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• 2425 - Long target names don't overlap each other anymore.
• 3112 - Allow saving project variable templates when user is scoped to projects or environments
• 3114 - Variables can be scoped now to disabled steps

• 2468 - Immediately return logs if an automatic Tentacle upgrade fails
• 2811 - Add support for Nuget and Zip packages greater than 4Gb in size
• 2905 - Deployment now fails when the type of a custom package deployment script (not one bundled inside the package) is not compatible with the target machine
• 3029 - Show a confirmation dialog when deleting an environment if there are variables that are scoped just to that environment
• 3089 - Correctly evaluate #{if Variable} substitutions if there is whitespace between the variable and the closing brace
• 3104 - Fixed UI bug that was incorrectly showing the environment condition control on rolling steps.
• 3108 - De-duplicate email lists provided to the email Step

• 2929 - Fixed validation on step deletion, so steps that are being used for Auto Release Creation or Release Numbering cannot be deleted
• 3069 - Check all columns use default database collation before upgrading
• 3084 - Fixed a bug where the NancyContext would not be disposed if the underlying HttpListenerRequest failed to close
• 3085 - Try to log web request context when unhandled exceptions are thrown in the web server
• 3097 - Fixed a bug where a SQL Database transaction was held open for the life of the Octopus Server which was a potential cause for tempdb growth
• 3099 - Resolved issue where no tenants were available for deployment when tenant view permissions did not match tenant deploy permissions

• 2784 - Correctly populate Octopus.Deployment.PreviousSuccessful.Id when the previous deployment failed
• 3028 - Tenant counter is now visible on the dashboard
• 3049 - Created a set of system variables containing information about the last successfully installed package
• 3073 - Fixed a regression with the console output for the show-configuration command
• 3080 - Fixed timeout with health checks on tenanted machines

• 3013 - Fix for auto-deploy to be more inclusive of machines when dealing with deployment-blocked scenarios
• 3077 - Fix Javascript issue breaking the rolling deployment step page.
• 3061 - Server side package download is not stopped when the deployment is cancelled

• 3035 - Do not provide default values for certain connection string parameters if they have been specified in the connection string
• 3068 - Disabled steps are now marked as skipped during deployment
• 3070 - Fatal errors in during deployment now show more detail

• 3067 - Octopus Server and Tentacle support creating a scheduled task that ensures the instance service(s) are running

• 2740 - Ensure $ in additional script parameters for package scripts is escaped correctly
• 2904 - Url validation missing on listening tentacle
• 3039 - Disable the right click menu in the variable editor on the All variables tab in a project
• 3053 - Support excluding environments from step conditions
• 3054 - Added more input validation for proxy hostnames
• 3064 - Add the ability to clone steps in a deployment process

• 2758 - Ensure the configuration transform feature is enabled for a deployment step before running configuration transforms
• 2891 - Fix to exclude unavailable machines from Tentacle upgrade checks
• 3017 - Exposed built-in package repository re-sync in the UI and allowed disabling
• 3060 - Packages transferred using Package Transfer step retains original package name
• 3063 - Improved logs when running retention on Tentacles

• 3057 - Added a variable to allow the override of the Azure Resource Management API endpoint for non-global regions
• 3058 - Fixed a bug that prevented editing of step template parameters

• 2837 - Unavailable SSH targets are now marked as Unavailable instead of Unhealthy
• 2856 - Allow specification of expiry time when scheduling a deployment
• 2895 - When a Calamari update is required, the package is only uploaded to each machine once
• 2984 - Allow the run condition of an action to be based on a variable expression
• 2991 - When creating a release: the latest package column will show the latest package that matches the current channel rules
• 3051 - Fix to stop sending emails to disabled users

• 2726 - Fix for incorrect library variable set count on project variables tab
• 2728 - Prevent naming or updating the name of a project to ‘New'
• 2770 - Support a step to access deployment packages without unpacking them
• 2886 - Deployment features have their settings cleared when they are disabled for a step
• 2948 - Single login API endpoint has been re-instated, for backward compatibility with registering Polling Tentacles
• 3002 - Added the Octopus.Agent.ProgramDirectoryPath environment variable
• 3023 - Octopus Server's configure command no longer needs access to the master database to determine if the Octopus Database has been initialized
• 3030 - Fixed issue where re-registering a polling tentacle with a new certificate caused it to be uncontactable
• 3033 - Improve exception messages when server thumbprint does not match
• 3038 - When adding Variable Templates the user should only require VariableEdit instead of ActionTemplateEdit permission
• 3046 - Fixed issue with event group and category not showing in audit filters when scoped to projects
• 3052 - Default IIS Deployment Type to WebSite if type is not set

• 3025 - Adding an index to the event table to fix performance issues on the audit screen
• 3026 - Fixed some bugs in Octostache causing deployments to fail with an ArgumentNullException when evaluating certain variable expressions
• 3027 - Fixed a bug where Octopus would attempt to sync external security groups even if the user account is not related to an external identity
• 3031 - Improve performance of connectivity check when configuring a polling Tentacle

• 2995 - Allow teams with project group permissions to clone projects in those project groups
• 3003 - Include project groups in team permission test
• 3005 - Teams restricted to project groups are now not able to view, edit or delete other project groups

• 2854 - Add ability to select specific machines to exclude from a deployment
• 2910 - Adding configurable timezone for dates shown in subscription emails
• 2938 - Fix to subscription and machine policy timespan properties to properly support days, hours and minutes
• 2983 - Adding license configuration options for administrators to control the bullhorn/update notifications
• 3011 - 'Send an email' step now includes the ability to select teams
• 3018 - Calamari is now versioned correctly and reports the correct version number in the Task Logs

• 2978 - Fixed ellipsis css and added tool tip for viewing longer names
• 3014 - Added strikethrough to make non-matching versions clearer in channel ‘design version rule’ dialog
• 3015 - Subscription edit screen will only show a warning about SMTP configuration if the SMTP configuration is truly incomplete
• 3019 - Published Octopus Server and Tentacle DSC to http://www.powershellgallery.com|www.powershellgallery.com

• 2335 - Active Directory group search and security group loading working when Trusted Domains are being used. Users in trusted domains will need to log out/in of Octopus after patch to get security groups loading
• 2969 - Email addresses assigned directly in Octopus will not be cleared if an external authentication provider doesn't provide an email for the user
• 2988 - The Azure AD authentication provider now uses email then upn to find the matching Octopus User
• 3016 - Create user correctly assigns password for new non-service accounts

• 3001 - Fix users being unable to delete Accounts if their AccountDelete permission is restricted to an Environment
• 3004 - Retry cleaning the temporary directory after accepting a pushed package
• 3008 - Fix deployment failing on Windows Server 2003 R2 if the nupkg file has files with % in their name
• 3009 - Fixed broken in 3.7.0 Previous step name dropdown

• 2981 - Tenant tags are now spaced correctly on the Tenants page
• 2996 - Tag Sets can no longer be named with /, \, ? or " characters.
• 2997 - Fix deployment steps being run twice in some cases where there are disabled steps before them
• 3000 - Linked templates have now their version updated correctly

• 2673 - Handle unexpected indexes on the Octopus database for a smoother database upgrade experience
• 2926 - Fixed a bug preventing external NuGet feeds from working via a proxy server
• 2975 - Display complete error message when testing Azure account
• 2986 - Add variable path to exception msg when recursive-loop encountered
• 2987 - Gracefully handle error evaluating package ID when applying retention policy

