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What's new

These are the most important features you'll get by upgrading from 2019.1.11 to 2019.2.8

Octopus 2019.2

Highlights

User Invitations into Space Teams

We have added the ability to invite new users into Teams that are owned by Spaces. Previously, new Users could only be invited into System-level Teams, but now Spaces and Space Managers can be self sufficient by inviting new Users without needing to ask a more privileged user to first invite the user into a System team.

Improved Date Display

We've done some renovations around how we handle and display dates. Now, we display dates in your local timezone where possible, and if that isn't possible, we include the timezone, so it's much easier to tell when something happened if you're in a distributed team or in a different timezone to your Octopus Server. Unfortunately, this has meant we've had to make some breaking changes, but we believe the impact will be low.

Breaking Changes

  • The LastSeen property on octopusservernodes/ping now returns an ISO8601 date instead of a formatted string
  • The human-readable Completed date on a Task is now formatted with a timezone
  • The human-readable Published date on a Package is now formatted with a timezone
  • The Rank, LastSeen and IsOffline properties have been removed from the /api/OctopusServerNodes/{id} endpoint, and are now available from a new endpoint /api/OctopusServerNodes/summary
  • The EffectiveExpiryDate on the /api/licenses/licenses-current-status endpoint is now formatted with a Date (yyyy-MM-dd) rather than DateTimeOffset data type.
  • The third party libraries we use to read certificates have been upgraded to newer versions which include tighter certificate verification. This may reject incorrectly formatted certificates.
  • The write-verbose PowerShell Cmdlet now mimics native PowerShell behavior more closely - write-verbose "myvar = " $myvar is no longer valid and will throw a positional parameter cannot be found error. Please use write-verbose "myvar = $myvar" instead.

Release notes

These are the features and fixes you'll get by upgrading from 2019.1.11 to 2019.2.8.

Changes in Octopus Server 2019.2.8

  • 3748 - Fix for editing a release with a package that doesn't match channel rules
  • 5272 - Octopus Cloud Octopus Manager team doesn't have permissions to export users permission structure
  • 5404 - Fix for broken Project settings page if project was cloned from another project that's not available due to permission/deletion/migration
  • 5422 - Made the getting started guidance available to hosted customers and space managers
  • 5423 - Adding null checking around database upgrade script
  • 5425 - Docker acquisition script moved from Server to Calamari

Changes in Octopus Server 2019.2.7

  • 5285 - Added validation to ensure machine policy timeouts
  • 5407 - Added ability to supply additional arguments in Upgrade Helm Chart step
  • 5409 - Tags entered but not added are now auto-added when saving a tenant tag set
  • 5413 - Added the ability to filter by project and environment on the tenants overview
  • 5417 - Removed unnecessary Tenant Preview buton on Tenant Overview page
  • 5418 - Fix issue where side bar navigation was missing on the Create Subscription page
  • 5420 - Improved the processing speed of the auto-deploy triggers background process

Changes in Octopus Server 2019.2.6

  • 5410 - Fixed crash on node --drain command
  • 5411 - Fixed issue with subscription webhooks using wrong http header type
  • 5414 - Fixed startup issue for a subset of customers by a data consistency script in 2019.2.5

Changes in 2019.2.5 (release was disabled/hidden due to a bug found)

  • 4821 - Fixed issue where expired cron expressions for scheduled deployments were throwing exceptions
  • 4916 - Renamed 'Run a Helm Update' step to 'Upgrade Helm Chart'
  • 5140 - Fixed issue where worker health checks run for deployment targets instead
  • 5370 - Cleaned up callouts in Space Edit screen to improve UX
  • 5379 - fixes scoping for projects when a different project group is scoped on the user role
  • 5381 - Environment section text only shows up if there are environments created on that Octopus instance
  • 5387 - fixes project scoping for user roles when scoped to the projects' group
  • 5391 - fixes dashboard bug when accessing projects in a group the user doesn't have access to
  • 5400 - Added target name to Calamari/Tentacle upgrade task name
  • 5401 - Fix for permission errors when trying to view another users permissions if you do not have access in another space
  • 5405 - Improved cross document links for ScopedUserRoles to Teams and UserRoles in Audit

