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 speed up RBAC configuration.
- Added the ability to clone Access Control roles directly from the UI to easily duplicate and reuse permissions.
- Improved the Role Assignment filter API with payload validation to deliver clearer error responses for invalid requests.
Security & Audit
- Added support for accessing Google Cloud Secret Manager secrets across different projects using dynamic expressions.
- Fixed an issue that prevented accessing Audit Logs from Account and Organization Settings when navigating within specific modules.
Delegate
View full release notes →Security & Platform Updates
- Fixed an issue where sensitive secret values were displayed as object references in step logs instead of being properly masked.
- Resolved security vulnerabilities in Go cryptography and networking libraries.
- Resolved security vulnerabilities in the Netty library.
- Updated the bundled Source Code Management service binary to the latest release.
- Fixed a library compatibility issue with the Serverless Lambda go-template tool to prevent deployment failures.
Deployment & Pipeline Execution
- Added support for OCI Helm repositories from Google Artifact Registry sources.
- Fixed an issue where GitOps Update Release Repo steps could intermittently hang during highly concurrent operations.
- Fixed an issue where the pipeline sequence ID expression returned null during manual builds when using a Harness Code repository.
- Fixed an issue where Salesforce deployment steps failed to recognize specified changeset ID parameters.
Infrastructure & Performance
- Fixed an issue where Terraform Apply and Destroy steps failed by ensuring tasks route to the specific delegate that holds the stored plan file.
- Fixed validation failures for the Terraform Provider connector when the Git connector and secret manager use different delegate selectors.
- Improved performance and reduced latency when retrieving aggregate project lists at scale.
Self-Managed Enterprise Edition
View full release notes →Documentation & Updates
- Refer to the Self-Managed Enterprise Edition release notes page for the latest updates.
AI for DevOps & Automation
Continuous Delivery & GitOps
View full release notes →Pipeline Orchestration & Logic
- Introduced DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) pipelines to define explicit dependencies between stages instead of relying on sequential execution.
- Added support for looping strategies (matrix and repeat) when running child pipelines within parent pipelines.
- Optimized matrix looping strategies to evaluate exclude conditions at the beginning of the loop rather than during execution.
- Fixed an issue where failed stages could remain stuck in a running state, blocking subsequent executions.
- Fixed an issue where step group failure strategies failed to trigger correctly due to status caching errors.
Deployment & Rollback Control
- Added pause and rollout control for Google Cloud Run and GKE deployments to support manual approvals and traffic-shifting strategies.
- Introduced automatic scaling of previous stable deployments during Kubernetes Blue-Green rollbacks.
- Fixed an issue where rollback steps configured to always execute failed to run if a prior rollback step failed.
- Fixed an issue where Helm rollbacks targeted the incorrect revision after a deployment failure.
- Fixed an issue where deployments incorrectly failed due to non-existent freeze windows.
Infrastructure & Integrations
- Enabled AWS CDK steps to run on ECS-based delegates, removing the requirement for a Kubernetes delegate runtime.
- Added support for Mixed Instances Policies in AWS Auto Scaling Group deployments to optimize resource costs and availability.
- Improved error clarity in the Terraform Provider when a delegate token name is already reserved by a revoked token.
Git & Configuration Management
- Added Git Experience support for monitored services, enabling you to store and manage configurations in your Git repository.
- Added documentation for configuring Bitbucket on-premise connectors on Self-Managed Platforms.
- Added documentation for GitHub connector behavior when retrieving branches from repositories with high branch counts.
- Fixed an issue where remote template responses lacked the metadata needed to display Git Sync status.
User Interface & Usability
- Fixed an issue where certain execution links incorrectly redirected to the Identity Provider view.
- Fixed a display mismatch between applied values and actual values shown in the Applied Input Sets view.
- Fixed inconsistent behavior when using the 'Insert Stage' feature in the pipeline builder.
Continuous Integration
View full release notes →Pipeline Performance & Optimization
- Reduced pipeline initialization times by optimizing execution graph data transfer.
