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What's new
These are the most important features you'll get by upgrading from 2023.1.11970 to 2023.2.13412
Octopus 2023.2
The latest release of Octopus has new features to make your deployments faster and easier to manage, including:
- Better visibility across tenants with the redesigned tenant overview dashboard
- Live updates of Kubernetes objects during deployment
- Increased success rate of steps with automatic retries
- More powerful metrics with DevOps Insights improvements
- Easier deployments to Azure resources with ‘Deploy a Bicep Template’ Step
- Enhanced security API key security
- Common components for easier bulk administration and visibility
- Improved UI performance and navigation in the Octopus portal
- Polling tentacles over standard ports for reduced complexity
- Configurable Audit log retention limit for Cloud customers
The release is available on Octopus Cloud and ready for download by our self-hosted customers.
Octopus 2023.1
The release of Octopus 2023.1 has new features to help improve your experience, including:
- Helm chart for installing Octopus server into a Kubernetes cluster
- Faster tentacle upgrades
- Improvements to the ‘Deploy Kubernetes containers’ step
- Improving Deployment Experience for Enterprise and Cloud Users for faster, more efficient deployments and better usability
- Performance improvements for version controlled projects
The release is available on Octopus Cloud and ready for download by our self-hosted customers.
Release notes
These are the features and fixes you'll get by upgrading from 2023.1.11970 to 2023.2.13412.
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.13412
- 8411 - Improve transaction names in diagnostic reports
- 8412 - Added validation for the auth session timeout to prevent setting it to a value that is too short
- 7382 - Fixed issue with deploying zip files to Azure when executing within the built-in worker
- 8362 - Fixed issue with accessing additional files in a helm package with a nested path
- 8398 - When redeploying a tenanted deployment and selecting a tenant tag the skip tenant panel is displayed and allows deploying to tenants that already have the release as their current version
- 7498 - Use run condition of child step when cloning to a different project
- 8353 - Fixed an issue where some azure deployments did not respect proxy configured in Octopus
- 8360 - Include full SSL Cert Chain in deployed SSL cert for Nginx
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.13311
- 8353 - Fixed an issue where some azure deployments did not respect proxy configured in Octopus
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.13239
- 8309 - LTS backport to remove the usage of
--shortflag from kubectl since it has been deprecated
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.13224
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.13175
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.13151
- 8268 - Deprecation warnings added to health checks & tasks on Windows 2003 Targets & Workers
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.13113
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.12998
- 8249 - Octopus Server on Linux will no longer attempt to run HTTP.sys in extensions
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.12982
- 8165 - Name search for Deployment Targets is now case insensitive
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.12868
- 8242 - Improved performance of deployment preview
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.12836
- 8219 - Fixed issue with Kubernetes Object Status tab not displaying status of objects in Kubernetes that were being updated from child steps
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.12795
- 8238 - Fix error when migrating inputs for package step
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.12643
- 8218 - Add variable Octopus.Deployment.WorkerLeaseCap to manage worker lease cap
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.12513
- 7961 - The side effects of deleting and renaming a step in the same operation now occur correctly. This includes updating channel rules and project version settings
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.12482
- 8211 - Fix possible null reference exception when cancelling interrupted server tasks
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.12426
- 8201 - Fixed an issue with project search; it now works correctly for projects without descriptions
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.12416
- 8198 - Fixes CryptographicExceptions thrown due to dotnet runtime updates https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5025823-change-in-how-net-applications-import-x-509-certificates-bf81c936-af2b-446e-9f7a-016f4713b46b
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.12331
- 8200 - Fixed a regression that prevented some projects from loading
- 8198 - Fixes CryptographicExceptions thrown due to dotnet runtime updates https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5025823-change-in-how-net-applications-import-x-509-certificates-bf81c936-af2b-446e-9f7a-016f4713b46b
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.12209
- 8189 - Rename of Kubernetes output variables to prevent clashing with customer variables
- 8171 - Calling the
tasks/{id}/detailsREST endpoint will now return all valid log entries before invalid JSON is detected in a log file. This fix also ensures Task Log Aggregation does not aggregate task log files that contain invalid JSON entries, and leaves related task logs in their original unaggregated form - 8184 - Improved response time when requesting projects by slug
- 8185 - Fixed a regression that was causing stale worker leases when tasks were cancelled
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.12046
- 8120 - Display Kubernetes Objects Status During Deployment
- 8125 - Fixed cloning project issue caused by permission scoping
