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These are the most important features you'll get by upgrading from 2023.1.9794 to 2023.2.5309

Octopus 2023.2

The latest release of Octopus has new features to make your deployments faster and easier to manage, including:

  • Better visibility across tenants with the redesigned tenant overview dashboard
  • Live updates of Kubernetes objects during deployment
  • Increased success rate of steps with automatic retries
  • More powerful metrics with DevOps Insights improvements
  • Easier deployments to Azure resources with ‘Deploy a Bicep Template’ Step
  • Enhanced security API key security
  • Common components for easier bulk administration and visibility
  • Improved UI performance and navigation in the Octopus portal
  • Polling tentacles over standard ports for reduced complexity
  • Configurable Audit log retention limit for Cloud customers

The release is available on Octopus Cloud and ready for download by our self-hosted customers.

Octopus 2023.1

The release of Octopus 2023.1 has new features to help improve your experience, including:

  • Helm chart for installing Octopus server into a Kubernetes cluster
  • Faster tentacle upgrades
  • Improvements to the ‘Deploy Kubernetes containers’ step
  • Improving Deployment Experience for Enterprise and Cloud Users for faster, more efficient deployments and better usability
  • Performance improvements for version controlled projects

The release is available on Octopus Cloud and ready for download by our self-hosted customers.

Release notes

These are the features and fixes you'll get by upgrading from 2023.1.9794 to 2023.2.5309.

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.5309

  • 7647 - Fixed an issue where a long-running database transaction would grow the transaction log unreasonably large during a long deployment
  • 8112 - fix for tenants endpoint missing Page.Next hypermedia link when more than one page of results

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.5094

  • 8113 - Improved rendering performance and responsiveness of the Dashboard page when there are many projects, environments and tenants in use
  • 8110 - Improved performance of the interruptions list API
  • 8098 - The refresh loop on the task details page now slows down if the refresh takes longer than 750ms

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.5010

  • 8110 - Improved performance of the interruptions list API
  • 8109 - Individual channels can now be included on Insights Reports
  • 8107 - Fixed an issue where Bash scripts can reveal secret values

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.4598

  • 8104 - Improve performance of filtering deployment targets

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.4336

  • 8103 - Fix blob error during master key rotation
  • 8099 - Fixed an issue where GET /workers did not respect filtering by worker pool IDs
  • 8100 - Improve performance and prevent lock-ups of Octopus Server Portal on pages that display variables when there are thousands to display (eg Release page)
  • 8095 - Improved performance and prevent browser from locking up on the Release page, when the release contains thousands of variables
  • 8091 - Fix modify project endpoint not picking up project id properly
  • 8087 - Reduce unnecessary server requests when viewing environments and deployment targets

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.3930

  • 8096 - Added ability to perform simple calculations in Variable Substitution
  • 8095 - Improved performance and prevent browser from locking up on the Release page, when the release contains thousands of variables
  • 8094 - Rolled back extra permission requirements when viewing API keys
  • 8092 - Windows Tentacle upgrade now correctly checks for the net48 runtime
  • 8075 - Packages with chained file extensions (.tar.gz) are not being cleaned up from the Package Cache

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.3263

  • 8185 - Fixed a regression that was causing stale worker leases when tasks were cancelled
  • 8084 - Fixed an issue when saving web portal configuration using OctopusClient which caused authentication configuration to be overridden
  • 7433 - Fixed daylight saving causing triggers to fire repeatedly
  • 8079 - Improved the performance of the list deployments API when there is large build information
  • 8081 - Fix to respond to HEAD requests on /api/octopusservernodes/ping
  • 8073 - Fixed an issue with X-Forwarded-For headers that included ports

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.2718

  • 8077 - Fixed a persistence issue on ForcePackageDownload option for Runbooks
  • 8071 - API key generation can be restricted to allow only Service Accounts
  • 8070 - Improved performance of "missing variables" indicators on the Tenants page when there are thousands of tenants that have missing variables

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.2394

  • 8063 - Decreased the number of queries to the project and lifecycle tables during retention

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.2028

  • 8061 - Structure variable configuration replacement available in Deploy raw YAML step
  • 8052 - Unique name constraint error when cloning a project
  • 8043 - Fixed an issue where SilentProcessRunner could hang while waiting for a zombie process to finish on Windows
  • 7609 - Fixed an issue with Deploy Kubernetes Raw YAML step not showing any errors on attempting to save when provided with an invalid YAML

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.1.9794

  • 7647 - Fixed an issue where a long-running database transaction would grow the transaction log unreasonably large during a long deployment