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What's new

These are the most important features you'll get by upgrading from 2019.13.7 to 2020.1.14

Octopus 2020.1

Highlights

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

Dark Mode 😎 is cool and it's easier on your eyes.
Octopus and Octopus CLI are more at home on Linux and macOS: AWS and Azure built-in steps are cross-platform, and you can now install and use the Octopus CLI via Homebrew, Yum, and APT.
Environment and tenant specific worker pools: New worker pool variables unlock the ability to have dedicated worker pools for different environments or tenant tags.

Read our blog post to learn more.

Breaking changes

This release includes the following breaking changes.

Octopus Server minimum requirements - Octopus 2020.1 raises the minimum requirements for running Octopus Server to Windows Server 2012 R2 and SQL Server 2017.
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 2020.1.14.

Changes in Octopus Server 2020.1.14

6346 - EventViewPermission is not scoped correctly if there are multiple values in any single dimension

Changes in Octopus Server 2020.1.13

6311 - Removed Release Lane and Long-Term Support concepts from Octopus Server - every release from 2020.1 comes with 6 months support
6313 - Fixes a UI error when creating a scheduled trigger
6315 - Fixes an issue where a run condition based on a variable expression doesn't work when the variable is scoped to a process
6319 - SynchronizeExternalSecurityGroupsForUsers task is not executed when AD integration is not present

Changes in Octopus Server 2020.1.12

6310 - Runbook task status can only be updated when user has RunbookRunCreate permission (CVE-2020-12482)
6332 - TaskView permission is not scoped to any dimensions e.g. Projects, environments and tenants (CVE-2020-12286)

Changes in Octopus Server 2020.1.11

6295 - Email notification fonts corrected for outlook
6296 - Fix bug where workers from a second pool might not be released if the default pool is a dynamic worker pool
6299 - Clean up a tenants runbook runs when they are deleted
6302 - Fixes a performance issue in deployment creation when involving a large number of steps, parameters, and tenancies
6306 - Extended the default health check interval in machine policies from 1 hour to 1 day
6307 - Fixes an error that prevented disabling run steps on Octopus Server

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