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What's new

These are the most important features you'll get by upgrading from 2.5.13 to 2.6.1

Support for scheduled deployments
Task page improvements including filtering
Library/step template improvements including typed parameters and usage search
Maintenance Mode
Breaking change: All machines in a single deployment must have a unique SQUID (923)
Breaking change: Octopus will no longer monitor its internal package folder for filesystem changes (900)
Breaking change: When custom XML config transforms are in use, *.Release.config and *.#{Octopus.Environment.Name}.config must be explicitly added to the list for the order of application to be defined (1037)

These are the features and fixes you'll get by upgrading from 2.5.13 to 2.6.1.

1450 - Fixed issue causing deployments to stall mid-deployment (fingers crossed)
1442 - 2.6 health check task should not timeout prematurely
1433 - Library -> Packages page now available for non-administrators
1428 - Service paths quoted when deploying a service
1430 - Fixed an issue causing diagnostics page not to show

1392 - Project dashboard reverted - slow loading cannot be fixed until 3.0
1402 - Fixed HTTP bindings displaying SNI as "Undefined"
1391 - Hide promote button when user doesn't have permission on next environment in lifecycle
1387 - Pagination in Internal repository fixed when many versions
1379 - Fixed issue with role case-sensitivity - causing variable scope issues
1384 - Fixed typo in new sc.exe config causing error