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 & Compliance
- Added notifications for service account tokens to alert users about creation, rotation, and upcoming expiration.
- Resolved an issue where policy warnings for service accounts and API keys were not displaying correctly in the interface.
- Fixed a blank error message that appeared when editing Custom Secrets Managers linked to specific templates.
Organization & User Management
- Enabled project movement between organizations while maintaining full audit and execution history.
- Improved the accuracy of administrative warnings when deleting users at the organization or project level.
- Fixed sorting for user groups to ensure they are correctly ordered by creation date.
Performance & System Improvements
- Optimized environment listing APIs to provide faster response times and prevent timeouts.
- Standardized module name matching to be case-insensitive for more consistent configuration handling.
Delegate
View full release notes →Security & Authentication
- Added support for Google Cloud OIDC authentication for JDBC connectors, enabling secure database connections without traditional credentials.
- Upgraded Helm V3 binary to include recent security patches and performance improvements.
- Introduced a configuration to ensure secret manager delegate selection takes priority during validation and Git operations.
Performance & Reliability
- Improved resilience for secret encryption and decryption through enhanced retry logic and exponential backoff.
- Added a configuration option to use CGroup data for more accurate memory usage threshold calculations.
Error Handling & Troubleshooting
- Refined error reporting for external Helm providers to correctly identify third-party credential failures rather than general login errors.
- Improved UI visibility for SSH client errors by surfacing detailed exception messages for easier debugging.
- Enhanced error messaging for scenarios where launch templates are unavailable during Auto Scaling Group deployments.
Infrastructure & Deployment
- Added support for missing service update parameters, including volume configurations and network settings.
- Updated governance controls to allow editing of deployment freeze windows while they are active.
- Corrected the identification logic for Harness Code repositories within the connector settings.
User Experience & Documentation
- Streamlined onboarding by prompting new users to provide professional details immediately after signup.
- Expanded API documentation for YAML-based updates with clearer descriptions and usage examples.
- Clarified documentation regarding the automatic generation of service override variable identifiers.
Delegate (Closed Beta)
View full release notes →New Features & Enhancements
- Updates for this period are documented on the Delegate (Closed Beta) release notes page.
Code Repository
View full release notes →Security & Governance
- Forked repositories are now restricted to private visibility to prevent accidental exposure of sensitive source code.
- Branch protection rules are now correctly enforced when using full git branch references.
- Public repositories now support unauthenticated access for browsing summaries, files, and pull requests.
User Experience Improvements
- Repository summary pages now feature an automatically generated programming language breakdown.
- Improved error messages for branch creation to clearly outline naming requirements and invalid characters.
- Added pagination to pull request and branch comparison views to support navigation through large commit lists.
- Resolved an issue where file attachments in pull request descriptions were lost during the creation process.
- Validation pipelines can now be selected in branch rules even before they have been triggered for the first time.
API & Performance
- Optimized Git LFS upload speeds and reduced memory usage for large file transfers.
- Improved conflict detection for the fork-sync API by introducing specific status codes for merge conflicts.
- Fixed errors in repository listing APIs that occurred when a fork's original source repository had been deleted.
- Enhanced the gitignore template API to correctly filter files and provide clearer error responses for unsupported requests.
- Added data validation for status check reports to ensure system stability when handling large payloads.
- Updated API documentation to accurately reflect the status codes returned by fork-related actions.
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Continuous Delivery & GitOps
View full release notes →Deployment & Scaling
- Added support for ECS Scheduled Actions to enable time-based auto-scaling policies.
- Introduced a dedicated ECS Scale step to adjust service instances without performing a full deployment stage.
- Enabled Native Helm deployments to decrypt value overrides using service hooks before the Helm execution starts.
- Improved error handling when fetching Helm chart versions to clearly distinguish between platform and third-party credential issues.
- Resolved an issue where runtime values for GitOps clusters and environments were not clearing correctly in certain stages.
- Fixed an issue with artifact context values being sent incorrectly in Service steps.
Cloud & Infrastructure
- Updated AWS connector validation to use a standard identity check, removing the requirement for region description permissions.
- Added support for Host Groups in Physical Data Center deployments, allowing unique credentials for different sets of servers.
- Enabled Google Cloud Storage as a manifest source for Managed Instance Group deployments.
- Fixed an error message for WinRM credential verification that displayed the incorrect default port.
User Experience & Reporting
- Enhanced the pipeline execution history with a new card-based layout and improved summaries of service-to-environment mappings.
- Resolved a database error that caused certain dashboard queries to fail.
- Fixed a UI issue where override variable fields would go blank during editing.
Git & Automation
- Introduced AI-powered troubleshooting for GitOps to diagnose and suggest fixes for manifest syntax and connectivity issues.
- Resolved an issue where newly created files and templates in GitHub were not appearing in the interface.
- Improved Bitbucket connector stability for accounts configured without a workspace.
- Fixed a service issue that prevented the parsing of incoming webhook payloads.
Security & Pipeline Management
- Automated masking for sensitive Terraform outputs in the pipeline execution view.
- Added a new notification event that triggers when a pipeline is paused for user actions, such as approvals or manual interventions.
