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These are the most important features you'll get by upgrading from 2023.1.10475 to 2023.3.1708

Octopus 2023.3

The 2023.3 release of Octopus Deploy has a number of updates to improve deployment efficiency and speed at scale.

This release’s noteworthy updates include:

Easier management of tenants at scale with bulk actions
Improved container deployments with support for OCI Helm registries
Fewer manual interventions with configurable step timeouts
More control over audit logs with adjustable retention
Source Kubernetes configuration files from Git for simpler deployments
Modify YAML files for Kubernetes with our new Kustomize Step
Additional functionality for AKS customers with support for kubelogin for AKS clusters
Step template improvements to make updates easier to manage
UI performance improvements to the Releases and Create Release pages for a better experience while deploying

The 2023 Q3 release is available on Octopus Cloud and ready for download by our self-hosted customers.

Octopus 2023.2

The latest release of Octopus has new features to make your deployments faster and easier to manage, including:

Better visibility across tenants with the redesigned tenant overview dashboard
Live updates of Kubernetes objects during deployment
Increased success rate of steps with automatic retries
More powerful metrics with DevOps Insights improvements
Easier deployments to Azure resources with ‘Deploy a Bicep Template’ Step
Enhanced security API key security
Common components for easier bulk administration and visibility
Improved UI performance and navigation in the Octopus portal
Polling tentacles over standard ports for reduced complexity
Configurable Audit log retention limit for Cloud customers

The release is available on Octopus Cloud and ready for download by our self-hosted customers.

Release notes

These are the features and fixes you'll get by upgrading from 2023.1.10475 to 2023.3.1708.

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.3.1708

7335 - Introduced audit log retention feature. See here for more details
8171 - Calling the tasks/{id}/details REST endpoint will now return all valid log entries before invalid JSON is detected in a log file. This fix also ensures Task Log Aggregation does not aggregate task log files that contain invalid JSON entries, and leaves related task logs in their original unaggregated form
8177 - Fixed a regression that prevented AWS credentials from being used during step execution
8175 - Return empty string instead of failing when executing get_octopusvariable() in a python script
8025 - Fix an issue where python script output did not behave as expected due to buffering
7184 - NuGet packages with build metadata in the version will now use the package cache to speed up transfers
8169 - Improved the speed of built-in package reindexing when there are many packages with the same package id
8165 - Name search for Deployment Targets is now case insensitive
8178 - Tasks that rely on mono will start logging warning messages
8163 - Guest users can now access Version Controlled projects and several other pages that previously returned an error
8166 - Updated styling of visual feedback for most buttons across the portal
8129 - Fixing UserId filtering for audit logs

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.3.1204

8164 - Added CSV Export to the Tenants Overview (EAP) page
8167 - Restored rebuilding of fragmented indexes during upgrades which improves the performance of all indexes. Upgrades times may increase noticeably for large databases
8154 - Running runbooks associated with a single environment will automatically select the single environment
8160 - Improved the error messages when attempting to save an invalid offline drop target

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.3.829

8158 - Moved the filters on the Tenants overview page into the toolbar at the top of the page
8152 - Fixed an issue where the top navigation bar crashes the UI when a user has no permissions

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.3.317

8147 - Auto deployments of change-controlled projects no longer fail to start
8149 - Introduced page-specific endpoint to improve load time on the view single Release page
8151 - Introduced page-specific endpoint to improve Deployment Preview load time on Create Deployment page
8144 - Fixed an issue where release creation can be slow from waiting for Package Notes

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.10947

8052 - Unique name constraint error when cloning a project
8123 - Steps can be configured to automatically retry when they fail

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.10545

7861 - Fix tenant variable removal when removing environments from projection connection
8150 - Improved View Releases page load time
8138 - Resolving Manual Interventions and Guided Failure as well as viewing blocking deployments is now much faster when there are a large number of interventions or guided failures
8140 - Overhauled the Tenants overview page to improve the visibility of all available Tenants and their respective tags and project/environment connections