- Optimized Kubernetes build initialization by sending only required fields, resulting in faster and more reliable startup.
- Prevented unnecessary processing overhead by skipping connector parsing when Test Intelligence is disabled.
Cloud & Storage Integrations
- Added Azure Blob Storage support for Docker Layer Caching, offering more backend options for caching Docker layers.
- Added support for Azure Blob Storage as a backend for Build Cache operations.
- Resolved an issue where third-party security controls blocked Git plugin execution, causing pipeline steps to fail.
- Fixed Git Clone operation failures that occurred in specific advanced configurations.
- Fixed intermittent credential errors when running multiple parallel AWS ECR build and push steps using different connectors.
Security, Logs & Monitoring
- Added CPU and memory utilization metrics for VM-based build infrastructures to improve resource monitoring.
- Included project and organization identifiers in log streaming payloads to improve traceability across multi-tenant environments.
- Improved log engine resilience by gracefully handling redirect and error responses from the log service.
- Improved troubleshooting visibility by ensuring secret names are displayed in failure logs when initialization steps fail.
- Fixed an issue where secret values were printed as unmasked raw object references in the logs.
- Enhanced API security by enforcing stricter tenant isolation on endpoint levels.
- Upgraded secure cache container images to resolve known vulnerabilities.
Testing & Pipeline Administration
- Introduced a test management dashboard to track all tests, including quarantined and flaky tests, along with their health status and history.
- Fixed an issue where the pipeline sequence ID resolved to null during manual builds.
- Resolved a database index build failure related to the pipeline branch sequence feature.
Infrastructure as Code Management
View full release notes →Module Registry & Governance
- Introduced module version lifecycle management, allowing you to configure rules that automatically classify module versions as Supported, Update Required, or Deprecated based on their age.
Artifact Registry
View full release notes →Artifact Protection & Cleanup
- Configure cleanup rules to soft-delete artifact versions based on age, count, or name patterns, with the ability to recover them during a set recovery period.
- Establish retention rules to protect critical artifacts from any cleanup or manual deletion attempts.
Policy Management & Validation
- Apply artifact rules at the account, organization, or project level to easily manage multiple registries.
- Validate cleanup criteria safely by previewing which artifact versions will be affected before enabling a rule.
Monitoring & Alerts
- Track rule executions with detailed logs showing exactly which artifact versions were deleted or retained.
- Set up centralized notifications to alert teams when cleanup rules or dry runs complete.
AI for Testing & Resilience
Feature Management & Experimentation
View full release notes →Pipeline Integration
- Added support for incorporating Feature Management and Experimentation steps directly within Harness Pipelines.
APIs & Developer Tools
- Released a new administrative API endpoint to perform full updates on feature flag definitions within an environment.
Chaos Engineering
View full release notes →Security & Platform Updates
- Upgraded core chaos orchestration, fault, and log-watching components to their latest versions.
- Upgraded database packages in machine infrastructure components to fix potential reliability issues.
- Resolved critical and high-severity security vulnerabilities in SSH communication dependencies.
- Upgraded the underlying programming runtime for core chaos components to incorporate the latest security and stability fixes.
- Resolved high-severity security vulnerabilities across various internal chaos components.
User Interface & Experience
- Added a dedicated service details page, enabling you to view the configuration, health, and infrastructure of a single service in one place.
- Fixed an issue where a loading spinner would display indefinitely in the chaos experiment selection field.
- Fixed an error that prevented the help panel from loading correctly in certain environments.
- Fixed an issue where dropdown menus for namespaces, deployment names, label selectors, and deployment kinds would disappear unexpectedly.
- Fixed an issue where inaccurate condition match messages were displayed when ChaosGuard blocked an experiment.
Experiments & Load Testing
- Added support for the Pod JVM Heap Memory fault to test how JVM-based application pods behave under memory constraints.
- Enhanced the Datadog APM probe with improved validation to ensure more reliable health checks during experiments.
