| Tag | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Native AI Agent Deployment | Deploy AI agents natively to Google Agent Runtime and AWS Agent Core, with Evals available as a built-in pipeline step. Includes automatic Gateway provisioning for AWS Agent Core deployments and Agent Identity support for both Google and AWS agent platforms. |
| Deployment | Kubernetes Cluster Observability Dashboard | Users can visualize and monitor Kubernetes cluster resources with a Lens-like observability tool, providing real-time insights into cluster health, resource utilization, and deployment status. |
| Deployment, GitOps | Applications in Harness CD | Users get an application view in Harness CD, created automatically from their existing services, environments, and deployment history. |
| Deployment | Service Configuration Drift Detection and Reconciliation | Users can detect and reconcile configuration drift between deployed services and their desired state, maintaining deployment consistency and preventing configuration mismatches across environments. |
| Deployment | Pod Status and Logs in Pipeline Execution | Users can see every Kubernetes pod created, updated, or deleted by a deployment, with its status and logs, in the pipeline execution view — during the rollout and after it completes. |
| Deployment | Salesforce Org Maps | Users can visualize relationships between Salesforce orgs, compare configuration diffs between connected orgs, select specific diffs to publish to a branch, and deploy the branch to target orgs for streamlined multi-org management. |
| Continuous Verification | Change Advisor in Harness | AI-powered risk assessment for changes that automatically generates risk scores, enables low-risk changes to proceed automatically, and flags high-risk changes for additional scrutiny to reduce downtime and increase release velocity. |
| GitOps | Visualization of GitOps Promotion Flows | Users can view deployment status of GitOps applications across multiple environments, directly within Harness CD and GitOps, through Release Orchestration, providing enhanced visibility into promotion workflows and deployment steps. |
| GitOps | GitOps Promotion Steps | Users can implement GitOps promotion workflows using pre-built promotion steps, reducing configuration effort and standardizing progressive delivery patterns across environments. |
| GitOps | Migration of GitOps Applications Between Agents | Users can rebalance and migrate GitOps applications from one agent to another, enabling better load distribution and agent maintenance without disrupting deployments. |
| Pipeline | Conditional and Dependent Inputs in Runtime Forms | Users can configure runtime input forms where fields are dynamically disabled or hidden based on variable selection, creating intelligent forms that adapt to user choices and reduce input errors. |
| Pipeline | Nested Template Composition | Users can insert stage templates within pipeline templates that themselves support step insertion, enabling modular pipeline architectures with Pipeline Template → Stage Template → Insert Steps composition. |
| OPA | OPA Version Upgrade to Support Rego v1 | Users can leverage OPA Rego v1 language features and improvements, including enhanced performance, improved syntax, and better policy authoring capabilities. |
| Release Orchestration | Orchestration Queue Rollout | Users can manage release execution queues with prioritization, throttling, and coordination across multiple concurrent releases for better resource management. |
| Release Orchestration | Fine-Grained Role-Based Permissions | Users can configure granular role-based access controls for Release Orchestration entities, enabling precise permission management at entity level for improved security and governance. |
| Release Orchestration | OPA Policy Support for Release Orchestration | Users can enforce OPA policies on Release Orchestration workflows, changesets, and processes, ensuring governance and compliance throughout the release lifecycle. |
| Release Orchestration | Dependency Management in Changesets | Users can define and manage dependencies between changesets, ensuring correct execution order and preventing conflicts in release workflows. |
| Release Orchestration | Artifact Tracking and Changesets | Users can automatically track container images produced by build pipelines and compute changesets between versions — including commit diffs and linked Jira or ServiceNow tickets — giving full traceability into what changed across each release. |
| Tag | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| GitOps | Hosted GitOps | Users can leverage fully hosted GitOps agents managed by Harness, eliminating the need for self-managed agent infrastructure. |
| GitOps | AI Powered Imports of Applications | Use the power of AI to create and assign related resources to GitOps Applications as they are imported. |
| Continuous Verification | GitX Integration | Users can integrate GitX with Continuous Verification (CV) for Git-based verification configuration management. |
| Continuous Verification | AI Agent Based Continuous Verification | Users can utilize AI agents for intelligent continuous verification of deployments with adaptive learning. |
| Continuous Verification | Support for AWS CloudWatch Logs | Users can configure AWS CloudWatch logs as a health source for continuous verification and log-based anomaly detection. |
| Continuous Verification | OIDC Support | Users can enable OIDC authentication for continuous verification health sources, improving security and access management. |