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.10265

8139 - Improved aesthetics and visual hierarchy for the top navigation bar
8137 - Only display build information linked to the package that is being viewed
8118 - Connectivity checks running indefinitely blocking execution on a deployment target
8134 - Retention policies are no longer run simultaneously to reduce contention on the database

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.9849

8241 - All nodes must be shut down before upgrading Octopus
8045 - Fix release notes overflow on Task Summary page
8129 - Fixing UserId filtering for audit logs
8131 - Fixed a permission scoping issue affecting docker container registries, causing image search and tag search to fail impacting release creation
8127 - Fixed error if TrustedProxies contains invalid values
8126 - Fixes an issue with upstream DockerHub auth where tokens requested with "registry:catalog:" no longer grant access. Updated to use "registry:"

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.9087

8126 - Fixes an issue with upstream DockerHub auth where tokens requested with "registry:catalog:" no longer grant access. Updated to use "registry:"
8002 - Removed a restriction that prevented deployments to older versions of Tentacle
8111 - Include all extension configurations in master key rotation

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.8159

7968 - Updated warning on failed Always Run steps to suggest retrying where safe to do so
8121 - Configure audit stream button now shows up correctly

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.5309

7647 - Fixed an issue where a long-running database transaction would grow the transaction log unreasonably large during a long deployment
8112 - fix for tenants endpoint missing Page.Next hypermedia link when more than one page of results

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.5094

8113 - Improved rendering performance and responsiveness of the Dashboard page when there are many projects, environments and tenants in use
8110 - Improved performance of the interruptions list API
8098 - The refresh loop on the task details page now slows down if the refresh takes longer than 750ms

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.5010

8110 - Improved performance of the interruptions list API
8109 - Individual channels can now be included on Insights Reports
8107 - Fixed an issue where Bash scripts can reveal secret values

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.4598

8104 - Improve performance of filtering deployment targets

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.4336

8103 - Fix blob error during master key rotation
8099 - Fixed an issue where GET /workers did not respect filtering by worker pool IDs
8100 - Improve performance and prevent lock-ups of Octopus Server Portal on pages that display variables when there are thousands to display (eg Release page)
8095 - Improved performance and prevent browser from locking up on the Release page, when the release contains thousands of variables
8091 - Fix modify project endpoint not picking up project id properly
8087 - Reduce unnecessary server requests when viewing environments and deployment targets

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.3930

8096 - Added ability to perform simple calculations in Variable Substitution
8095 - Improved performance and prevent browser from locking up on the Release page, when the release contains thousands of variables
8094 - Rolled back extra permission requirements when viewing API keys
8092 - Windows Tentacle upgrade now correctly checks for the net48 runtime
8075 - Packages with chained file extensions (.tar.gz) are not being cleaned up from the Package Cache

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.3263

8185 - Fixed a regression that was causing stale worker leases when tasks were cancelled
8084 - Fixed an issue when saving web portal configuration using OctopusClient which caused authentication configuration to be overridden
7433 - Fixed daylight saving causing triggers to fire repeatedly
8079 - Improved the performance of the list deployments API when there is large build information
8081 - Fix to respond to HEAD requests on /api/octopusservernodes/ping
8073 - Fixed an issue with X-Forwarded-For headers that included ports

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.2718

8077 - Fixed a persistence issue on ForcePackageDownload option for Runbooks
8071 - API key generation can be restricted to allow only Service Accounts
8070 - Improved performance of "missing variables" indicators on the Tenants page when there are thousands of tenants that have missing variables

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.2394

8063 - Decreased the number of queries to the project and lifecycle tables during retention

Changes in Octopus Server 2023.2.2028

8061 - Structure variable configuration replacement available in Deploy raw YAML step
8052 - Unique name constraint error when cloning a project
8043 - Fixed an issue where SilentProcessRunner could hang while waiting for a zombie process to finish on Windows
7609 - Fixed an issue with Deploy Kubernetes Raw YAML step not showing any errors on attempting to save when provided with an invalid YAML