- Introduced JMeter orchestration and SDK support to allow execution of JMeter load tests alongside chaos experiments.
- Fixed load-testing configuration and execution issues to improve overall reliability.
- Fixed an issue where Kubernetes load tests would remain stuck in a pending state when a delegate task failed.
Service Onboarding & Management
- Introduced a manual onboarding option that distinguishes between network maps and services for more accurate setup.
- Added environment validation during onboarding to prevent linking services to mismatched environments.
AI Test Automation
View full release notes →Test Execution & Automation
- Introduced Playwright as a test execution engine.
- Accelerated AI task execution using a new agentic executor.
- Added support for drag-and-drop actions in Playwright tests.
- Added clipboard interaction support for Playwright tests.
- Prevented manual click commands from interfering with automated test execution.
Test Creation & Management
- Enabled generation and downloading of test cases in natural language.
- Added support for task-level configuration overrides with automatic browser relaunch.
- Fixed an issue where creating a task from test steps did not correctly enable nested tasks.
- Prevented the creation of duplicate test suites.
- Configured general tasks to run strictly as manual actions.
User Experience & Session Management
- Enhanced session expiry warnings and timeout handling.
- Improved formatting and visual layout for session components.
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On-Call & Integrations
- Import on-call configurations selectively from PagerDuty, OpsGenie, and xMatters by choosing specific services or groups instead of entire accounts.
- Preview users, teams, schedules, and escalation policies before committing to a third-party on-call sync.
- Monitor on-call synchronization progress and review past results with a dedicated sync history view.
Runbook Management
- Duplicate existing runbooks to quickly create variations with all action configurations, metadata, and chain items preserved.
AI for Security & Compliance
Security Testing Orchestration
View full release notes →Security & Policy Controls
- Added support for CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) to highlight active threats on the Issues and Vulnerabilities pages, and introduced OPA policies to warn or block pipelines based on KEV counts.
- Enhanced vulnerability exemption workflows by enabling custom exemption durations and allowing approvers to override requested timeframes.
Scanner & Tool Integrations
- Added support for Cortex Cloud integrations to expand security scanning capabilities.
- Resolved an issue where remediation tracking and automatic ticket closure were blocked for certain scanners, including Aqua Trivy, Anchore, and Grype.
Remediation & Dependency Management
- Fixed an issue in SCA remediation and Auto PR workflows that resulted in incorrect dependency upgrade suggestions and prevented Pull Request creation when scan results only contained a file name.
Supply Chain Security
View full release notes →Compliance & Risk Management
- Improved repository compliance scans by evaluating security settings inherited from GitHub organizations and accounts, reducing false-positive compliance results.
AI for Cost & Optimization
Cloud Cost Management
View full release notes →Cost Optimization & Management
- Added support for RDS Database Savings Plans in Commitment Orchestration, allowing you to track and approve these purchases alongside other commitments.
- Resolved an issue where account IDs in the inventory returned as empty strings instead of null values.
- Fixed an issue where derived metrics continued to apply filters even after the 'Follow view filters' setting was disabled.
Dashboards & Data Visualization
- Enhanced Perspectives with clearer badges, distinct icons, and custom styling to easily identify external and AI data sources like Snowflake.
- Fixed a chart scaling issue where minor cost changes appeared as large swings on the unit cost line chart.
- Resolved an issue in the Service Breakdown treemap where negative costs caused incorrect coloring.
- Fixed a bug where some cluster data was missing from the Perspective grid in Cost Explorer.
Cost Explorer & Filtering
- Fixed an issue where Cost Explorer anomalies ignored the active Cloud Service Provider filter.
- Resolved an inconsistency where Perspectives using OR filters showed incorrect cost mismatches in Cost Explorer.
Reports & Alerts
- Fixed a broken 'Go to this perspective' link in report emails.
- Restored the option to create scheduled reports in newly created Views.
AI DLC Insights
View full release notes →Documentation & Resources
- Refer to the dedicated AI DLC Insights release notes page for the latest updates and detailed documentation.