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These are the most important features you'll get by upgrading from 2025.3.14292 to 2025.4.1598

The 2025.4 release of Octopus Deploy offers safe scaling with built-in structure and governance, plus faster testing, and simpler GitOps deployments.

This release’s noteworthy updates include:

Reduce duplication and improve CD pipeline consistency across teams with Process Templates in Platform Hub
Make compliance visible, traceable, and automated with Policies in Platform Hub
Faster, safer, and more cost-effective testing with Ephemeral Environments
Simplify Argo CD deployment orchestration with Octopus - Early Access Preview
Safer deployments with granular permissions for the Kubernetes agent
Monitor and troubleshoot Kubernetes apps in one place with Live Object Status - now available for High Availability

The 2025 Q4 release is already available on Octopus Cloud and is now ready for download by our self-hosted customers.

These are the features and fixes you'll get by upgrading from 2025.3.14292 to 2025.4.1598.

9625 - Fixed Terraform steps so they can be saved when Azure accounts are specified
9626 - Fix an issue where deployment previews could fail to load when multiple environments or tenants are selected for deployment
9621 - Fix for non-recurring future freezes blocking current deployments
9624 - Improve performance of Script0541VariableSetEntity upgrade script
9620 - Skip compliance policies evaluation without configured Platform Hub connection
9619 - Fix exception - LINQ expression DbSet<Lifecycle>() could not be translated which was displayed when viewing releases in some projects
9614 - OIDC Custom claims were not correctly evaluating variable expressions
9564 - Fix bug in git-enabled runbooks causing guided failure mode preferences to be ignored
9615 - Fixed an issue where Policy evaluation would fail to create audit records correctly with Runbooks stored in Git
9622 - Record MCP client information when available in the user agent string
9616 - Add an Id property to account and certificate parameters in step and process templates

9599 - Fix UI for Scheduled Deployment with Recurring Deployment Freeze
9581 - Fix issue with GCloud script step where the scripts are in a folder containing spaces

9600 - Show step names as missing resources in channel rules if they don't exist in the current deployment process