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Compare releases and check for compatibility between your existing Octopus Server and new releases.
What's new
These are the most important features you'll get by upgrading from 2018.3.13 to 2018.4.0
Octopus 2018.3
Changes in 2018.3
See our release blog post for more details.
New Features
This month, we've greatly improved our support for infrastructure as code unlocking some incredible deployment automation and infrastructure automation scenarios. Octopus 2018.3 introduces support for GitHub repositories as feeds and first class terraform support as well as some awesome smaller features like Highlight Messages and Artifacts and . Read on for all the exciting details!
Upgrading
This release contains a few post-install data fixes that may take some time (depending on the size of your DeploymentProcess and Events tables), so please ensure you allow time for this to complete. If you are running the watchdog service, please ensure this is stopped during the upgrade.
All of the usual steps for upgrading Octopus Deploy apply.
Release notes
These are the features and fixes you'll get by upgrading from 2018.3.13 to 2018.4.0.
Changes in Octopus Server 2018.4.0
- 4335 - Breaking change Automatic release creation now selects packages appropriate for the channel the release is created in
- 3633 - Added a new project trigger for recurring scheduled deployments
- 4365 - Deployment Steps can be marked as required, meaning they cannot be skipped when customizing a deployment
- 4422 - Fixed a problem where Variable Sets were deleted even when they were used by existing releases
- 4433 - Release version search in Deploy a Release now displays Load More
- 4448 - Fix for error when filtering Tenants and user does not have view permissions for some Environments
- 4463 - Fix for show and hide empty groups on Project dashboard
- 4473 - Fixes for “Deploy To” button popover on mobile
- 4482 - Added the new AWS S3 upload step for uploading files to an S3 bucket with all the bells and whistles