- Resolved an issue where pipelines were being aborted unexpectedly by system processes.
Continuous Integration
View full release notes →Security & Compliance
- Restricted the ability to mount secrets through Kubernetes pod spec overlay YAML to improve security governance.
- Resolved an issue where EKS pod identity authentication was not functioning correctly for CI steps on AWS.
- Upgraded gRPC, Artifactory, Kaniko, and cache proxy dependencies to address known security vulnerabilities.
- Fixed a bug where read-only volume mount settings were not correctly applied to Kubernetes build pods.
Build Performance & Caching
- Added support for Azure Blob Storage with principal and OIDC-based authentication in Cache Intelligence.
- Expanded Cache Intelligence to support automatic dependency caching for Go builds on Linux.
- Resolved a compatibility issue that caused Bazel builds to fail when using specific cache options.
- Fixed Docker Layer Caching issues when using Google Cloud Storage as a backend with various container registries.
Monitoring & Visibility
- Introduced real-time CPU and memory utilization metrics in the execution view for Harness Cloud builds.
- Updated build logs to display clear machine size names instead of internal labels for easier resource identification.
- Enabled real-time status updates for container-based step groups during pipeline execution.
Pipeline Management
- Introduced branch-specific build numbering to track version sequences independently for each branch.
- Enabled branch-based version counters for pipelines without a configured codebase by utilizing trigger event data.
Connectivity & Integrations
- Configured Docker build and push plugins to automatically detect and use Harness proxy environment variables.
- Fixed an issue preventing build status reporting to Bitbucket when using email and API token authentication.
- Ensured build pipelines honor custom health check timeouts instead of defaulting to a fixed ten-minute window.
Infrastructure as Code Management
View full release notes →Security & Authentication
- Integrated HashiCorp Vault to securely and automatically pull secrets for infrastructure workflows.
- Enhanced authentication compatibility for enterprise environments using OIDC subject fields.
- Improved security and reliability for service account token authentication across API endpoints.
Frameworks & Tooling
- Expanded Terragrunt capabilities with advanced expression support, security integrations, and automated pull request comments.
- Introduced native AWS CDK support for creating workspaces and executing pipelines.
- Added a new command to the Harness CLI for secure, local planning of infrastructure changes.
- Added a user interface for managing Ansible inventory plugins.
- Resolved connectivity and discovery issues when downloading resources from the provider registry.
Workspace & Infrastructure Management
- Enabled the ability to retrospectively apply templates to existing workspaces for better organization.
- Increased template flexibility by supporting remote workspaces and custom codebase folder paths.
- Improved the reliability of infrastructure state data uploads to the management server.
- Resolved errors and improved workflows for editing and updating entries in the module registry.
- Fixed issues that prevented module test pipelines from being created under specific Git configurations.
User Interface & Experience
- Redesigned the workspace creation interface to provide a more intuitive and standardized setup process.
- Enhanced the infrastructure import interface with clearer fields for resource addresses and identification.
- Improved the cost estimation display by fixing persistent loading indicators and adding clear empty states.
- Fixed navigation errors in the onboarding module to ensure seamless transitions between pipelines and details.
- Integrated advanced product analytics to better monitor platform performance and user engagement.
Artifact Registry
View full release notes →Build Tool Integrations
- Deploy Maven artifacts using standard coordinates and existing repository configurations.
- Integrate Gradle projects easily using a drop-in plugin that works with standard publishing tasks.
- Streamline registry configuration for Gradle projects to align with continuous integration pipeline workflows.
Security & Policy Management
- Manage registry credentials securely by using environment variables for identity tokens instead of hardcoded configuration.
- Establish automated policies to block or warn on dependencies based on security vulnerability thresholds, licenses, and custom rules.
- Prevent the use of non-compliant dependency versions with clear pass, warn, or block evaluation outcomes.
- Enable a dependency firewall on upstream proxies with a centralized dashboard to track and manage policy violations.
CLI & Developer Utilities
- Audit and evaluate dependency manifest files for NPM, Java, and Python in bulk via the command line.
- Check the firewall scan status and security details for specific package versions using new CLI commands.
- Simplify NPM setup by automating registry and authentication configuration for local and global environments.
AI for Testing & Resilience
Feature Management & Experimentation
View full release notes →Warehouse Integration Updates
- Introduced Warehouse Native Experimentation to run experiments and analyze results directly within your own data infrastructure.
- Connect and integrate external data warehouses, including a new native integration for Google BigQuery.
- Leverage a built-in statistical engine for accurate measurement and confidence intervals directly on warehouse data.
Traffic & Experiment Control
- Redistribute users across experiment treatments without changing targeting rules to gather unbiased feedback.
- New API support for programmatically reallocating traffic and updating user distribution logic.
- Enhanced bucketing mechanisms to ensure a consistent experience for users across different treatments.
Data Privacy & Targeting
- Improved data privacy by processing queries within your warehouse, ensuring raw event data is never stored externally.
- Apply custom filters to target specific populations in experiments using custom fields from your data sources.
