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What's new

These are the most important features you'll get by upgrading from 3.7.18 to 3.8.6

Octopus 3.8

Changes in 3.8

Improvements

Upgrading

Read the upgrade guide for more details on upgrading from your current version to Octopus 3.8.

Octopus 3.7

Changes in 3.7

New Features

Improvements

Upgrading

Read the upgrade guide for more details on upgrading from your current version to Octopus 3.7.

Release notes

These are the features and fixes you'll get by upgrading from 3.7.18 to 3.8.6.

Changes in Octopus Server 3.8.6

  • 2626 - Rolling deployments can have now window size bound to a variable
  • 3006 - You can now configure the retry attempts used when downloading packages from external NuGet feeds
  • 3072 - Improved performance when downloading packages from external NuGet feeds over HTTP, we no longer query the feed for all versions of a package
  • 3091 - Running a health check step for a particular role will no longer exclude machines in other roles from the deployment
  • 3106 - The NetworkStream is now closed properly when downloading packages from external NuGet feeds over HTTP
  • 3121 - Fixed step failures due to network problems with polling Tentacles not being promptly reported
  • 3123 - Added table support to the Markdown filter in variable replacement
  • 3124 - Resolved issue with task logs not being migrated for 2.6 > 3.x migrations
  • 3126 - Web Application and Virtual Deployment step now retries if there is an error finding the parent site
  • 3127 - Fixed a problem causing high CPU usage during the "Apply Retention Policy" task
  • 3128 - Resolved Octopus Manager import error importing feeds when feed exists in target
  • 3130 - On Server 2016 Tentacles Calamari now supports extracting packages resulting in long paths
  • 3131 - image/x-icon and image/svg+xml MIME types are now supported for Octopus Manager export/import

Changes in Octopus Server 3.8.5

  • 2959 - Credentials are no longer cached for NuGet feeds
  • 3098 - Upon cancellation tasks now wait until all sub tasks are complete before being marked as cancelled
  • 3118 - Update UI to avoid browser reloading between project tabs

Changes in Octopus Server 3.8.4

  • 2425 - Long target names don't overlap each other anymore.
  • 3112 - Allow saving project variable templates when user is scoped to projects or environments
  • 3114 - Variables can be scoped now to disabled steps

Changes in Octopus Server 3.8.3

  • 2468 - Immediately return logs if an automatic Tentacle upgrade fails
  • 2811 - Add support for Nuget and Zip packages greater than 4Gb in size
  • 2905 - Deployment now fails when the type of a custom package deployment script (not one bundled inside the package) is not compatible with the target machine
  • 3029 - Show a confirmation dialog when deleting an environment if there are variables that are scoped just to that environment
  • 3089 - Correctly evaluate #{if Variable} substitutions if there is whitespace between the variable and the closing brace
  • 3104 - Fixed UI bug that was incorrectly showing the environment condition control on rolling steps.
  • 3108 - De-duplicate email lists provided to the email Step

Changes in Octopus Server 3.8.2

  • 2929 - Fixed validation on step deletion, so steps that are being used for Auto Release Creation or Release Numbering cannot be deleted
  • 3069 - Check all columns use default database collation before upgrading
  • 3084 - Fixed a bug where the NancyContext would not be disposed if the underlying HttpListenerRequest failed to close
  • 3085 - Try to log web request context when unhandled exceptions are thrown in the web server
  • 3097 - Fixed a bug where a SQL Database transaction was held open for the life of the Octopus Server which was a potential cause for tempdb growth
  • 3099 - Resolved issue where no tenants were available for deployment when tenant view permissions did not match tenant deploy permissions

Changes in Octopus Server 3.8.1

  • 2784 - Correctly populate Octopus.Deployment.PreviousSuccessful.Id when the previous deployment failed
  • 3028 - Tenant counter is now visible on the dashboard
  • 3049 - Created a set of system variables containing information about the last successfully installed package
  • 3073 - Fixed a regression with the console output for the show-configuration command
  • 3080 - Fixed timeout with health checks on tenanted machines

Changes in Octopus Server 3.8.0

  • 3013 - Fix for auto-deploy to be more inclusive of machines when dealing with deployment-blocked scenarios
  • 3077 - Fix Javascript issue breaking the rolling deployment step page.
  • 3061 - Server side package download is not stopped when the deployment is cancelled

Changes in Octopus Server 3.7.18

  • 3035 - Do not provide default values for certain connection string parameters if they have been specified in the connection string
  • 3068 - Disabled steps are now marked as skipped during deployment
  • 3070 - Fatal errors in during deployment now show more detail