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Release notes

These are the features and fixes you'll get by upgrading from 2018.6.15 to 2018.7.13.

Changes in Octopus Server 2018.7.13

  • 4751 - Service Fabric Script steps now use the new Service Fabric targets
  • 4768 - UI make re-deploy actions more discoverable and deploy actions less scary
  • 4799 - Fixed an issue where a large number of queued tasks would increase the time to start each of those tasks
  • 4816 - Lifecycle phase Required to Progress now respects value entered for Minimum # must complete option
  • 4818 - Added a warning when the first Worker is added to the default pool
  • 4825 - Resolved an issue that caused tasks and background processes to hang and also not cancel
  • 4829 - Reduced the number of times all machines are retrieved from the database

Changes in Octopus Server 2018.7.12

  • 4580 - Fix for Audit/Event filtering where permissions conflicted or didn't return expected results - CVE-2018-15575
  • 4775 - Allow Azure dropdowns to be refreshed
  • 4806 - Fixed a bug where tenant variable events were not associated with tenant variable documents
  • 4808 - Fixed a bug where removing the sensitive value from a tenant variable would not update the value
  • 4809 - Fixed a bug where the step template side panel showed incorrect data when creating a new step template
  • 4813 - Fixed incorrect usages of Azure APIs that affected Azure private clouds
  • 4819 - Automatic release creation no longer attempts to write to auto deploy logs
  • 4823 - Data subject deletion info and export options as part of user management screens

Changes in Octopus Server 2018.7.11

  • 4738 - Azure PowerShell Script step now includes Azure CLI
  • 4804 - Added a description of the scripts we plan to run when upgrading the database schema
  • 4807 - UI soften layout transitions with a fade animation
  • 4814 - Subscription number not being picked up when using management certificates

Changes in Octopus Server 2018.7.10

  • 4698 - Remove virtual scrolling (and scrollbars) from dashboards and project overviews by default, with an option to turn them on
  • 4797 - Fixed a bug where scopes were sometimes not shown in the variable editor for read only values
  • 4798 - Fixed error when management certificate were being used for Azure Web App targets
  • 4801 - Fixed incorrect account scoping error during health checks when cloud targets were using an account with scope restrictions
  • 4803 - Fix incorrect package upload examples

Changes in Octopus Server 2018.7.8

  • 4765 - Cloud targets now run health checks via workers
  • 4769 - Fix for dashboard crashes for users who had it configured to show an incompatible set of projects and environments
  • 4770 - Fixed issue with Allow auto user creation being shown as disabled in the portal when it hadn't been explicitly set
  • 4773 - Fixed a performance bug where the SQL Connection Pool could be exhausted by when clients are watching the progress of lots of tasks and the task log storage (usually network storage) is saturated
  • 4777 - UI adding a save option to the 'unsaved changes' dialog
  • 4780 - Fixed an issue that caused cloud target default worker pools to not be used in some situations
  • 4786 - Fixed issue with upgrading the database causing a timeout
  • 4788 - Reworked the dashboard backends to make them quicker and lighten the load on the SQL server

Changes in Octopus Server 2018.7.7

  • 4750 - Fixed issue where Deployment Target Triggers didn't trigger for projects with Deploy a release steps
  • 4759 - Removed the extra logging blocks in the deployment log when delta compression is performed
  • 4760 - UI refining both the accounts list and on-boarding panels and reintroducing our green primary buttons (#WooHoo)
  • 4762 - Performance improvements to Project Dashboard query

Changes in Octopus Server 2018.7.6

  • 4761 - Halved the performance impact of the project dashboard for instances with many deployments

Changes in Octopus Server 2018.7.5

  • 4513 - Fixed exception when setting up a scheduled trigger for a specific day of the month
  • 4714 - Reduced the CPU usage when deploying to many machine in parallel within the same deployment
  • 4733 - Fixed preservation of JAR manifest info during deployment
  • 4748 - Reduced the amount of data that is retrieved from the database throughout the application
  • 4749 - UI adding an overflow menu option from various documents to the auditing screen
  • 4752 - Fixed Azure Web App deployment failure when no Resource Group is provided
  • 4753 - Run package scripts during Azure Resource Group deployment
  • 4754 - Fixed a bug which limited trial licenses to a single worker and worker pool, when trials are meant to get unlimited workers and worker pools
  • 4755 - Target retention during deployment no longer retrieves all the machines multiple times
  • 4757 - Send additional licensing and usage details back to octopus.com in addition to existing telemetry
  • 4758 - The proxy selection is no longer cleared when expanding the proxy section on the Tentacle details page

