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
- Introduced configurable alerts for service account token lifecycle events, including creation, rotation, and upcoming expiration.
- Fixed an issue where policy evaluation warnings for service accounts and API keys were not correctly displayed in the interface.
- Resolved an issue that displayed an incorrect 'last admin' warning when removing users at the organization or project level.
Organization & Project Management
- Enabled the ability to move projects between organizations while seamlessly preserving all audit and execution history.
- Improved configuration consistency by making module name matching case-insensitive.
Interface & Performance
- Optimized the List Environments API to improve response times and prevent timeouts during permission checks.
- Fixed a user interface issue where user groups were not being correctly sorted by their creation date.
- Resolved an issue that caused a blank error popup when editing Custom Secrets Managers with modified template variables.
Delegate
View full release notes →Security & Authentication
- Added support for Google Cloud OIDC authentication for JDBC connectors, enabling secure database connections without traditional credentials.
- Improved the resilience of secret management operations with an enhanced retry mechanism for transient network failures.
- Introduced a configuration to ensure the secret manager's delegate is prioritized for decryption before executing Git operations.
Deployment Management
- Upgraded the Helm binary to provide improved security and performance during deployments.
- Updated service requests to include missing configuration parameters for network, volume, and zone management.
- Added a validation check when editing deployment freezes to ensure active windows are correctly handled.
- Improved error messaging for Auto Scaling Group deployments when launch templates are missing or deleted.
Troubleshooting & Visibility
- Refined error reporting to correctly distinguish between third-party credential failures and platform login issues.
- Enhanced the visibility of connection errors in the interface by surfacing detailed exception messages for easier debugging.
User & Developer Experience
- Streamlined the onboarding process by prompting new users to complete their profiles immediately after signup.
- Enhanced API documentation for YAML updates with comprehensive descriptions and practical examples.
- Clarified documentation regarding the automatic generation of service override variable identifiers.
Platform & Resource Management
- Added a new configuration option for memory usage thresholds to allow for more accurate resource calculation using container information.
- Resolved an issue where repository flags were not correctly assigned based on the connector reference.
Delegate (Closed Beta)
View full release notes →Documentation Updates
- View the latest enhancements and fixes for the Delegate module on the official release notes page.
Code Repository
View full release notes →User Experience
- Added a language breakdown to the repository summary page to provide clear visibility into the programming languages used in the codebase.
- Improved branch name validation with clearer error messages explaining naming rules and identifying invalid characters.
- Introduced pagination for pull request and branch comparison views to ensure all commits can be reviewed.
- Resolved an issue where file attachments in pull request descriptions were lost when using AI summaries or templates.
- Updated branch protection settings to allow selecting validation pipelines before they have been triggered for the first time.
Security & Access
- Restricted forked repositories to private visibility to prevent accidental public exposure of private source code.
- Enhanced security by ensuring branch protection rules are consistently enforced when using full branch references in the API.
- Expanded support for public repositories, allowing unauthenticated users to browse files, commits, and pull requests.
API Improvements
- Updated the fork-sync API to return clear conflict status codes, allowing for better automated detection of merge issues.
- Refined the gitignore template API to exclude unrelated files and return more accurate error responses.
- Fixed an error in the repository listing API that occurred when a fork's source repository had been deleted.
- Corrected fork-related endpoint definitions in the OpenAPI specification to ensure accurate status code documentation.
Performance & Stability
- Improved Git LFS performance and reduced memory consumption when uploading large files by streaming content during processing.
- Added validation to status check reports to prevent oversized data entries from affecting system performance.
AI for DevOps & Automation
Continuous Delivery & GitOps
View full release notes →User Experience & Visibility
- Improved the pipeline execution history with a card-based layout and summary columns for better visibility into service-to-environment mappings.
- Added a new notification event for pipelines waiting for user actions, such as approvals or manual interventions.
- Harness AI now provides diagnostics and remediation suggestions for common GitOps setup errors and pipeline stage failures.
- Connector reference tabs now correctly list remote templates that utilize the connector.
