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What's new

These are the most important features you'll get by upgrading from 2019.7.13 to 2019.8.0

Octopus 2019.8

Highlights

2019.8 includes:

  • Improved deployment process editor: Quickly jump between steps when editing the deployment process
  • Cloning Tenants
  • More health check scheduling options: Health checks can be configured to run on a cron expression, or to never run
  • Allow overriding namespace in Kubernetes steps
  • New Variable Filter expressions: Trim, Substring, Truncate, UriEscape, UriDataEscape
  • Copy and paste to add certificates: Certificates can now be pasted as text directly into the portal

See our blog post for the full details.

Breaking changes

No breaking changes in this release.

Release notes

These are the features and fixes you'll get by upgrading from 2019.7.13 to 2019.8.0.

Changes in Octopus Server 2019.8.0

  • 5213 - Fix issue where Calamari doesn't respect the setting to bypass the default proxy in windows
  • 5726 - System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file 'xxx' because it is being used by another process during Calamari package extraction
  • 5727 - Add the ability to clone a Tenant
  • 5784 - Demote logging level for "Setting Proxy Environment Variables" to VERBOSE
  • 5793 - Moved --ServerNodeName from the configure command to the create-instance command
  • 5798 - Fixed a bug in ProjectSwitcher that was redirecting to the wrong projects after filtering results
  • 5805 - Fixed a null reference exception that occurred on login in some AD configurations after upgrade beyond 2019.5.0
  • 5806 - Allow configuration of a specific domain for cookies issued by server, to allow custom web UIs to call the API
  • 5811 - Add a description field to each Tenant
  • 5812 - Add UriEscape, UriDataEscape, Substring, Trim and Truncate filters for variable substitutions