an issue where Dynatrace Grail health source data collection could fail or hang during query polling.
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Continuous Delivery & GitOps
View full release notes →Cloud Platform Support
- Added native support for Azure Container Apps, enabling canary deployments and automatic rollbacks.
- Enhanced security for AWS GovCloud environments with OIDC authentication support.
- Improved AWS secret isolation using delegate selectors to enforce identity policies.
Execution & Performance
- Improved pipeline execution speeds by resolving background processing bottlenecks.
- Reduced Windows deployment times by reusing WinRM sessions across multiple steps.
- Centralized management of queued pipeline executions with a new account-level observation page.
Pipeline Configuration
- Added a dry-run API to validate pipeline YAML and policies before committing changes to Git.
- Supported Git tags for referencing input sets to improve version control management.
- Fixed issues where overlay input sets were failing to update or create correctly.
- Resolved an issue causing duplicate template cards to appear in account-level listings.
Visibility & User Interface
- Redesigned the pipeline execution history with a card-based layout for better status summaries.
- Fixed UI bugs in the GitOps manifest editor to ensure configuration settings remain visible.
- Corrected the service selector functionality when initiating child pipeline runs.
Integrations & Connectivity
- Enhanced artifact resolution for JFrog Artifactory deployments using distributed edge nodes.
- Corrected connector scoping to ensure parent-level resources are properly referenced in remote pipelines.
- Updated GitOps licensing to a service-based model for better alignment with resource usage.
Continuous Integration
View full release notes →Connectivity & Cloud Integrations
- Improved connector validation for private network setups by routing tasks through the cloud.
- Enabled source code operations over private networks by routing tasks through cloud delegates.
- Optimized the default download path for build binaries to improve reliability and reduce network dependencies.
- Resolved rate-limiting issues when pulling public container images by ensuring authenticated connections are used when available.
Build Performance & Optimization
- Improved test splitting accuracy by using historical average durations for better parallel execution.
- Reduced build initialization time for Linux machines by optimizing the startup process.
- Optimized the handling of large pull requests to prevent timeouts during source control tasks.
- Improved pipeline startup speed on Kubernetes by streamlining the initialization configuration.
- Fixed a system error that caused delays during build intelligence processing, resulting in faster execution times.
Caching & Storage
- Expanded cache support for NuGet dependencies based on environment variables.
- Increased flexibility for Azure environments by allowing overrides for specific cache storage settings.
- Added the ability to specify a custom connector for cache storage at the stage level.
- Fixed a parsing error that caused cache operations to fail when using S3 directory buckets.
Security & Compliance
- Resolved an issue where Git operations failed in FIPS-compliant environments due to missing protocol support.
- Updated Build and Push plugins to remove end-of-life components, improving overall security.
- Enhanced security for the Git engine by replacing outdated internal components.
Pipeline Reliability & Visibility
- Fixed an issue where logs from step groups timed out, ensuring full visibility into pipeline executions.
- Ensured the repository link environment variable is correctly passed to build pods.
Infrastructure as Code Management
View full release notes →Infrastructure Provisioning
- AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is now available in beta, allowing you to define infrastructure using TypeScript, Python, Java, C#, or Go.
- Terragrunt support is now generally available with features like drift detection, security scanning, policy enforcement, and native approval workflows.
- Resolved an issue where the Terraform provider connector would occasionally reset.
Security & Reliability
- Addressed a security vulnerability related to git integration.
- Resolved image pull failures for self-managed platform installations.
- Optimized the upload process for large infrastructure plans to prevent timeouts.
Monitoring & Insights
- Dashboard analytics now include resource-level data to provide deeper insights into infrastructure changes across workspaces.
- Fixed a data persistence issue that prevented resources from appearing correctly in the workspace tab.
- Resolved a loading display issue for cost estimations within Terragrunt workspaces.
Module Management
- Added native webhook triggers for module testing pipelines, removing the need for external connectors.
- Improved the user experience in the Module Registry with better error messaging and status handling during updates.
Artifact Registry
View full release notes →Swift Package Management
- Added native support for Swift package-registry commands, enabling seamless login, publishing, and resolution.
- Securely host proprietary Swift packages directly within your account.
- Improved build speeds by caching packages from external Swift sources via upstream proxy support.
Generic Artifact Storage
- Introduced path-based storage for managing build artifacts, reports, and shared configuration files.
- Support for HTTP-native workflows allows for pushing and pulling files using standard tools like curl without specialized plugins.
- Cache files from external HTTP sources through Harness to reduce external dependencies and accelerate access.
Data Management & Retention
- Restore deleted packages, versions, or entire registries from a dedicated recovery tab.
- Improved deletion logic ensures that soft-deleting a registry also protects all nested packages and images.
- Account administrators can now configure custom data retention windows at the account, organization, or project level.
- Added an option for permanent, non-recoverable removal of artifacts when immediate deletion is required.
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Feature Management & Experimentation
View full release notes →Governance & Standards
- Enforce naming conventions for environments to ensure consistent project structures.
- Standardize user group definitions by enforcing naming conventions for segments.
- Added validation for segment rules and exclusions to ensure targeting accuracy.
- Support Policy as Code to govern feature management and experimentation workflows.
- Implement governance policies for feature flags via the Harness Policy Engine.
Targeting & Identity Management
- Identify and add attributes to targeting rules faster with type-ahead search.
- View full identity details via tooltips when managing targeting rules to help validate behavior.
- Enhanced targeting capabilities by supporting custom attributes.
Automation & Integration
- Manage identity data programmatically with the new Identities API.
- Integrate feature management and experimentation tasks directly into automated Harness Pipelines.
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 →Experiment Builder & UX
- Upgraded the experiment visual builder to a more modern and intuitive interface.