• 2913 - New authentication providers handle paths correctly when Octopus Server is behind a reverse proxy / load balancer. Fixes issues including Http 404 error when trying to add AD groups to Teams.
• 2980 - Fixed an issue where retrying a failed save due to network error could delete the wrong variables
• 2982 - Fixed hitting tab when creating a new variable moving selection to the first row of the variable editor

• 2979 - Step templates will be linked even if the version doesn't match

• 2928 - Improvements to High Availability logging when a new node becomes leader
• 2940 - Tentacle Manager now includes support for API keys during Polling Tentacle registration
• 2977 - The upgrade notification now deep links directly to the Octopus Deploy version comparison page making it easier to understand what an upgrade actually means to each customer

• 2698 - Improved step template management and enabled direct integration with the Community Library

• 2974 - Fixed a problem which prevented registering Polling Tentacles when the ActiveDirectory authentication provider was used

• 763 - Permissions can now be assigned based on project groups
• 2881 - Added helpful documentation link to the "licence limits exceeded" message

• 2829 - Unhealthy machines will be displayed as Unhealthy even when Tentacle or Calamari need updating
• 2887 - Adding environment information logging (verbose level) to both Octopus and Calamari
• 2901 - Allow selection of specific events when configuring automatic deployment triggers
• 2917 - Updated wording on subscriptions page to better reflect e-mail and web hooks options
• 2968 - Correct a grammatical mistake in the integrity check logs
• 2970 - Fixed issue with wildcard config transforms when wildcard was not at the start of the filename

• 2804 - Allow editing of library variable set variables when the user has LibraryVariableSetEdit permissions (previously needed VariableEdit permissions also)
• 2872 - Fix to only include pre-release packages for the latest package if the channel rules specify that is should include pre-releases
• 2965 - Fixed crash of the server on start-up if the database server is configured with a case-sensitive collation
• 2967 - Allowed the use of channel scoped variables for version templates

• 2964 - Do not include disabled child steps in a deployment

• 2957 - Support moving steps into and out of rolling deployments

• 2750 - Updated Azure dependencies used in re-packaging Azure Cloud Services
• 2950 - Fixed an issue that was preventing ARM template parameters from saving when an array parameter had a default value
• 2961 - Fixed an error viewing the node configuration page

• 2956 - Fixed incorrect reference in interruptions created in version 3.4.2 of Octopus
• 2958 - Added ability to disable steps in a deployment process

• 2807 - Fixed some issues with the scrollbars on the Project Overview screen
• 2831 - Only validate accounts and feeds on actions that will actually run as part of the deployment
• 2878 - You can now Register a Listening Tentacle via a proxy which was previously not possible
• 2880 - Improved the warning message when configuration transform is not applied
• 2889 - The Octopus Server Manager will now configure the Octopus Server service to depend on SQL Server if using a local SQL database which will help prevent problems when starting Octopus Server
• 2898 - OctoPack now uses a custom build of nuget.exe which preserves the version as intended when creating packages
• 2924 - Fixed a bug which prevented automatic registration of a Tentacle via a custom proxy when using Octopus API key authentication
• 2933 - Fixed the link to the Tenant Overview from the Tenant Project Variable page when a project hasn’t been connected to any environments
• 2934 - Fixed a typo on the Library > Packages page
• 2935 - Fixed a bug which prevented users from signing in after putting the Octopus Server into Maintenance Mode
• 2936 - Improved responsiveness of the packages on the Releases page
• 2939 - Added username formatting requirements to Server Manager and the admin command when handling AD usernames
• 2941 - octo.exe now uses a custom build of the NuGet libraries which preserve the version as intended when creating packages
• 2942 - Added a notice that the Red Gate Database Deployment feature has been replaced by DLM Automation
• 2944 - Allow users to be created without a password, as it is not required by some authentication providers
• 2946 - Removed the dependency on our custom NuGet.Versioning package from Octopus.Client which was preventing it from being installed successfully
• 2947 - Fixed a bug on the Sign In page which would render a JSON representation of the certain errors instead of a friendly error message
• 2949 - Fixed a problem preventing OctoPack 3.4.3 from creating NuGet packages when Microsoft.Build.Framework, Version=14.0.0.0 isn’t available on the computer
• 2952 - Deployment action upgrade works now with template parameters missing 'ControlType'

• 2810 - Improved UI messaging around Automatic Release Creation
• 2818 - Corrected issue where DSC was unable to download Tentacle msi
• 2870 - Failed deployments with Manual Intervention and/or Guided Failure mode don't break Retention policy anymore
• 2888 - Fixed issue where zip files containing one or more zip files failed to extract correctly
• 2893 - Deep link context for Active Directory logins is no longer being blocked
• 2900 - Active Directory auto login is now triggering correctly
• 2903 - Corrected interruptions link for tasks on REST API
• 2907 - Validation for creating service accounts corrected to ignore password data
• 2909 - Added a Timeout option to the OctopusAsyncClient helper library
• 2918 - Fixed issue where feeds were not falling back to the default NuGet type when imported using migrator
• 2941 - octo.exe now uses a custom build of the NuGet libraries which preserve the version as intended when creating packages

Changes in Octo.exe 4.0.7

• 97 - Fixed bug causing export to silently fail and not not perform export process.

• 2593 - An Azure AD authentication provider is included as a standard server extension
• 2680 - Open sourced Octopus.Client and implemented an async version of the API
• 2718 - Introducing Subscriptions, a new feature that allows you to subscribe to events happening within Octopus and be notified by email or webhook
• 2721 - A GoogleApps authentication provider is included as a standard server extension
• 2793 - Fixed incorrect reference in interruptions created in version 3.4.2 of Octopus
• 2815 - Resolved issue with parallel deployments failing under mono
• 2817 - Improving performance of pagination queries
• 2874 - Provide ability to perform basic Docker Engine commands
• 2877 - Closed database and network connections when an error occurs formatting the response
• 1938 - Library Variable Set page no longer includes Script Modules when paging through the list
• 2193 - Step template summary view in a deployment process now renders the configured values in the step
• 2860 - Auto-deploy performance improvements to better handle long-running deployments (you can also deploy to more than 2100 machines now)
• 2884 - Fixed a problem that would cause random Invalid Nonce errors when signing in with an OpenID Connect authentication provider
• 2890 - Improved how we were accessing the HomeDirectory when starting Octopus
• 2894 - Resolved spurious exception 'An attempt to parse the variable symbol {variable-name} appears to have resulted in a self referencing loop. Ensure that recursive loops do not exist in the variable values'
• 2896 - Image and API urls are now correctly resolved when Octopus Server is hosted using a virtual directory (this was a bug introduced in 3.5.0)

• 2828 - Creating a new role no longer adds the text (custom 'new' role) to the role
• 2858 - Tentacle upgrade now only blocks if there is a deployment running that affects the Tentacle being upgraded
• 2861 - Steps that were manually skipped during a deployment will also be skipped during subsequent automatic deployments
• 2862 - All steps applicable to a deployment target, based on roles, will be run during an automatic deployment, even if some of those roles do not form part of the trigger's event filter
• 2863 - Run steps that are scoped to multiple roles during automatic deployments if the deployment target has any of those roles
• 2864 - The deploy screen now shows a warning about the impact of manually skipping steps when the project has any auto-deploy triggers
• 2865 - Temporarily removed auto-deploy trigger steps preview, which could be misleading in certain scenarios, and replaced it with a more accurate description and link to documentation
• 2869 - When a step targets roles, but there are no matching machines available during package acquisition, the package will no longer be (mistakenly) downloaded to the Octopus Server

