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What's new

These are the most important features you'll get by upgrading from 2.6.5 to 3.0.1

Octopus 2.6

Highlights of 2.6

  • Lifecycles to control promotion and automate deployments
  • Automatic release creation from NuGet push
  • Running steps in parallel
  • Up to 5x faster package uploads
  • Skipping offline machines

Read more about it in the blog post

Release notes

These are the features and fixes you'll get by upgrading from 2.6.5 to 3.0.1.

Changes in Octopus Server 3.0.1

  • 1532 - --deploymenttimeout used in octo.exe and TeamCity plugin now counts hours too
  • 1526 - Changes to cookie behaviour for reasons (see issue for full explanation of result)
  • 1400 - Logging added of how many files were copied to Custom Install Directory
  • 1555 - Semicolon added as email separator in email steps
  • 911 - Artifacts are now collected when a Tentacle job fails
  • 1193 - Variable filtering now works in the UI
  • 1177 - Added Octopus.Web.BaseUrl a default web base URL variable for Octopus
  • 1496 - Added Octopus.Release.PreviousForEnvironment.Id and `Octopus.Release.PreviousForEnvironment.Number'
  • 1533 - Fixed Https bindings when not on the default port
  • 1225 - Added correctly spelled variable IgnoreConfigTranformationErrors
  • 1170 - Octopus.Tentacle.CurrentDeployment.TargetedRoles now always available
  • 1419 - Provide an option for any machine variables (see issue for use and syntax)
  • 1531 - Removed script console timeout
  • 1398 - We now send less log messages when processing XML transforms
  • 1238 - Additional logging added for additional transforms if not found
  • 820 - Environment variables now updated before invoking scripts
  • 1522 - Download icon now links to the correct package in the library

Changes in Octopus Server 3.0.0

  • 1532 - --deploymenttimeout used in octo.exe and TeamCity plugin now counts hours too
  • 1526 - Changes to cookie behaviour for reasons (see issue for full explanation of result)
  • 1400 - Logging added of how many files were copied to Custom Install Directory
  • 1555 - Semicolon added as email separator in email steps
  • 911 - Artifacts are now collected when a Tentacle job fails
  • 1193 - Variable filtering now works in the UI
  • 1177 - Added Octopus.Web.BaseUrl a default web base URL variable for Octopus
  • 1496 - Added Octopus.Release.PreviousForEnvironment.Id and `Octopus.Release.PreviousForEnvironment.Number'
  • 1533 - Fixed Https bindings when not on the default port
  • 1225 - Added correctly spelled variable IgnoreConfigTranformationErrors
  • 1170 - Octopus.Tentacle.CurrentDeployment.TargetedRoles now always available
  • 1419 - Provide an option for any machine variables (see issue for use and syntax)
  • 1531 - Removed script console timeout
  • 1398 - We now send less log messages when processing XML transforms
  • 1238 - Additional logging added for additional transforms if not found
  • 820 - Environment variables now updated before invoking scripts
  • 1522 - Download icon now links to the correct package in the library

Changes in Octopus Server 2.6.5

  • 1515 - Added extra logging around Automatic Release Creation
  • 1514 - Automatic Release now fixed if automatically generated release number was already used
  • 1565 - Fix memory leak with ActorStateFile last snapshot on Tentacle
  • 1512 - Automatic Release creation uses pre-release tag but only for nominated package