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 →Access Control & Permissions
- Added the ability to clone existing Resource Groups directly from the UI to streamline RBAC configuration.
- Added the ability to clone Access Control roles directly from the UI to easily duplicate existing permission sets.
- Fixed an issue where project-scoped service account identifiers were displayed incorrectly when editing notification rules.
Security & Integrations
- Added support for referencing project IDs in Google Cloud Secret Manager to enable cross-project secret access.
- Added request payload validation to Role Assignment filter APIs to provide clearer error messages for invalid requests.
Delegate
View full release notes →Security & Dependency Updates
- Resolved security vulnerabilities by updating third-party libraries including Apache CXF and Go networking packages.
- Updated the bundled Source Code Management service binary to the latest release.
- Fixed secret values appearing as object references or unmasked variable names in step execution logs.
Infrastructure & Terraform
- Fixed Terraform Provider connector validation when connectors and secret managers use separate delegate selectors across multiple cloud accounts.
- Ensured Terraform Apply and Destroy steps automatically route to the delegate holding the original plan file.
Integrations & Cloud Deployments
- Added support for OCI Helm repositories hosted in Google Artifact Registry.
- Resolved system library version errors during Serverless Lambda deployments to ensure runtime compatibility.
- Fixed Salesforce deployment steps to properly pass and honor changeset ID parameters.
Pipeline Execution & Performance
- Fixed pipeline sequence ID expressions returning null for manual builds using Harness Code repositories.
- Resolved intermittent hanging during high-concurrency GitOps repository updates.
- Improved project list API performance and reduced latency when loading large volumes of organizations.
Self-Managed Enterprise Edition
View full release notes →General Updates
- Refer to the Self-Managed Enterprise Edition documentation for detailed updates for this period.
AI for DevOps & Automation
Continuous Integration
View full release notes →Security & Secret Management
- Enforced stricter account-tenant isolation on API endpoints to enhance security.
- Resolved security vulnerabilities in cache container images.
- Fixed an issue where secret values were printed as unmasked object references in build logs.
- Included secret names in initialization failure logs to improve troubleshooting visibility.
Build Performance & Optimization
- Reduced pipeline initialization time across all build infrastructure types by optimizing execution payloads.
- Improved build start speeds and reliability on Kubernetes infrastructure by reducing initialization payload sizes.
- Eliminated unnecessary processing overhead by parsing default connectors only when Test Intelligence features are enabled.
Caching & Storage Options
- Added support for Azure Blob Storage as a backend for Docker Layer Caching.
- Added support for Azure Blob Storage as a backend for CI Build Cache operations.
Pipeline Execution & Observability
- Added a test management dashboard to view test health status, flaky tests, quarantined tests, and recent run results.
- Added CPU and memory metrics for VM build infrastructure stages to improve resource utilization visibility.
- Enhanced log streaming traceability across multi-tenant environments by including project and organization identifiers.
- Improved log streaming and upload resilience during network redirects and error responses.
- Fixed an issue where pipeline sequence ID expressions resolved to null during manual builds.
- Resolved a database issue that affected pipeline branch sequence data.
Build Steps & Integrations
- Resolved a credential issue when running parallel container build and push steps using different connectors.
- Fixed Git Clone failures occurring in advanced repository configurations.
- Resolved an issue where security software blocked Git operations during database change workflows.
Infrastructure as Code Management
View full release notes →Module Management & Governance
- Introduced lifecycle rules for the Module Registry, allowing module versions to be automatically classified as Supported, Update Required, or Deprecated based on recency.
Security & Connectivity
- Added support for downloading provisioner binaries through TLS-intercepting proxies by allowing users to configure a custom CA certificate path.
Artifact Registry
View full release notes →Artifact Cleanup & Retention
- Automatically soft-delete artifact versions matching specified criteria such as age, version count, or name patterns, with a configurable recovery period.
- Set up retention rules to safeguard critical artifacts from automatic cleanup rules as well as manual soft and hard deletions.
Rule Management & Validation
- Define lifecycle rules hierarchically at the account, organization, or project level and attach them across multiple registries.
- Preview which artifact versions a rule will affect using dry-run mode to safely validate criteria before activation.
Audit Logs & Notifications
- Review detailed execution logs for every rule run to track which artifact versions were deleted or retained.
- Receive centralized notifications whenever a cleanup rule or dry run completes execution.