• 2789 - When downloading a package directly on the Tentacle, and the download fails, we now clean up the partially downloaded package file
• 2797 - The package cache clean task now run on all nodes in an HA environment
• 2823 - Show an info box that running a PowerShell script as part of Azure steps require PowerShell 3
• 2839 - Improved the error messages shown when the new IIS Web Site/Application/Virtual Directory Step finds unexpected content in IIS
• 2840 - Improved usability of the new IIS Web Site and Application Step
• 2846 - Converting an existing physical directory to either a Virtual Directory or Web Application in IIS now works, just like it used to in the old Step Templates

• 2600 - When variable templates are converted from sensitive to insensitive and vice versa, any variables based on the templates will also be converted
• 2645 - Accounts are now imported when using the Octopus migrator
• 2792 - Ensure a release goes through the correct Lifecycle phases for a tenant, even if the release has progressed past a phase for another tenant
• 2819 - Add support for tables and strikethrough where Markdown can be used
• 2820 - Ensure package is downloaded on the Octopus server for steps that use a package and executes on the server
• 2821 - Package push instructions are now shown if a user has BuiltInFeedPush and they are scoped to project(s) or environment(s)

• 2442 - Automatic release creation now works for step template package steps
• 2498 - Queue a Tentacle upgrade task if there are currently deployments running on the Tentacle
• 2619 - Added delete button to server nodes UI
• 2634 - Improved data integrity of teams scoped to environments and/or tenants
• 2714 - Correct Azure subscription written to the task log when multiple subscriptions exist
• 2762 - Variable scope dropdown is now correctly positioned when opened when editing a variable far down a long list of variables
• 2763 - Fail a deployment if a custom install directory has been specified but we can’t properly evaluate the path or it is a relative path
• 2777 - Include project triggers when cloning a project
• 2788 - The sysdiagrams table is now ignored by the system integrity check
• 2790 - Fix releases and projects that reference channels irrelevant to the release or project
• 2791 - Fixed an error that occured when performing JSON transforms with a value of null
• 2794 - Packages used by package steps based on step templates now follow package retention rules when being considered for removal from the built-in NuGet feed
• 2796 - The 2.6 to 3 importer now ignores orphaned attachments when mapping documents
• 2799 - Fix number of retries for package download to match number of attempts shown in log
• 2803 - Ensure releases are created in a channel appropriate for the project
• 2806 - Migrator can now import LibraryVariableSets when the VariableSet has an Id longer than 50 characters
• 2808 - Azure scripts no longer fail if the Octopus working directory has a space in it

• 2620 - Support passing array, object and secureObject type parameter values into ARM templates
• 2655 - Package acquisition for upgraded Azure steps should now work again
• 2746 - Increase the amount of time spent retrying downloads from external package feeds
• 2764 - Only machines applicable to the deployment should be listed when selecting specific deployment targets
• 2778 - Prevent disabled projects from causing automatic deployments
• 2779 - Prevent variable that had ever been scoped to steps and then the scope removed from being deleted when the deployment process is saved
• 2781 - Fixed import order so now deployments with missing channel don't block channels from being imported
• 2782 - Ensure new polling Tentacles using a proxy make their server registration calls through the proxy

• 2669 - Tenant drop down variables from projects and library variable sets now properly displays the default value if one has been set
• 2686 - When deploying using the Deploy to all (or the Deploy on an individual Tenant) option from the Project Overview only include the applicable Tenant(s)
• 2748 - Replacing SQL triggers with code-based triggers (to help us track future deadlock issues)
• 2760 - Fixed recursive variable definitions causing a stack overflow
• 2766 - Include variables, scoped variables and all system variable in auto-complete drop-down
• 2774 - Fixed Tentacles not correctly loading custom proxy settings

• 2684 - Restore missing variables in binding auto-complete list
• 2749 - Apply health check cleanup per machine policy
• 2751 - Fix child actions which run on the server on behalf of a role not running for all machines
• 2757 - Fixed trigger concurrency exception when automatically deleting multiple machines

• 2608 - Set KeepAliveInterval to 30 sec on SSH connections to keep connection to server open during long uploads.
• 2719 - Avoid reading and writing variables at the same time
• 2743 - Project Group selector on the Dashboard now sorts alphanumerically
• 2744 - Log exception stack trace when a deployment action fails
• 2745 - Populate the variables Octopus.Action.Status.Error and Octopus.Action.Status.ErrorDetail when an action running in parallel fails
• 2752 - Physical path of IIS Website can be set on OS with PowerShell v2

• 2699 - Exposed IIS and Windows Service functionality as separate built-in steps
• 2700 - Added Virtual Directory support to Package Deployment step
• 2704 - Allow scoping library variable set variables to tenant tags when multi-tenancy is enabled

• 2661 - Added machine scoping to output variables that are set by a step that runs on the server on behalf of targets
• 2705 - Reduce log level of the high number of transaction message
• 2712 - Now returning the correct HTTP headers when a 401 Unauthorised response is returned
• 2717 - Channels on project overview is now sorted by default channel and then alphabetically
• 2720 - Improved error message when pushing a package to the built in repository with a non-SemVer 2.0.0 compliant version
• 2724 - Health Check Steps now require Target Roles to be specified

• 2685 - Tenanted deployments can now progress through lifecycle phases when the minimum environment phase requirement has been satisfied
• 2692 - Removed tenant information from triggers when not applicable
• 2695 - Cascade environment deletion to tenant connections, tenant variables and triggers
• 2713 - Fixed chocolatey packages by adding checksum information to the chocolateyInstaller.ps1 file
• 2715 - Prevent the addition of project variable templates from clearing related tenant variables in some circumstances

• 2674 - Prevent incorrect environments from displaying in trigger summary
• 2677 - Added support to set a custom deployment label for Azure cloud service steps
• 2681 - Resolved issue downloading package with SemVer 2.0 versions on Tentacle from file-system feeds
• 2687 - Fixed FilePathTooLong exception when extracting NuGet packages where file names contain unicode characters
• 2697 - Resolved error deploying packages with SemVer 2.0 versions from remote NuGet feeds

• 2676 - Fixed an error that prevented deploying a release when the user is part of a team with Tenant restrictions set
• 2679 - NuGetPackageId variable will now be correctly populated for steps after the first deployment step.
• 2689 - Octopus.Client returns PackageFromBuiltInFeedResource instead of PackageResource for operations involving the built-in package feed
• 2690 - Resolved error executing script Script0043 - Increase Package Column Widths.sql during 3.4 upgrade.
• 2691 - Reverted changes to Octopus.Client that caused manual intervention steps to fail if they were awaiting approval before upgrading to 3.4.2
• 2642 - Prevent automatic deployments to tenanted targets when the tenant has been disconnected from the project or environment
• 2643 - Prevent automatic deployments to tenanted or untenanted targets when a project is toggled to only tenanted or untenanted mode
• 2664 - Resolved packages with different SemVer 2.0 metadata conflicting
• 2665 - Reimplemented OctopusSuppressNestedScriptWarning variable
• 2666 - Log a friendlier message if the health status of a machine is null when running our DB migrations
• 2670 - Resolved issue downloading NuGet packages with 4-part versions from file-system feeds.

