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What's new

These are the most important features you'll get by upgrading from 2019.7.13 to 2019.8.3

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.

No breaking changes in this release.

These are the features and fixes you'll get by upgrading from 2019.7.13 to 2019.8.3.

5832 - Improved startup performance when many files exist in the Octopus Server directory
5836 - Empty annotation, label, secret and configmap values are now passed through to K8S
5839 - Includes bundled Tentacle 5.0.4 which includes the new Linux Tentacle

5647 - Package acquisition now runs after manual intervention for steps with additional packages
5803 - Automatic redirect to secure WebUI binding now works for localhost binding
5820 - Fix misaligned deployment process chips
5825 - Certificates without a private key can now be installed into another user's key store on windows
5826 - Fixed the User edit page so the Reset Password button is only enabled based on the same permissions checks logic the API is using
5830 - Updated bundle Tentacle to 5.0.3 to fix crash when launching Tentacle Manager
5834 - Includes bundled Tentacle 5.0.3 with fix for memory leak with Listening Tentacles

5813 - Jira comment parser RegEx updated to simplify and also remove some false positive cases
5814 - Machine policy health check no longer runs at startup when health check policy is set to Never
5815 - Fixed a performance problem where looking at a deployment paused by manual intervention would cause high CPU usage on the Octopus Server, but only if the manual intervention was not restricted to specific teams and you have a LOT of teams
5816 - UI fix for accessing Project Templates menu for multi-tenancy
5817 - UI fix for cloning steps across different projects
5818 - Fixed a bug preventing new variable values from being added to a project or library variable set where there is already another variable value with the same name
5819 - Made CTRL+Click work in the project switch again, so it opens the selected project in a new browser tab just like it did before 2019.7.13

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