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Compare releases and check for compatibility between your existing Octopus Server and new releases.
What's new
These are the most important features you'll get by upgrading from 3.8.9 to 3.9.0
Octopus 3.9
Changes in 3.9
Improvements
- Support for Azure environments - Fields added to Azure Accounts to support additional non-global endpoints when using Azure environments, such as Azure China and Germany.
- Auto-deploy improvements for HA - More inclusive auto-deploy rules to account for multiple HA nodes and database commit contention.
- Project Trigger permissions - Project Triggers now include their own set of permissions.
Upgrading
Read the upgrade guide for more details on upgrading from your current version to Octopus 3.9.
Database upgrade notice for large installations Auto-deploy improvements for HA adds a new IDENTITY column to the Event table as well as new Event table indexes, so this may take time to populate during the database upgrade.
Octopus 3.8
Changes in 3.8
Improvements
- Auto-deploy improvements - More inclusive auto-deploy rules to account for long-running deployments scenarios.
Upgrading
Read the upgrade guide for more details on upgrading from your current version to Octopus 3.8.
Release notes
These are the features and fixes you'll get by upgrading from 3.8.9 to 3.9.0.
Changes in Octopus Server 3.9.0
- 2507 - More detail is output for errors that occur during a guided deployment
- 2628 - Added fields to the Azure Accounts to override the endpoints when using alternate Azure environments
- 2885 - Deployment continues after retrying 10 times in guided failure mode
- 3083 - Adding a new set of permissions for Project Triggers
- 3140 - Fix for event-sourcing logic in auto-deploy and subscriptions (for HA scenarios)
- 3148 - Octo.exe now looks for all supported package types when using
--PackagesFolderwith the pack command - 3162 - Fix to make long release names wrap on the dashboard
- 3164 - Remove html tags from license error messages
- 3166 - Allow leading zeros in pre-release versions when creating a release
Changes in Octopus Server 3.8.9
- 2649 - Fix to show the Azure Web App name when editing the deployment step
- 2801 - Bugfix causing deployment step to think changes need to be saved after initial page load.
- 2816 - Improving the Azure Resource Group step's template validation for array types
- 2931 - Allow changing the machine endpoint type when registering an existing machine name with the Tentacle installer
- 2992 - Adding information to Azure step type screens for scenarios when target roles are selected
- 3138 - Bugfix to handle Docker for Windows requiring long name parameters
- 3144 - Correctly redirect 3rd party login to dashboard after logging out and back in again.
- 3146 - Fixed spelling mistake in task logs when a step is disabled
- 3157 - Improve the performance of creating a polling Tentacle with the installer when there are many machines
- 3161 - Fixed a problem which could cause high CPU usage in retention policy processing with a large number of Projects, Channels, and Lifecycles
- 3165 - Support the Docker Stop feature with Docker for Windows