• 2372 - Automatic Release Creation settings will no longer be hidden if they have values
• 2648 - Fixed an issue with VSTS/TFS creating releases
• 2650 - Link to deployment triggers troubleshooting documentation is now more pronounced
• 2652 - Update Step Template variables to use new generic package variable names
• 2654 - Project triggers can be accessed with ProcessView and ProcessEdit permissions rather than ProjectEdit permissions
• 2657 - Fixing edge case in auto-deploy regarding skipped deployment steps
• 2658 - Ensure TenantView permission is given to all built-in project roles
• 2659 - Tenants and TenantTags fields are now visible in the TeamCity plugin
• 2660 - Fixed a bug which prevented editing Accounts if the multi-tenant deployments feature was not enabled

• 1963 - You can now manage tenants and tenanted deployments with Octopus Deploy
• 2246 - Fixed issues around event table deadlocks
• 2295 - Releases by channels are now shaded appropriately by channel on the project dashboard
• 2367 - Octopus Server now requires a minimum .NET version of 4.5.1, to enable the SQL connection resiliency features in ADO.NET, Tentacles have not changed
• 2401 - Warning we will deprecate Azure Targets in 3.4
• 2419 - Octopus Server now returns 409 Conflict instead of 400 Bad Request when pushing duplicate package to the built-in package feed
• 2422 - Upgrade to WebDeploy 3.6
• 2428 - Upgrade NuGet libraries to 3.0
• 2440 - Cloud Region target type
• 2445 - You can now manage elastic and transient environments more easily with Octopus Deploy
• 2479 - Improvements around SQL query plan caching
• 2490 - Expanded proxy support to allow proxies in Tentacle communications
• 2644 - Support for SSH connection through proxies
• 2517 - Support SemVer 2.0
• 2538 - ScriptCS scripts work now on Win 2012 R2 when FIPS is enabled, ScriptCS has been updated to version 0.16.1 which works only on Mono >= 4.0
• 2549 - You can now write custom scripts using F# (.fsx)
• 2565 - Update to Tentacle registration to account for new MachineResources changes
• 2594 - Project overview dashboard filtering, grouping and empty state improvements
• 2597 - Only download a package once on a machine when it is used multiple times
• 2602 - Remove project permission restrictions on health checks for environments
• 2609 - Updated Azure PowerShell modules to version 1.6.0
• 2613 - [DeployedBy] field on [Deployment] set to non nullable and deployment will fail if instigating user is undefined

• 1963 - You can now manage tenants and tenanted deployments with Octopus Deploy
• 2246 - Fixed issues around event table deadlocks
• 2422 - Upgrade to WebDeploy 3.6
• 2440 - Cloud Region target type
• 2445 - You can now manage elastic and transient environments more easily with Octopus Deploy
• 2479 - Improved around SQL query plan caching
• 2490 - Expanded proxy support to allow proxies in Tentacle communications
• 2538 - ScriptCS scripts work now on Win 2012 R2 when FIPS is enabled, ScriptCS has been updated to version 0.16.1 which works only on Mono >= 4.0
• 2565 - Update to Tentacle registration to account for new MachineResources changes

• 2623 - When performing variable substitution on a file, try to continue when a parse error occurs rather than not performing any substitutions
• 2629 - Patching our SQL alias generator to use predictable strings instead of random strings

• 2621 - Add thumbprint-only option to the show-thumbprint command to suppress explanatory text
• 2627 - Ensure System Administrator role gets updated at server start to have all new permissions

• 2330 - When registering Tentacles, we now have validation to ensure the Tentacle+Server versions are compatible
• 2441 - Added ability to handle long (> 100 characters) paths in .tar files
• 2526 - Added a new permission AuditView to view audit log page (instead of requiring AdministerSystem permission)
• 2536 - Added Azure Key Vault support to Azure Resource Group step
• 2585 - Prevent [enter] on bound fields from showing the variable pop-up
• 2596 - Refresh views to fix schema integrity check failing for some customers
• 2611 - Show configuration menu for users who have audit/team permissions
• 2614 - Handle absolute paths in config transforms
• 2624 - Add additional logging to Tentacle to help diagnose startup issues

• 2499 - Clarify help text for skipping previously deployed packages

• 2302 - OctoStache update to include variable use in indexer and conditional comparison changes (see issue for usage)
• 2323 - Filter environments shown on the Promote button according to the users permissions
• 2337 - Don't alter variables when sanitizing entered hostnames for IIS bindings
• 2453 - Octopus now supports substituting objects, arrays, boolean and numeric values in JSON files
• 2492 - Octopus now supports substituting properties with colons in their name in JSON files
• 2554 - Azure Web App step now supports specifying Resource Group
• 2573 - Fix running Powershell tasks blocking the Tentacle port if Tentacle restarts
• 2599 - Fix Calamari saving ASCII files as UTF-8 with a BOM when doing substitutions on Linux
• 2604 - Block deletion of Environments that have deployment steps scoped to them, rather than removing the steps

• 2570 - Adding flags to the migrator to allow exporting and importing of task logs
• 2592 - Errors are now logged more consistently regardless of whether the failed deployment step was running on a Deployment Target or the Octopus Server

• 2296 - Allow the Deployments API endpoint to be filtered by ChannelId and return ChannelId in the result
• 2418 - Retention policies now retain the correct number of undeployed Releases for each individual Channel
• 2495 - Fail deployment when an included Script Module has a syntax error
• 2502 - Added ability to pass parameters to custom script files
• 2524 - Fixed an issue with Halibut that would cause Polling Tentacle upgrades to stall/freeze under certain conditions
• 2545 - Set Octopus.Action.PowerShell.ExecuteWithoutProfile to true on a project to not run the Tentacle service account's PowerShell profile script when running PowerShell script steps
• 2569 - Updates to the 'Configure dashboard’ screen to be more user-friendly with long project names
• 2571 - Show projects with running deployments on the dashboard even if they are beyond the 50 project limit
• 2574 - Release and Task screens correctly retain the page selections for lists (e.g. Artifacts and History)
• 2577 - The Octopus VSTS plugin now correctly logs deployment progress when Show Deployment Progress is checked
• 2580 - Removed the time limit for Azure deployment retries, and set it to always retry 3 times
• 2589 - Tasks that are canceled whilst waiting for other tasks to complete will now cancel when requested

• 1872 - Octopus.Deployment.Error now contains better information if a parallel step fails
• 2332 - Run the Octopus installer from the command line with RUNMANAGERONEXIT=no to prevent the Octopus Manager from running
• 2527 - Add a note to Azure account selection when a particular Azure account type is required
• 2548 - Always show projects with failing deployments on the dashboard and allow the limit to be changed
• 2557 - Octopus displays a message if queuing a system integrity check fails due to permissions
• 2563 - System integrity check now ignores objects in the sys schema
• 2564 - Ensured all database tables are in the dbo schema even when the creating user has a different default schema
• 2566 - Fixed the population of the events list on the deployment status page
• 2567 - Logged a warning when the result of an XML config transform results in a file without a root node
• 2568 - Made the temporary file creation and deletion on deployment more robust

• 2559 - Fixed an error that occurs during the schema integrity check
• 2560 - Fix Calamari converting ASCII files to UTF8 during variable substitution

• 2475 - Offline deployments now honour retention policies
• 2520 - Prevent Releases being created when a Project is disabled
• 2530 - Calamari fixes for file encoding during variable substitution
• 2533 - Octo.exe now ensures that packageversion, if specified, is a semantic version
• 2542 - Added additional transaction logging to help investigate potential SQL deadlock situations
• 2543 - Calamari no longer crashes if Mono fails while finding earlier packages
• 2544 - Added a system integrity check task that does some basic data and schema validation
• 2546 - Removed performance bottleneck when evaluating variables after all machines have completed a step
• 2553 - Database schema fix for potentially incorrect column length
• 2555 - Fixed an issue where the server would not close SQL connections

• 2341 - Added ability to export permissions as a csv file on the Test Permissions page
• 2506 - Fixed validation on the SMTP Port to prevent the exception when the field is blank

• 2516 - Improved error messages for incorrectly named packages
• 2523 - Fixed HA secondary node servers not trusting newly added polling tentacles
• 2534 - Fixed slowness when channels referenced a deployment step

• 2528 - Fixed a performance problem related to 2484 which could cause Octopus upgrades to 3.3.11 and above to be slow
• 2529 - Added diagnostics logging for long running requests and queries

Warning: Some upgrade scripts in this release may take some time to run. Please account for this when you choose your upgrade window.