| Continuous Verification | Prometheus Default Health Source for Continuous Verification | Users can deploy with continuous verification using Prometheus as a built-in default health source without additional configuration. |
| Continuous Verification | Continuous Verification Support for Traffic Shifting Offerings | Users can use verify step with Harness deployment workflows that use traffic shifting strategies like canary and blue-green. |
| OPA | Template Verification | Users can validate and enforce OPA policies for templates, ensuring governance at the template level. |
| OPA | Support for Runtime Contexts | Users can create and enforce OPA policies that adapt to runtime contexts and dynamic conditions. |
| OPA | Improve OPA Onboarding Wizard | Users can leverage OPA onboarding wizard to simplify policy creation, configuration, and enforcement. |
| Tag | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Advanced Deployment Strategies | Extended support for sophisticated deployment patterns including progressive delivery, shadow deployments, and multi-region orchestration. |
| GitOps | GitOps Advanced Automation | Further automation capabilities for GitOps workflows including intelligent drift detection, auto-remediation, and predictive scaling. |
| Continuous Verification | Advanced AI-Driven Verification | Next-generation AI capabilities for continuous verification including predictive anomaly detection and automated root cause analysis. |
| Release Orchestration | Multi-Cloud Orchestration Enhancements | Enhanced capabilities for orchestrating deployments across multiple cloud providers with unified policies and governance. |
| Tag | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Limited GA | VM infrastructure for containerized step groups | Enables the VMs infrastructure type for Continuous Delivery containerized step groups. |
| Limited GA | Amazon ECS infrastructure for containerized step groups | Enables the Amazon ECS Fargate infrastructure type for Continuous Delivery containerized step groups. |
| Beta | Fetch ServiceNow field values for fixed ticket numbers | When the ticket number is a fixed value, Harness can fetch current field values from ServiceNow and show a refresh control when values change. |
| Beta | Cross scope environment groups | Lets you add environments created at the Account and Organization levels to a project-level environment group. |
| Beta | Send secret references for Shell Script environment variables | When a secret is referenced in Shell Script environment variables, the pipeline does not execute if the user lacks access to the referenced secret. |
| Beta | Expose residual Overrides V1 content in environment YAML | Surfaces residual Overrides V1 content in environment YAML so you can remove it after migrating to Overrides V2. |
| Beta | Remove comments from values.yaml with escape characters | Handles special characters such as single quotes, double quotes, or backslashes in values.yaml so the parser does not add control characters that fail the pipeline. |
| Beta | Azure Container Apps | Enables Azure Container Apps as a Continuous Delivery deployment type, including service, environment, and infrastructure configuration for Container Apps pipelines. |
| Beta | Azure Container Apps deployment | Enables deploying and managing Azure Container Apps through Harness Continuous Delivery, including Basic and Canary deployment strategies. |
| Beta | Native Helm improved SOPS support for service hooks | Writes Helm values override files to a per-task directory before Fetch files post-hooks run, so hooks can reliably decrypt SOPS-encrypted overrides in place. |
| Beta | Helm Dry Run step | Adds a Helm Dry Run step for Native Helm deployment stages that previews rendered manifests, hooks, and NOTES without installing anything in the cluster. |
| Limited GA | HPA and PDB support in Kubernetes deployments | Enables HorizontalPodAutoscaler and PodDisruptionBudget support for Kubernetes deployment steps that list this capability behind the flag. |
| Beta | Git fetch type as a runtime input for manifests | Allows the Git fetch type field on a Git-based manifest store to be set as a runtime input, so you choose Branch or Specific Commit ID at deployment time instead of fixing it when you author the service. |
| Beta | K8s diff tab | Adds a K8s diff tab to the K8s Diff step that shows a searchable list of the changed resources, with a line-by-line, color-coded diff for the selected file. |
| Beta | View pod status and logs | Shows pod-level status, events, and logs for Kubernetes deployment steps in a dedicated Pods tab, at both the execution level and the step level. |
| Beta | TAS artifact bundle path validation | Validates TAS artifact bundle extraction for path traversal and out-of-tree symlinks. When enabled, deployments fail if the artifact bundle contains entries that resolve outside the extraction directory or symlinks that point outside the bundle. |
| Beta | Selective failed hosts rerun for SSH and WinRM | Improves skip-instances behavior for selective rerun of failed hosts across org and account scoped services and environments, including partial success handling. |
| Beta | SSH and WinRM rollback identifier matching | Improves rollback behavior for SSH and WinRM when a stage contains multiple command steps by matching execution and rollback step identifiers. |
| Beta | Project-scoped resource constraint queue | Scopes resource constraints to the individual project instead of the account, preventing unrelated projects from queuing on the same infrastructure key. |
| Beta | Bulk post-production rollback | Lets you select multiple infrastructures from the service dashboard and trigger rollback for all of them in a single action. Requires the CDC_SERVICE_DASHBOARD_REVAMP_NG flag as a prerequisite. |
