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 →User Management & Access
- Automatically delete API keys and Personal Access Tokens when a user is removed from an account to prevent unauthorized access.
- Fixed an issue where user group listings would fail when using reusable roles with identical names but different scopes.
- Resolved an issue where users with partial view permissions received incorrect responses when trying to delete users or user groups.
- Added request validation and clearer error messages to the Role Assignment filter APIs.
User Interface & Notifications
- Introduced Platform Alerts, an in-app notification system that displays important account events like resource limits and product announcements directly within the UI.
- Fixed a UI issue on the Resource Group Details page where deleting a project or organization scope left the dropdown displaying an incorrect, stale scope value.
System Reliability & APIs
- Improved the reliability and logging of the Purchase Credits API by securing database transactions.
- Updated the API documentation for ending user impersonation sessions to accurately reflect its success responses.
- Resolved a race condition to improve overall system stability and ensure consistent behavior.
- Restored missing configuration settings required for proper backend caching service functionality.
Delegate
View full release notes →Connectors & Integrations
- Improved Terraform Provider connector validation to use the connector's specific delegate selector, resolving validation failures when components use different delegate selectors across separate AWS accounts.
- Resolved an issue where AWS Secrets Manager credentials failed to refresh after a delegate upgrade.
- Fixed a connection issue with AWS Secrets Manager where incorrect regional URL formats were used in newer AWS regions.
- Ensured Continuous Verification data collection connectors correctly honor bypass proxy settings when a delegate proxy is configured.
Triggers & Artifacts
- Updated pull request triggers to validate API access on Git connectors, ensuring early failures with clear error messages instead of failing silently.
- Fixed Amazon S3 artifact triggers failing with server errors following a delegate upgrade.
- Resolved a conflict in custom artifact polling where concurrent stage executions overwrote temporary files.
- Improved artifact triggers to gracefully handle missing packages at trigger creation time instead of failing permanently.
- Fixed Helm chart validation failures when pulling OCI charts from Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR).
Delegate Operations
- Resolved an issue where incorrect task metadata was sent during task execution.
- Fixed execution failures for self-hosted Windows Kubernetes delegates.
Self-Managed Enterprise Edition
View full release notes →Security & Access Control
- Enforced environment-level secret isolation by passing delegate selector information as AWS session tags in OIDC tokens.
- Added OIDC authentication support for AWS GovCloud regions.
- Fixed an issue where secret values were logged in plaintext during Custom Secret Manager connection tests.
- Resolved an issue where warnings and errors for policy checks configured with a 'Warn and Continue' action failed to display in the UI.
Deployments & Integrations
- Added support for direct deployments to Azure Container Apps with canary releases, progressive traffic shifting, and keyless OIDC authentication.
- Fixed an issue with pulling Helm charts from Amazon ECR that previously required a workaround repository configuration.
- Resolved an issue where Amazon S3 artifact triggers failed following a delegate upgrade.
Pipeline & Build Management
- Improved CLI binary management and rollback capabilities within build runners.
- Introduced a dry run validation endpoint to verify pipeline configurations and policies before committing changes to Git.
- Added support for referencing pipeline configurations and input sets in Git using Git tags during trigger-driven executions.
- Introduced a new Executions Management page for account-level visibility and control over queued pipeline runs.
- Updated module name matching to be case-insensitive for improved configuration consistency.
- Restricted the use of reserved system keywords as identifiers when creating entities to prevent configuration conflicts.
Performance & Reliability
- Improved test-splitting balance in Test Intelligence by using historical average durations for parallel testing.
- Added support for caching NuGet dependencies using environment variables.
- Provided the ability to override Azure-specific settings within Cache Intelligence for greater storage flexibility.
- Optimized permission checks in the environments list to prevent API timeouts and improve performance.
- Resolved an intermittent issue that caused long download delays for configuration files stored in Amazon S3.
User Management & UI
- Fixed an issue where deleting a user at the organization or project level displayed an incorrect warning about removing the last administrator.
- Resolved an issue where user groups could not be sorted chronologically by creation date in the UI.
AI for DevOps & Automation
Continuous Delivery & GitOps
View full release notes →Security & Authentication
- The Artifactory connector now supports OIDC authentication, enabling credential-free federated authentication using short-lived tokens.
- AWS connectors with OIDC authentication now support environment-based session tags, allowing you to restrict production secrets to production pipelines while using shared delegate pools.
- AWS Connectors with OIDC can now pass delegate selector information as AWS session tags, enabling environment-level secret isolation based on which delegate executes tasks.
Pipeline Governance & Approvals
- Harness AI now provides enhanced policy generation capabilities, offering more accurate and context-aware policy suggestions trained on governance best practices.
- Non-approvers can now view approval step details during pipeline execution while keeping approval actions disabled.
- Fixed an issue where Git configuration details were missing in OPA request payloads when creating services, environments, or infrastructures.
Deployment & Traffic Control
- Istio traffic routing steps now support configurable match logic, allowing you to require either all rules or any single rule to match for routing.
