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These are the most important features you'll get by upgrading from 2023.3.13361 to 2023.4.8338

Octopus 2023.4

The 2023.4 release of Octopus Deploy has a number of updates to make your deployments simpler to manage and more resilient.

This release’s noteworthy updates include:

More secure connectivity to GitHub and Azure using OpenID Connect (OIDC)
Source scripts from Git to maintain them like other assets
Resilient Tentacle communications to reduce deployment failures
Elevate critical tasks to the top of the task queue
Connect tenants to multiple projects in one step
Space ID now available on Terraform resources to simplify configuration

The 2023 Q4 release is available on Octopus Cloud and ready for download by our self-hosted customers.

Octopus 2023.3

The 2023.3 release of Octopus Deploy has a number of updates to improve deployment efficiency and speed at scale.

This release’s noteworthy updates include:

Easier management of tenants at scale with bulk actions
Improved container deployments with support for OCI Helm registries
Fewer manual interventions with configurable step timeouts
More control over audit logs with adjustable retention
Source Kubernetes configuration files from Git for simpler deployments
Modify YAML files for Kubernetes with our new Kustomize Step
Additional functionality for AKS customers with support for kubelogin for AKS clusters
Step template improvements to make updates easier to manage
UI performance improvements to the Releases and Create Release pages for a better experience while deploying

The 2023 Q3 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 2023.3.13361 to 2023.4.8338.

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.8338

7481 - Fixed runbook or deployment process scoped worker-pool variable resolution
8258 - Fixed runbook or deployment process scoped account variable resolution

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.8334

8571 - Fixed an issue that prevented users from setting a default channel on a project

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.8332

8632 - Renew Lets Encrypt certificate fails with Can not find issuer 'C=US,O=Internet Security Research Group,CN=ISRG Root X1' for certificate 'C=US,O=Let's Encrypt,CN=R3'

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.8326

8576 - Fixed an issue where SupplementalGroups and RunAsUserId were not populated in the Edit Yaml section for the "Deploy a Kubernetes container" step

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.8313

8601 - Variables scoped to a process are now considered when configuring a rolling deployments window size
8606 - Fixed retention policy cron expression to support up to 7 terms in the expression

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.8307

8613 - Fixed out of range error during database maintenance request

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.8303

8599 - Fixes a bug in which not all task logs would be returned when the same Server task was run both before and after the multi node task logs feature is enabled, for example as part of an auto deployment

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.8301

8601 - Variables scoped to a process are now considered when configuring a rolling deployments window size

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.8297

8599 - Fixes a bug in which not all task logs would be returned when the same Server task was run both before and after the multi node task logs feature is enabled, for example as part of an auto deployment

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.8290

8328 - Fixed strike-through text on excluded targets in deployment creation

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.8279

8589 - Fixed issue with custom k8s resources from previous deployments not being deleted

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.8272

8494 - Fixed a regression where a power user weren't able to change other user's passwords via the UI

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.8245

8541 - Fixed an issue where projects could not be connected to a tenant when the user had correctly scoped permissions
8540 - Added telemetry on Tentacle versions

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.8231

8527 - Deployments containing templated script-steps which source scripts from a git repository, successfully run to completion. Existing (failing) steps must be recreated to resolve deployment failures

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.8196

8537 - Resolved performance degradation that particularly affected the progression API by restoring caching mechanism

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.8185

8533 - Fix API requests for projects associated with a lifecycle not responding
8671 - Fixed issue with overly long transaction names

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.8166

8529 - Resolved performance degradation in variable endpoints by restoring caching mechanism

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.8154

8515 - Reduced the length of a Tentacle workspace directory name from ~55 characters to ~22 characters

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.8125

8507 - Improved performance in publication of internal messages

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.8116

8489 - Fixed authentication issue with the kustomize step when using an Azure OIDC account

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.8101

5096 - IIS deployment fails when there are multiple SSL certificates and they are in different stores
7668 - Fix the S3 Feed not searching for packages in folders. Make the search case sensitive to match S3 behavior. Add support for any file extension

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.8082

8558 - Added support for authenticating to the Octopus API using OpenID Connect
8465 - Fix saving step templates that reference a script in a git repository
8470 - Support OCI feed sub-paths in Harbor
8532 - Reduced default concurrent message pumps to alleviate thread pool pressure
8429 - Increased the default number of Thread Pool threads and Database Connections
8447 - Reduced the amount of data loaded to display teams in the UI
8449 - ReferenceIds on StepFramework steps are incorrectly updated when updating step versions, this leads to a mismatch between the referenceId and StepPackageInputsReferenceId causing deployment failures
8446 - Add support for sub paths on an OCI registry feed URI
8442 - Scripts can now be sourced from Git repositories
8406 - Changed Netfx Calamari filesystem recursive operations to use the .NetFramework provided methods instead of AlphaFS due to performance issues

