Harness Release Notes Summaries
Explore release notes from the last 30 days across the Harness Platform and modules.
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Platform Release Notes
Platform
View full release notes →Security & Access Control
- Configure notifications for service account token events such as creation, rotation, and expiration across your preferred channels.
- Fixed an issue where policy evaluation warnings for service accounts and API keys were not properly displayed in the user interface.
Performance & Consistency
- Optimized the List Environments API to reduce response times and prevent timeouts by streamlining permission checks.
- Enhanced configuration consistency across the platform by making module name matching case-insensitive.
User Interface Improvements
- Resolved an issue where editing a Custom Secrets Manager could trigger a blank error popup when template variables were modified.
Delegate
View full release notes →Cloud Connectivity
- Resolved connectivity issues for S3 plugins using AWS IAM role-based authentication.
- Fixed a regional endpoint issue for EKS cluster discovery when using cross-account AWS connectors.
Deployment Orchestration
- Improved the stability and resilience of GitOps rollout steps when handling transient errors.
- Fixed an issue in Kubernetes Blue/Green deployments where Istio destination ports were not preserved during traffic shifts and swaps.
Security & Core Tooling
- Upgraded Helm V3 to incorporate the latest security patches and performance enhancements.
- Improved artifact handling by verifying the size of locally cached files before use.
- Added a configuration to prioritize Secret Manager delegate selection for more reliable decryption during Git operations.
Logging & Observability
- Enhanced log streaming to maintain structured fields and context in JSON output.
- Fixed a cosmetic display issue where pull request links appeared malformed in console logs.
Delegate (Closed Beta)
View full release notes →General Updates
- Refer to the dedicated release notes page for a comprehensive overview of the latest enhancements and fixes for the Delegate module.
Code Repository
View full release notes →Security & Access Control
- Restricted forked repositories to private visibility to prevent accidental exposure of sensitive source code.
- Ensured branch protection rules are consistently enforced when using full branch references.
- Added support for public repositories, enabling unauthenticated access to files, commits, and pull requests.
Repository Insights
- Added a programming language breakdown to repository summary pages, with automatic detection for imported projects.
- Enabled pagination for commit lists when comparing branches or viewing pull requests to support large change sets.
Workflows & Pull Requests
- Improved error messaging for branch creation to clearly explain naming requirements and identify invalid characters.
- Resolved an issue where file attachments in pull request descriptions were lost when using templates or AI-generated summaries.
- Fixed an issue that prevented selecting validation pipelines in branch rules until the pipeline had been triggered at least once.
API Improvements
- Updated the fork-sync API to provide specific feedback when merge conflicts are detected.
- Resolved errors in the repository listing API that occurred when paginating through forks of deleted repositories.
- Fixed an issue where the repository listing would fail if a forked repository's source had been removed.
- Refined the gitignore template API to exclude non-template files and improve error handling.
- Standardized API response codes for fork-related operations to ensure consistency.
Performance & Stability
- Optimized Git LFS performance by streaming content during file uploads, significantly reducing memory usage for large files.
- Implemented size validation for status check reports to ensure system stability and prevent processing issues.
AI for DevOps & Automation
Continuous Delivery & GitOps
View full release notes →Cloud & Infrastructure
- Streamlined AWS connector validation by removing the requirement for region description permissions.
- Added support for ECS Scheduled Actions to enable time-based auto-scaling policies in ECS deployments.
- Introduced a dedicated ECS Scale step to adjust service capacity without requiring a full deployment stage.
- Support for WinRM Host Groups allows for distinct credentials to be assigned to different server groups in Physical Data Center deployments.
- Google Cloud Storage is now supported as a manifest source for Managed Instance Group deployments.
- Ensured the Terraform Provider respects configured delegate selectors for better identity isolation in multi-account setups.
Deployment & Verification
- Improved decryption capabilities for Helm deployments by exposing value overrides to service hooks.
- Resolved an issue where one incorrect secret reference could prevent all secrets from rendering in Helm deployments.
- Fixed an error in Canary verification by correctly filtering metrics that lack service instance details.
- Ensured Kubernetes rollout logs stream continuously in the interface until the deployment process is finished.
- Improved deployment reliability by validating the file size of cached artifacts before reuse.
