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 resource groups directly from the UI to speed up access control configuration.
- Added the ability to clone access control roles directly from the UI, allowing new roles to easily reuse existing permissions.
Security & API Updates
- Added support for cross-project access to Google Cloud Secret Manager secrets using project IDs in dynamic expressions.
- Improved payload validation and error responses for role assignment filter API endpoints.
Delegate
View full release notes →Security & Platform Updates
- Updated the bundled Source Code Management service binary to the latest version.
- Resolved security vulnerabilities in Go cryptography and networking libraries.
- Resolved security vulnerabilities in the Netty library.
Deployments & Connectors
- Added support for OCI Helm repositories from Google Artifact Registry sources.
- Fixed validation issues for Terraform Provider connectors when Git connectors and secret managers use different delegate selectors.
- Ensured Terraform Apply and Destroy steps run on the same delegate that holds the plan file to prevent execution failures.
- Resolved a dependency compatibility error during Serverless Lambda deployments.
- Fixed an issue where Salesforce deployment steps did not recognize the specified changeset ID.
Pipeline Execution & Performance
- Fixed an issue where secret values were printed as object references or plaintext instead of being masked in step logs.
- Fixed an issue where the pipeline sequence ID expression returned null for manual builds using Harness Code repositories.
- Resolved an intermittent hanging issue in GitOps Update Release Repo steps under high concurrency.
- Optimized the aggregate project list API to significantly reduce latency when handling a high volume of organizations.
Self-Managed Enterprise Edition
View full release notes →General Updates
- Refer to the Self-Managed Enterprise Edition release notes page for the latest updates for this period.
AI for DevOps & Automation
Continuous Delivery & GitOps
View full release notes →Deployment & Rollback Strategies
- AWS CDK steps can now run on ECS-based delegates, removing the requirement for a Kubernetes delegate runtime.
- Google Cloud Run and GKE deployments now support staged rollouts, allowing you to shift traffic, run validations, and insert manual approval steps.
- AWS Auto Scaling Group deployments now support Mixed Instances Policies to optimize costs and leverage spot instances.
- Kubernetes Blue Green deployments now automatically scale up stable deployments to their original replica counts during rollbacks to ensure traffic routes successfully.
- Fixed an issue where Helm rollbacks targeted the incorrect previous revision after a deployment failure.
Pipeline Orchestration & Logic
- Define explicit dependencies between stages using Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) pipelines rather than relying on sequential execution.
- Run child pipelines in loops (matrix or repeat configurations) when chaining parent and child pipelines.
- Matrix looping strategies now evaluate and exclude combinations at the start of execution rather than during the run.
- Fixed an issue where a failure in a rollback step prevented subsequent rollback steps configured to always run from executing.
- Fixed an issue where inserting a stage in a pipeline behaved inconsistently.
Execution & Troubleshooting
- Fixed an issue where failed stages remained stuck in a running state, blocking other pipeline executions.
- Fixed an issue where executions failed to rerun automatically after being blocked by a deployment freeze window.
- Fixed an issue where step group failure strategies did not trigger retries correctly.
- Fixed an issue where execution links incorrectly redirected users to the identity provider view.
- Improved the error message in the Terraform Provider when trying to reuse a delegate token name reserved by a revoked token.
Git & Configuration
- Manage and store monitored service configurations directly in your Git repository using Git Experience.
- Access updated documentation for configuring Bitbucket on-premise connectors on Self-Managed Platforms.
- Access updated documentation for managing GitHub connectors when retrieving repositories with a large number of branches.
- Fixed an issue where remote templates did not display the correct Git Sync status.
- Fixed an issue where the user interface displayed incorrect values for applied input sets.
Continuous Integration
View full release notes →Security & Credentials
- Enhanced API security by enforcing stricter account-tenant isolation on endpoints.
- Resolved security vulnerabilities in the secure cache container image.
- Fixed an issue where secret values were printed as unmasked object references in logs instead of being properly masked.
- Fixed an intermittent credential issue where parallel Amazon ECR push steps using different connectors in the same stage would fail.
Performance & Optimization
- Reduced pipeline initialization times on Kubernetes build infrastructure by optimizing expression resolution.
- Optimized build initialization on Kubernetes by reducing the payload size, resulting in faster and more reliable startup times for pipelines with many steps.
- Reduced unnecessary processing overhead by ensuring default settings connectors are not parsed when Test Intelligence is disabled.
Storage & Caching
- Added Azure Blob Storage support for Docker Layer Caching, expanding storage options beyond Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage.
- Added Azure Blob Storage support for Build Cache, allowing Azure to be used as the backend for caching operations.
Troubleshooting & Visibility
- Added CPU and memory usage metrics for pipeline stages running on VM build infrastructure to provide better visibility into resource utilization during CI builds.
- Added project and organization identifiers to the log streaming payload to improve traceability across multi-tenant environments.
- Improved log streaming resilience by gracefully handling redirect and HTTP error responses during log uploads.
- Introduced a test management dashboard to view all tests, including quarantined and flaky tests, along with their health status and recent results.
- Fixed an issue where secret names were missing from error messages during initialization step failures to improve troubleshooting.
Git & Pipeline Execution
- Resolved an issue where Sysdig Drift Control blocked git plugin execution, causing database change workflows to fail.
- Fixed an issue where the pipeline sequence ID expression resolved to null during manual builds using Harness Code repositories.
- Resolved a database index build failure associated with the pipeline branch sequence feature.
- Resolved an issue where Git Clone operations failed in specific configurations.
Infrastructure as Code Management
View full release notes →Module Management
- Introduced Module Version Lifecycle Management in Beta, allowing you to configure rules that automatically classify module versions as Supported, Update Required, or Deprecated based on how recent they are.
