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What's new
These are the most important features you'll get by upgrading from 2025.1.9941 to 2025.2.2026
Octopus 2025.2
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Octopus 2025.1
The 2025.1 release of Octopus Deploy helps you deliver software faster and more flexibly, while making it simpler to manage your deployments.
This release’s noteworthy updates include:
- Work where you’re most productive with Config as Code for Runbooks
- Get greater flexibility and control by deactivating tenants that aren’t in use
- Easy and flexible connectivity with Generic Open ID Connect accounts
- Optimize resource use with child-first ordering of the task queue
- Improved encryption and algorithm support with TLS 1.3
The 2025 Q1 release is already available on Octopus Cloud and is now ready for download by our self-hosted customers.
Release notes
These are the features and fixes you'll get by upgrading from 2025.1.9941 to 2025.2.2026.
Changes in Octopus Server 2025.2.2026
- 9292 - Fixed bug where Runbook snapshots created before migrating to Config as Code Runbooks could not be deleted
- 9275 - Replaced Certificate Fails to Open
- 9290 - Migrate
Release
andRunbookSnapshot
table to include new field for process template references. 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recommend more aggressive release retention settings for a quicker upgrade - 8734 - Runbook Parameters not shown for an unpublished runbook
Changes in Octopus Server 2025.2.1694
- 8262 - Custom authentication providers (Okta, AAD, etc) now work with virtual directories
- 8263 - Azure AD integration using a client secret does not work with Octopus bindings using a Virtual directory
- 9280 - Fixed bug allowing for duplicate tenant variable creation
- 9283 - Unscoped tenant common and project variables are returned as missing for all environments
- 9272 - Increased the space name and slug length limits to 50 characters
- 9269 - Recent feature usage telemetry data is included in the diagnostics data, if available
- 9271 - Add support for Runbooks in Config as Code
- 9267 - Validate that a Git HTTP URL ends with
.git
as some providers require it - 9258 - Fix for "unable to evaluate tokens" warnings appearing in task logs for Kubernetes steps
- 9268 - Updated validation on deployment freezes to allow terraform support
Changes in Octopus Server 2025.2.937
- 9266 - Revert "Update project dashboard interface"
- 9199 - Fixed an issue where intelligent log rendering would not show "show all" when log line count is between 70 & 120 lines
- 9264 - Improved resilience when creating Octopus Server config file
- 9263 - Fixed S3 External feed issue where the incorrect package version could be selected during deployment
- 9262 - Fix recurring deployment freeze schedule incorrectly reporting as active
- 9260 - Removed experimental message from ARM SSH targets and workers
- 9259 - Update project dashboard interface
- 9102 - Fixes issue where some old releases could not be edited due to
NullReferenceException
checking Git protection rules - 9257 - Docker images now use .NET 8.0.13
- 9251 - Fix rare scenario where Octopus Server may fail to start after upgrading due to a
DependencyResolutionException
- 9253 - Deploy a Release steps not providing skipped status when a release in an orchestration project is not connected the tenant
- 9243 - Fix authenticating against AWS EKS clusters using an AWS OIDC account
Changes in Octopus Server 2025.2.488
- 9247 - Fixed import/export for git-sourced deployment steps and step templates using git credentials
Changes in Octopus Server 2025.2.18
- 9252 - Release creation will now succeed even if Jira Username/Password are missing while Jira Integration is enabled
- 9244 - Update paging UX on project deployments page to match the Projects page. Improves rendering performance when a project has many channels
- 6475 - Enabled support for TLS 1.3 for Tentacle communications
- 9217 - Support debug mode
- 9243 - Fix authenticating against AWS EKS clusters using an AWS OIDC account
- 9149 - Removed
FeedArguments.Cache
property to improve Package Acquisition performance
Changes in Octopus Server 2025.1.9941
- 9292 - Fixed bug where Runbook snapshots created before migrating to Config as Code Runbooks could not be deleted