- ECS rolling deployments now support skipping AWS Application Auto Scaling interactions, allowing you to manage auto-scaling externally and prevent API rate limiting.
- Fixed an issue where Helm canary deployments failed with delegate selector collisions when using delegate-pinned Git connectors.
- Fixed an issue where configuring a blank image name in Cloud Run deployments caused an infinite retry loop.
- Fixed an issue where a null pointer exception occurred in Cloud Run deployments when no manifests were configured.
Cloud & Git Integrations
- Published updated Docker images for AWS CDK deployments containing the latest CDK versions.
- PR triggers now require the linked Git connector to have API access enabled to prevent pipeline execution failures.
- Improved error handling for Amazon EKS infrastructure configurations to clearly flag empty or invalid cluster names instead of showing generic errors.
- Fixed an issue where pulling OCI Helm charts from Amazon ECR failed unless a dummy repository was created first.
- Fixed an issue where Amazon S3 artifact triggers failed after a delegate upgrade.
- Fixed an intermittent performance issue where downloading configuration files from Amazon S3 took longer than expected.
Developer Tools & APIs
- Added a new dry-run validation API endpoint to validate pipeline YAML changes, schema, templates, and policies before committing files to Git.
- Fixed an issue where service runtime inputs were missing from the inputs section during pipeline execution.
- Fixed an issue where the Terraform provider returned a misleading 'file already exists' error during concurrent pipeline creation.
Continuous Integration
View full release notes →Caching & Storage
- Added Azure Blob Storage as a backend option for build cache operations, expanding storage options beyond Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage.
- Resolved cache key collisions when running multiple build steps in parallel across different platform variants.
- Fixed an issue preventing custom access control configurations from being applied to Cache Intelligence steps.
- Resolved a file system error that caused build and push steps to fail during parallel image builds.
Infrastructure & Network Connectivity
- Added support for using custom container images from private registries in cloud-hosted builds.
- Enabled configuration of network egress restrictions for cloud build virtual machines directly from the user interface.
- Enhanced private network connectivity reliability by automatically assigning delegate selectors to private-connect connectors.
- Improved validation for proxy-enabled connectors by routing validation tasks through the cloud infrastructure.
- Enabled source code operations over private networks by routing repository management tasks through private cloud delegates.
- Prevented rate-limiting issues for public container image pulls by ensuring authenticated registry connections are used when available.
Pipeline Reliability & Execution
- Improved test parallelism accuracy by utilizing historical run durations to balance tests across runners.
- Resolved an upload timeout issue to ensure complete log visibility for containerized step groups.
- Fixed an issue where pipeline execution tags received null values when referencing unresolved environment variables.
- Resolved a permission denied error encountered during source control operations in self-managed environments.
- Fixed a false warning indicating that container images were outdated when using secure cryptographic digests instead of image tags.
- Standardized internal command line tool management to improve execution reliability and rollback support.
Security & Compliance
- Enhanced build security by patching known vulnerabilities in cache utility images.
- Resolved an issue where artifact provenance and software bill of materials (SBOM) data were unexpectedly generated when local caching was active.
Artifact Registry
View full release notes →Security & Compliance
- Block artifacts that exceed configured open-source risk thresholds based on maintenance status, known vulnerabilities, and community health.
- Prevent security risks by automatically blocking any artifact version flagged as malicious in threat intelligence databases.
Swift Package Management
- Manage Swift packages natively using standard registry commands on Swift 5.9 or later.
- Host proprietary Swift packages securely within your Harness account.
- Accelerate builds and reduce external dependencies by caching packages from external Swift sources.
File Storage & HTTP Workflows
- Access and manage files directly by their path, simplifying storage for build artifacts, reports, and shared configurations.
- Push and pull files easily using standard HTTP clients or curl commands without needing a custom CLI plugin.
- Cache files from external HTTP sources through Harness to optimize build performance.
Data Recovery & Lifecycle Management
- Restore deleted packages, versions, or soft-deleted registries directly from the user interface.
- Manage deletion cascading automatically so that soft-deleting a registry applies to all nested packages and images, with the ability to restore parent registries via their child items.
AI for Testing & Resilience
Feature Management & Experimentation
View full release notes →Documentation & Reference
- Detailed updates for this period can be found on the official Feature Management & Experimentation release notes page.
Feature Flags
View full release notes →Documentation & Updates
- Refer to the main Feature Flags release notes page for the latest updates and documentation.
Chaos Engineering
View full release notes →User Experience & Analytics
- Introduced a new Risk Insights landing page and navigation routes within the Chaos module.
- Enabled the download report functionality on the Chaos Subscriptions page.
- Added support for editing step names directly within Chaos Studio.
- Introduced user interface support for entering runtime inputs for connectors.
- Updated the visual icon for Windows infrastructure managed under ChaosGuard.
- Fixed an issue where Linux and Windows experiment reports did not display environment details.
