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What's new

These are the most important features you'll get by upgrading from 2.6.5 to 3.0.5

These are the features and fixes you'll get by upgrading from 2.6.5 to 3.0.5.

1756 - Active Directory authentication now works even if the User does not provide a UPN
1724 - Removed some inaccurate API hyperlinks that are no longer relevant
1755 - Calamari no longer picks the wrong files when running Octodiff which would cause Octodiff to fail
1742 - The Dashboard now updates correctly in more circumstances
1740 - The Dashboard now updates correctly when deployments finish
1652 - The login form now prevents multiple submissions which would have prevented new Active Directory users from signing in
1762 - Extraneous artifacts in backup file no longer crash the data migrator
1763 - Fixed several issues with the IIS Bindings UI
1701 - Deployments with Manual steps and Retention Policies no longer experience a NullReferenceException
1736 - Reverted step parallelism to 2.x behaviour which can be overridden by OctopusBypassDeploymentMutex
1710 - Single quote in environment name no longer breaks pre/post deploy Powershell scripts
1759 - More descriptive exceptions are now thrown for missing files and directories during data import
1751 - Removed misleading validation on Description fields that have no maximum length constraints
1745 - Upload the full package if delta patch fails instead of failing the deployment
1725 - Project variables with whitespace in the name will now work

1609 - The SMTP Client is now disposed correctly
1743 - Deleting an Octopus Server instance no longer requires the SQL Database to exist
1717 - No longer downloading packages for skipped steps
1451 - Clarified Authentication Mode in the IIS Web Site deployment feature
1735 - Offline deployments no longer fail when running steps in parallel
1690 - Improved timeliness of getting logs from Calamari
1731 - Improved logging of unhandled exceptions in Calamari
1745 - When Octodiff.exe apply-delta throws an exception the full package is now uploaded as a fall back

1723 - Addressed some UI and behavioural bugs on the Step Templates pages
1721 - Fix for z-index for variables pop-up window for bindings
1722 - Increase timeout for database creation during install
1727 - Fix in Tentacle MSI to correct for Service path on previously upgraded Tentacles
1728 - Script console fullscreen now more robust

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

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

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