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.7951

8418 - Bug fix: Validate step name uniqueness when reading a cac deployment process
8426 - Prioritized tasks now show the correct position in the queue on the Task summary page
8439 - Fixed alignment of "Sign in with your Octopus ID" button label
8437 - Filter out runtime properties when extracting step template from action
8432 - Greatly reduced the performance impact of calculating DeploymentHistory and RunbookRunHistory reporting tables for customers with many deployments and/or runbook runs. Improved overall system performance for customers with large instances and heavy Octopus usage
8435 - Octopus Server Manager and Built In Extension files are now signed with Authenticode

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.7608

8406 - Changed Netfx Calamari filesystem recursive operations to use the .NetFramework provided methods instead of AlphaFS due to performance issues
8431 - Fix missing gap between buttons when editing a lifecycle
8411 - Improve transaction names in diagnostic reports
8423 - Fix scheduled release creation with package versioning strategy
8412 - Added validation for the auth session timeout to prevent setting it to a value that is too short

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.7210

8425 - Fix bug where tentacle upgrade ignores patch versions
8421 - Improve callout on Task Summary page to accurately reflect the entire task queue, and update naming of Task Progress to Blocking Tasks
8422 - Recovering from Communication Errors with Tentacle on by Default
8420 - Removal of both MultiGlobPathsForRawYamlInvertedFeatureToggle and GitSourcedYamlManifestsReverseFeatureToggle feature flags

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.6612

8419 - "Run a Docker Container" Step No Longer Allows for Selecting a Feed
8405 - Server tasks can now be moved to the top of the queue from the Tasks page or Task detail page
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
8392 - Session Timeouts with values less than the default timeout(20 minutes) will now no longer cause the authentication cookie to refresh on every API request and will refresh when necessary
8407 - Fixing creating deployment for project with CaC when OCL path in release gitref is not available
8393 - Ensure variables can be used in package references for CaC projects when using scheduled triggers
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
8399 - Reinstate grace period for licenses under original agreement

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.6162

8415 - Fixed an issue where using a variable for the container Package Feed removes the Package ID field
8388 - AzureAD authentication now supports group overruns
8343 - The ssl-certificate command will reject expired certificates by default. Use --skip-certificate-date-validation to bypass this validation
8353 - Fixed an issue where some azure deployments did not respect proxy configured in Octopus
7498 - Use run condition of child step when cloning to a different project
8400 - Added number of active tasks in other spaces to the Tasks page below existing statistics for current space(s)

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.5740

8397 - Allow existing releases to continue to deploy after moving cac directory
8395 - Updated the position of the last published chip for Runbooks to be consistent with other chips
8360 - Include full SSL Cert Chain in deployed SSL cert for Nginx

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.5452

8391 - Fix "Cannot create GitProjectReference for non-Git project" for some releases
8380 - Fix janky UI when machine summary contains long name and many target roles
8387 - Fix runbook cloning UI where not all runbooks are available to select
8390 - Add icon selector to tenant logo editor
8382 - 'Calc' variable substitution allows variable names to be enclosed in { } to overcome parsing issues
8187 - Handle null values gracefully when deleting resources with the Octopus terraform provider
8369 - Fixed an issue where Insights reports were not showing new deployments
8368 - Deploy a Bicep Template step fails when CAC is enabled
8364 - Don't run package acquisition step for targets that are unavailable and project allows skipping those targets
8381 - Fixed Code Editor losing language selection when toggling full screen mode in the variable editor
8384 - Fix project reference error when editing config-as-code releases
8428 - Adds a new welcome dialog for trial licenses with prompts for creating a new project or a sample project
8383 - Improved performance on Process Edit page for projects with large number of connected Library Variable Sets

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.4798

8369 - Fixed an issue where Insights reports were not showing new deployments
8379 - Fix a Glob Pattern parsing issue where directories ending in a trailing period ‘.’ will not be parsed correctly and fail to find any matches
8401 - Add username/password account as a variable type
8373 - Fix no results placeholder image partially invisible in dark mode
8371 - Fixed an issue with the Azure Web App step not respecting the ResourceManagementEndpoint, breaking deployments to non-public cloud
8354 - API key expiry messages now include the user associated with the API key

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.4265

8299 - Corrected the credits.html file which lists Third Party / Open Source packages used by the Octopus Server
8353 - Fixed an issue where some azure deployments did not respect proxy configured in Octopus
8363 - Added worker tool image for Windows 2022 workers