Changes in Octopus Server 2018.7.4

  • 4708 - Fixed bug preventing cancelling a deployment that is waiting for manual intervention
  • 4718 - Reduced the amount of data retrieved from the database server for the the project dashboard and process pages, which reduces load on the database server and makes those pages faster when there are many environments
  • 4719 - Fixed a rare issue where equal variable scopes were not be considered equal leading to a variable being added instead of replaced
  • 4727 - UI adding a "HasWarningsOrErrors" flag to the tasks screen filters
  • 4745 - Added an index to the User table
  • 4747 - Fix an issue where OctopusUseBundledAzureModules variable was being ignored

Changes in Octopus Server 2018.7.3

  • 4599 - Fixed issue where using Network Service or Local Service account for Windows Service accounts didn't work on non-English systems
  • 4704 - UI indication of default values in project variable templates
  • 4711 - Improved auditing on actions performed by the node command line operation
  • 4715 - Manual intervention completion time is now recorded and logged
  • 4716 - UI fix for environment vs target name filtering on the environments screen
  • 4722 - Fix a bug where leading zero of a certificate's SerialNumber is truncated
  • 4724 - Default to last version during deployment when no valid semver versions exist
  • 4725 - Fixed compatibility issues in our Calamari update script using the -Directory parameter on the Get-ChildItem cmdlet on PowerShell 2.0
  • 4726 - Fixed compatibility issues in Calamari using unsupported security protocols on servers that only have .NET 4.0 installed
  • 4729 - UI adding a delete option to the release overview screen's overflow menu
  • 4730 - Fix a bug where project variables not included in binding dropdowns in Start/Stop App in Tomcat step
  • 4732 - Fix a bug where a null reference exception is thrown when try to save a project in add project dialog before all data are fully loaded
  • 4734 - Fixed Dashboard error "Cannot read property 'projectIndex' of undefined"
  • 4737 - Fix for UI bug in channel design rules
  • 4740 - Fixed script syntax warning message in Azure and AWS PowerShell steps

Changes in Octopus Server 2018.7.2

  • 4742 - Fixed a bug preventing upgrades to Octopus Server 2018.7.0 or 2018.7.1 with a message like Unrecognised document prefix Accounts- - please upgrade directly to 2018.7.2 or newer
  • 4743 - Fixed a bug which mistakenly deleted non-orphaned library variable set snapshots when upgrading to Octopus Server 2018.7.0 or 2018.7.1 - please upgrade to 2018.7.2 or newer

Changes in Octopus Server 2018.7.1

  • 4739 - Fixed a bug preventing upgrades from Octopus Server 2018.5.7 or earlier directly to 2018.7.0 - please upgrade directly to 2018.7.1 or newer

Changes in Octopus Server 2018.7.0

  • 4158 - Octopus now allows multiple external workers, grouped into pools
  • 4561 - Added support for specifying slots on Azure Web App targets and steps
  • 4634 - Fixed query performance for Azure Web Apps
  • 4710 - Fixing an edge-case with Service Fabric targets to deal with self-signed (and password-protected) certificates
  • 4712 - Changed S3 multi file selections bucket key prefix to be optional
  • 4622 - Increased the speed of the Account Usage query

Changes in Octopus Server 2018.6.15

  • 4436 - UI improvements to removable list components (for consistency and easy-of-use)
  • 4546 - Cloudformation and Terraform inline script permission required changed to ProcessEdit
  • 4647 - Fixed an issue where legacy variable Octopus.Action.Azure.UseBundledAzurePowerShellModule wasn't being honoured
  • 4669 - Add an option to exclude a machine from the rest of the deployment when using guided failure
  • 4700 - UI improvements to update variable snapshot to make this feature more accessible
  • 4705 - Fixed issue where randomly getting "Cannot read property 'projectIndex' of undefined" error
  • 4706 - Fixed issue where urls referenced in task logs were converted to lowercase during render