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What's new
These are the most important features you'll get by upgrading from 2023.1.10950 to 2023.3.2586
Octopus 2023.3
The 2023.3 release of Octopus Deploy has a number of updates to improve deployment efficiency and speed at scale.
This release’s noteworthy updates include:
- Easier management of tenants at scale with bulk actions
- Improved container deployments with support for OCI Helm registries
- Fewer manual interventions with configurable step timeouts
- More control over audit logs with adjustable retention
- Source Kubernetes configuration files from Git for simpler deployments
- Modify YAML files for Kubernetes with our new Kustomize Step
- Additional functionality for AKS customers with support for kubelogin for AKS clusters
- Step template improvements to make updates easier to manage
- UI performance improvements to the Releases and Create Release pages for a better experience while deploying
The 2023 Q3 release is available on Octopus Cloud and ready for download by our self-hosted customers.
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 2023.1.10950 to 2023.3.2586.
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.3.2586
- 8186 - Fix incorrect icon color in the quick commit button
- 8168 - Upgrade a Helm Chart step - Helm feeds require a trailing slash in the URL if helm repo's index.yaml uses relative URLs
- 7911 - Deployment retention no longer cleans up packages - that is all handled by package retention
- 8025 - Fix an issue where python script output did not behave as expected due to buffering
- 8125 - Fixed cloning project issue caused by permission scoping
- 8080 - Users with the required permissions to clone a project scoped to a specific project group receive a permission warning when cloning a project
- 8153 - Reduce irrelevant build information on deployments
- 8159 - Tag set filters on the Tenants overview page now show up dynamically as new filters are added
- 8180 - Fix the new space switcher not ordering spaces in alphabetical order
- 8118 - Connectivity checks running indefinitely blocking execution on a deployment target
- 8161 - Fixed package acquisition with multiple workers and multiple package references when lease cap is enabled
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.3.1807
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.3.1708
- 7335 - Introduced audit log retention feature. See here for more details
- 8171 - Calling the
tasks/{id}/detailsREST endpoint will now return all valid log entries before invalid JSON is detected in a log file. This fix also ensures Task Log Aggregation does not aggregate task log files that contain invalid JSON entries, and leaves related task logs in their original unaggregated form - 8177 - Fixed a regression that prevented AWS credentials from being used during step execution
- 8175 - Return empty string instead of failing when executing get_octopusvariable() in a python script
- 8025 - Fix an issue where python script output did not behave as expected due to buffering
- 7184 - NuGet packages with build metadata in the version will now use the package cache to speed up transfers
- 8169 - Improved the speed of built-in package reindexing when there are many packages with the same package id
- 8165 - Name search for Deployment Targets is now case insensitive
- 8178 - Tasks that rely on mono will start logging warning messages
- 8163 - Guest users can now access Version Controlled projects and several other pages that previously returned an error
- 8166 - Updated styling of visual feedback for most buttons across the portal
- 8129 - Fixing UserId filtering for audit logs
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.3.1204
- 8164 - Added CSV Export to the Tenants Overview (EAP) page
- 8167 - Restored rebuilding of fragmented indexes during upgrades which improves the performance of all indexes. Upgrades times may increase noticeably for large databases
- 8154 - Running runbooks associated with a single environment will automatically select the single environment
- 8160 - Improved the error messages when attempting to save an invalid offline drop target
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.3.829
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.3.317
- 8147 - Auto deployments of change-controlled projects no longer fail to start
- 8149 - Introduced page-specific endpoint to improve load time on the view single Release page
- 8151 - Introduced page-specific endpoint to improve Deployment Preview load time on Create Deployment page
- 8144 - Fixed an issue where release creation can be slow from waiting for Package Notes
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.10947
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.10545
- 7861 - Fix tenant variable removal when removing environments from projection connection
- 8150 - Improved View Releases page load time
- 8138 - Resolving Manual Interventions and Guided Failure as well as viewing blocking deployments is now much faster when there are a large number of interventions or guided failures
- 8140 - Overhauled the Tenants overview page to improve the visibility of all available Tenants and their respective tags and project/environment connections
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.10265
- 8139 - Improved aesthetics and visual hierarchy for the top navigation bar
- 8137 - Only display build information linked to the package that is being viewed
- 8118 - Connectivity checks running indefinitely blocking execution on a deployment target
- 8134 - Retention policies are no longer run simultaneously to reduce contention on the database
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.9849
- 8241 - All nodes must be shut down before upgrading Octopus
- 8045 - Fix release notes overflow on Task Summary page
- 8129 - Fixing UserId filtering for audit logs
- 8131 - Fixed a permission scoping issue affecting docker container registries, causing image search and tag search to fail impacting release creation
- 8127 - Fixed error if TrustedProxies contains invalid values
- 8126 - Fixes an issue with upstream DockerHub auth where tokens requested with "registry:catalog:" no longer grant access. Updated to use "registry:"
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.9087
- 8126 - Fixes an issue with upstream DockerHub auth where tokens requested with "registry:catalog:" no longer grant access. Updated to use "registry:"
- 8002 - Removed a restriction that prevented deployments to older versions of Tentacle
- 8111 - Include all extension configurations in master key rotation
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.8159
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.5309
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
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 /workersdid 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-Forheaders that included ports
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.2718
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