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What's new

These are the most important features you'll get by upgrading from 1.2.3.1515 to 1.3.5.1564

Octopus 1.3

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Release notes

These are the features and fixes you'll get by upgrading from 1.2.3.1515 to 1.3.5.1564.

Changes in Octopus Server 1.3.5.1564

  • Tentacle.exe can deploy packages from the command line (details)
  • Special variables are available to link to a project/release/deployment from within tasks (details)
  • PowerShell scripts like Deploy.ps1 can now set variables (details)
  • Simplified IIS 6/7 detection (details)
  • Improved the task queue code to allow more tasks to run in parallel
  • Errors in PowerShell steps will now fail the deployment (details)
  • Config transformation errors/warnings can now fail the deployment (details)
  • Fixed a bug that meant the selected environments for an email step weren't being shown
  • Workaround for a NuGet issue which used too much memory when extracting large files (details)
  • Workaround for a NuGet issue which prevents file system packages being queried when also being written (details)
  • Upgrade storage engine to RavenDB 2.0.2261

Changes in Octopus Server 1.3.0.1535

  • New deployment steps (blog post):
    • Pause a deployment for manual approval/intervention
    • Send an email
    • Run some ad-hoc PowerShell on one or more Tentacles
  • Upgrade to RavenDB 2.0 (details)
  • Ability to rename steps (details)
  • DeployFailed.ps1 will be deleted on successful deployment (details)
  • Users with "deploy release" permission can now also check Tentacle health (details)
  • Tentacle upgrade reliability bug fixed (details)

RavenDB upgrade

This release contains a new version of the embedded database used by Octopus. As always, we recommend taking a backup of your Octopus database immediately before upgrading. If after upgrading you have problems, you can try restoring the backup over your upgraded Octopus instance, and if that doesn't resolve the problem you can install a previous version of Octopus and restore the backup over that.

Changes in Octopus Server 1.2.3.1515

This release is the same as 1.2.3.1476, with a few clarifications in the EULA.