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• 2302 - OctoStache update to include variable use in indexer and conditional comparison changes (see issue for usage)
• 2323 - Filter environments shown on the Promote button according to the users permissions
• 2337 - Don't alter variables when sanitizing entered hostnames for IIS bindings
• 2453 - Octopus now supports substituting objects, arrays, boolean and numeric values in JSON files
• 2492 - Octopus now supports substituting properties with colons in their name in JSON files
• 2554 - Azure Web App step now supports specifying Resource Group
• 2573 - Fix running Powershell tasks blocking the Tentacle port if Tentacle restarts
• 2599 - Fix Calamari saving ASCII files as UTF-8 with a BOM when doing substitutions on Linux
• 2604 - Block deletion of Environments that have deployment steps scoped to them, rather than removing the steps

• 2570 - Adding flags to the migrator to allow exporting and importing of task logs
• 2592 - Errors are now logged more consistently regardless of whether the failed deployment step was running on a Deployment Target or the Octopus Server

• 2296 - Allow the Deployments API endpoint to be filtered by ChannelId and return ChannelId in the result
• 2418 - Retention policies now retain the correct number of undeployed Releases for each individual Channel
• 2495 - Fail deployment when an included Script Module has a syntax error
• 2502 - Added ability to pass parameters to custom script files
• 2524 - Fixed an issue with Halibut that would cause Polling Tentacle upgrades to stall/freeze under certain conditions
• 2545 - Set Octopus.Action.PowerShell.ExecuteWithoutProfile to true on a project to not run the Tentacle service account's PowerShell profile script when running PowerShell script steps
• 2569 - Updates to the 'Configure dashboard’ screen to be more user-friendly with long project names
• 2571 - Show projects with running deployments on the dashboard even if they are beyond the 50 project limit
• 2574 - Release and Task screens correctly retain the page selections for lists (e.g. Artifacts and History)
• 2577 - The Octopus VSTS plugin now correctly logs deployment progress when Show Deployment Progress is checked
• 2580 - Removed the time limit for Azure deployment retries, and set it to always retry 3 times
• 2589 - Tasks that are canceled whilst waiting for other tasks to complete will now cancel when requested

• 1872 - Octopus.Deployment.Error now contains better information if a parallel step fails
• 2332 - Run the Octopus installer from the command line with RUNMANAGERONEXIT=no to prevent the Octopus Manager from running
• 2527 - Add a note to Azure account selection when a particular Azure account type is required
• 2548 - Always show projects with failing deployments on the dashboard and allow the limit to be changed
• 2557 - Octopus displays a message if queuing a system integrity check fails due to permissions
• 2563 - System integrity check now ignores objects in the sys schema
• 2564 - Ensured all database tables are in the dbo schema even when the creating user has a different default schema
• 2566 - Fixed the population of the events list on the deployment status page
• 2567 - Logged a warning when the result of an XML config transform results in a file without a root node
• 2568 - Made the temporary file creation and deletion on deployment more robust

• 2559 - Fixed an error that occurs during the schema integrity check
• 2560 - Fix Calamari converting ASCII files to UTF8 during variable substitution

• 2475 - Offline deployments now honour retention policies
• 2520 - Prevent Releases being created when a Project is disabled
• 2530 - Calamari fixes for file encoding during variable substitution
• 2533 - Octo.exe now ensures that packageversion, if specified, is a semantic version
• 2542 - Added additional transaction logging to help investigate potential SQL deadlock situations
• 2543 - Calamari no longer crashes if Mono fails while finding earlier packages
• 2544 - Added a system integrity check task that does some basic data and schema validation
• 2546 - Removed performance bottleneck when evaluating variables after all machines have completed a step
• 2553 - Database schema fix for potentially incorrect column length
• 2555 - Fixed an issue where the server would not close SQL connections

• 2341 - Added ability to export permissions as a csv file on the Test Permissions page
• 2506 - Fixed validation on the SMTP Port to prevent the exception when the field is blank

• 2516 - Improved error messages for incorrectly named packages
• 2523 - Fixed HA secondary node servers not trusting newly added polling tentacles
• 2534 - Fixed slowness when channels referenced a deployment step

• 2528 - Fixed a performance problem related to 2484 which could cause Octopus upgrades to 3.3.11 and above to be slow
• 2529 - Added diagnostics logging for long running requests and queries

Warning: Some upgrade scripts in this release may take some time to run. Please account for this when you choose your upgrade window.