- Fixed an issue where dashboard queries failed with database errors.
- Corrected the error message for WinRM connection verification to display the accurate default port.
Cloud & Infrastructure
- Reduced required permissions for AWS connector validation by switching to a more minimal identity check.
- Added support for ECS Scheduled Actions, enabling time-based auto-scaling policies within service deployments.
- Introduced a dedicated ECS Scale step to adjust service instance counts without requiring a full deployment stage.
- Added support for Host Groups in Windows deployments, allowing independent credentials for different server groups within a single infrastructure.
- Google Managed Instance Group deployments now support Google Cloud Storage as a source for manifests and templates.
- Resolved an issue where AWS ECS deployments failed to apply Service Connect settings defined in the service definition.
Security & Secrets Management
- Terraform output fields marked as sensitive are now automatically masked in the pipeline output tab.
- Enhanced support for Native Helm deployments to decrypt value overrides using service hooks and external tools.
- Improved error messaging for secrets to clearly distinguish between missing paths and empty values.
- Fixed a validation error when saving remote pipelines that use Git connectors backed by cloud secret managers.
Pipeline Reliability & Performance
- Improved error handling for internal system failures during pipeline execution to provide more actionable error messages.
- Optimized the handling of large Terraform plans to prevent timeouts and errors during retrieval.
- Stabilized communication between the delegate and manager to prevent transient connection resets during Terraform steps.
- Resolved an issue where Barrier steps in chained pipelines or step templates failed to resolve correctly during execution.
Continuous Integration
View full release notes →Security & Compliance
- Restricted the ability to mount secrets through Kubernetes pod spec overlay YAML to improve security.
- Upgraded internal build engine components to resolve known vulnerabilities.
- Improved security for Docker and cloud-provider build plugins by replacing end-of-life components.
- Resolved an authentication issue where build steps failed to properly support EKS pod identity.
Build Caching & Optimization
- Added support for Azure Blob Storage with principal authentication and OIDC-based access in Cache Intelligence.
- Enabled automatic dependency caching for Go projects running on Linux.
- Added stage-level YAML overrides for connectors used in self-hosted build cache storage.
- Fixed a parsing error that caused Save and Restore Cache steps to fail when using S3 directory buckets.
- Resolved a compatibility issue where Bazel 7 builds failed due to unrecognized cache options.
- Fixed an issue where Docker Layer Caching failed to work with cloud registries when using Google Cloud Storage as a backend.
Monitoring & Visibility
- Added real-time CPU and memory usage metrics for Harness Cloud builds in the execution view.
- Enabled real-time status updates for container-based step groups during execution.
- Corrected a display issue where Cache Intelligence step names were not showing properly for self-hosted infrastructure.
Connectivity & Integrations
- Docker build plugins now automatically detect and apply proxy environment variables without manual configuration.
- Optimized the download path for containerless build binaries to improve reliability and reduce dependencies.
- Fixed an issue where build status updates were not correctly reported to Bitbucket when using email and API token authentication.
Pipeline & Build Management
- Introduced branch-based version counters to allow independent build numbering for different branches, even when the codebase is disabled.
- Ensured repository link environment variables are correctly passed to build pods during execution.
- Resolved a performance issue where background processing errors caused delays in pipeline execution.
Infrastructure as Code Management
View full release notes →Security & Access Control
- Integrated secret management to natively pull credentials from Vault into infrastructure workflows.
- Enhanced authentication support for enterprise environments with improved subject field compatibility.
- Refined service account token authentication for more secure API access.
Cloud Tooling & Automation
- Expanded support for advanced infrastructure workflows, including automated pull request comments and security testing integration.
- Introduced native support for AWS CDK in workspace creation and pipeline execution.
- Added a new command-line interface command to streamline local infrastructure planning and execution.
- Resolved connectivity and protocol issues within the infrastructure provider registry.
- Improved the reliability of infrastructure state data uploads.
Organization & Templates
- Enabled the ability to retrospectively assign templates to existing workspaces via API.
