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Release notes

These are the features and fixes you'll get by upgrading from 2018.3.13 to 2018.4.5.

4468 - The Tentacle included in this release registers faster when the Octopus Server has many environments or tenants
4503 - Fix S3 Package.FileName output variable not set

4498 - Removed parts of the old deployment pipeline, as well as the Octopus.Action.UseNewExecutionDispatcher variable
4505 - Compatibility fix for Offline Drop output variables on PowerShell 2
4507 - Regression in Terraform destroy step is resolved
4510 - Removed -var-file options from terraform init command

4489 - Deep links containing filters are preserved correctly across the login process
4494 - Use FQDN examples for built-in repository examples
4495 - Fixed a problem where run-on-server-on-behalf-of scoped AWS and Azure steps would sometimes run on the target instead of the server
4499 - The IIS, Windows Server, Terraform and VHD steps now use the new pipeline
4501 - Fixed migration that was deleting library variable snapshots even when they were still in use
4502 - Resolved exception when a null variable is defined as a CloudFormation output
4504 - Fixed an exception in the Configuration, Settings page

4178 - The built-in repository can now delete unused packages that are dynamically referenced. See the details of this issue for instructions on how to enable this feature
4393 - Offline drop now only includes each package once per release
4456 - Individual variable files can now be listed in the Terraform step, and the apply and init terraform actions can have additional arguments passed to them
4471 - Added tenant selector for running ad-hoc scripts per tenant
4477 - The permission required to delete users has been relaxed from AdministerSystem to UserEdit, with the caveat that you cannot delete yourself, and only System Administrators can delete other System Administrators
4479 - Fixed SQL error when using taskState in deployments API
4481 - Octopus.Action.Terraform.CustomTerraformExecutable can be set to the location of a customer terraform executable
4483 - Task details page doesn't crash anymore when the log contains PowerShell code that invokes a static method
4485 - Improved performance in reading the stream from SSH targets
4488 - The Server Extensibility API has changed and custom extensions will need to be updated
4490 - Convert OfflineDrop Write-Host to Write-Output in bootstrapper
4491 - Resolved a step execution performance issue when there are lots of variables that was introduced in 2018.3.8
4493 - Terraform updated to 0.11.7

4335 - Breaking change Automatic release creation now selects packages appropriate for the channel the release is created in
3633 - Added a new project trigger for recurring scheduled deployments
4365 - Deployment Steps can be marked as required, meaning they cannot be skipped when customizing a deployment
4422 - Fixed a problem where Variable Sets were deleted even when they were used by existing releases
4433 - Release version search in Deploy a Release now displays Load More
4448 - Fix for error when filtering Tenants and user does not have view permissions for some Environments
4463 - Fix for show and hide empty groups on Project dashboard
4473 - Fixes for “Deploy To” button popover on mobile
4482 - Added the new AWS S3 upload step for uploading files to an S3 bucket with all the bells and whistles