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Release notes

These are the features and fixes you'll get by upgrading from 2018.6.15 to 2018.7.10.

4698 - Remove virtual scrolling (and scrollbars) from dashboards and project overviews by default, with an option to turn them on
4797 - Fixed a bug where scopes were sometimes not shown in the variable editor for read only values
4798 - Fixed error when management certificate were being used for Azure Web App targets
4801 - Fixed incorrect account scoping error during health checks when cloud targets were using an account with scope restrictions
4803 - Fix incorrect package upload examples

4765 - Cloud targets now run health checks via workers
4769 - Fix for dashboard crashes for users who had it configured to show an incompatible set of projects and environments
4770 - Fixed issue with Allow auto user creation being shown as disabled in the portal when it hadn't been explicitly set
4773 - Fixed a performance bug where the SQL Connection Pool could be exhausted by when clients are watching the progress of lots of tasks and the task log storage (usually network storage) is saturated
4777 - UI adding a save option to the 'unsaved changes' dialog
4780 - Fixed an issue that caused cloud target default worker pools to not be used in some situations
4786 - Fixed issue with upgrading the database causing a timeout
4788 - Reworked the dashboard backends to make them quicker and lighten the load on the SQL server

4750 - Fixed issue where Deployment Target Triggers didn't trigger for projects with Deploy a release steps
4759 - Removed the extra logging blocks in the deployment log when delta compression is performed
4760 - UI refining both the accounts list and on-boarding panels and reintroducing our green primary buttons (#WooHoo)
4762 - Performance improvements to Project Dashboard query

4761 - Halved the performance impact of the project dashboard for instances with many deployments

4513 - Fixed exception when setting up a scheduled trigger for a specific day of the month
4714 - Reduced the CPU usage when deploying to many machine in parallel within the same deployment
4733 - Fixed preservation of JAR manifest info during deployment
4748 - Reduced the amount of data that is retrieved from the database throughout the application
4749 - UI adding an overflow menu option from various documents to the auditing screen
4752 - Fixed Azure Web App deployment failure when no Resource Group is provided
4753 - Run package scripts during Azure Resource Group deployment
4754 - Fixed a bug which limited trial licenses to a single worker and worker pool, when trials are meant to get unlimited workers and worker pools
4755 - Target retention during deployment no longer retrieves all the machines multiple times
4757 - Send additional licensing and usage details back to octopus.com in addition to existing telemetry
4758 - The proxy selection is no longer cleared when expanding the proxy section on the Tentacle details page

4708 - Fixed bug preventing cancelling a deployment that is waiting for manual intervention
4718 - Reduced the amount of data retrieved from the database server for the the project dashboard and process pages, which reduces load on the database server and makes those pages faster when there are many environments
4719 - Fixed a rare issue where equal variable scopes were not be considered equal leading to a variable being added instead of replaced
4727 - UI adding a "HasWarningsOrErrors" flag to the tasks screen filters
4745 - Added an index to the User table
4747 - Fix an issue where OctopusUseBundledAzureModules variable was being ignored

4599 - Fixed issue where using Network Service or Local Service account for Windows Service accounts didn't work on non-English systems
4704 - UI indication of default values in project variable templates
4711 - Improved auditing on actions performed by the node command line operation
4715 - Manual intervention completion time is now recorded and logged
4716 - UI fix for environment vs target name filtering on the environments screen
4722 - Fix a bug where leading zero of a certificate's SerialNumber is truncated
4724 - Default to last version during deployment when no valid semver versions exist
4725 - Fixed compatibility issues in our Calamari update script using the -Directory parameter on the Get-ChildItem cmdlet on PowerShell 2.0
4726 - Fixed compatibility issues in Calamari using unsupported security protocols on servers that only have .NET 4.0 installed
4729 - UI adding a delete option to the release overview screen's overflow menu
4730 - Fix a bug where project variables not included in binding dropdowns in Start/Stop App in Tomcat step
4732 - Fix a bug where a null reference exception is thrown when try to save a project in add project dialog before all data are fully loaded
4734 - Fixed Dashboard error "Cannot read property 'projectIndex' of undefined"
4737 - Fix for UI bug in channel design rules
4740 - Fixed script syntax warning message in Azure and AWS PowerShell steps

4742 - Fixed a bug preventing upgrades to Octopus Server 2018.7.0 or 2018.7.1 with a message like Unrecognised document prefix Accounts- - please upgrade directly to 2018.7.2 or newer
4743 - Fixed a bug which mistakenly deleted non-orphaned library variable set snapshots when upgrading to Octopus Server 2018.7.0 or 2018.7.1 - please upgrade to 2018.7.2 or newer

4739 - Fixed a bug preventing upgrades from Octopus Server 2018.5.7 or earlier directly to 2018.7.0 - please upgrade directly to 2018.7.1 or newer

4158 - Octopus now allows multiple external workers, grouped into pools
4561 - Added support for specifying slots on Azure Web App targets and steps
4634 - Fixed query performance for Azure Web Apps
4710 - Fixing an edge-case with Service Fabric targets to deal with self-signed (and password-protected) certificates
4712 - Changed S3 multi file selections bucket key prefix to be optional
4622 - Increased the speed of the Account Usage query

4436 - UI improvements to removable list components (for consistency and easy-of-use)
4546 - Cloudformation and Terraform inline script permission required changed to ProcessEdit
4647 - Fixed an issue where legacy variable Octopus.Action.Azure.UseBundledAzurePowerShellModule wasn't being honoured
4669 - Add an option to exclude a machine from the rest of the deployment when using guided failure
4700 - UI improvements to update variable snapshot to make this feature more accessible
4705 - Fixed issue where randomly getting "Cannot read property 'projectIndex' of undefined" error
4706 - Fixed issue where urls referenced in task logs were converted to lowercase during render