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What's new

These are the most important features you'll get by upgrading from 2.1.3.1223 to 2.2.1

Octopus 2.2

No highlights for 2.2

Octopus 2.1

Highlights of 2.1

  • Built-in NuGet feed
  • Guest account log-in support
  • Variable editor improvements
  • Auditing improvements

Release notes

These are the features and fixes you'll get by upgrading from 2.1.3.1223 to 2.2.1.

Changes in Octopus Server 2.2.1

Highlights of 2.2

  • Ad-hoc PowerShell console
  • Define Deploy.ps1 scripts in Octopus

    Changes from 2.1.3 to 2.2.1

  • 675 - Full screen editor for PowerShell scripts

  • 672 - Deploy.ps1 scripts can be defined in Octopus rather than embedded in packages
  • 670 - Email step CC binding bug fix
  • 668 - Various license encoding issues
  • 652 - Fix excessive web UI HTTP traffic when browsing
  • 646 - IIS bindings support duplicate copies of a certificate in the store
  • 627 - Library variable set scoping/resolving improvements
  • 605 - FTPS timeout tweaks
  • 601 - Windows Services and custom installation directory work together
  • 598 - Releases for the same project can be created simultaneously
  • 542 - Process step renaming issue fixed
  • 540 - Project overview and release details page now auto-refresh
  • 539 - Large NuGet package sizes are shown correctly
  • 535 - IIS convention now allows HTTP/HTTPS bindings to be bound
  • 465 - Reorder environments always updates dashboard
  • 176 - Show master key improvements for remote desktop users

Changes in Octopus Server 2.1.3.1223

Highlights of 2.1

  • Built-in NuGet feed
  • Guest account log-in support
  • Variable editor improvements
  • Auditing improvements

    Changes from 2.1.2 to 2.1.3

  • 650 - MSI installers ensure old versions are uninstalled

    Changes from 2.1.1 to 2.1.2

  • 634 - MSI installers are now scoped to all users

  • 647 - Incorrect permission check for Promote button
  • 643 - Ensure PowerShell scripts are all UTF8
  • 638 - Octo.exe and TeamCity fixes and improvements

    Changes from 2.0 to 2.1.1

  • 629 - Support for guest account log-in

  • 621 - Maintain disabled status for users migrated from 1.6
  • 614 - Migrate the environment associated with 1.6 manual steps
  • 613 - Fixed binding of the "require packages" check-box when editing steps
  • 612 - Suppress error logs generated by disabled polling tentacles; log incoming IPs more prominently
  • 611 - Exclude machines without environments when migrating from 1.6
  • 597 - Escape command-line arguments properly from configuration wizards, fixing support for AD DOMAIN\user syntax for admin usernames
  • 586 - More robust PowerShell prerequisite detection
  • 583 - List common arguments in command-line help
  • 575 - Hide the change password function when AD authentication is enabled
  • 552 - Prevent restarts of the Tentacle process from blocking queued deployments
  • 549 - Provide a Tools UI for selecting non-default Server instances
  • 545 - UI for skipping already-installed packages with project-based setting to choose force/skip default
  • 530 - Fixed escaping of HTML characters when rendering variable values in the editor
  • 457 - Filtering and sorting in the variable editor
  • 423 - Block migration from 1.6 properly when invalid step names are present
  • 380 - Fixed layout of variable editor text input on scaled displays
  • 310 - Create projects by cloning existing projects
  • 275 - Pre-select the target environment properly when try again is used
  • 251 - Built-in NuGet feed
  • 109 - Improved execution plan accuracy for deployments without package acquisition
  • 71 - Show changes to documents in audit events