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.3998

8358 - Fix the Octopus Server Url form field failing to show when expanded in the Jira Integration settings
8359 - Reintroducing ScriptCS as the default C# Script executor. dotnet-script can be used by setting the UseDotnetScriptCSharpExecutorFeatureToggle feature toggle, or by setting the Octopus.Action.Script.CSharp.UseDotnetScript variable to true
8357 - Downgrade markdig to fix an issue breaking Octostache filtering on #{MyVar | MarkdownToHtml}
8353 - Fixed an issue where some azure deployments did not respect proxy configured in Octopus
8356 - Fix TaskQueue where identical ServerTask runs on multiple HA nodes
8355 - Allow the selection of packages in Terraform step to be deferred
8145 - Fixed a regression where viewing deployment targets for an environment weren't being sorted by name
8345 - Added a Load More button and load all link into the Release page progression section to allow viewing of more deployments for a release
8293 - Fixed Certificates to show name instead of ID when viewing All Variables in a project

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.3586

8237 - Remodel ServerTask to avoid concurrency contention when deploying multiple deploy a release steps in parallel
8340 - All Variables page hangs and errors in Spaces with lots of projects, Tenants and Tenant Variables
8338 - Correctly handle variable set ids in master key rotation

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.3511

8345 - Added a Load More button and load all link into the Release page progression section to allow viewing of more deployments for a release
8331 - Updated API documentation for the /api/tenantvariables/all endpoint to clarify behaviour
8339 - Fixed a bug where some error messages weren't shown on the Projects, Tenants, Insights Reports, and main Dashboard pages
8327 - Clears Tentacle cache directory upon Octopus server start
8341 - The user account menu now shows the user's display name in the menu and on hover
8335 - Fix an issue where the release details page displayed an error for releases in a Version-controlled project that were created before the VCS conversion

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.2775

8336 - Replaced the connect single project dialog with one that allows multiple selections when connecting a tenant to project(s)
8330 - Tenanted deployment mode is preserved when a certificate is replaced

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.2719

8334 - Fixed OCL configuration for Kustomize step where git source information wasn’t persisted correctly
8302 - Introduced bulk deployment creation to improve the UX when creating deployments to multiple environments or tenants
8333 - Updated license handling to match the customer agreement
8325 - Fix an issue where Kubernetes Object Status would not report status changes for deployments to AKS clusters when running the Kustomize step
8322 - Kubernetes Raw step no longer fails validation when saving certificate data
8342 - Update Tentacle to v7.0.219, which addresses the following issues: Fixed: PollingOverWebSockets can fail to close a WebSocket connection once it is finished with, Fixed: WebSocket bug where a SendAsync is not being awaited, Fixed: Some error messages are misleading, Fixed: Memory leak and inefficiencies, Fixed: Performance issue when instantiating logs
8326 - Improve the speed of bulk connecting Tenants to a Project by 2x
8320 - Fixed a regression that caused runbook triggers to schedule in the future
8321 - Performance increased when preparing a deployment to many tenants

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.1941

8324 - Help Sidebar - In-Product Links are Broken - HTTP 404
8318 - Improved the error logging when the event-based deployment and runbook run event handlers receive invalid data
8306 - Fixed regression where tasks filtered to multiple spaces ordered tasks by space instead of descending queue time

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.1725

8319 - Steps using Git Manifests now work with Config as Code
8312 - Enable option to include or exclude missing variables warning in tenants overview
8310 - The deployment journal no longer records undeployed packages
7284 - Migrate C# script support from ScriptCS to dotnet-script
8315 - Calamari update tasks will now run concurrently
8313 - Introducing a new error callout to the Project Tenant page if any tenants fail to connect
8295 - Improved load time for Deploy Release page
8307 - Add a new CLI command database-upgrade-status which outputs whether starting Octopus Server will result in the database being upgraded to apply schema changes
8309 - LTS backport to remove the usage of --short flag from kubectl since it has been deprecated
8183 - Allow supplying arguments to container runtime when using action execution containers

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.939

8308 - Improve performance of various API endpoints when querying large sets of data

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.808

8304 - Added additional indexes for background processes
8303 - Updated Autofac dependency from v7.0.1 to v7.1.0

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.4.296

8295 - Improved load time for Deploy Release page
8291 - Revert change to runbook tenant selector that caused the Run button to be disabled until unchecking Skip tenants option
8296 - Fixed an issue where index maintenance would fail with "SQL error: Parameter 3 is incorrect for this statement"
8292 - A new Kustomize step is now available
8305 - Introducing new event-based deployment history and runbook run history processes to replace current stored procedure based processes
8289 - Connecting tenants to a project can now be done in bulk and will display the current progress of any ongoing connections
8288 - Fix space switcher not closing when the current space is clicked
8032 - Removed showing of system events in My Recent Activity page

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.3.13361

7481 - Fixed runbook or deployment process scoped worker-pool variable resolution
8258 - Fixed runbook or deployment process scoped account variable resolution
8632 - Renew Lets Encrypt certificate fails with Can not find issuer 'C=US,O=Internet Security Research Group,CN=ISRG Root X1' for certificate 'C=US,O=Let's Encrypt,CN=R3'