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What's new

These are the most important features you'll get by upgrading from 3.1.7 to 3.2.2

Octopus 3.2

Highlights and new Features of 3.2

Octopus Deploy 3.2 is all about Channels and is a highly-compatible feature release with no breaking changes. Channels is the name we've given to the feature originally discussed in our RFC on Branching.

Build servers build. Octopus deploys.

We decided it was important to drive a distinction between source code branches, which build servers care about, and deployment, which is where Channels come in.

Read the upgrade guide for more details on upgrading from your current version to Octopus 3.2.

Octopus 3.1

Highlights and new Features of 3.1

  • Azure support revisited - blog post
  • TLS 1.2 (Requires Tentacle 3.1) - blog post
  • Reporting - blog post
  • Breaking change: Due to the dependency on .NET 4.5 Octopus Server and Tentacle 3.1 are no longer supported on Windows Server 2003 or Server 2008 SP1 - more information

Read the blog post for more details on the changes and features introduced in Octopus 3.1.

Upgrading Tentacles: You can upgrade to Octopus Server 3.1 without upgrading any Tentacles and get all of the new 3.1 deployment features because Calamari will continue to work on both Tentacle 3.0 and 3.1 - more information

Read the upgrade guide for more details on upgrading from your current version to Octopus 3.1.

Release notes

These are the features and fixes you'll get by upgrading from 3.1.7 to 3.2.2.

Changes in Octopus Server 3.2.2

  • 2003 - Added Support for Release Matrix Sparseboard
  • 2065 - Offline Drop script fixes for PowerShell 2.0
  • 2088 - Now showing a more informative message when attempting to delete a Script Module that is used by one or more Projects.
  • 2134 - Tentacle.exe register-with handshake request no longer throws an exception if we successfully connect to Octopus
  • 2135 - Fix bug causing DeployFailed.ps1 to always execute (if present) regardless of failure state
  • 2139 - Calamari now falls back to use AesManaged to decrypt sensitive variables if AesCryptoServiceProvider is not available from PowerShell.

Changes in Octopus Server 3.2.1

  • 1529 - Variable snapshots will be used when resolving packages for an existing release
  • 1952 - Calamari semaphores should now be more globally accessible by prepending the Global\ name prefix
  • 1974 - Inserting a variable into script as the last action before saving will persist the changes correctly
  • 2010 - Users missing MachineView permission can still deploy a release however without any specific machine related functionality.
  • 2049 - Registering a polling Tentacle via Tentacle Manager will fail when it cannot reach the Octopus Server communications port
  • 2059 - When performing server side retention policy, the deployment information is loaded in batches to avoid hitting SQL Max 2100 parameters exception.
  • 2070 - Importing a pfx for Azure accounts with no private key included will fail with message before persisting.
  • 2080 - Bugfix for JS script error caused by race condition on deployment page
  • 2095 - Dropdown controls with default values now show the default value instead of showing the control as being bound
  • 2098 - Users can now Promote to Environment when their team is scoped to environments
  • 2116 - Enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 https connections from the Octopus Server.

Changes in Octopus Server 3.2.0

  • 1503 - A Lifecycle can be specified when creating a project with Octo.exe
  • 1534 - Prompted variables can be specified by name or label when deploying a release using Octo.exe
  • 1613 - Fixed misleading help text in Octopus TeamCity plugin
  • 1931 - Fixed error message in Octo.exe that referenced Project Group instead of Lifecycle
  • 1957 - Channels feature. 'Channels' is the name we've given to the set of features discussed in our branching RFC. See our Release 3.2 blog post for more information.
  • 2034 - Lifecycles with no phase or empty phases will correctly restrict permissions for users who do not have access to environments in those lifecycles
  • 2108 - Updated Octopus.Client.nupkg to correctly depend on Newtonsoft.Json 7.0.1.
  • 2110 - Tentacle Health Checks will no longer fail on non-English Windows machines when testing for membership in the Built-in Administrators role.
  • 2111 - Link to environments page in Calamari upgrade message on deployment creation page is now correct.

Changes in Octopus Server 3.1.7

  • 1890 - By default bind Tentacles to both IPv6 and IPv4 address to allow communication over both protocols
  • 2106 - File operation errors (such as copying files) will fail the deployment
  • 2107 - Removed useDefaultProxyCredentials from config file which was causing Calamari to crash upon starting under mono.