• 2347 - Allow Markdown formatting for NuGet package release-notes
• 2400 - Added example of relative path for script file location in package to on-screen documentation
• 2424 - Prevent Octopus working files (e.g. variables.json, bootstrap.ps1, etc) from syncing during Azure deployments.
• 2433 - List all Script Modules rather than only the top 30
• 2461 - Allow editing of window size for subsequent parallel steps
• 2472 - Limited the number of projects shown on the dashboard to 50 and added a group and project filter if there are more than 50 projects
• 2503 - octo.exe now handles cases where there are more than 30 channels in a project (and a few other cases where we neglected to paginate properly) affecting create-channel, create-release, deploy-release, delete-releases, export and import
• 2504 - The breadcrumb link on Configuration pages now redirects to the correct page
• 2505 - Modified the dashboard query to resolve timeouts
• 2510 - Fixed a regression where packages only required on the server in one step, but required on a machine in another step were not being downloaded to the server
• 2511 - Fail cleanly if environment handed to octo.exe clean-environment is not found
• 2515 - Added poll-server command to Tentacle to configure polling multiple servers
• 2518 - You can now set the Octopus.Action.PowerShell.CustomPowerShellVersion variable, and your PowerShell scripts will be invoked with the -version flag

• 2351 - Changed Audit filter behaviour to include results that matched all filters provided
• 2371 - Extended octo.exe delete-releases command to accept one or more --channel parameters
• 2373 - Fixed the setting of the Octopus.Tentacle.Agent.InstanceName and Octopus.Tentacle.Agent.ProgramDirectoryPath variables and added the TentacleProgramDirectoryPath Environment Variable
• 2382 - Improved the documentation for the --environment option for tentacle.exe register-with command
• 2383 - Correctly show port number for listening Tentacles in the Tentacle Manager and updated path information to hyperlinks
• 2444 - Unnecessary call to /api/reporting/ when rendering /#app/projects
• 2485 - Fixed semaphore access when running multiple instances of Tentacle as different users
• 2489 - Fixed the visibility of the paging control on the User Roles page
• 2493 - Added octo.exe create-channel command to make it easier to create channels from build servers for per-branch channels (like feature branches)
• 2494 - octo.exe create-release command extended to automatically select the best channel for the release, or fail with details on how to create it successfully

• 2342 - Guest user not automatically being added to Everyone
• 2409 - Long variables overlay history in release page
• 2436 - Environment restriction from team membership should not override access granted by Administrators membership
• 2459 - Same package in multiple steps downloads package multiple times on Tentacle
• 2464 - Pushing a package with NuGet 3.4 causes a 500 error
• 2465 - The packages api ignores the take and skip parameters
• 2474 - Bug fixes to importer when encountering key-collisions and updating validation logic for frozen deployment processes and variable sets.
• 2481 - Fixed issue with upgrader failing when there are orphaned channels
• 2483 - Tentacle.exe to allow TLS 1.2 comms
• 2484 - Related to 2417 we will automatically fix broken channel references in cloned projects, by linking to a channel with the exact same name, and delete any references which cannot be fixed automatically so you can fix them yourself

• 2329 - No longer use $key as a variable name in bootstrap scripts so we don't clash with customer scripts.
• 2473 - Fixed issue where existing script step templates caused validation errors when adding them to a step

• 2191 - Fixed issue with the client deserializing VariableValues sent from pre-3.1.6 servers
• 2462 - Improved the date bounds checking when determining the creation date of a nupkg or zip archive
• 2466 - Note in the Version validation error message that pre-release tags starting with a number are not allowed
• 2467 - Service deployment fail if directory or service name contains spaces

• 2300 - Add new variable Octopus.Action.Package.InstallationDirectoryPath as replacement for Package.InstallationDirectoryPath
• 2438 - Switching a script step from "script in package" to "inline script" should not attempt to download the package
• 2443 - Add support for "No Managed code" for App Pool .NET CLR
• 2446 - Allow parallel SSH tasks to take place on targets with different fingerprints.
• 2451 - Audit event references should be mapped to to the new IDs
• 2452 - When steps are deleted or renamed, the channel rule references to them should update
• 2457 - Bugfix for variables grid not expanding to full width
• 2460 - 3.3.7 Upgrade fails on script steps with sensitive variables

• 2434 - Allowing packages deployed to SSH targets to exceed 2GB in size

• 2432 - Fix to allow custom expressions in Nuget feeds for projects on import/export
• 2439 - Authentication token no longer expires during long running Azure Resource Group deployments