• 2347 - Allow Markdown formatting for NuGet package release-notes
• 2400 - Added example of relative path for script file location in package to on-screen documentation
• 2424 - Prevent Octopus working files (e.g. variables.json, bootstrap.ps1, etc) from syncing during Azure deployments.
• 2433 - List all Script Modules rather than only the top 30
• 2461 - Allow editing of window size for subsequent parallel steps
• 2472 - Limited the number of projects shown on the dashboard to 50 and added a group and project filter if there are more than 50 projects
• 2503 - octo.exe now handles cases where there are more than 30 channels in a project (and a few other cases where we neglected to paginate properly) affecting create-channel, create-release, deploy-release, delete-releases, export and import
• 2504 - The breadcrumb link on Configuration pages now redirects to the correct page
• 2505 - Modified the dashboard query to resolve timeouts
• 2510 - Fixed a regression where packages only required on the server in one step, but required on a machine in another step were not being downloaded to the server
• 2511 - Fail cleanly if environment handed to octo.exe clean-environment is not found
• 2515 - Added poll-server command to Tentacle to configure polling multiple servers
• 2518 - You can now set the Octopus.Action.PowerShell.CustomPowerShellVersion variable, and your PowerShell scripts will be invoked with the -version flag

• 2351 - Changed Audit filter behaviour to include results that matched all filters provided
• 2371 - Extended octo.exe delete-releases command to accept one or more --channel parameters
• 2373 - Fixed the setting of the Octopus.Tentacle.Agent.InstanceName and Octopus.Tentacle.Agent.ProgramDirectoryPath variables and added the TentacleProgramDirectoryPath Environment Variable
• 2382 - Improved the documentation for the --environment option for tentacle.exe register-with command
• 2383 - Correctly show port number for listening Tentacles in the Tentacle Manager and updated path information to hyperlinks
• 2444 - Unnecessary call to /api/reporting/ when rendering /#app/projects
• 2485 - Fixed semaphore access when running multiple instances of Tentacle as different users
• 2489 - Fixed the visibility of the paging control on the User Roles page
• 2493 - Added octo.exe create-channel command to make it easier to create channels from build servers for per-branch channels (like feature branches)
• 2494 - octo.exe create-release command extended to automatically select the best channel for the release, or fail with details on how to create it successfully

• 2342 - Guest user not automatically being added to Everyone
• 2409 - Long variables overlay history in release page
• 2436 - Environment restriction from team membership should not override access granted by Administrators membership
• 2459 - Same package in multiple steps downloads package multiple times on Tentacle
• 2464 - Pushing a package with NuGet 3.4 causes a 500 error
• 2465 - The packages api ignores the take and skip parameters
• 2474 - Bug fixes to importer when encountering key-collisions and updating validation logic for frozen deployment processes and variable sets.
• 2481 - Fixed issue with upgrader failing when there are orphaned channels
• 2483 - Tentacle.exe to allow TLS 1.2 comms
• 2484 - Related to 2417 we will automatically fix broken channel references in cloned projects, by linking to a channel with the exact same name, and delete any references which cannot be fixed automatically so you can fix them yourself

• 2329 - No longer use $key as a variable name in bootstrap scripts so we don't clash with customer scripts.
• 2473 - Fixed issue where existing script step templates caused validation errors when adding them to a step

• 2191 - Fixed issue with the client deserializing VariableValues sent from pre-3.1.6 servers
• 2462 - Improved the date bounds checking when determining the creation date of a nupkg or zip archive
• 2466 - Note in the Version validation error message that pre-release tags starting with a number are not allowed
• 2467 - Service deployment fail if directory or service name contains spaces

• 2300 - Add new variable Octopus.Action.Package.InstallationDirectoryPath as replacement for Package.InstallationDirectoryPath
• 2438 - Switching a script step from "script in package" to "inline script" should not attempt to download the package
• 2443 - Add support for "No Managed code" for App Pool .NET CLR
• 2446 - Allow parallel SSH tasks to take place on targets with different fingerprints.
• 2451 - Audit event references should be mapped to to the new IDs
• 2452 - When steps are deleted or renamed, the channel rule references to them should update
• 2457 - Bugfix for variables grid not expanding to full width
• 2460 - 3.3.7 Upgrade fails on script steps with sensitive variables

• 2434 - Allowing packages deployed to SSH targets to exceed 2GB in size

• 2432 - Fix to allow custom expressions in Nuget feeds for projects on import/export
• 2439 - Authentication token no longer expires during long running Azure Resource Group deployments

• 2278 - An additional warning will be logged if a release is not automatically created due to the package version being the greatest/maximum
• 2312 - Variables link not added to Deployment resource if variable-set is no longer available.
• 2396 - Configured scripts in package steps now support Unicode characters.
• 2399 - Importing scripts now succeeds even if the project has the same name as something else (such as lifecycle or project group)
• 2429 - Tentacle Manager now supports all TLS versions
• 2430 - Task start time displayed on hover incorrectly shows queued time rather than start time
• 2431 - The “Run on” radio button in a script template step now retains its selection after updating to a new version of the template
• 2437 - Fixed a bug that broke Project cloning in certain circumstances with an ArgumentNullException

• 2392 - You can now configure your Authentication Mode (Username/Password or Active Directory) when adding a node to an Octopus HA cluster using the wizard
• 2403 - You can now choose whether to use Timestamp or Checksum for WebDeploy to Azure Web App, and the default has been changed to Timestamp when creating new Azure Web App steps
• 2415 - When creating a deployment channels will now be taken into account when validating the deployment process
• 2417 - When cloning a Project the Channels will now be correctly re-mapped for Project Variables and Automatic Release Creation
• 2423 - Fixed an issue that prevented you from saving Azure Web App deployment targets with the error 'Web Space' should not be empty
• 2426 - Prevent integer-overflow error during long-running Azure Resource Group deployments.
• 2427 - Octo.exe Update channels information in steps that have been scoped to a channel when importing a project

• 2391 - Add missing repositories (Channels, Accounts, Retention Policies, Defects and Server Nodes) to OctopusRepository in Octopus.Client
• 2404 - Fix Javascript error preventing uploading of custom Azure Resource Manager certificates
• 2405 - Removed paging from channels so that more than 30 can be used at a time
• 2407 - Allow script steps that run on the server to be run across roles as a standalone step or as the first action in a rolling deployment
• 2410 - Octo.exe Import and export project channels when running the project import and export commands
• 2411 - Add push command to Octo.exe and a push package build runner to the Octopus Deploy TeamCity plugin
• 2412 - When the NuGetFeed for a Package Step is set to a channel-scoped variable, it will now be resolved correctly when creating a release in those channels
• 2414 - Adds support for TLS protocols for Octo.exe to communicate with TLS-only installations of Octopus Server

