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These are the most important features you'll get by upgrading from 2024.3.12828 to 2024.4.4317

Octopus 2024.4

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Octopus 2024.3

The 2024.3 release of Octopus Deploy has updates to increase simplicity and efficiency in your deployment processes.

This release’s noteworthy updates include:

  • Introducing the new Vertical Navigation UI
  • Optimized infrastructure use with our autoscaling worker that Octopus manages for you
  • Improvements to the Helm Upgrade step for simpler setup
  • More secure Git workflows with Git protection rules
  • Simpler and faster navigation
  • Configurable deployment freezes to make it easier to manage deployments
  • Streamlined approvals for manual interventions
  • .NET 8 upgrade

The 2024 Q3 release is already available on Octopus Cloud and now ready for download by our self-hosted customers.

Release notes

These are the features and fixes you'll get by upgrading from 2024.3.12828 to 2024.4.4317.

Changes in Octopus Server 2024.4.4317

  • 9073 - Add a link to a filtered view of all created deployments from bulk deployment tasks
  • 9061 - Improve performance when deleting releases during the retention task
  • 9059 - Uplift the Deployment Targets and Workers page design
  • 9055 - Fixed an issue where Application Settings and Connection Strings could not be removed from Azure App Service steps

Changes in Octopus Server 2024.4.4121

  • 8939 - Adds a message when user attempts to schedule a deployment for a date time that has past using the arrows or AM/PM toggle
  • 9053 - Removed in-app messaging capabilities that had been inadvertently released to self-hosted customers
  • 9028 - Tenant-tag scoped variables get included when a release is created by the built-in feed trigger

Changes in Octopus Server 2024.4.3812

  • 9044 - Fixes issue where unused feeds with invalid credentials could cause package acquisition to fail
  • 9049 - Fixed an issue where Project Tenants page, Runbook Snapshot page, and others that call the missing-variables endpoint would error if there are zero Tenants in the Space
  • 9045 - Show Warnings in the process editor when a step uses target tags without an assigned deployment target
  • 8966 - Empty deployment process will still show existing releases

Changes in Octopus Server 2024.4.3613

  • 9042 - Add Support for running IIS and Windows Certificate steps using NetCore build of Calamari
  • 9041 - Allow specifying a newline-separated list of file paths for additional YAML files in packages on Upgrade Helm Chart step
  • 8173 - Use project guided failure settings and fall back to the environment settings
  • 9040 - Fix performance regression when fetching many users
  • 9039 - Fix dashboard showing empty project groups which the user does not have permissions to view
  • 9037 - Fixed an issue executing Helm Upgrade steps with some Git sourced Helm charts

Changes in Octopus Server 2024.4.3238

  • 9036 - Runbook Publishing Error - Visual Only - The file '.octopus/runbooks/Runbooks-xx.ocl' on the 'main' branch does not exist in the Git repository
  • 9023 - Viewing releases, with deployments to environments outside of the users scope causes the release version page to fail.
  • 9050 - Fix for CVE-2024-09

Changes in Octopus Server 2024.4.2971

  • 9032 - Fix: HTTP GET to /api/Spaces-N/deploymentprocesses would return no results
  • 9031 - Fixed an issue with mapping projects when Included Library variable set Ids that were null
  • 9014 - Add support for reverting Kubernetes authentication via AWS CLI to use kubectl config get-credentials exec

Changes in Octopus Server 2024.4.2718

  • 8695 - Prevent Octopus account admins from being removed from the Octopus Managers team
  • 9029 - Retrieve a user's groups from Graph API if the groups are not included in the ID token but the user has a roles claim
  • 9025 - Fixed a bug causing deleting certain projects to fail with an "Unable to sort" error
  • 9026 - Fix deployment status icons sometimes showing above the project name column in the dashboard
  • 9024 - Fixed bug where deleting a space would not leave behind records in the Event table

Changes in Octopus Server 2024.4.2267

  • 9021 - Unable to delete entities due to incorrectly related resources.

Changes in Octopus Server 2024.4.1937

  • 9020 - Fixed an issue where creating a tenanted deployment would fail with a LINQ-related exception message
  • 9019 - Fixed signing key rotation for Google, AzureAD and Okta OpenID authentication
  • 9018 - Fixed an issue where Kubernetes agents were not being health checked on the associated machine policy schedule
  • 6902 - Azure App Service step times out after 100 seconds when uploading package
  • 7260 - Added validation to K8s YAML editor for the "Deploy Kubernetes Containers" step
  • 8454 - Fixed an issue where channel lifecycles could not be reverted to inherit from project after being set
  • 7754 - Fixed an issue where Tenant Common Variables could not be set when connected projects have no environments
  • 8859 - Converted ExtensionConfiguration document persistence from JSON store to relational model
  • 9017 - Migrate Machine and Worker tables to use Entity Framework
  • 9016 - Add 20-day, 10-day and expiry audit events for the Octopus license
  • 9002 - Introducing the new Vertical Navigation UI
  • 8769 - Minimize parallel health checks for cloud targets
  • 9011 - Fix variable substitution in values files when Deploying a Helm Chart

Changes in Octopus Server 2024.4.917

  • 9015 - The step retry backoff interval can now be configured by the user
  • 9011 - Fix variable substitution in values files when Deploying a Helm Chart
  • 9013 - Migrate DeploymentProcess table to use Entity Framework
  • 9009 - Step Templates sourced from Git can cause a deployment to fail when deploying in parallel

Changes in Octopus Server 2024.4.401

  • 8961 - Migrate Release table to use Entity Framework
  • 9004 - Update bundled Tentacle version to 8.2.2148
  • 9063 - Add new Kubernetes Worker as a simple, auto-scaling worker
  • 9003 - Fixes issue where deployment process screen would fail to load if the user doesn't have TriggerView permissions

Changes in Octopus Server 2024.3.12828

  • 8939 - Adds a message when user attempts to schedule a deployment for a date time that has past using the arrows or AM/PM toggle