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 & Data Protection
- Improved authentication security by preventing the exposure of valid usernames in error responses.
Access & Permissions
- Resolved an issue where user group permission checks were not correctly governed by feature flags.
System Stability
- Standardized internal tool versions to ensure more consistent and reliable environment performance.
Delegate
View full release notes →Deployment & Integrations
- Improved compatibility with Jenkins integrations to ensure seamless connectivity.
- Fixed authentication for AWS Auto Scaling Group deployments when using OIDC or IRSA connectors.
- Resolved errors encountered during the validation of platform connectors.
Performance & Efficiency
- Streamlined GitOps repository updates by committing directly via provider APIs, reducing the overhead of cloning full repositories.
- Added a configurable limit for Docker image tags to improve performance when managing large registries.
System Security & Reliability
- Upgraded internal system dependencies to ensure the latest security and stability improvements.
- Increased the precision of anomaly detection to provide more accurate results in scenarios with limited data.
Code Repository
View full release notes →API & Integration
- Improved the fork synchronization API to return a specific conflict error instead of a success code when merge issues occur, allowing for better error handling.
- Updated the API documentation to ensure fork-related endpoints accurately reflect the correct response codes.
Performance & Scalability
- Optimized Git LFS uploads to reduce memory consumption and improve performance when transferring large files.
Repository Management
- Resolved an issue that caused repository listing to fail in a workspace if the original source of a forked repository had been deleted.
AI for DevOps & Automation
Continuous Delivery & GitOps
View full release notes →Governance & Security
- GitOps now integrates with Open Policy Agent (OPA) to enable policy-based governance and validation for applications.
- Improved error messages for secret configuration issues by including the secret name and scope to simplify troubleshooting.
GitOps & Deployment
- Updated the source hydrator to track state using Git notes instead of commits, reducing repository clutter and unnecessary commits.
- Modified ApplicationSet upgrades to support larger resource sizes through Kubernetes Server-Side Apply to prevent deployment failures.
Cloud & Connector Integrations
- Resolved an issue where Azure ARM templates failed to deploy due to template format processing errors.
- Fixed a URL construction error in the OCI Helm connector that caused chart fetching failures when using anonymous authentication.
Platform & Project Management
- Fixed a failure when creating service overrides in environments where a project had been deleted and recreated.
- Resolved issues where organization-level templates did not display referenced entities or version comparisons correctly.
Workflow & User Experience
- PowerShell script steps now correctly preserve newline characters in multi-line output variables, matching the behavior of Bash steps.
- Fixed Git status check links in Custom stages to ensure they correctly navigate to the pipeline execution page for all account types.
- Improved notification templates to correctly handle special characters in error messages, preventing formatting issues.
Continuous Integration
View full release notes →Security & Secret Management
- Enhanced secret management for Kubernetes builds by supporting additional JWT claims when integrating with Vault.
- Improved security for Test Intelligence and Artifactory plugins by upgrading underlying runtimes and binaries to address vulnerabilities.
- Resolved an issue where double quotes within secrets were not handled correctly during execution steps.
- Improved error logging for secret fetch failures during initialization to provide clearer troubleshooting details.
Build Visibility & Monitoring
- Added CPU and memory usage metrics to cloud build logs for better resource consumption visibility.
- Updated cloud build logs to display specific machine sizes instead of generic resource labels.
- Enabled real-time status updates for container-based step groups during execution.
- Improved GitLab integration to show real-time pipeline progress in merge request status updates.
Cloud & Infrastructure Integrations
- Introduced pipeline steps to save and restore caches using Azure Blob Storage with Microsoft identity provider authentication.
- Added support for delegate-based managed identity authentication when building and pushing to Azure Container Registry.
- Resolved an issue where incorrect repository URLs were generated for Azure Repos commit-based builds.
Workflow & Build Orchestration
- Introduced branch-based version counters to allow independent build numbering for each branch.
- Resolved environment variable resolution issues for Docker Buildx Bake across Kubernetes, VM, and local runners.
- Fixed an issue where pipeline re-runs could fail when using delegate selectors with codebase tasks.
Infrastructure as Code Management
View full release notes →Security & Tooling Updates
- Natively pull secrets from Vault during infrastructure workflows to reduce manual security risks.
- Added native support for AWS CDK to manage infrastructure alongside existing configuration options.
- Expanded Terragrunt capabilities with advanced logic expressions, security integrations, and automated GitOps feedback.
- Introduced a user interface for creating and managing Ansible inventory plugins.
Workspace & Module Management
- Enabled the ability to add templates to existing workspaces for better organization and standardization.