• 2376 - Fixed scenarios that were failing when the host server is required to be FIPS 140 compliant
• 2390 - On-screen help text added to Azure PowerShell step explaining Service Management cmdlets can't be used with Service Principal accounts and Resource Manager cmdlets can't be used with Management Certificate accounts
• 2395 - Immediately executing code in Script Modules now have access to Octopus Variables
• 2398 - Exporting a step template is now prevented until any changes are saved
• 2402 - Fixed an issue that was preventing Calamari from updating on multiple SSH endpoints due to a file lock

• 641 - Email, Manual Steps and Azure Powershell steps can now be executed in a rolling step. Also added support to run a PowerShell Script on the Octopus Server.
• 2069 - Enable Azure Active Directory auth for Azure Accounts
• 2091 - Show warning if file is missing during config transformation
• 2133 - Azure Resource Group deployment step type
• 2183 - Support .zip and .tar.gz package formats
• 2189 - Script step embedded in a NuGet package
• 2304 - Support for ASP.NET Core

• 2345 - Corrected instructions for pushing packages via the api to the built-in repository
• 2354 - Improve the error message when using the JSON config feature and a folder is specified as the target file
• 2355 - Delete parameters that have been renamed/removed from the action properties collection
• 2356 - The selected Resource Group in the “Deploy an Azure Resource Group” step now binds correctly when editing an existing step
• 2357 - The display of long parameter names for Azure Resource Manager templates will now wrap instead of overflowing underneath the input control
• 2359 - The display of Web Apps in the select list has been updated to display the Region and Resource Group (where available)
• 2363 - The http://ASP.NET|ASP.NET Core JSON AppSettings feature is now the JSON configuration variables feature
• 2364 - JSON config feature only replaces variables it can find instead of inserting all available project variables
• 2374 - Invoke Set-AzureRmContext when authenticating with service-principal

• 2231 - The Active Directory user groups cache will now be invalidated for a user when they explicitly Sign Out from the Octopus Server, forcing a foreground refresh on their next Sign In
• 2318 - Added ability to delete Octopus Server high-availability nodes via the API
• 2334 - The Octopus data importer/migrator is now more reliable when detecting duplicate historical data with key collisions
• 2362 - Updated the Octopus Server node screen to properly report task counts
• 2384 - Fixed open redirect bug in the Octopus web portal integrated authentication process

• 2288 - Audit page date selector now displays correctly
• 2298 - Changes made to certain documents will now show correctly in the audit log
• 2324 - .bmp logos can now be migrated from previous versions of Octopus
• 2325 - Octopus Server will now send the X-Frame-Options: DENY HTTP header, which can be overridden by changing the xFrameOptionAllowFrom configuration value
• 2338 - The migration process is now split into two stages, the first to import data, and the second to import task logs, making it easier to migrate very large backups from previous versions of Octopus
• 2353 - You can now provide the --nooverwrite parameter for migrator.exe to skip existing documents
• 2358 - Retention policy for custom versions of Calamari will no longer delete the active version
• 2360 - You can now use octo.exe to list and clean machines that are in a particular state in an environment which is useful for cleaning up cloud/transient/ephemeral machines that are Offline

• 2255 - Child steps now display their status correctly when they have errors or warnings.
• 2266 - Tentacle upgrade process now displays and handles errors and warnings correctly.
• 2280 - octo.exe imports with validation errors now return a non-zero exit code
• 2281 - Provide --nologs and --onlylogs option for migrator process to seperate loading raw task logs from main server data for increased performance
• 2336 - Variable expressions are now correctly persisted for sensitive fields in step templates.

• 2279 - Package Cache Retention Policy now removes .octosig and .octodelta files
• 2303 - Fix bug when user provided variables that are made up of output variables are accessed in later steps.
• 2316 - Now using new SHA2 Code Signing Certificate and signing installers/assemblies using SHA256 algorithm.
• 2319 - Removed limitations on a number of queries that would stop running when the related document count exceeded 2100 documents.
• 2327 - Only test for permission changes to environments used in an existing variable set scope when that variable set is updated.
• 2328 - Fixed an edge case where config transforms were being run twice.

• 2313 - Prevent sensitive variables for deployment process returning from API call
• 2317 - Show deploy buttons when project SparseBoard is shown.
• 2320 - Show the username the Tentacle is running under when performing health checks.

• 2282 - Octopus Migrator now imports Release that were associated with deleted variable sets
• 2291 - Add special variables OctopusSkipFreeDiskSpaceCheck and OctopusFreeDiskSpaceOverrideInMegaBytes to allow for skipping the free disk space check and to specify a custom free space threshold.
• 2293 - Correct the documentation link for channel version rule tags on the Design Rule dialog
• 2299 - Fixed issue with new Tentacle upgrade button on connectivity page

• 2126 - Added Verbose Logging when duplicate variables exist between Step Template vars and Project/VariableSet vars.
• 2237 - Provide mechanism to lock current Tentacle version in place and dismiss upgrade reminder.
• 2243 - Add retention policy for old Calamari versions when upgrading to a new version.
• 2251 - Environment list in variable scope selection and on dashboard configuration page sorted as per environment sort order.
• 2254 - Updated octo.exe octopus.client library to work with the latest release
• 2276 - Removed a limitation on the number of deployments that can be created/displayed for a release.
• 2277 - Increase default SQL connection timeout to mitigate transaction commit timeouts.
• 2285 - Channel variables made available to release version template
• 2286 - Removed a restriction that prevented config transform files from being applied to multiple target files (eg transform.config => *.config).
• 2287 - Added paging to the task queue in the task summary view.
• 2289 - Removed timeout from manual intervention steps that are a part of a scheduled deployment.

• 2030 - Keep deep link context when using integrated Windows authentication.
• 2166 - Change step rule to only check for [] characters if the step is new or the name has changed.
• 2214 - Increased delete performance when deleting documents that may be used in variable sets or deployment processes.
• 2244 - Total deployment time in deployment with manual interventions now reflect the entire duration of the deployment instead of just for the steps that come after the manual intervention.
• 2261 - Fixed bug where un-scoped variables were being used during when action variables were being evaluated for 'committing' for use in subsequent actions.
• 2269 - Reduced the time required to render the Environments page.
• 2271 - Improved duplicate release checks when importing Octopus 2.6 backups
• 2273 - Create release page is now usable again while loading packages from the NuGet feed.

What happened to 3.2.14? It was discovered that a Tentacle communication compatibility bug was introduced with this release that resulted in Tentacles not being able to communicate with Octopus Servers of version 3.2.13 or earlier so we decided to pull this release and go straight to 3.2.15 to avoid confusion.