Access Control & Security
- Consolidated pipeline-based experiment executions under a single, unified execution permission.
- Enabled infrastructure security context configurations to propagate automatically to experiment and helper pods.
- Fixed incorrect error messaging shown when users encountered permission errors.
- Resolved an issue that blocked certain users from accessing the subscriptions page.
Experiment Execution & Reliability
- Improved experiment monitoring by handling Pending and Failed execution states for helper pods.
- Resolved an issue where experiments would remain stuck in a running state if the pod failed to start on target infrastructure.
- Added target validation checks for the pod-autoscaler fault before execution.
- Fixed an issue where composite load tests failed within pipelines due to date errors.
- Resolved a YAML parsing issue that caused unexpected characters in experiment configuration files.
Infrastructure & Platform
- Enabled resource configuration propagation to experiment and helper pods during execution.
- Added support for extra volume mounts and volumes within background processor jobs.
- Updated internal Direct-to-Data-Center deployment components to enhance overall stability.
APIs & Integrations
- Added support for filtering the experiment list in the REST API.
- Fixed the experiment status filter functionality on the V3 list API.
AI Test Automation
View full release notes →Test Execution & Automation
- Added support for a new Playwright-based test execution engine.
- Enabled drag-and-drop interactions in Playwright tests.
- Added clipboard operation support in Playwright execution environments.
- Prevented manual click commands from disrupting automated test executions.
Task & Workflow Management
- Introduced a limit on maximum nesting depth for tasks to improve stability.
- Ensured that creating tasks from existing test steps properly enables nested tasks.
- Configured general tasks to run as manual actions only, preventing unintended automated execution.
Configuration & Database Support
- Expanded database query support to include Oracle and MS SQL databases.
- Resolved an issue that caused base URL paths to duplicate across different environments.
- Fixed an issue that allowed duplicate test suites to be created.
User Interface & Session Management
- Improved the user experience by adding clearer session expiry warnings and smoother timeout handling.
- Updated session components with cleaner visual formatting for improved readability.
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Collaboration & Integrations
- Added native integration with Google Chat to support real-time collaboration and incident space creation.
- Enhanced the Google Chat integration with bidirectional message syncing and automated runbook actions to create spaces and manage members.
- Execute runbook automations directly from Slack channels using simple slash commands.
- Updated Slack incident summaries to open in clean modal dialogs to reduce channel clutter.
- Automatically correlate ServiceNow change records with active incidents to accelerate root-cause investigation.
Incident Management & Communication
- Automatically generate detailed, structured post-incident reviews summarizing timelines, root causes, and lessons learned when incidents are closed.
- Enable real-time detection and tracking of action items directly from Slack discussions, meeting transcripts, and incident notes.
- Allow incident commanders to easily send formatted email updates to stakeholders subscribed to impacted services.
Automation & On-Call Updates
- Configure escalation policies to target specific on-call rotations within a schedule, with automatic skipping if a rotation is deleted.
- Added support for the Common Expression Language (CEL) to write advanced dynamic conditions with syntax highlighting and validation across alert rules, runbooks, and webhooks.
AI for Security & Compliance
Security Testing Orchestration
View full release notes →Jira Integration Updates
- Enriched Jira tickets with vulnerability summaries and occurrence details directly in the ticket metadata.
- Added support for creating Jira tickets for security issues found in non-baseline targets, such as feature branches and pull requests.
Exemption Management
- Introduced custom and override exemption durations, providing requesters and approvers with greater control over exemption timelines.
Search & Filter Fixes
- Resolved an issue where searching by Issue ID failed to return remediated and exempted issues on the Issues page.
- Fixed a bug where stage names were missing next to step names in the Vulnerabilities tab filter.
Supply Chain Security
View full release notes →Access Control
- Introduced granular Role-Based Access Control to manage permissions for security workflows across Account, Organization, and Project scopes.
- Enforced restrictions on view-only roles to prevent unauthorized write operations on resources.
Security & Compliance
- Added support for detecting and filtering malicious packages and typosquatting risks in open-source dependencies.
- Introduced License Family Classification in Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) to automatically categorize licenses and enforce compliance policies.
Integrations & Platform Updates
- Added support for discovering and managing Bitbucket repositories directly.
- Fixed an issue where SBOM uploads failed during orchestration due to incorrect configuration settings.
AI for Cost & Optimization
Cloud Cost Management
View full release notes →Cost Analysis & Insights
- Introduced a new Top Spenders card highlighting areas of concentrated spend.
- Added quick tabs to slice Top Spenders data by service categories and sub-account IDs.
Savings & Optimization
- Consolidated savings metrics across CCM modules into a single, unified Optimization Impact dashboard.
- Enhanced tracking for realized and potential savings from applied recommendations.
- Integrated savings tracking for AutoStopping, Cluster Orchestrator, and Asset Governance in one view.
AI DLC Insights
View full release notes →General Updates
- Refer to the dedicated AI DLC Insights release notes page for the latest updates and documentation.