• 2278 - An additional warning will be logged if a release is not automatically created due to the package version being the greatest/maximum
• 2312 - Variables link not added to Deployment resource if variable-set is no longer available.
• 2396 - Configured scripts in package steps now support Unicode characters.
• 2399 - Importing scripts now succeeds even if the project has the same name as something else (such as lifecycle or project group)
• 2429 - Tentacle Manager now supports all TLS versions
• 2430 - Task start time displayed on hover incorrectly shows queued time rather than start time
• 2431 - The “Run on” radio button in a script template step now retains its selection after updating to a new version of the template
• 2437 - Fixed a bug that broke Project cloning in certain circumstances with an ArgumentNullException

• 2392 - You can now configure your Authentication Mode (Username/Password or Active Directory) when adding a node to an Octopus HA cluster using the wizard
• 2403 - You can now choose whether to use Timestamp or Checksum for WebDeploy to Azure Web App, and the default has been changed to Timestamp when creating new Azure Web App steps
• 2415 - When creating a deployment channels will now be taken into account when validating the deployment process
• 2417 - When cloning a Project the Channels will now be correctly re-mapped for Project Variables and Automatic Release Creation
• 2423 - Fixed an issue that prevented you from saving Azure Web App deployment targets with the error 'Web Space' should not be empty
• 2426 - Prevent integer-overflow error during long-running Azure Resource Group deployments.
• 2427 - Octo.exe Update channels information in steps that have been scoped to a channel when importing a project

• 2391 - Add missing repositories (Channels, Accounts, Retention Policies, Defects and Server Nodes) to OctopusRepository in Octopus.Client
• 2404 - Fix Javascript error preventing uploading of custom Azure Resource Manager certificates
• 2405 - Removed paging from channels so that more than 30 can be used at a time
• 2407 - Allow script steps that run on the server to be run across roles as a standalone step or as the first action in a rolling deployment
• 2410 - Octo.exe Import and export project channels when running the project import and export commands
• 2411 - Add push command to Octo.exe and a push package build runner to the Octopus Deploy TeamCity plugin
• 2412 - When the NuGetFeed for a Package Step is set to a channel-scoped variable, it will now be resolved correctly when creating a release in those channels
• 2414 - Adds support for TLS protocols for Octo.exe to communicate with TLS-only installations of Octopus Server

• 2376 - Fixed scenarios that were failing when the host server is required to be FIPS 140 compliant
• 2390 - On-screen help text added to Azure PowerShell step explaining Service Management cmdlets can't be used with Service Principal accounts and Resource Manager cmdlets can't be used with Management Certificate accounts
• 2395 - Immediately executing code in Script Modules now have access to Octopus Variables
• 2398 - Exporting a step template is now prevented until any changes are saved
• 2402 - Fixed an issue that was preventing Calamari from updating on multiple SSH endpoints due to a file lock

• 641 - Email, Manual Steps and Azure Powershell steps can now be executed in a rolling step. Also added support to run a PowerShell Script on the Octopus Server.
• 2069 - Enable Azure Active Directory auth for Azure Accounts
• 2091 - Show warning if file is missing during config transformation
• 2133 - Azure Resource Group deployment step type
• 2183 - Support .zip and .tar.gz package formats
• 2189 - Script step embedded in a NuGet package
• 2304 - Support for ASP.NET Core

• 2345 - Corrected instructions for pushing packages via the api to the built-in repository
• 2354 - Improve the error message when using the JSON config feature and a folder is specified as the target file
• 2355 - Delete parameters that have been renamed/removed from the action properties collection
• 2356 - The selected Resource Group in the “Deploy an Azure Resource Group” step now binds correctly when editing an existing step
• 2357 - The display of long parameter names for Azure Resource Manager templates will now wrap instead of overflowing underneath the input control
• 2359 - The display of Web Apps in the select list has been updated to display the Region and Resource Group (where available)
• 2363 - The http://ASP.NET|ASP.NET Core JSON AppSettings feature is now the JSON configuration variables feature
• 2364 - JSON config feature only replaces variables it can find instead of inserting all available project variables
• 2374 - Invoke Set-AzureRmContext when authenticating with service-principal

• 2231 - The Active Directory user groups cache will now be invalidated for a user when they explicitly Sign Out from the Octopus Server, forcing a foreground refresh on their next Sign In
• 2318 - Added ability to delete Octopus Server high-availability nodes via the API
• 2334 - The Octopus data importer/migrator is now more reliable when detecting duplicate historical data with key collisions
• 2362 - Updated the Octopus Server node screen to properly report task counts
• 2384 - Fixed open redirect bug in the Octopus web portal integrated authentication process