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What's new

These are the most important features you'll get by upgrading from 1.5.1.1652 to 1.6.3.1723

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Release notes

These are the features and fixes you'll get by upgrading from 1.5.1.1652 to 1.6.3.1723.

Changes in Octopus Server 1.6.3.1723

  • Faster Azure package uploads
  • Increase private key size of Octopus X.509 certificates to 2048 bytes
  • Fixes to Set-OctopusVariable when using long variable names

Changes in Octopus Server 1.6.2.1722

  • Machines in deleted environments won't appear in health checks anymore (details)
  • Resolving X.509 certificate loading/generation issues for some users (details)

Changes in Octopus Server 1.6.1.1718

  • Undefined variable references are now ignored by default (details)
  • Fixed a bug that prevented users being removed from groups (details)
  • Fixed a bug that meant project activity events were not displayed (details)
  • Fixed a bug that meant the latest NuGet package was not always displayed (details)
  • Fixed a bug that prevented Tentacles from finding packages they had downloaded directly

Changes in Octopus Server 1.6.0.1714

  • Environments, steps and permission page ordering bug fixed (details)
  • NuGet latest version selection bug fixed (details) If you have already installed 1.6.0.1712, you won't need to update the Tentacles as these changes only affect the Octopus Server.

Changes in Octopus Server 1.6.0.1712

  • Improved create release screen (blog post)
  • Tentacles can download packages directly from NuGet (blog post)
  • Proxy server support (details)
  • All machines are now shown on the variables tab (details)
  • API key can be passed by query string (details)
  • Manual steps can only be skipped by people with permission to skip them (details)
  • Fixed pagination display (details)
  • Fixed scrolling for project list (details)

Changes in Octopus Server 1.5.1.1652

  • Fixed a bug where the custom installation directory wasn't being used by the conventions (details)