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 & Identity Management
- Added the ability to clone existing Resource Groups directly from the UI to streamline role-based access control setup.
- Added the ability to clone existing Access Control roles directly from the UI to quickly duplicate and customize permissions.
- Improved SCIM user group provisioning to prevent identifier collisions and ensure accurate group membership and permissions.
Platform & Configuration Management
- Introduced a centralized Usage Analytics dashboard to help track and validate module adoption across teams.
- Added support for project IDs in Google Cloud Secret Manager expressions, enabling cross-project secret access.
- Fixed an issue where editing notification rules displayed incorrect project-scoped service account identifiers.
Delegate
View full release notes →Deployment & Pipeline Execution
- Resolved an issue in Helm blue-green deployments where incorrect stage deployment output caused the swap selectors step to fail.
- Fixed an issue where concurrent pipeline steps targeting the same host using WinRM with NTLM authentication stalled due to credential contention.
- Fixed an issue where updating release repository files flattened dot-notation variables instead of generating properly nested YAML or JSON objects.
Integrations & Performance
- Improved performance when listing Custom Deployment infrastructures by fetching Git repository branch metadata concurrently.
- Added token caching for GitHub App operations to prevent rate limiting during high-volume parallel executions.
Security & Reliability
- Resolved a high-severity security vulnerability by updating the bundled MIME library.
- Improved error handling for Jenkins build triggers to return clear, actionable error messages instead of failing unexpectedly.
Code Repository
View full release notes →Pull Request Experience
- Sort pull request reviewers by their review status to quickly identify pending reviews.
- Edit files directly from the pull request interface with appropriate repository permission checks.
- Paste images directly into pull request comment threads.
- Navigate long file diffs more easily using a new jump to top button.
- Resolved an issue where opening a pull request from the review list redirected to the repository homepage.
- Fixed pull request filtering to accurately match key-value labels.
Branch Rules & Merging
- Added branch protection rules to block merges when branches are out of date, including automatic rebase support.
- Fixed the auto-merge menu to show only the merge strategies enabled for the repository.
- Fixed branch links on pull request pages that previously led to 404 errors.
- Fixed search term highlighting issues when searching for branches.
Repository & Tag Management
- Fixed an issue where tags from a previously selected repository remained visible after switching repositories.
- Fixed tag comparison errors that resulted in 404s or false empty comparison messages.
- Improved error feedback when attempting Helm changes without required contributor permissions.
AI for DevOps & Automation
Continuous Integration
View full release notes →Cloud & Build Infrastructure
- Updated default Harness Cloud virtual machine images to newer Linux and macOS operating system releases, and deprecated macOS Sonoma.
- Added global queuing for macOS builds on Harness Cloud to improve capacity utilization and prevent capacity shortages.
- Added support for running Cache, Cloud Storage, Artifactory, and build plugins on Windows Server 2025 infrastructure.
- Added support for automatically injecting custom internal CA certificates into Windows build pods for seamless connectivity to internal registries and services.
- Fixed an issue where Git Clone steps failed on ARM-based nodes due to multi-architecture image resolution errors.
Build & Cache Optimization
- Added support for configuring custom resource limits for Build Intelligence and Cache Intelligence directly in pipeline configurations.
- Added Azure Blob Storage support for Docker Layer Caching in pipeline configurations.
- Fixed an issue where Cache Intelligence ignored user-specified source paths and applied default cache paths instead.
- Fixed an issue where Build Intelligence failed to assume cross-account IAM roles when accessing AWS S3 storage.
- Fixed an issue where Test Intelligence crashed during parallel test calculations when no matching test files were found.
- Fixed an issue where Gradle configuration files without trailing newlines were corrupted during automatic dependency injection.
Security & Network Connectivity
- Added Workload Identity support for CI Run steps, enabling direct OIDC authentication with cloud providers including AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and Vault without requiring dedicated connectors.