- 8080 - Users with the required permissions to clone a project scoped to a specific project group receive a permission warning when cloning a project
- 8180 - Fix the new space switcher not ordering spaces in alphabetical order
- 8178 - Tasks that rely on mono will start logging warning messages
- 8118 - Connectivity checks running indefinitely blocking execution on a deployment target
- 8161 - Fixed package acquisition with multiple workers and multiple package references when lease cap is enabled
- 8152 - Fixed an issue where the top navigation bar crashes the UI when a user has no permissions
- 8147 - Auto deployments of change-controlled projects no longer fail to start
- 8149 - Introduced page-specific endpoint to improve load time on the view single Release page
- 8151 - Introduced page-specific endpoint to improve Deployment Preview load time on Create Deployment page
- 8144 - Fixed an issue where release creation can be slow from waiting for Package Notes
- 8129 - Fixing UserId filtering for audit logs
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.10947
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.10545
- 7861 - Fix tenant variable removal when removing environments from projection connection
- 8150 - Improved View Releases page load time
- 8138 - Resolving Manual Interventions and Guided Failure as well as viewing blocking deployments is now much faster when there are a large number of interventions or guided failures
- 8140 - Overhauled the Tenants overview page to improve the visibility of all available Tenants and their respective tags and project/environment connections
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.10265
- 8139 - Improved aesthetics and visual hierarchy for the top navigation bar
- 8137 - Only display build information linked to the package that is being viewed
- 8118 - Connectivity checks running indefinitely blocking execution on a deployment target
- 8134 - Retention policies are no longer run simultaneously to reduce contention on the database
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.9849
- 8241 - All nodes must be shut down before upgrading Octopus
- 8045 - Fix release notes overflow on Task Summary page
- 8129 - Fixing UserId filtering for audit logs
- 8131 - Fixed a permission scoping issue affecting docker container registries, causing image search and tag search to fail impacting release creation
- 8127 - Fixed error if TrustedProxies contains invalid values
- 8126 - Fixes an issue with upstream DockerHub auth where tokens requested with "registry:catalog:" no longer grant access. Updated to use "registry:"
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.9087
- 8126 - Fixes an issue with upstream DockerHub auth where tokens requested with "registry:catalog:" no longer grant access. Updated to use "registry:"
- 8002 - Removed a restriction that prevented deployments to older versions of Tentacle
- 8111 - Include all extension configurations in master key rotation
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.8159
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.5309
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.5094
- 8113 - Improved rendering performance and responsiveness of the Dashboard page when there are many projects, environments and tenants in use
- 8110 - Improved performance of the interruptions list API
- 8098 - The refresh loop on the task details page now slows down if the refresh takes longer than 750ms
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.5010
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.4598
- 8104 - Improve performance of filtering deployment targets
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.4336
- 8103 - Fix blob error during master key rotation
- 8099 - Fixed an issue where
GET /workersdid not respect filtering by worker pool IDs - 8100 - Improve performance and prevent lock-ups of Octopus Server Portal on pages that display variables when there are thousands to display (eg Release page)
- 8095 - Improved performance and prevent browser from locking up on the Release page, when the release contains thousands of variables
- 8091 - Fix modify project endpoint not picking up project id properly
- 8087 - Reduce unnecessary server requests when viewing environments and deployment targets
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.3930
- 8096 - Added ability to perform simple calculations in Variable Substitution
- 8095 - Improved performance and prevent browser from locking up on the Release page, when the release contains thousands of variables
- 8094 - Rolled back extra permission requirements when viewing API keys
- 8092 - Windows Tentacle upgrade now correctly checks for the net48 runtime
- 8075 - Packages with chained file extensions (.tar.gz) are not being cleaned up from the Package Cache
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.3263
- 8185 - Fixed a regression that was causing stale worker leases when tasks were cancelled
- 8084 - Fixed an issue when saving web portal configuration using OctopusClient which caused authentication configuration to be overridden
- 7433 - Fixed daylight saving causing triggers to fire repeatedly
- 8079 - Improved the performance of the list deployments API when there is large build information
- 8081 - Fix to respond to HEAD requests on
/api/octopusservernodes/ping - 8073 - Fixed an issue with
X-Forwarded-Forheaders that included ports
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.2718
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.2394
- 8063 - Decreased the number of queries to the project and lifecycle tables during retention
Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.2028
- 8061 - Structure variable configuration replacement available in Deploy raw YAML step
- 8052 - Unique name constraint error when cloning a project
- 8043 - Fixed an issue where SilentProcessRunner could hang while waiting for a zombie process to finish on Windows
- 7609 - Fixed an issue with Deploy Kubernetes Raw YAML step not showing any errors on attempting to save when provided with an invalid YAML