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What's new
These are the most important features you'll get by upgrading from 2024.4.6990 to 2025.1.3942
Octopus 2025.1
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Octopus 2024.4
The 2024.4 release of Octopus Deploy improve visibility and streamline tasks across your deployments.
This release’s noteworthy updates include:
- Automatic monitoring of changes in Git
- Easier redeploys and better visibility with the new Deployment Timeline
- Greater oversight and control of your queue with prioritized deployments
- Improved audit streaming capability via OpenTelemetry
- An even better experience in the Octopus Go CLI
The 2024 Q4 release is already available on Octopus Cloud and now ready for download by our self-hosted customers.
Release notes
These are the features and fixes you'll get by upgrading from 2024.4.6990 to 2025.1.3942.
Changes in Octopus Server 2025.1.3942
- 9168 - Regression in Helm Upgrade step: Quoted Argument Handling
- 9170 - Fixes issue where Kubernetes deployments with object status can get stuck in canceling state
- 9171 - Improve performance and reduce resource usage of project progression endpoint
- 9166 - Fixed an issue where an error would be returned if you tried to clone a step from a deployment process to a runbook
- 9169 - Git submodules are ignored when using git repositories for sourcing deployment resources
- 9158 - Allow S3 external feeds to be used as a source for charts in Helm steps
- 9043 - Fixes a regression issue in which cloning a step to another project failed due to versioning validation
- 9160 - The Octopus Helm step tries to retrieve the deployed manifest even when step verification is disabled
- 9161 - Fixes account creation and modification to show validation instead of immediately clearing it
- 9162 - Improve pagination performance on the Audit Page by no longer reloading Event Agent options
- 9159 - Fixed issue where Acquiring packages may fail with an error referencing multiple concurrent operations on a database context
- 9156 - Fixed a permissions issue where users with Runbook-only permissions may not be able to view the runbook run details
- 9006 - When phases inherit retention policies, retention behaves in accordance with lifecycle configuration. Inherited policies are no longer skipped when releases skip phases
- 9155 - Remove unused indexes from
Releasetable and improve performance of step template usage endpoint - 9149 - Flipped default value of UseNewAcquirePackagesStepControllerFeatureToggle to stop package acquisition steps taking significantly longer
- 4427 - Deployment retention for offline drop targets no longer cleans up directories used by other deployments
- 8736 - Automatic release creation can ignore channel rules when the referenced step is not the same as the channel version rules
Changes in Octopus Server 2025.1.2648
Changes in Octopus Server 2025.1.2251
- 9114 - Fixed bug where step template parameters could not be ordered if there were unsaved step template parameters
- 9148 - Fix redirect after session expiry
- 9147 - Fixed a performance regression with various machine related endpoints
- 9144 - Log OIDC token validation error messages
- 9138 - Error no longer occurs when adding source code to a Deploy an Azure Resource Manager template step
Changes in Octopus Server 2025.1.1913
- 9145 - Fixes issue where an upgraded Octopus instance could refuse to start if the origin version was 2018.3 or older, and the target version was 2024.3 or newer
- 9143 - Phase retention policies that inherit from other phases are now described correctly on the lifecycle page
- 9101 - Fixed bug where users with project group scoped permissions could not clone projects
Changes in Octopus Server 2025.1.1609
- 9133 - Fixed bug where validation errors weren't visible because the Process Editor didn't scroll to top of page after clicking save
- 9113 - Fixed bug where lifecycle phases could not be ordered if there were unsaved lifecycle phases
- 9129 - OIDC requests that fail now include the reason for failure in the Octopus server logs
- 9136 - Durations on the task screen will show correctly when the duration exceeds 24 hours
- 9119 - Zip file extraction, on Windows 2008 assumes UTF-8 filenames within the archive - ensuring accent characters are supported
Changes in Octopus Server 2025.1.1140
- 9001 - Improved the performance of loading step template usages when viewing step templates. Note: This change involves a database migration of releases which may take upwards of a few minutes. If you have many releases (over hundreds of thousands), we recommend more aggressive release retention settings for a quicker upgrade
- 9135 - Default to Hosted Ubuntu worker pool when Bash scripting language is selected in Run a Script step
Changes in Octopus Server 2025.1.799
- 9129 - OIDC requests that fail now include the reason for failure in the Octopus server logs
- 9005 - Fixed issue where Git branches that contained symbols could not be deployed from the portal
- 8344 - Fixed issue where Git branches that contained symbols could not be deployed from the portal
- 9126 - Fixed an issue with cloud connections in the process editor not appearing without unscoped
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Changes in Octopus Server 2025.1.375
Changes in Octopus Server 2025.1.3
Changes in Octopus Server 2024.4.6990
- 9166 - Fixed an issue where an error would be returned if you tried to clone a step from a deployment process to a runbook