- Restored the ability to access non-default branches for monitored service templates.
Security & Governance
- Automatically mask Terraform output fields in the pipeline view when they are marked as sensitive in the configuration.
- Improved secret decryption in multi-account environments by ensuring the correct delegate is prioritized during Git operations.
Pipeline Management & AI
- Harness AI can now diagnose and suggest fixes for setup errors in GitOps applications and pipeline stages.
- Added new notification events to alert users when a pipeline is waiting for approvals or manual intervention.
- Resolved an issue that prevented the selection of environment groups in the pipeline configuration.
- Improved the reliability of Jenkins triggers to ensure pipeline success statuses are consistently received.
- Updated the execution history API documentation to provide clear, consistent filters and status types.
Continuous Integration
View full release notes →Security & Compliance
- Restricted the ability to mount secrets through Kubernetes pod spec overlay YAML to enhance security.
- Upgraded core engine dependencies to address known security vulnerabilities.
- Improved the security of the Artifactory and Kaniko plugins by updating their underlying runtimes.
- Addressed a high-severity security vulnerability in the cache proxy service.
Build Caching & Performance
- Added support for Azure Blob Storage in Cache Intelligence using principal and OIDC-based authentication.
- Introduced automatic dependency caching for Go builds running on Linux.
- Added new pipeline steps to save and restore build caches using Azure Blob Storage.
- Resolved a compatibility issue that caused certain Bazel builds to fail when using the cache plugin.
- Fixed Docker Layer Caching functionality when using Google Cloud Storage as a backend with various cloud registries.
- Resolved a permission error in the cache proxy that prevented build cache usage from being recorded.
Pipeline Visibility & UI
- Added real-time CPU and memory utilization metrics to the execution view for Harness Cloud builds.
- Enabled real-time status updates for steps within container-based step groups during execution.
- Updated Harness Cloud build logs to display descriptive machine size names instead of internal labels.
Infrastructure & Integrations
- Docker build and push plugins now automatically detect and apply Harness proxy settings.
- Fixed an issue preventing build status updates from being reported to Bitbucket when using specific API authentication methods.
- Ensured that read-only volume mount settings are correctly applied to Kubernetes build pods.
- Fixed an issue where custom health check timeouts were not honored during pipeline execution.
Build Management & Versioning
- Introduced branch-based version counters to allow independent build numbering for different branches.
- Enabled branch-based versioning for pipelines without a defined codebase by utilizing trigger event data.
Infrastructure as Code Management
View full release notes →Documentation & Resources
- Updated documentation for this release period is now available on the Infrastructure as Code Management release notes page.
Artifact Registry
View full release notes →Documentation & Resources
- Access the full list of recent enhancements and fixes through the official Artifact Registry release documentation.
AI for Testing & Resilience
Feature Management & Experimentation
View full release notes →Standardization & Governance
- Implement Policy as Code to define and manage feature flag standards across the organization.
- Ensure consistent application of organizational rules across all projects.
- Access a library of sample policies to quickly establish governance best practices.
- Adopt centralized governance to streamline how feature flags are managed at scale.
Auditing & Compliance
- Review a full history of policy evaluations, including all successful, warned, and failed save attempts.
- Customize enforcement behaviors by choosing to either warn developers or block actions when policies are violated.
Configuration Validation
- Prevent flag misconfigurations, such as missing owners or invalid naming, before they reach production.
- Automatically validate targeting rules, rollout percentages, and treatment configurations at the time of saving.
Workspace Organization
- Improve project navigation by hiding retired feature flags from primary views and rollout boards.
- Reduce visual clutter in projects that contain a high volume of feature flags.
Feature Flags
View full release notes →Documentation Updates
- Updated the Feature Flags release notes documentation to provide a centralized view of the latest product enhancements and resolved issues.
Chaos Engineering
View full release notes →Configuration & Customization
- Added experiment variables to the side navigation for easier access.
- Enabled support for expressions within experiments and templates.
- Added support for user-defined variables and utility functions across faults, templates, and probes.
- Improved fault template management to better support variable usage.
- Resolved an issue where inputs were not correctly fetched when adding custom faults in Disaster Recovery stages.
User Interface & Experience
- Fixed layout issues in the Chaos Studio Graph to prevent nodes from overlapping.
