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What's new

These are the most important features you'll get by upgrading from 2018.11.3 to 2018.12.1

Octopus 2018.12

This release consists of a few important bug fixes and enhancements. Most notable is updating our Azure support to handle deprecated management certificate better.

Release notes

These are the features and fixes you'll get by upgrading from 2018.11.3 to 2018.12.1.

Changes in Octopus Server 2018.12.1

  • 2521 - Polling Tentacle timeout can now be configured via the machine policy, replacing the Octopus.Server.exe.config settings. If you are using those settings, open each machine policy, check the settings and save the policy
  • 5124 - Added support for touch screens when reordering lists (e.g. when re-ordering steps)
  • 5174 - Attempt to cancel any running tasks when shutting down the Octopus service
  • 5204 - SSH and Tentacle connection timeouts and limits can now be configured via the machine policy
  • 5229 - External feed URLs are now trimmed to prevent validation errors
  • 5231 - Squashed null reference error in Deploy Kubernetes Containers step when secret has no data
  • 5233 - Added support for AWS S3 and CloudFormation steps to run on ssh Linux targets
  • 5237 - Fix for incorrect permission warning on Project overview screen if user only had ProjectView scoped on group dimension

Changes in Octopus Server 2018.12.0

  • 5045 - Reduced the key size of the index IXServerTask_Common so it no longer exceeds the maximum key size
  • 5205 - Upgrade to latest version of Azure libraries in Octopus Server means breaking some management certificate support
  • 5216 - Turn off context autosave in AzureRM powershell scripts
  • 5219 - Allow step templates to be created from a step
  • 5222 - Server can now download all NuGet packages created with the latest version of NuGet
  • 5227 - Bugfix - Referencing PackageVersion variable from another step is not evaluating correctly
  • 4287 - Fix for TaskView check incorrectly operating on health check tasks when scoped.