• 2248 - Allow promoting a release that has been rescheduled to an earlier phase
• 2249 - Export process is now more resilient when saving files to disk.
• 2252 - Add missing calendar icon to date range picker on the Audit page
• 2263 - Fail early with a more helpful message, with a couple of solutions, if we cannot load the WebAdministration module in Octopus.Features.IISWebSite_BeforePostDeploy.ps1
• 2268 - Fix display issue in PS 2.0 when logging IIS bindings.
• 2272 - Resolved Tentacle communication incompatibility introduced in 3.2.14

Changes in 3.2.14

• 1977 - Updated default Tentacle connection timeouts. Handling for the scenario where all pooled connections for a Tentacle are bad.
• 2122 - Fix error message display issue when uploading a NuGet package in Firefox
• 2206 - Updating project variables while the user's environment permissions have changed forces user to reload. This blocks a bug causing variables to be removed.
• 2236 - Allow config transforms when the target file is in a relative path: Web.Base.config => config\Web.Config
• 2247 - Link to document in audit events for lifecycles, library variable sets and step templates are now correctly created.
• 2257 - Enabled wildcard config transforms for relative paths: transform\*.config => config\*.config
• 2258 - Changed the behaviour for config transforms when the the transform definition is a wildcard and the target file is explicit: *.bar.config => foo.config will apply all transforms with the suffix .bar.config to foo.config.
• 2267 - Resolved bug with VariableSetId columns not being long enough for migrated data.

• 2170 - Allow updating Azure cloud service configuration values to a blank value
• 2225 - Fixed script step editor so it can insert variables again
• 2227 - Check if a swap is possible from Staging to Production before running any of package extract / upload / deploy conventions.
• 2235 - [Octo.exe] Add channel option to the deploy-release command to allow deploying the latest release in a channel
• 2238 - No channel will be assigned when migrating a release that has no project id
• 2240 - Channel rule designer only requires ProcessView permission

• 2192 - Show Deploy button on project overview dashboard for environments not deployed to
• 2216 - Add individual step failure errors if multiple child steps exist within an action
• 2219 - Additional logging when assigning a web site to an application pool
• 2233 - Octo.exe will load additional parameters from a file when the --configFile parameter is passed

• 2046 - Show unsaved changes dialog if you try to move away from the editor after updating a step template
• 2071 - Allow using the Azure account name instead of account Id when binding to a variable expression.
• 2104 - Include output variables that apply to the action in the variable pop-up
• 2196 - Octopus is now FIPS compliant
• 2198 - Now supports -name parameter for new_octopusartifact on ssh targets
• 2201 - EnableMSDeployAppOffline support for Azure Web Apps
• 2204 - Return 403 error message when NuGet push is missing permissions.
• 2205 - Guided failure mode now covers Package Acquisition and Retention steps in addition to your normal steps in the deployment process.
• 2215 - Members of teams restricted to specific environments can deploy to specific machines within those environments
• 2223 - All in-code references to Cancelled have been renamed to Canceled to prevent tasks getting set with the wrong state.
• 2224 - Tasks that are cancelled by the user don't turn into failures when child tasks throw exceptions as a result of the forced cancellation.
• 2226 - Deployments with parallel steps including one that fails and one manual intervention now execute without problems.
• 2228 - Allow non administrators to view server node list. This fixes permission error on the task page.
• 2229 - IIS app pool credentials are cleared if the selected identity is not a custom user.
• 2230 - Allow users with ActionTemplateView permission to view the content of step templates

• 2008 - Server affinity is no longer required for High Availability servers behind a load balancer
• 2182 - Support logging in to multiple Octopus Server instances at the same time
• 2190 - Health check fall back for machines that have mapped NFS drives
• 2194 - Only accept HTTP verb GET requests to static /app route. Other methods will return 405 - Method Not Allowed
• 2197 - Fixed a SqlConnection leak as reported by one customer.
• 2213 - Add back ability to prevent deleting packaged and custom scripts
• 2221 - IIS bindings with empty IP address field will once again bind to *
• 2222 - Fix positioning of variables pop-up so it doesn't extend outside the page width

• 1549 - Octopus Server and Tentacle support importing custom certificates
• 2045 - Updated Package Step - IIS AppPool feature password field to better indicate that it has a password currently set.
• 2211 - Updated wildcard config transformations to work correctly again.

• 1883 - Variable editor doesn't delete rows if the delete key is pressed while filtering.
• 2068 - Added option to test Azure account from the account edit screen
• 2172 - Pagination on project releases page works correctly when filtering by channel
• 2184 - Allow service executable arguments to contain spaces
• 2186 - Reconfigure the Octopus Server Windows Service after upgrading to ensure it is correctly configured
• 2199 - Improved readability when logging extracted Cloud Service package contents

• 1608 - Do not show deployments that have been cancelled before they start on the dashboard
• 2007 - Allow service account selection when setting up a High Availability node
• 2087 - Fixed warning when creating database mutex table
• 2089 - Accounts page displays environments scoped to accounts
• 2162 - Eliminated performance impact of reading and writing large task log files
• 2174 - Fixed an issue with Calamari that would fail to load System.Core when using PowerShell 2.0 and .NET 2.0
• 2179 - Extend the Account and Feed table Id columns to allow for the fact that they are made by combining the type with the Name.
• 2185 - Fixed package download permissions when package is not used in any projects

• 1894 - Downloading packages from built-in NuGet repository only requires permissions to one project that uses the package
• 1934 - User auto complete uses Username or Displayname during search. Search now also uses Unicode character folding.
• 1936 - The projects drop-down menu is now scrollable like it was in 2.x.
• 2011 - Resolved UI issue with API key being lost when clicking off the dialog
• 2168 - Now logging a warning when OctopusPrintVariables or OctopusPrintEvaluatedVariables are True since they should only be used when debugging problems with variables
• 2178 - Resolved issue introduced in 3.2.5 with sensitive-variables resolving to incorrect values in PowerShell scripts.

• 1425 - Interruptions no longer link to a non-existant view
• 1800 - SSH Targets now support creating artifacts on Mac OSX.
• 1891 - Include Octopus.Release.CurrentForEnvironment to deployment variables based on the release of the already provided Octopus.Deployment.PreviousSuccessful
• 1956 - Variable filters are now case-insensitive and look for the filter value anywhere within the column values.
• 1978 - Allow replacement of existing packages when pushing via NuGet push
• 1994 - Octopus API to retrieve deployments by release correctly supports skip
• 2018 - Tasks with error messages cause parent tasks/nodes to also be in a error state.
• 2027 - Show ReleaseDelete and ProjectDelete buttons if user has appropriate role with no project scoping.
• 2057 - InvalidOperationException thrown to prevent service crash if variable parsing discovers a self referencing loop .
• 2072 - Re-implement ability to filter deployments by task state
• 2075 - Assigned to: field on the Task Summary tab now shows the user that has been assigned to the manual intervention.
• 2103 - When updating 32-bit Tentacles on 64-bit OSs it installs the 64-bit Tentacle so we update the Windows Service executable path to point the new installation location.
• 2105 - Log when variable substitution fails in custom scripts or file substitution during deployment.
• 2109 - Recording the final state of a Deployment is now more tolerant of transient faults
• 2117 - Prevent installing 32-bit Tentacle on 64-bit OS and update Windows Service executable path to prevent issues when upgrading 32-bit Tentacles on 64-bit OSs
• 2125 - Importing projects without channels into an Octopus Server that has channels will create a default channel for the imported projects
• 2140 - Warn if non-printable characters entered in variables
• 2145 - Upgrading polling Tentacles from UI no longer hangs the upgrade task.
• 2149 - Resolved issue with Azure deployments leaving extracted package in C:\Windows\System32\config\AppData\Local\Calamari.Azure\Temp. This was affecting 3.0 style Azure targets.
• 2150 - Tentacle upgrader now looks for the Tentacle bundled package in the right directory even if a custom Calamari folder has been set.
• 2151 - Fixed a backwards-compatibility bug affecting IIS HTTPS bindings and their Certificates.
• 2152 - Resolved: SSH deploys should not block Azure deploys
• 2157 - Artifacts are correctly imported from 2.6 backups
• 2158 - The octo.exe --channel argument is now case-insensitive, so default will match Default
• 2159 - Deleting a release now removes any linked variable or deployment process snapshots so long as they aren't shared by another release
• 2160 - octo.exe no longer fails when specifying the --channel argument for a Channel that has any Version Rules with a blank/empty Version Range.
• 2161 - Changed OctopusTools NuGet package to be a tools-only package, moving octo.exe into the tools folder, which means you can also run octo.exe from inside Visual Studio.
• 2171 - Calamari now logs the $PSVersionTable (verbose) to help with debugging PowerShell scripts