Artifact Registry
View full release notes →Artifact Lifecycle & Cleanup
- Configure cleanup rules to automatically soft-delete artifact versions based on age, count, or name patterns, with the option to recover them during a set period.
- Validate cleanup criteria safely using dry-run mode to preview which artifact versions a rule would affect before enabling it.
Data Protection & Governance
- Implement retention rules to protect specified artifacts from any manual or automated deletion.
- Apply lifecycle rules hierarchically at the account, organization, or project level to manage registries systematically.
Monitoring & Notifications
- Track execution history with detailed logs showing which versions were deleted and which were retained.
- Receive centralized notifications when cleanup rules or dry runs complete execution.
AI for Testing & Resilience
Feature Management & Experimentation
View full release notes →Pipeline Integrations
- Added support for integrating Feature Management and Experimentation with Harness Pipelines to automate workflows.
API & Developer Tools
- Released a new Admin API endpoint that allows for full updates to feature flag definitions within an environment.
Chaos Engineering
View full release notes →Security & Infrastructure
- Upgraded core chaos engineering services, including DDCR, DDCR faults, log watcher, and service discovery collector, to their latest versions.
- Resolved critical and high-severity security vulnerabilities in the SSH and agent libraries used by the chaos manager.
- Upgraded core platform microservices to the latest Go version to leverage runtime and security improvements.
- Patched high-severity security vulnerabilities across various chaos engineering components.
- Upgraded the Redis package for machine infrastructure components to resolve underlying dependency issues.
Experimentation & Load Testing
- Introduced a new Pod JVM Heap Memory fault to simulate memory pressure and validate JVM-based application behavior.
- Added orchestration and SDK support for JMeter to run load-test and chaos workloads through the execution flow.
- Improved Datadog APM probe configuration and validation for more reliable health checks during experiments.
- Resolved load-testing issues to improve overall reliability during configuration and execution.
- Fixed an issue where Kubernetes load tests remained stuck in a pending state when a delegate task failed.
- Corrected inaccurate condition match messages displayed by ChaosGuard when experiments are blocked.
Service Management & Onboarding
- Added a dedicated service details page to easily view configuration, health, and associated infrastructure of a single service.
- Introduced a manual onboarding method that distinguishes between network maps and services to ensure the correct onboarding path.
- Added validation for environment IDs during single-service onboarding to prevent linking services to mismatched environments.
User Interface & Usability
- Fixed an issue where dropdown menus for namespaces, deployments, and label selectors would unexpectedly disappear in experiment input sets.
- Resolved an issue where a permanent loading indicator appeared in the chaos experiment selection field.
- Fixed an error that prevented the help panel from loading correctly in certain environments.
AI Test Automation
View full release notes →Test Execution & Performance
- Improved AI task execution speeds using the agentic executor.
- Added support for Playwright as a test execution engine.
- Blocked manual click commands during automated execution to prevent interference.
- Configured general tasks to run strictly as manual actions.
Test Creation & Management
- Generate and download test cases written in plain, natural language.
- Added drag-and-drop support for Playwright-based tests.
- Added clipboard support for Playwright-based tests.
- Prevented the creation of duplicate test suites.
- Ensured creating a task from test steps correctly enables nested tasks.
Configuration & Usability
- Configure task-level overrides that automatically relaunch the browser.
- Improved session expiry warnings and timeout handling.
- Enhanced formatting and visual consistency for session components.
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On-Call & Runbook Updates
- Selectively import on-call configurations from PagerDuty, OpsGenie, and xMatters by choosing specific services or groups, featuring a pre-import preview and sync history tracking.
- Duplicate existing runbooks to easily create variations while preserving all configurations, chain items, and metadata.
AI for Security & Compliance
Security Testing Orchestration
View full release notes →Vulnerability Management
- Introduced support for CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) to display vulnerability status on the Issues page and Vulnerabilities tab.
- Resolved an issue where remediation data was not recorded for scanners like Aqua Trivy, Anchore, and Grype, which previously blocked automatic ticket closure.
Governance & Policies
- Added Open Policy Agent (OPA) policy support to warn or block pipelines based on the count of CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV).
- Added support for custom exemption durations and enabled approvers to override requested durations when reviewing exemption requests.
Integrations & Developer Workflows
- Added integration support for Cortex Cloud scanners to expand security testing capabilities.
- Fixed an issue in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) where Auto PR suggested incorrect dependency upgrade versions, and resolved a bug that made pull request creation unavailable when scan results only included a file name.
AI for Cost & Optimization
Cloud Cost Management
View full release notes →Cost Visualization & Reporting
- Improved data source identification in Perspectives with distinct badges and styling for AI and external sources like Snowflake.
- Fixed an issue where the Cloud Service Provider filter in Cost Explorer was ignored by anomalies.
- Resolved an issue where Perspectives using OR filters showed inconsistent cost data when viewed in Cost Explorer.
- Fixed an issue where cluster data was missing from the Perspective grid in Cost Explorer.
- Adjusted the unit cost line chart to prevent minor cost variations from displaying as large swings.
- Excluded negative costs from the Service Breakdown treemap to ensure consistent and accurate color representation.
- Ensured derived metrics respect the 'Follow view filters' setting when it is turned off.
- Restored the ability to create scheduled reports from newly created Views.
Integrations & Platform Setup
- Added support for RDS Database Savings Plans in Commitment Orchestration, allowing you to track and approve purchases alongside other commitments.
- Updated the AI Cost telemetry setup page to show both OpenTelemetry and Harness SDK configuration options side-by-side.
- Fixed an issue with account ID handling in inventory views to ensure data is displayed correctly.
AI DLC Insights
View full release notes →Documentation & Updates
- Refer to the dedicated AI DLC Insights release notes page for the latest updates.