AI for Testing & Resilience
Feature Management & Experimentation
View full release notes →Pipeline Integrations
- Added support for using Feature Management and Experimentation within Harness Pipelines.
API Improvements
- Introduced a new Admin API endpoint to perform full updates on feature flag definitions within an environment.
Chaos Engineering
View full release notes →Security & Dependency Updates
- Addressed critical and high-severity security vulnerabilities across core chaos components and SSH libraries.
- Upgraded internal runtime environments and dependency packages to enhance platform security and stability.
Chaos Experiments & Resilience Probes
- Added support for the Pod JVM Heap Memory fault to simulate memory constraints on JVM-based application pods.
- Enhanced Datadog APM probe configuration and validation for more reliable resilience checks during experiments.
- Added orchestration support and SDK specifications for running JMeter-based load and chaos workloads.
Service Management & Onboarding
- Introduced a dedicated service details page to view configuration, health, and associated infrastructure for individual services.
- Added a manual onboarding option that allows distinct setup paths for network maps and services.
- Added environment ID validation during single-service onboarding to prevent linking services to mismatched environments.
User Interface Improvements
- Fixed an issue where selection dropdowns for target namespaces, deployments, and labels disappeared during experiment configuration.
- Resolved an infinite loading state in the chaos experiment selection reference field.
- Fixed display errors affecting the in-app help panel.
- Improved the accuracy of ChaosGuard condition match messages shown when experiments are blocked.
Test Execution & Reliability
- Fixed an issue where Kubernetes load tests remained stuck in a pending state when delegate tasks failed.
- Improved the reliability of load-test configuration and execution.
AI Test Automation
View full release notes →Performance & Execution
- Accelerated AI task execution for faster test run completion.
- Support for task-level configuration overrides that automatically relaunch the browser when updated.
Test Authoring & Management
- Ability to generate and download test cases in plain, natural language.
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On-Call & Integrations
- Selectively import on-call configurations from PagerDuty, OpsGenie, and xMatters by choosing specific services or groups. This update includes a pre-sync preview, automatic user invitations and role assignments, and a dedicated sync history view.
Runbook Automation
- Duplicate existing runbooks while preserving all configurations, chain items, and metadata to quickly create new variations without starting from scratch.
AI for Security & Compliance
Security Testing Orchestration
View full release notes →Vulnerability Governance & Policy
- Added CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities tracking on the Issues page and Vulnerabilities tab.
- Introduced policy controls to warn or block pipelines based on CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities counts.
- Added support for custom exemption durations during request submission and allowed approvers to override durations during review.
Integrations & Scanner Support
- Added support for Cortex Cloud integration in security testing steps.
- Fixed an issue where remediations and automatic ticket closures were not recorded for certain security scanners.
Remediation & Dependency Management
- Fixed an issue where dependency remediation suggestions recommended incorrect upgrade versions.
- Resolved an issue where automated pull request creation was unavailable when scan results contained only a file name.
Supply Chain Security
View full release notes →Compliance & Security Scans
- Repository compliance scans now evaluate security settings inherited from GitHub organizations and accounts, reducing false positives in scan results.
AI for Cost & Optimization
Cloud Cost Management
View full release notes →Cost Analysis & Filtering
- Cloud Service Provider filters in Cost Explorer now correctly apply to cost anomalies.
- Resolved cost discrepancies when opening Perspectives with OR filters in Cost Explorer.
- Derived metrics now accurately reflect the Follow View Filters setting when disabled.
- Cluster views in Cost Explorer now display complete cluster data in the Perspective grid.
Visualizations & Charts
- Perspectives now display distinct visual badges and tooltips to easily identify external data sources like Snowflake.
- Unit cost line charts now use an optimized scale to prevent minor cost fluctuations from appearing exaggerated.
- Service breakdown treemaps now accurately display colors by properly handling negative costs.
Reports & Alerts
- Fixed broken links in email reports so users can open the corresponding Perspective directly.
- Restored the ability to create scheduled reports from newly created Views.
Integrations & Commitments
- Added support for RDS Database Savings Plan purchases across Actions, Approvals, and Inventory views.
- Updated AI Cost telemetry setup to display OpenTelemetry and SDK integration options side by side.
- Improved accuracy of account information handling in inventory records.
AI DLC Insights
View full release notes →Documentation & Resources
- Refer to the AI DLC Insights release notes page for detailed documentation on updates for this period.