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What's new

These are the most important features you'll get by upgrading from 2019.13.7 to 2020.1.10

Octopus 2020.1

Highlights

DarkMode, Improved Octopus CLI support on macOS and Linux, and environment specific Worker Pools.

Read our blog post to learn more.

Breaking changes

This release includes the following breaking changes.

  1. Octopus Server minimum requirements - Octopus 2020.1 raises the minimum requirements for running Octopus Server to Windows Server 2012 R2 and SQL Server 2017.
  2. Library variable set permission changes - You can now scope variables stored inside library variable sets to environments and tenants, giving you fine-grain permissions and more consistent access control.

NOTE: Octopus Server has been ported to .NET Core 3.1 and so it no longer requires the .NET Framework to be installed.

Octopus 2019.13

Octopus 2019.13.0 is an incremental release after we shipped Octopus 2019.12.0 with long term support (LTS). It contains small updates and bug fixes as per the release notes. The next minor release will be 2020.1.0 and it will include features on our public roadmap.

Release notes

These are the features and fixes you'll get by upgrading from 2019.13.7 to 2020.1.10.

Changes in Octopus Server 2020.1.10

  • 6278 - Fix bug where the Tenant Common Variable Tab is missing when LibraryVariableSetView permissions are scoped to a Tenant or Environment
  • 6281 - Fixed error with upgrading from 2018 versions to 2020.1
  • 6289 - Maven artifacts are properly selected when creating a release with channel rules

Changes in Octopus Server 2020.1.9

  • 6287 - Fixed a bug where server would crash writing to the server log on Linux

Changes in Octopus Server 2020.1.8

  • 6275 - Fix bug where Java-based deployments failed on non-Windows targets
  • 6280 - Fix bug where you can't download plain text artifacts greater than 4KB in size

Changes in Octopus Server 2020.1.7

  • 6267 - Rather than running all packaged scripts for a hook, run just one based on OS preferences
  • 6273 - Redirect user to sign-in form if integrated sign-in fails

Changes in Octopus Server 2020.1.6

  • 6204 - Fixed bug where the proxyUri PowerShell variable was interfering with user defined variables
  • 6283 - Fix bug with auto-upgrade of tarball Linux tentacles
  • 6262 - Fix connectivity issue with older polling tentacles
  • 6266 - Fix connectivity issue with Listening Tentacles when the Octopus Server is using an SHA1 certificate

Changes in Octopus Server 2020.1.5

  • 6258 - On premise Active Directory privilege escalation bug fixed
  • 6260 - Tentacle upgrade button is displayed again
  • 6261 - Using a Deploy Package step works again when targeting one of the deprecated Azure Web App targets

Changes in Octopus Server 2020.1.4

  • 6256 - Fixed a bug where we were shipping a .NETCore version of Octopus.Client, which would break "run on server" scripts that were loading the client dll in PowerShell

Changes in Octopus Server 2020.1.3

  • 6238 - Fix bug where it can sometimes be slow to retrieve tenant variables
  • 6240 - Don't display pre-release packages by default when selecting specific versions for release
  • 6241 - Fixed bug where the deprecated package variables like 'NugetPackageId' weren't populated
  • 6244 - Fixed bug where a Runbook couldn't be published

Changes in Octopus Server 2020.1.2

  • 3591 - Library Variable Set View and Edit permissions now support Tenant and Environment scoping. They are no longer coupled to EnvironmentView
  • 6058 - Fixed bug where Octopus was ignoring proxy config when configuring Azure targets
  • 6142 - Fixed bug where multiple directives in NGINX step where getting overridden
  • 6218 - Resolved an issue that prevented a limited number of Octopus Cloud customers from running tasks on the built in worker

Changes in Octopus Server 2020.1.1

  • 6150 - A package referenced by a Runbook is not deleted by retention policy
  • 6166 - Package extraction now works on the first try when deploying to Mac via SSH
  • 6189 - Downloading package from built-in library will now have content length headers set
  • 6199 - Handle two-part extensions like "tar.gz" when parsing file names
  • 6200 - Fixed an issue where pushing a package results in a SQL timeout if you have many large deployment processes
  • 6207 - Respect the path component of the docker feed's Registry Path when calling docker pull
  • 6210 - Migrator's partial export now supports export of Runbook snapshots
  • 6216 - NGINX step now defaults to creating config files with tenant, environment and package id in the file name
  • 6222 - Allow Azure script and ARM template steps to run on Linux workers
  • 6223 - Allow using Azure service principal or AWS account authentication for Kubernetes on Linux workers

Changes in Octopus Server 2020.1.0

  • 5842 - The Worker Pool used by a step can now be varied by environment, tenant or tag via project variables
  • 6139 - Run AWS CLI script, AWS S3 Upload and AWS CloudFormation steps can now run on Linux workers
  • 6190 - Pre-fill database name field with recommended name in Octopus Server setup wizard
  • 6192 - Enable Dark Theme
  • 6193 - Added the ability to extend the web portal's functionality dynamically
  • 6194 - Octopus uses now as few MARS connections as possible which significantly improves performance on Linux

Changes in Octopus Server 2019.13.7

  • 6143 - Fix to the variables/all endpoint when runbooks are in use
  • 6152 - Fix DateTime overflow and year skip in db upgrade schedule conversion
  • 6164 - Fixed up the messages printed in the summary section of health checks
  • 6186 - UI will now default to the last accessed space when no explicit space is provided