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What's new

These are the most important features you'll get by upgrading from 3.12.9 to 3.13.9

Octopus 3.13

Changes in 3.13

New Features

We are excited to announce that Octopus now includes first-class support for Deploying Azure Service Fabric applications.

New deployment steps include:

  • Deploying a Service Fabric App (learn more)
  • Running a Service Fabric SDK PowerShell Script (learn more)

You can also read our guide on Continuous Integration for Service Fabric.

Improvements

  • You can now enable HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)
  • You can now configure optional lifecycle phases
  • We have improved browser caching of expensive operations like loading the dashboard
  • The message on the deployment overview can now be customised, refer to failing a script with a message
  • You can now edit the state of a task from the task screen by providing the new task state and the reason for the change.
  • You can now configure channel-indexed version templates so you can use a consistent version scheme across channels

Breaking Changes

Please note there is a minor breaking change in this release around the show-configuration command. This will only affect customers who use the show-configuration command for things like automating Octopus Server installation and configuration.

Octopus.Storage.NodeName has been corrected to be Octopus.Server.NodeName.

See this GitHub Issue for more details.

Upgrading

Read the upgrade guide for more details on upgrading from your current version to Octopus 3.13.

Octopus 3.12

Changes in 3.12

New Features

Improvements

Upgrading

Read the upgrade guide for more details on upgrading from your current version to Octopus 3.12.

Release notes

These are the features and fixes you'll get by upgrading from 3.12.9 to 3.13.9.

Changes in Octopus Server 3.13.9

  • 3433 - Improved Lifecycle API validation to ensure environments are valid
  • 3449 - Only child steps can be moved into rolling deployments. Azure Resource Group steps can now be child steps as well
  • 3473 - Azure Resource Group deployments now generate unique deployment names
  • 3519 - Bugfix allowing blocked deployments to continue phase progression
  • 3529 - Fixed error 65532 when running Tentacle upgrades on PowerShell v2
  • 3530 - You can now upgrade the database schema using the Octopus.Server.exe database --upgrade command
  • 3534 - Fixed orphaned tenanted deployment integrity check - now it ignores un-tenanted deployments from the test
  • 3536 - Improved performance of writing task logs by about 10%
  • 3537 - Fixed a JavaScript problem with the Azure Service Fabric step's hamburger menu
  • 3539 - Improved performance for each HTTP request by reducing memory allocations

Changes in Octopus Server 3.13.8

  • 2943 - Allow some files to be retained when purging a custom installation directory
  • 3048 - Selecting release on multi-tenant project dashboard will now update the dashboard
  • 3101 - Tenanted deployments are now cascade deleted when the tenant is deleted
  • 3210 - Errors when applying retention-policy on deployments targets now treated as warnings, and will not fail the deployment
  • 3249 - Resolved issues with filtering tenants list in portal
  • 3347 - Log relevant error message if trying to import certificate into Root store for user
  • 3401 - "Document type" added as filter for audit log and subscriptions
  • 3402 - Improved description of the permissions table on the permission test page
  • 3479 - Added a link to help for dynamic package feeds
  • 3496 - We now explicitly mention that IIS step supports Websites, Web Applications and Virtual Directories
  • 3504 - Add the ability to export the audit log as a CSV file
  • 3508 - 'Send an Email' step summary shows now only teams selected by the user
  • 3510 - We now explicitly tell the user that release deletion will remove deployments from all dashboards
  • 3514 - Fix Lifecycle required to progress details not saving correctly
  • 3516 - Made it easier to see the options to upload packages to the built-in package repository
  • 3528 - Ensuring a channel belongs to a project upon release creation is now case insensitive

Changes in Octopus Server 3.13.7

  • 3435 - Step template can't be deleted now if any of its versions are in use
  • 3469 - Resolved slow deployment times introduced in 3.12.8, caused by Calamari checking certificate-revocation-lists for signed assemblies
  • 3919 - Fixed a XSS vulnerability with the All Variables Tab (CVE-2017-16810)

