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What's new

These are the most important features you'll get by upgrading from 2019.7.13 to 2019.8.0

Octopus 2019.8

Highlights

2019.8 includes:

  • Improved deployment process editor: Quickly jump between steps when editing the deployment process
  • Cloning Tenants
  • More health check scheduling options: Health checks can be configured to run on a cron expression, or to never run
  • Allow overriding namespace in Kubernetes steps
  • New Variable Filter expressions: Trim, Substring, Truncate, UriEscape, UriDataEscape
  • Copy and paste to add certificates: Certificates can now be pasted as text directly into the portal

See our blog post for the full details.

Breaking changes

No breaking changes in this release.

Octopus 2019.7

Highlights

Octopus 2019.7 is a significant release even though it doesn't include any user-facing features. It includes technical changes to retarget Octopus Deploy to .NET Framework 4.7.2 and .NET Core 2.2 so Octopus can run natively on Linux and in Linux containers. This change is initially for Octopus Cloud and it will be extended to Octopus self-hosted in the future.

Watch our blog for some great technical blog posts on what this involved and our lessons learned.

Breaking changes

Most customers can upgrade directly to Octopus Server 2019.7, except those hosting Octopus Server on Windows Server 2008 SP2. This blog post has more details about who will be affected, and what you can do to upgrade.

Don't worry, the Octopus Server installer will prevent you from accidentally upgrading if your host operating system will not be supported.

Release notes

These are the features and fixes you'll get by upgrading from 2019.7.13 to 2019.8.0.

Changes in Octopus Server 2019.8.0

  • 5213 - Fix issue where Calamari doesn't respect the setting to bypass the default proxy in windows
  • 5726 - System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file 'xxx' because it is being used by another process during Calamari package extraction
  • 5727 - Add the ability to clone a Tenant
  • 5784 - Demote logging level for "Setting Proxy Environment Variables" to VERBOSE
  • 5793 - Moved --ServerNodeName from the configure command to the create-instance command
  • 5798 - Fixed a bug in ProjectSwitcher that was redirecting to the wrong projects after filtering results
  • 5805 - Fixed a null reference exception that occurred on login in some AD configurations after upgrade beyond 2019.5.0
  • 5806 - Allow configuration of a specific domain for cookies issued by server, to allow custom web UIs to call the API
  • 5811 - Add a description field to each Tenant
  • 5812 - Add UriEscape, UriDataEscape, Substring, Trim and Truncate filters for variable substitutions

Changes in Octopus Server 2019.7.13

  • 5497 - Fixed a bug that prevent upgrades when malformed artifact documents exist
  • 5500 - Fix for scheduled release creation for variable package feeds
  • 5771 - Add connectivity verification buttons for Jira issue tracker settings
  • 5788 - Consecutive spaces in Projects and Spaces are now ignored during the "type the name to confirm" delete validation
  • 5792 - Force Upgrade option will create a new Service Fabric deployment if none exists
  • 5795 - The WebUI HTTP listener now retries if there is a network error that causes it to terminate
  • 5796 - Fix linking of Projects to Channels in Audit Log
  • 5800 - Module imports are now timed and printed as verbose log messages
  • 5804 - UI adding a side-by-side step-editing experience and filters