- Simplified navigation by consolidating Application Maps and Onboarding under the Resilience Management menu.
- Streamlined the fault configuration drawer by removing redundant action prompts.
- Improved the filtering of probe and action templates when building Kubernetes experiments.
Infrastructure & Deployment
- Standardized the platform by removing the legacy infrastructure toggle from the experiment selector.
- Updated dedicated infrastructure support for Kubernetes, Linux, and Machine-based environments.
- Fixed an issue where Windows installation scripts failed to apply custom log file retention settings.
- Optimized system performance by removing unused internal feature flags and background configurations.
- Updated core service discovery and log monitoring components to improve reliability.
Probes & Fault Reliability
- Resolved an issue with command probes to ensure property specifications are correctly processed and formatted.
- Enhanced the reliability of fault execution across different infrastructure types.
Platform Continuity
- Ensured all existing experiments, probes, schedules, and reports continue to function without interruption.
- Maintained consistent workflows for running, stopping, and cloning chaos experiments.
- Preserved all existing access control permissions and security settings.
AI Test Automation
View full release notes →Task Management
- Introduced a maximum nesting depth for tasks to improve workflow organization and stability.
- Updated general tasks to execute exclusively as manual actions.
Database Integrations
- Added support for Oracle and MS SQL databases within query operations.
Environment Configuration
- Resolved an issue that caused base URL paths to duplicate when switching between environments.
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AI-Powered Insights
- Automatically generate structured post-incident reviews that synthesize timeline events, root cause theories, and resolution insights upon incident closure.
- Detect and capture action items from chat messages, meeting transcripts, and incident notes in real-time during active incidents.
- Correlate ServiceNow change records automatically with active incidents to help identify root causes during investigations.
Communication & Collaboration
- Collaborate on incidents within Google Chat by creating dedicated incident spaces for real-time updates.
- Send structured email updates to stakeholders using pre-populated templates and dynamic subscriber lists from impacted services.
Workflow Automation
- Execute runbook automations directly from Slack using short, customizable commands.
- Use native ServiceNow actions in runbooks to create incidents, update records, and add comments without manual webhook configuration.
- Save and reuse webhook configurations as organization-wide templates to simplify integration setup.
Monitoring & Visibility
- View all active on-call pages, responder statuses, and escalation progress in a single centralized dashboard.
- Assign custom names to alert rules for easier identification and management across your organization.
AI for Security & Compliance
Security Testing Orchestration
View full release notes →Scanner Compatibility & Compliance
- Added Linux ARM architecture support for all integrated security scanners.
- Introduced FIPS compliance support for Nexus IQ and Prisma Cloud scanners.
Security Insights & Reporting
- Introduced interactive graphs and trend analysis to track security metrics over time.
- Enhanced the security issues interface to provide a unified posture view across all project targets.
User Experience & Access
- Enabled administrators to self-start 45-day trials for built-in code and container scanners directly from the console.
- Fixed a synchronization issue where security status updates did not reflect in the UI without a page refresh.
Supply Chain Security
View full release notes →Artifact Integrity & Security
- SLSA provenance generation for non-container artifacts, including Java packages, Helm charts, and native binaries, to ensure build traceability and integrity.
- Keyless artifact signing and verification using identity-based authentication for major cloud providers, removing the requirement for long-lived cryptographic keys.
- General availability for Artifact Registry integration within container image signing and verification workflows.
Dependency & Risk Management
- Intelligent upgrade recommendations for vulnerable open-source dependencies to reduce security risk while minimizing breaking changes.
- Enhanced SBOM generation with support for custom configuration flags to better control scan scope and dependency resolution.
Platform & Workflow Reliability
- Fixed a validation error that occurred when viewing or recreating Artifact Verification stage templates in the UI.
- Resolved permission errors in Kubernetes-based workflows by ensuring environment variables are correctly propagated during scanning and signing steps.
AI for Cost & Optimization
Cloud Cost Management
View full release notes →Recommendations & Optimization
- Simplified cost preference configuration for AWS and Azure recommendations with a new tabbed interface and options for amortized or list price views.
- Redesigned the dialog for ignoring recommendations to provide clearer visibility into resource, account, and global scopes.
- Renamed the recommendation status column to 'Scope & Duration' and added item counts to all tabs for faster monitoring.
- Relocated rejected and ignored recommendation lists to the main view to enable direct data export.
Cost Monitoring & Analysis
- Added cloud cost types, categories, and bucket details to the Anomaly Details page for improved business context during reviews.
- Updated the budget alerts section to display the correct label for each specific budget type.
Reporting & Interface Accuracy
- Fixed the GCP invoice month filter to accurately show the current month when viewed on month-end dates.
- Standardized chart tooltips and labels on the Overview page to display time consistently in UTC for better cross-timezone clarity.
User Access & Permissions
- Integrated role-based access controls into Cost Settings to ensure view-only users cannot modify configuration preferences.
Software Engineering Insights
View full release notes →Third-Party Integrations
- Added support for qTest integration to incorporate testing data into engineering insights.
- Added support for ServiceNow integration to synchronize incident and change management data.
- Streamlined the configuration process for setting up and managing external tool integrations.
Performance & Efficiency Metrics
- Introduced developer productivity insights focused on pull request cycle times.
- Improved the accuracy of DORA metrics by incorporating signals from service management tools.
- Enhanced engineering efficiency tracking by utilizing ServiceNow data within performance metrics.
Operational Analysis & Visibility
- Enabled the correlation of deployment activities with real-world incidents and change events.
- Added capabilities to analyze the operational impact of engineering changes on live services.
- Improved the identification of systemic bottlenecks across delivery and incident response workflows.
- Enhanced the user interface for more intuitive viewing and navigation of engineering insights.