- Enhanced egress proxy support across build steps by properly forwarding proxy environment variables and resolving secret lookup issues.
- Added custom certificate authority path support to Docker and Buildx plugins to prevent certificate errors when operating behind TLS-intercepting proxies.
- Resolved known security vulnerabilities in the Harness command-line interface.
- Fixed an issue where secrets were not properly resolved during database schema clone steps on Kubernetes build infrastructure.
Container Builds
- Resolved intermittent base image pull failures affecting BuildKit-based build and push steps.
- Fixed an issue where container build steps failed due to overly strict symbolic link validation rejecting valid system certificates.
Infrastructure as Code Management
View full release notes →AI & Automated Remediation
- Introduced the AI Blast Radius Agent to evaluate pipeline risk, calculate risk scores, and visualize resource dependencies before applying infrastructure changes.
- Added the Remediation Agent to automatically create pull requests with suggested code updates to resolve detected configuration drift.
- Introduced a unified Insights tab to monitor configuration drift and cost optimization recommendations in one place.
Workspace & Module Management
- Redesigned the Workspace Overview tab to display real-time cloud costs, resource counts, cost optimization tips, and recent activity at a glance.
- Introduced Ephemeral Workspaces to automatically tear down expired infrastructure and delete temporary workspace records.
- Added module lifecycle management to classify module registry versions as Supported, Update Required, or Deprecated.
Infrastructure Provisioning & Controls
- Expanded AWS CDK capabilities with dedicated drift detection, stack destruction steps, and approval gates for diff reviews.
- Added AWS CDK support for Java, JavaScript, and Go in addition to Python and TypeScript.
- Fixed an issue where provisioner downloads failed behind corporate proxies by adding support for custom CA certificate bundles.
Artifact Registry
View full release notes →General Updates
- Refer to the Artifact Registry Release Notes page for documented updates during this period.
AI for Testing & Resilience
Feature Management & Experimentation
View full release notes →General Updates
- Detailed updates for this period are available on the Feature Management & Experimentation release notes page.
Chaos Engineering
View full release notes →Risk Management & Scans
- Added a clear empty state message for services with no detected risks instead of displaying an empty table.
- Fixed an issue where details were missing in the metadata section of the Risks Summary.
- Fixed the Risks table Source filter returning duplicate data across different source types.
- Resolved an issue where the Risks Detected table repeatedly showed the service name in the Risk column for pipeline scans.
- Removed outdated options from the category filter to simplify filtering.
Service Details & Resilience Activity
- Added Resilience Testing activity and disaster recovery executions to individual service pages.
- Fixed an issue where Resilience Testing activity appeared empty on service pages.
- Updated terminology on service pages from Chaos Agent to Chaos Infrastructure for consistency.
Load Testing Improvements
- Added a JMeter sample load test and updated button labels to clearly distinguish between JMeter, Locust, and k6 samples.
- Renamed Load Test Type to Load Test Engine to better identify the underlying execution tool.
- Fixed the JMeter Script tab displaying base64 strings instead of the file list on the load test details page.
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AI Investigation & Assistance
- Ask AI SRE: Query incident details, investigation context, and on-call status through a natural language conversational AI interface.
- Runbook and Pipeline Outputs in Root Cause Analysis: Enrich AI Investigator root-cause analysis with output data from runbooks, worker agents, and pipeline executions.
Incident Analytics & Intelligence
- Custom Incident Dashboards: Build custom dashboards to track MTTR metrics, incident volume trends, alert ratios, and service health indicators.
- Cross-Platform Data Integration: Query incident and alert data alongside deployment, CI/CD, and infrastructure data via the Harness Knowledge Graph and Model Context Protocol.
On-Call & SLO Management
- Native SLO Management: Create, monitor, and manage Service Level Objectives directly within AI-SRE with integrated alerting and incident response workflows.
- On-Call Schedule Sharing: Share on-call schedules with stakeholders using automated daily or weekly email digests and Slack commands.
