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What's new

These are the most important features you'll get by upgrading from 2018.3.7 to 2018.3.8

Octopus 2018.3

Changes in 2018.3

See our release blog post for more details.

New Features

This month, we've greatly improved our support for infrastructure as code unlocking some incredible deployment automation and infrastructure automation scenarios. Octopus 2018.3 introduces support for GitHub repositories as feeds and first class terraform support as well as some awesome smaller features like Highlight Messages and Artifacts and . Read on for all the exciting details!

Upgrading

This release contains a few post-install data fixes that may take some time (depending on the size of your DeploymentProcess and Events tables), so please ensure you allow time for this to complete. If you are running the watchdog service, please ensure this is stopped during the upgrade.

All of the usual steps for upgrading Octopus Deploy apply.

Release notes

These are the features and fixes you'll get by upgrading from 2018.3.7 to 2018.3.8.

Changes in Octopus Server 2018.3.8

  • 4291 - Swagger spec now takes virtual directories into account
  • 4354 - Package notes now show if they are missing, or if the notes can not be retrieved
  • 4361 - Fix a bug where dashboard environment scrollbar loses its position when data updated
  • 4419 - Fixed broken links to triggers and channels in the audit log
  • 4420 - Implemented a new deployment pipeline which lays the groundwork for future features. It is enabled for Run Script, Deploy Package and Run AWS Script steps
  • 4421 - The Step Template -> Run feature now treats sensitive parameters correctly instead of passing them to the server as clear-text
  • 4423 - Support Output Variables for Offline Drop
  • 4424 - Insert variable doesn't throw an error when filter contains regex characters
  • 4429 - Fixed up the package acquisition for AWS CloudFormation steps when workers are used

Changes in Octopus Server 2018.3.7

  • 4405 - Release creation page combines requests for the same package + channel filter combination
  • 4407 - Fix a bug where users can see machines beyond their team’s scoped environments in variable editor - CVE-2018-9039
  • 4410 - Default the GitHub Feed url with public GitHub api endpoint
  • 4413 - Updated Terraform executable to 0.11.5
  • 4414 - Fixed the parameters file used when deploying cloudformation templates from a package