Platform release notes

Seed content for testing the harness-release-notes-summary integration inside a release-notes/ subdirectory of the Sandbox space, mirroring the real production release-notes space's file layout (landing page + sibling module pages) instead of sitting loose among unrelated sandbox content. Copied verbatim from the live release-notes/platform.md page via the GitBook Content API on 2026-09-16, including the header levels (### month, #### version) GitBook actually serves -- not the ##/### levels an earlier seed of this file assumed. Safe to trim or remove once the integration is confirmed working here.

September 2026

Version 1.163.x

• Added rate limiting for user invitation emails. Each account can now send a limited number of invitation emails within a rolling 24-hour window, based on its license edition -- 50 for Free and Community, 1000 for Team, Startup, and DevOps Essentials, and 5000 for Enterprise and Essentials. Invitations provisioned through SCIM or LDAP are exempt. [PL-73850]

August 2026

Version 1.162.x

New features and enhancements

• Updated the Harness sign-in page, a presentation-layer update to the Harness authentication flow screens. This does not change the configuration of the authentication flows. [PL-71600]

Fixed issues

• Updated the Harness CLI onboarding documentation and the Get Started wizard, which referenced commands and features that no longer work. The wizard and docs now use the currently supported CLI syntax, and broken links and unsupported commands have been removed. [PL-67535]

Version 1.161.x

New features and enhancements

• Introduced Usage Analytics, a new in-app, centralized dashboard that shows how deeply teams adopt each Harness module, helping customers validate real usage. This feature is behind the feature flag PL_ENABLE_USAGE_ANALYTICS. Contact Harness Support to enable it. [PL-65816]

Fixed issues

• Fixed an issue where changing scope from Template Studio or a settings page failed with a RESOURCE_NOT_FOUND_EXCEPTION error. Harness now resolves the target scope without carrying over the current entity identifier, so you land on the equivalent page in the new scope. [PL-70296]

• Fixed an issue where the Harness application intermittently crashed and displayed a Something went wrong error page that required a page refresh. This was resolved by changing how routing is inherently handled on the Harness UI. [PL-72349]

July 2026

Version 1.160.x

Fixed issues

• Improved SCIM user group provisioning to prevent identifier collisions that could lead to incorrect group membership and access permissions. [PL-71916]

Version 1.159.x

Fixed issues

• The Plans page is no longer discoverable from the Harness UI and has been removed from the navigation. [PL-72987]

Version 1.158.x

Fixed issues

• Fixed an issue where editing notification rules displayed incorrect project-scoped service account identifiers. Project-scoped service accounts now use the same identifier format in both create and edit flows, ensuring service account names and links are rendered correctly across all scopes. [PL-71149]

Version 1.157.x

New features and enhancements

• Added support for project IDs in dynamic gcpsecretsmanager:// JEXL expressions, enabling cross-project access to Google Cloud Secret Manager secrets. You can now reference secrets using the format: <+secrets.getValue('account.gcpsecretsmanager://<connector>/<project-id>/<secret-name>/latest')>. [PL-72546]

Version 1.156.x

No enhancements or fixes were released in this cycle.

Version 1.155.x

New features and enhancements

• Added the ability to clone an existing Resource Group directly from the UI, enabling faster RBAC configuration by reusing existing resource selections and scope as a baseline. [PL-72549]

• Added the ability to clone an existing Access Control role directly from the UI, so new roles can start with the same permissions as an existing role. [PL-72530]