AI for Security & Compliance
Security Testing Orchestration
View full release notes →Remediation & Integrations
- Added support for creating pull requests in GitLab and Bitbucket directly from AI-generated remediations.
- Enhanced Jira ticket creation to automatically include vulnerability summaries and occurrence details for streamlined triage.
Vulnerability Management & Exemptions
- Added the ability to submit bulk exemption requests for multiple vulnerabilities at once with shared scope, duration, and reason settings.
- Fixed an issue where the Vulnerabilities tab did not accurately display remediated issues unless resolved across all targets in a pipeline execution.
User Interface Improvements
- Fixed an issue where yellow highlighting on code snippets in the issue panel rendered text unreadable.
Supply Chain Security
View full release notes →Access Control & Governance
- Added support for configurable resource groups, allowing administrators to manage access to Supply Chain Security resources across Account, Organization, and Project scopes.
- Fixed an issue where Repository Security Posture Management APIs did not consistently enforce role-based access control across different account scopes.
SBOM & AI Security
- Added support for generating AI Bill of Materials (AIBOM) in CycloneDX format, providing visibility into AI models, datasets, agents, and libraries.
- Resolved an issue where SBOM processing failed to extract tool metadata from JFrog Xray CycloneDX SBOM files.
Artifact Security & CI/CD Integrations
- Added GitLab CI/CD integration to support SBOM generation and ingestion, policy enforcement, SLSA provenance verification, and artifact signing.
- Promoted Artifact Registry integration for container image artifact signing and verification to General Availability.
- Resolved an issue causing intermittent pipeline execution failures during SBOM policy enforcement and SLSA verification steps.
AI for Cost & Optimization
Cloud Cost Management
View full release notes →AI Cost Tracking & Analysis
- Added support for tracking Anthropic Platform and Enterprise accounts separately within the Anthropic connector.
- Added a new Devin connector to ingest and view Devin cost and usage data alongside other AI providers.
- Added support for Cursor connectors to monitor and manage Cursor AI spend.
- Added a Token Count column in AI Perspectives, Cost Explorer, and reports to view token metrics alongside cost.
- Added a Trends and Histogram view in the Service Traces drawer to visualize spend, token metrics, and cost percentile distributions over time.
- Updated the Service Traces drawer to sort traces from highest to lowest cost by default.
- Enhanced AI Perspective drill-down options to allow grouping by Principal and navigating deeper into Provider, Sub Provider, Sub Account, Model, and Token Type.
Cost Visibility & Dashboards
- Cost Explorer now clearly marks sections with unsaved changes before edits are applied or discarded.
- Added cost category filtering to the Overview page to focus dashboard views on specific cost categories.
- Enhanced the Overview page Anomalies widget with time-series charts and stale anomaly counts, and updated the Budgets widget for improved visibility.
- Fixed an issue where Cost Explorer anomaly totals did not match figures on the Anomalies page.
Anomaly Detection & Budgets
- Fixed an issue where cost category anomaly durations extended beyond the actual anomalous spending period.
- Updated the budget API to return an error when attempting unsupported changes to budget start times or periods.
- Fixed an issue where the Anomalies tab failed to load or omitted data for users with restricted perspective access.
- Fixed an issue where non-cluster anomalies were incorrectly displayed with empty cluster details.
Cost Optimization & Governance
- Fixed an issue where applied cost histograms failed to load on ECS recommendation pages.
- Updated ECS Fargate recommendations to use actual cost data for ARM Graviton workloads.
- Fixed an issue where Jira ticket statuses displayed on recommendations did not reflect status updates made in Jira.
- Ensured linked Jira ticket statuses consistently stay in sync on recommendation views.
- Resolved an issue where asset governance enforcement schedules failed to create or update during high job volumes.
AI DLC Insights
View full release notes →General Updates
- Updates for this period are documented on the AI DLC Insights release notes page.