Changes in Octopus Server 3.13.6

  • 3500 - Display help text for project variable template when viewing tenant variables
  • 3502 - Fix syntax highlighting for variable value editor

Changes in Octopus Server 3.13.5

  • 3498 - Resolved error when deploying old versions of step templates introduced in 3.13.4
  • 3286 - Editing ‘environment scoped’ variables in a variable set no longer needs EnvironmentEdit permission
  • 3357 - Enabled certificate parameters to step templates
  • 3396 - Removed broken 'Create variable' link from certificate step template parameters
  • 3414 - Only remove SSL certitificate from the website that the HTTPS binding is removed from
  • 3467 - Auto deploy will no longer attempt deployment to machines without roles relevant to the deployment
  • 3478 - Error reason will be shown when license signature could not be verified
  • 3480 - Health checks now log any machines that could not be checked because of tenant permission restrictions
  • 3484 - Variables with colons can now be used as Web Site and App Pool names
  • 3485 - 0 will no longer be repeatedly written to deployment logs for IIS deployments
  • 3486 - Fixed typo in the scheduled task tip
  • 3490 - Fixed a performance problem where both an unbounded and paginated SQL query were issued for some requests
  • 3492 - Fixed a Service Fabric upgrade bug where we were using an incorrect argument

Changes in Octopus Server 3.13.3

  • 3460 - IIS Website Step no longer hides Physical Path after upgrading
  • 3481 - The web UI now detects a missing anti-forgery cookie as part of signing in and shows a helpful error message
  • 3482 - Fixed issue where tenants could not skip optional Lifecycle phases

Changes in Octopus Server 3.13.2

  • 3463 - Existing action data is displayed correctly and community step updates are versioned now
  • 3468 - Tweaks to Tentacle upgrade process to diagnose error 65532
  • 3471 - Manual action template merge updates now all relevant properties

Changes in Octopus Server 3.13.1

  • 2551 - Fixed a race condition that caused re-packing of deployments to fail (eg Azure deployments)
  • 3411 - Improved validation around IIS deployment step variables
  • 3464 - Package transfers will no longer appear to be in progress if a task fails or is canceled
  • 3465 - Package transfers from Octopus to Tentacle no longer retry when the task is canceled
  • 3466 - Tentacle can now bypass the proxy when registering as a polling tentacle

Changes in Octopus Server 3.13.0

  • 2380 - Added ability to override a task status
  • 2630 - Adding verbose logging around Azure module logs
  • 3293 - Deploy a cluster application for Service Fabric
  • 3294 - Run adhoc PowerShell scripts for Service Fabric
  • 3295 - Support Client Certificates as a security mode for Service Fabric
  • 3296 - Support Azure AD as a security mode for Service Fabric
  • 3297 - Automated application versioning for Service Fabric
  • 3298 - On-prem support added for Service Fabric
  • 3389 - Improve performance of dashboard by leveraging browser caching
  • 3400 - Avoid refreshing dashboard page if window is not visible
  • 3442 - Reference versions from other channels in Release Version Template
  • 3444 - Add missing property Octopus.Communications.WebSocketPrefix to output of show-configuration command
  • 3445 - Breaking change: Corrected Octopus.Storage.NodeName property in show-configuration output to be Octopus.Server.NodeName
  • 3453 - Regression in license limiting for special licenses
  • 3457 - IE9 and IE10 users are warned that their browsers won't be supported in Octopus 4

Changes in Octopus Server 3.12.9

  • 3185 - Excluding a machine from a deployment will no longer exclude that machine from a subsequent auto-deploy of the same deployment
  • 3418 - Audit messages now record extra details (differences) when documents are created and deleted
  • 3452 - Fix not being able to add more than one environment to a machine at a time
  • 3455 - Tenant count is now displayed correctly on the main dashboard