| Beta | Pipeline-level service rollback | Adds a dedicated Rollback button to pipeline execution pages, letting you start a rollback directly instead of navigating through instance details. |
| Beta | Simplified service dashboard | Simplifies the Service Dashboard to improve load times and overall performance, moving the graph previously shown at the top of the dashboard into a dedicated Analytics tab. |
| Beta | Service dashboard chart versions tab | Adds a Chart Versions tab to the service dashboard showing tiles for each Helm chart used to deploy the service, for services deployed using Helm charts. |
| Beta | AI Verify logs feedback | Adds a feedback composer and management panel to the AI Verify (v2) Analysis view, so the log analysis flow can learn from your feedback and improve the outcomes and explanations of later verifications. |
| Beta | Enable Health Sources | Enables Health Sources for AI Verify V2. |
| Beta | Enable AI Verify | Enables AI Verify V2 for agentic verification. |
| Beta | CloudWatch Logs health source | Enables CloudWatch Logs as a Continuous Verification health source. |
| Beta | CloudWatch Logs dynamic Role ARN | Enables a per-query dynamic IAM Role ARN override for CloudWatch Logs health source queries. |
| Limited GA | Optional DescribeRegions for AWS connectors | Makes ec2:DescribeRegions optional during AWS connector validation. |
| Beta | AI Verify configurable properties | Enables configurable properties on the AI Verify (v1) step so you can customize verification behavior and pass verification results to later steps. |
| Beta | AI Verify sub-task webhook notifications | Enables custom webhook notifications for verification sub-tasks such as data collection, log analysis, and time series analysis. |
| Beta | Pinned baseline verification | Enables pinning a successful verification as a baseline for future Load Testing verification runs. |
| Beta | Monitored service template as runtime input | Lets you select a monitored service template as a runtime input on the AI Verify (v1) step when you run the pipeline. |
| Beta | Per-metric sensitivity override | Lets you set an optional sensitivity value on individual metric definitions in a Monitored Service health source so ML analysis for that metric can override the AI Verify (v1) step-level sensitivity. |
| Beta | Merge GitOps and Kubernetes CD services | Removes the GitOps checkbox and makes the gitOpsEnabled YAML field redundant so the same service can be used in both CD stages and GitOps stages. |
| Tag | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Native Progressive Rollout Strategy with Percentage-Based Deployment Control | Users can deploy new application versions incrementally using percentage-based phasing (e.g., 10% → 25% → 50% → 100%) with manual or automated verification gates between phases, progressively replacing existing pods without doubling infrastructure resources. |
| Deployment | Cloud Delegate Based Salesforce Deployments | Users can deploy Salesforce releases using cloud delegates, eliminating the need for self-hosted delegate infrastructure while maintaining full deployment capabilities. |
| Deployment | Preconfigured Package.xmls for Salesforce Deployments | Users can use out-of-the-box package.xml templates for common Salesforce deployment scenarios, eliminating the need to manually configure package files for each deployment type. |
| Deployment | Native Agent Deployment Support | Users can deploy AI agents natively within Harness CD pipelines, enabling intelligent automation and decision-making throughout the deployment lifecycle. |
| Continuous Verification | Git Experience Support for Monitored Services | Users can manage Monitored Services through Git, enabling Git-based change management, version control, and approval workflows for CV configurations. |
| Continuous Verification | AI Verify V2 | AI Verify reaches full feature parity with traditional verification, bringing AI-powered deployment verification to all supported health sources and deployment types. |
| GitOps | GitOps Integration with Argo Projects | Full CRUD and import support for ArgoCD App Projects in Harness, including UI for managing project settings such as repository access, cluster access, sync windows, and orphaned resources. |
| GitOps | Allow Harness Secrets in GitOps Applications | Users can securely reference and use Harness secrets within GitOps application manifests and configurations, integrating with Harness secret management. |
| GitOps | AI Supported Remediation | Users can leverage AI-powered recommendations to remediate GitOps deployment issues and failures with intelligent suggestions. |
| OPA | OPA Data on Dashboard | Users can view comprehensive OPA policy analytics on a dedicated dashboard, including policy violations and warnings over time, user triggers, policy names and severity, associated pipelines, and filtering capabilities. |
| OPA | OPA GitX Consistency for Git-Backed Entities | Users can ensure OPA policies are enforced on Git-backed entities even when changes are made directly to Git branches, preventing policy bypass scenarios. |
| OPA | Rego Editor Validation and Testing | Users can validate and test Rego policies directly within the Policy testing screen with syntax highlighting, indentation error detection, and inline validation without external tools. |
| Release Orchestration | Queue Activity Support | Users can consolidate execution of pipelines, finalize outputs, and execute processes based on approved queued outputs for better control over release workflows. |