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What's new

These are the most important features you'll get by upgrading from 2019.7.13 to 2019.8.6

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 2019.8.6.

5797 - Fixed how manual interventions are handled when they occur during a deploy release step
5835 - Account parameters used in Step Templates are now expanded, making them easier to use
5851 - Shows cleaner exception message when executable is not found in steps with script logic
5866 - Fixed an issue that caused certain steps to now show in the channel version rule selector
5868 - Fixed comparison of package ids between build information and steps to be case insensitive
5872 - Improved validation and error messsages for Automatic Release Creation package steps
5874 - Improve reliability of temp file handling on Linux targets and avoid silent failure of "Deploy to NGINX" steps
5878 - Removed duplicate email validation when modifying or registering users

5846 - Show a nicer error instead of crashing when a bad value is passed to the command line for the --dependOn argument on the service command
5849 - Handle bad Auto Release Creation configuration better and allow users to resolve it
5852 - New installations of Octopus Server will have the built-in package repository re-index feature disabled by default
5853 - Fix for incorrect Isolation Mutex causing deployments to block/hang
5855 - Resolved issue saving deploy kubernetes containers step when memory requirements set but not cpu
5857 - Made a data migration script more robust when faced with Auto Release Creation referencing a channel that has been deleted
5858 - Description support on teams
5859 - Fix a timing issue in deployment process overview page which was causing intermittent failures

5837 - Fixed issue where step delete silently fails when step is used in the versioning strategy
5838 - Fixed replace option for Upload Package dialog and client backwards compatibility
5841 - Fixed issue with tenant variable editing, which occurred if a team the user was in had a role scoped to an environment
5844 - Fixed Octopus ID authentication provider's default configuration to stop warnings appearing in the server logs unnecessarily
5847 - fix for NullReferenceException in CheckForOctopusUpgrade reported in server dignostic errors
5833 - Added retry logic and configurable timeout to initial connection to SMTP host

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