- Resolved errors that occurred when editing module registry entries.
- Fixed script errors occurring during module registry updates to ensure stable management operations.
- Fixed module testing failures to ensure successful pipeline creation in environments with strict Git requirements.
Interface & Experience Improvements
- Redesigned the workspace creation interface for a more intuitive and standardized setup process.
- Improved the Terraform import experience with clearer input fields for resource addresses and IDs.
- Corrected navigation links to ensure smooth transitions between pipeline executions and module details.
- Implemented performance tracking to monitor orchestration metrics and improve the user onboarding experience.
AI for Testing & Resilience
Chaos Engineering
View full release notes →Chaos Testing Capabilities
- Introduced new Linux-based chaos faults and pre-defined templates for network, API, process, and disk testing.
- Expanded machine chaos capabilities with native support for Windows network faults.
- Added egress rule support for network restriction faults in ECS environments.
User Experience & Experiment Design
- Updated the module banner to reflect the current branding.
- Enhanced configurations with support for secrets, connectors, and dynamic input fields in actions and probes.
- Added the ability to clone load tests directly from the action menu.
- Migrated configuration variables to a new input system for a more consistent experience.
- Resolved an issue where variable updates in probes and templates were not being saved.
- Fixed errors encountered when migrating variables to the new input format.
Infrastructure & Disaster Recovery
- Introduced Disaster Recovery support with new management APIs and enhanced execution capabilities.
- Updated ECS Fargate sidecars to support multi-architecture images.
- Updated the installation script to include necessary permissions for network traffic analysis.
- Fixed an issue preventing infrastructure creation when using organization or account-level environments.
- Resolved a bug that caused load tasks to remain stuck in a pending state.
AI Test Automation
View full release notes →Integration & Project Tracking
- Introduced native integration with Jira to streamline task management.
- Added direct links to test runs within Jira tickets for faster navigation and debugging.
Test Authoring & Logic
- Added support for nested tasks to better organize complex automation workflows.
- Introduced drag-and-drop commands to automate interactions with slider elements.
- Enabled parameter support for the prompt enhancer to improve control over AI-generated content.
User Interface & Experience
- Added an environment name filter to the test run page to help find results faster.
- Resolved an issue where Copilot tasks were displayed multiple times in the interface.
- Updated the 'Validate Test' action label to 'Run Test' for better clarity.
- Improved task status visibility with new tags and updated labels.
AI for Security & Compliance
Security Testing Orchestration
View full release notes →Vulnerability Scanning
- Source code scanning to identify security vulnerabilities, exposed secrets, and vulnerable dependencies.
- Container image scanning to detect operating system and library vulnerabilities with reachability-based risk prioritization.
Reporting & Visibility
- Fixed a display issue to ensure Mend scanner file names appear correctly on the issue overview page.
- Corrected approval timestamps on the security exemptions page to ensure accurate tracking.
Workflow & Integrations
- Resolved an issue that prevented the successful creation of pull requests in the code repository.
Supply Chain Security
View full release notes →SBOM & Risk Management
- Added support to filter components by dependency type, such as Direct or Indirect, to improve component-level traceability.
- Expanded vulnerability detection to support results from all security scanners on the Bill of Materials page.
- Fixed an issue where filters for known vulnerabilities in dependencies were not returning the correct results.
- Resolved a data inconsistency where component counts differed between the overview page and the detailed list.
System Compatibility
- Improved stability for plugins running in containerized environments and provided guidance for maintaining compatibility.
- Enhanced Java support to ensure consistent generation of security documentation and resolve configuration errors.
Traceability & Interface
- Restored missing deployment events in the Chain of Custody to ensure full artifact history and visibility.
- Standardized artifact naming conventions across all security steps to ensure consistency throughout the platform.
- Updated the scoring API to correctly process repository names that include web prefixes.
- Improved the responsiveness of the search bar and corrected the visibility of image layer filters.
AI for Cost & Optimization
Cloud Cost Management
View full release notes →Cost Visibility & Insights
- Fixed an issue where AWS Perspective anomaly data failed to display correctly.
- Resolved a validation error when saving cost category rules that reference other cost categories.
API & Administration
- Enhanced Perspective and Budget APIs with improved folder validation and detailed audit logging for move operations.
- Updated Perspective and Budget management to allow duplicate names for better naming flexibility.
Resource & Commitment Management
- Introduced a 'Disable Atomization' setting in Commitment Orchestration for organizations prioritizing fixed, long-term capacity for stable workloads.
- Simplified memory cluster capacity configuration by automatically applying standard units to numeric entries.