- Added support for remote workspaces with flexible Git configuration overrides for codebase paths.
- Resolved errors encountered when editing or updating entries in the module registry.
- Fixed issues that prevented the creation of test pipelines when specific Git settings were enabled.
- Stabilized the module management workflow to prevent errors during registry updates.
User Interface & Experience
- Redesigned the workspace creation interface for a more intuitive and standardized experience.
- Improved the resource import experience with a clearer interface for required input fields.
- Introduced a new graphical interface for managing Ansible inventory plugins.
- Fixed navigation issues to ensure consistent access between pipeline executions and module details.
- Resolved issues where the cost estimation loading indicator would not clear.
- Added a clear empty state for cost estimation when used outside of infrastructure stages.
- Improved platform telemetry to provide better insights into orchestration performance and user engagement.
Artifact Registry
View full release notes →Build Tool Integrations
- Deploy artifacts to Harness using standard Maven goals and existing project coordinates.
- Integrated a Gradle plugin that works with existing publishing tasks for seamless project setup.
- Optimized registry configuration for automated CI pipelines to match standard Gradle workflows.
Security & Policy Governance
- Automatically block or flag dependencies based on security vulnerabilities, license rules, or custom policies.
- Prevent the use of non-compliant packages with clear status indicators that control whether versions can be cached or downloaded.
- Centralize firewall management and policy tracking for upstream proxies through a dedicated dashboard.
Developer Tools & Access
- Configure registry URLs and identity tokens via environment variables to keep credentials secure and out of project files.
- Bulk audit Java, Python, and Node.js dependencies by scanning project lock files against security policies.
- Retrieve detailed security scan status and information for specific package versions via the command line.
- Automatically configure npm registry settings and authentication for local and project-level workflows.
AI for Testing & Resilience
Feature Management & Experimentation
View full release notes →Warehouse Native Experimentation
- Introduced Warehouse Native Experimentation to enable feature testing directly on your data infrastructure.
- Added support for Google BigQuery as a primary data source for experimentation.
- Simplified the process of connecting your data warehouse for analysis.
- Run experiments on your warehouse data using a statistical engine for accurate measurements and confidence intervals.
Traffic Management & Bucketing
- Redistribute users across feature treatments without modifying existing targeting rules.
- Collect unbiased feedback by assigning a new set of users to a feature experiment.
- New API available to reallocate traffic and reseed user bucketing.
- Improved visibility into how bucketing logic ensures a consistent user experience.
Privacy & Advanced Targeting
- Enhanced data privacy by running experiment queries directly in your data warehouse without storing raw event data.
- Define custom filters to focus experiments and metrics on specific populations using custom assignment or metric fields.
Chaos Engineering
View full release notes →Reporting & Observability
- Added detailed experiment run reports to the user interface.
- Introduced live logging and enhanced error handling for backend load execution.
- Fixed a discrepancy where the total fault count in experiment run reports was displayed incorrectly.
User Interface & Experience
- Enhanced the probe and action details pages with a tabbed structure and improved rendering.
- Updated all infrastructure list tables to default to sorting by 'Last Updated' to show the most recent changes first.
Infrastructure & Governance
- Added support for Docker label-based chaos injection on ECS environments.
- Expanded ChaosGuard capabilities to allow filtering by namespace labels within conditions.
- Updated Windows infrastructure installation scripts to correctly apply custom log file retention settings.
- Simplified the interface by removing legacy logging options for Linux, Windows, and Kubernetes v1 infrastructure.
- Resolved an issue affecting logging within the service discovery component.
Experiment Configuration & Performance
- Improved the speed and reduced latency of experiment recommendations by optimizing background processing.
- Added the ability to reference account, organization, and project-level variables in expressions.
- Fixed an issue where command-based probes failed to correctly format and return source specifications.
AI Test Automation
View full release notes →Workflow Structure
- Introduced a maximum nesting depth for tasks to help maintain organized and manageable workflows.