Changes in Octopus Server 2019.2.4

  • 5208 - Fixed an issue where guided failure does not fail a deployment on the first attempt
  • 5356 - Re-wording message that shows up when a task is suspended because the space queue was stopped
  • 5373 - Added client side input validation for retry attempts in external feeds
  • 5375 - Filter in Teams page should only render after all teams have loaded
  • 5380 - UsernamePassword authentication now accepts email address
  • 5383 - Fixed feed refresh button crashes in several built-in steps
  • 5392 - Sorted the output of show-configuration and the root api responder to make it easier to find things
  • 5393 - fixes an exception during some upgrades due to incorrect assumptions in the UserRole data model
  • 5396 - Migrator.exe no longer fails when importing snapshot VariableSet referencing deleted certificate
  • 5397 - Migrator now remaps deployment action worker pool ID when importing

Changes in Octopus Server 2019.2.3

  • 4243 - Cloning a project now copies all project settings correctly
  • 4349 - Reduce confusion around the select and deselect options for steps excluded from a deployment
  • 4685 - Fixed issue where the "new server version" notification was not appearing
  • 5322 - Fixed issue where Check Tentacle Health summary was not showing details when all targets ended up as HasWarnings or Unhealthy
  • 5357 - Modified the tooltip text for Space and System team chips to make it easier to understand
  • 5363 - Re-indexing the in-built package repository can now run on any node in a multi-node cluster
  • 5364 - Fixed an issue where users without TeamView could not view the configuration for a Space
  • 5366 - Allow deployment of raw YAML to K8S Cluster
  • 5367 - Corrected an issue where the certificate archive would show incorrect results when loading the second and subsequent pages
  • 5368 - Updated the Space Switcher to highlight the active Space
  • 5369 - Added a link to the Space Switcher to allow easy space creation
  • 5371 - Fixed a bug where you could not fetch artifacts for releases with a large number of deployments
  • 5374 - Fixed an issue where the AWS Account variable selector wasn't being displayed
  • 5377 - Allow collapsing environment variables for project variable templates when browsing project variables on a tenant
  • 5378 - Task Queue startup code handles now exceptions correctly

Changes in Octopus Server 2019.2.2

  • 2852 - Added warning to Sensitive text fields regarding ##{ characters escaping
  • 4373 - The environments drop down now updates when selecting a different channel on the variable preview
  • 5340 - No longer logging warnings when private keys are not available when doing a Service Fabric deployment
  • 5344 - UI adding a confirmation to all "Upgrade Tentacle/Calamari" bulk actions
  • 5345 - Resolved issue with HCL templates failing validation in Apply Terraform step
  • 5358 - Fixed "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" when calling /api/projects/all
  • 5359 - Invalid certificates already present before 2018.2.0 release may cause /api/certificates/all request to fail
  • 5362 - Fixed a bug where upgrading from old versions of Octopus (pre 3.15.0) would fail

Changes in Octopus Server 2019.2.1

  • 4897 - Add validation for drop down options for variable templates of type "select"
  • 5303 - 2100 SQL parameter limit hit when updating usages of step templates fixed
  • 5325 - Fixed the api/reporting/deployments/xml endpoint, a bug introduced in 2019.1.0
  • 5338 - Corrupt builtinrepositoryconfigurations-single configuration json column fixed
  • 5343 - Delete project error message does now display the teams blocking the deletion
  • 5346 - Automatic lifecycle promotion after automatic release creation works regardless of the permissions of the user that pushed the package, fixing an issue introduced in 2019.1.0
  • 5349 - Expose ephemeral storage requests and limits in K8S
  • 5351 - Using Tentacle Manager to configure a polling Tentacle does not authenticate with username/password has been fixed
  • 5352 - Fixed an issue where nodes with very long names would show StringTooLongException warnings in the log and were unable to elect a Leader node
  • 5354 - Improve user experience adding a worker when at license limit