- Streamlined the user experience by merging Linux migration settings into a single interface.
- Fixed a display bug where scheduled task times were incorrectly showing as AM instead of PM.
Performance & Reliability
- Improved validation for load tests to ensure they only run when explicitly configured.
- Optimized database indexing to prevent execution timeouts and improve experiment reliability.
- Updated core execution plane components for enhanced security and performance.
- Updated core system components and drivers to improve overall platform stability.
Integrations & Monitoring
- Added user interface support for Splunk observability probes.
Platform & Access
- Fixed an issue preventing the subscription page from loading correctly due to authentication errors.
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Mobile & Notifications
- Released native mobile apps for iOS and Android to manage, acknowledge, and resolve incidents on the go.
- Added support for SMS, voice calls, and push notifications for on-call alerts.
- Introduced a centralized view of all active pages to track responder status and escalation progress from the sidebar.
- Enabled critical alert overrides for mobile notifications to bypass Do Not Disturb settings.
Incident Response & On-Call
- Enabled service subscriptions to provide automated status updates to stakeholders during active incidents.
- Updated escalation policies to allow targeting individual users alongside groups and schedules.
- Added the ability to customize incident severity levels and alert priority mappings to match organizational standards.
- Restructured documentation into dedicated paths for administrators and incident responders to simplify onboarding.
Workflow Automation & Integrations
- Added native ServiceNow actions to runbooks for creating and updating incidents without manual webhook configuration.
- Introduced reusable webhook templates that can be saved and shared across the organization.
- Improved Jira runbook actions by fixing issues with custom field persistence and multi-select field rendering.
- Resolved an issue where invalid Jira ticket URLs could cause failures in downstream Slack notifications.
Alerting & Configuration
- Added support for custom display names on alert rules to make them easier to identify and manage.
- Simplified the integration setup process with organization-scoped templates and copy-on-write functionality.
AI for Security & Compliance
Supply Chain Security
View full release notes →Dependency Management
- Introduced a new dependency table to visualize both direct and indirect relationships within repositories.
User Interface Improvements
- Streamlined the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) view by moving supplier information to a more accessible overview panel.
Security & Scanning
- Improved security scan reliability by providing options to configure authentication for external vulnerability data sources.
AI for Cost & Optimization
Cloud Cost Management
View full release notes →Cost Recommendations & Tagging
- Kubernetes node pool recommendations now support cloud billing tags, including AWS allocation and environment tags.
- Associated tags are now visible within node pool and workload recommendations for improved filtering and identification.
- Fixed a UI issue where adding an AWS region to a node pool preset prevented users from navigating back to the presets page.
- Resolved an issue that caused the recommendation presets screen to break when accessing EC2-related settings.
Anomaly Detection & Reporting
- Corrected Kubernetes service anomalies to display specific service costs rather than total cluster costs.
- Improved the anomaly drilldown view to correctly render names and details when multiple resources are involved.
- Fixed a display issue where workload anomalies incorrectly showed an undefined label for the service field.
Commitment & Resource Management
- Added a Disable Atomization option in Commitment Orchestration for organizations preferring stable, long-term capacity commitments.
- Enhanced Asset Governance reliability by adding a retry mechanism for rules that fail to generate recommendations.
- Disabled editing for AutoStopping rules when the associated cloud connector has been deleted.
- Fixed an issue where RDS rules displayed the incorrect traffic-based rule type.
External Integrations
- Resolved an issue where comments were not successfully saved when creating Jira tickets for recommendations.
- Fixed the Jira integration to ensure the reporter field correctly passes the selected user data during ticket creation.
Software Engineering Insights
View full release notes →Integrations & Data Connectivity
- Expanded ServiceNow integration to streamline IT service data ingestion.
- Enabled the use of ServiceNow data when calculating DORA metrics for engineering efficiency.
Team Management & Configuration
- Updated team settings to include dedicated IT service management configuration options.
- Streamlined source control management settings within team configurations.
Performance & Productivity Insights
- Introduced Efficiency Profiles to customize how performance metrics are tracked.
- Enhanced Efficiency Insights for deeper visibility into engineering workflows.
- Expanded Productivity Insights to improve measurement of development team output.