Chaos Engineering
View full release notes →Reporting & Analytics
- Added experiment run reports to the user interface.
- Resolved an issue where total fault counts in experiment reports were inaccurate.
- Streamlined report generation and introduced an API to retrieve report data.
Monitoring & Observability
- Integrated Harness Delegate and execution logs into the experiment timeline for improved visibility.
- Added live logging and enhanced error handling for load test execution.
- Fixed a logging error within the service discovery component.
- Streamlined the log view by removing legacy options for specific infrastructure types.
Experiment Management
- Enabled the use of project, organization, and account-level variables within expressions.
- Added support for managing and syncing deprecated faults through the Enterprise ChaosHub.
- Resolved an issue that prevented creating faults from organization-level templates.
- Improved reliability for Java-based experiments with a fallback method for process discovery.
UI & Reliability Updates
- Improved navigation by introducing a tabbed layout for probe and action details.
- Enhanced validation to ensure load tests only run when correctly enabled and configured.
AI Test Automation
View full release notes →Task Versioning & Governance
- Added support for task versioning to track and manage changes over time.
Task Organization
- Introduced limits on task nesting depth to ensure hierarchies remain organized and manageable.
Environment Configuration
- Resolved an issue where base URL paths were duplicated across different environments.
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Integrations & Automation
- Native ServiceNow actions are now available in runbooks, enabling incident creation and updates without manual webhook configuration.
- Webhook configurations can now be saved as reusable templates to simplify setup across different integrations.
Monitoring & Incident Visibility
- Alert rules now support custom display names, making it easier to identify and manage monitoring rules across the organization.
- A new Active Pages view provides a centralized dashboard for tracking real-time status, assigned responders, and escalation progress.
Documentation & Onboarding
- New administrator-specific guides streamline the setup process for alerts, runbooks, and integrations.
- Task-oriented documentation for responders now covers incident triage, runbook execution, and the mobile on-call experience.
AI for Security & Compliance
Security Testing Orchestration
View full release notes →Vulnerability Management
- Selecting an issue with a duplicate title now correctly opens the specific scan finding for that step.
Exemption Tracking
- Exemption tab counts for Pending, Rejected, and Expired statuses now accurately reflect the filtered list results.
Supply Chain Security
View full release notes →Dependency Visibility
- Introduced a new dependency table that displays both direct and indirect dependencies for any library within a repository.
SBOM Management
- Improved the SBOM overview interface by moving supplier information to a dedicated panel for better visibility.
Security & Scanning
- Enhanced the reliability of OWASP scans by allowing users to configure OSS Index authentication or utilize NVD as a fallback for vulnerability data.
AI for Cost & Optimization
Cloud Cost Management
View full release notes →Recommendations & Governance
- Relocated Rejected and Ignored lists to the main Recommendations view to allow for direct data exports.
- Added support for cloud billing tags and Kubernetes node labels in node pool recommendations.
- Expanded tag visibility for node pool and workload recommendations to ensure consistency across cloud providers.
- Improved the reliability of custom Asset Governance rules by implementing an automatic retry mechanism for data loading.
Anomaly Detection
- Resolved an issue where workload anomalies displayed undefined service labels.
- Improved the anomaly drilldown list to correctly render multiple resources and specific cost categories.
- Corrected service-level anomaly reporting in Kubernetes clusters to ensure accurate cost calculation for specific services.
Integrations & Alerts
- Updated budget alert labels to accurately reflect the specific budget type configured.
- Fixed a data mapping issue in the Jira creation flow to ensure the reporter field passes the correct value.
- Resolved an issue preventing comments from saving when creating Jira tickets for cost recommendations.
User Interface & Access Control
- Updated Cost Settings to respect role-based access control, disabling save actions for view-only users.
- Fixed a interface error that occurred when adding AWS regions to node pool presets.
- Restored functionality to the recommendation presets screen by resolving issues with AWS EC2 presets.
Reporting & Data Consistency
- Corrected the invoice month filter for Google Cloud Platform to display accurate dates on the last day of the month.
- Standardized overview charts to display time in UTC across tooltips and labels to eliminate time zone confusion.
Optimization & Resource Management
- Introduced a Disable Atomization option in Commitment Orchestration for greater control over long-term purchase strategies.
- Fixed the display of traffic-based rule types for RDS rules.
- Enhanced AutoStopping rules by automatically disabling the edit function when an associated connector is deleted.
Software Engineering Insights
View full release notes →Visualization & Canvas
- Introduced the SEI Canvas feature for visualizing engineering data and workflows.
- Added granular permissions to manage the viewing, creation, editing, and deletion of SEI Canvas dashboards.
Access & User Management
- Implemented platform-wide Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) specifically for the SEI module.
- Updated the platform permissions reference to include all SEI-specific roles and actions.
Third-Party Integrations
- Added a new integration for ServiceNow to ingest service management data.
- Enabled the use of ServiceNow data to calculate DORA metrics within Engineering Efficiency reports.
Configuration & Team Settings
- Updated team configuration settings to support custom tool-specific variables.
- Enhanced Efficiency Profiles to improve how engineering performance and metrics are defined.