Task Management
- Added task versioning to track changes and manage multiple iterations of a task.
Environment Configuration
- Resolved an issue where environment URL paths were being duplicated across different settings.
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Integrations & Automation
- Manage ServiceNow incidents directly from runbooks using native actions to create, update, and comment on tickets without custom configurations.
- Save and reuse webhook configurations as organization-wide templates to streamline the setup of new integrations.
Incident Monitoring & Alerts
- Track all in-progress pages from a centralized view that displays responder assignments, acknowledgment states, and escalation progress.
- Assign custom display names to alert rules to simplify identification and management across the organization.
Onboarding & Support
- Access restructured documentation with specialized paths for administrators setting up the platform and responders managing active incidents.
AI for Security & Compliance
Security Testing Orchestration
View full release notes →Issue Management
- Selecting security findings with identical titles now correctly opens the specific findings for the relevant scanner step.
Exemption Tracking
- The 'Approved By' filter on the Exemptions page now accurately displays the count of items in the pending, rejected, and expired tabs.
Supply Chain Security
View full release notes →Dependency Management
- View direct and indirect dependencies for any repository item within a new dedicated dependency table.
Security & Scanning Improvements
- Enhanced OWASP scan reliability by adding support for authentication credentials and providing the option to use NVD for vulnerability data.
User Interface Updates
- Streamlined the SBOM overview by moving supplier information to the side panel to provide a cleaner and more focused list view.
AI for Cost & Optimization
Cloud Cost Management
View full release notes →Recommendations & Optimization
- Relocated rejected and ignored recommendation lists to the main view for easier management and data export.
- Added support for cloud billing tags in Kubernetes node pool and workload recommendations.
- Enabled tag visibility for node pool and workload recommendations to align with AWS EC2 recommendation views.
- Introduced a 'Disable Atomization' option in the Commitment Orchestrator for organizations prioritizing stable, low-cost commitment strategies.
- Fixed a UI issue that prevented access to the recommendation presets screen when configuring certain AWS settings.
Anomaly Detection
- Resolved an issue where Kubernetes service anomalies reported total cluster costs instead of specific service costs, which caused inflated anomaly amounts.
- Improved the anomalies drilldown view to correctly render resource names and details when multiple resources are involved.
- Fixed a display issue where workload anomalies incorrectly showed 'undefined' for service labels.
Governance & Automation
- Implemented an automatic retry mechanism for custom governance rules to ensure recommendations are generated consistently even if background data jobs are delayed.
- Updated the AutoStopping rule interface to disable the edit button automatically if the associated connector has been deleted.
- Corrected a configuration error in RDS rules where the wrong traffic-based rule type was being displayed.
Reporting & Visibility
- Standardized Overview page charts to display time in UTC across all tooltips and axis labels for better cross-team consistency.
- Improved the Google Cloud invoice month filter to accurately reflect current data when viewed on the last day of the month.
- Updated the budget details page to display the correct labels based on the specific budget type being viewed.
User Management & Integrations
- Updated Cost Settings to respect user permissions, ensuring that the save button is disabled for users with view-only access.
- Fixed issues in the Jira integration flow where reporter details and ticket comments were not saving correctly for recommendations.
- Resolved a UI crash that occurred when adding cloud regions to node pool presets.
Software Engineering Insights
View full release notes →SEI Canvas Management
- View and manage SEI Canvases to visualize engineering insights.
- Create and edit customized SEI Canvases for personalized data views.
- Delete existing SEI Canvases when no longer needed.
- Enhanced documentation and interface support for the SEI Canvas feature.
Access Control & Security
- Implemented Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to manage user permissions for SEI resources.
- Updated the platform permissions reference to include comprehensive SEI access levels.
Integrations & Efficiency Metrics
- Added ServiceNow integration to track and analyze engineering data.
- Enabled the use of ServiceNow data within DORA metrics for enhanced efficiency reporting.
- Improved team configuration options for tool settings and custom variables.
- Enhanced setup and management tools for Efficiency Profiles to better track team performance.