• 1738 - IISBindings now support IPv6 addresses
• 1882 - Prevent saving Steps with [ or ] in the name which would otherwise cause Output Variables to stop working for that Step.
• 1898 - Task type filter is not cut off by other page elements.
• 1903 - Cancelling the lifecycle-select dialog no longer persists changes.
• 2017 - Using project variables in release version template now works with automatic-release-creation.
• 2024 - Allow migrator to import step scripts where one step name may be a sub path of another
• 2025 - Support for parentheses in variable names
• 2050 - Allow exporting and importing gifs
• 2067 - Now prevents deleting an Environment that is referenced by an Account.
• 2081 - Resolved issue saving empty sensitive variables
• 2085 - Allow creating a release before creating an environment without resulting in error
• 2092 - IIS App Pool Password shown in UI if custom expression is used
• 2100 - Updated OctopusTools (octo.exe) so it can be added to a project using NuGet 3 - shout out to @shaynevanasperen for the contribution.
• 2101 - Variable substitution breaks if target file has a variable with the character "~" on the name
• 2114 - Octopus incorrectly claims Calamari is not up to date in Tentacles
• 2120 - Corrected minor typo on lifecycle edit page.
• 2123 - Corrected self-link for events in REST API
• 2124 - Fixed an issue in Calamari that prevented using a CustomInstallationDirectory with $ in the path.
• 2127 - Added reason why the Machine Communication Style cannot be updated after the Machine has been added.
• 2129 - Improved validation message displayed when providing an invalid Semantic Version when creating a Release.
• 2130 - Proxy configuration for Octopus Server and Tentacle now clears the username/password appropriately when selecting Do not use a proxy or Use the proxy server configured in Internet Explorer.
• 2132 - Task log when deploying Azure Web App lists all targets in environment
• 2136 - Show calamari version in health check
• 2141 - When deleting an Environment or Channel they will be correctly removed from the Limited to Environments and Limited to Channels of relevant Steps in Deployment Processes.
• 2142 - Fixed a bug that stopped the Built-In Package Feed retention policy from working correctly: System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Release_ChannelId
• 2143 - Allowed Tentacle certificate export to file to work without an instance specified.
• 2146 - Environments in project overview are sorted consistently with the main dashboard.
• 2148 - Only invalid or missing credentials should return 401 so that a login redirect can automatically take place. Any permissions related issues should return 403.

• 2003 - Added Support for Release Matrix Sparseboard
• 2065 - Offline Drop script fixes for PowerShell 2.0
• 2088 - Now showing a more informative message when attempting to delete a Script Module that is used by one or more Projects.
• 2134 - Tentacle.exe register-with handshake request no longer throws an exception if we successfully connect to Octopus
• 2135 - Fix bug causing DeployFailed.ps1 to always execute (if present) regardless of failure state
• 2139 - Calamari now falls back to use AesManaged to decrypt sensitive variables if AesCryptoServiceProvider is not available from PowerShell.

• 1529 - Variable snapshots will be used when resolving packages for an existing release
• 1952 - Calamari semaphores should now be more globally accessible by prepending the Global\ name prefix
• 1974 - Inserting a variable into script as the last action before saving will persist the changes correctly
• 2010 - Users missing MachineView permission can still deploy a release however without any specific machine related functionality.
• 2049 - Registering a polling Tentacle via Tentacle Manager will fail when it cannot reach the Octopus Server communications port
• 2059 - When performing server side retention policy, the deployment information is loaded in batches to avoid hitting SQL Max 2100 parameters exception.
• 2070 - Importing a pfx for Azure accounts with no private key included will fail with message before persisting.
• 2080 - Bugfix for JS script error caused by race condition on deployment page
• 2095 - Dropdown controls with default values now show the default value instead of showing the control as being bound
• 2098 - Users can now Promote to Environment when their team is scoped to environments
• 2116 - Enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 https connections from the Octopus Server.

• 1503 - A Lifecycle can be specified when creating a project with Octo.exe
• 1534 - Prompted variables can be specified by name or label when deploying a release using Octo.exe
• 1613 - Fixed misleading help text in Octopus TeamCity plugin
• 1931 - Fixed error message in Octo.exe that referenced Project Group instead of Lifecycle
• 1957 - Channels feature. 'Channels' is the name we've given to the set of features discussed in our branching RFC. See our Release 3.2 blog post for more information.
• 2034 - Lifecycles with no phase or empty phases will correctly restrict permissions for users who do not have access to environments in those lifecycles
• 2108 - Updated Octopus.Client.nupkg to correctly depend on Newtonsoft.Json 7.0.1.
• 2110 - Tentacle Health Checks will no longer fail on non-English Windows machines when testing for membership in the Built-in Administrators role.
• 2111 - Link to environments page in Calamari upgrade message on deployment creation page is now correct.

• 1890 - By default bind Tentacles to both IPv6 and IPv4 address to allow communication over both protocols
• 2106 - File operation errors (such as copying files) will fail the deployment
• 2107 - Removed useDefaultProxyCredentials from config file which was causing Calamari to crash upon starting under mono.

• 1626 - Display a warning when deploying a release and relevant library variables have changed
• 1660 - Allow updating outdated Calamari versions from the Environments page
• 2000 - UI Redirects to login if any AJAX request comes back with 401
• 2023 - Tentacle automatic update now works when Tentacle is running as an Active Directory user
• 2028 - Make Octopus Server and Calamari version visible in the ServerTask logs
• 2052 - DeployFailed.ps1 rollback convention will be run when a package fails to deploy
• 2058 - Cannot find type AesCryptoServiceProvider in WindowsService_AfterPreDeploy.ps1
• 2060 - Fixed recursive variable substitution inside #{each} blocks.
• 2090 - Added locking to prevent errors with multiple packages in offline drops
• 2097 - Now loading AesCryptoServiceProvider more reliably in PowerShell scripts to decrypt sensitive variables.
• 2102 - Now consistently uses the system default proxy credentials for outbound HTTP requests for Octopus Server, Octopus/Tentacle Managers, and Calamari.

• 1961 - Team can now be deleted if they once was responsible for a manual step but they are no longer responsible
• 1998 - Prevent file locking errors when unpacking Calamari while running Azure steps in parallel
• 2054 - Use local Azure profile to avoid file locking when running Azure steps in parallel
• 2063 - Wrap machine names when previewing a deployment.
• 2076 - Use a local Azure profile to prevent using a cached Azure profile that may be invalid
• 2077 - External NuGet feed name will validate the correct number of characters
• 2078 - Added variables for retrieving the time: Octopus.Time.Hour, Octopus.Time.Minute, Octopus.Time.Second
• 2083 - Don't allow retention policy to remove directories of deployments if they are also used by another retained deployment.

• 1971 - Integrated Windows (Active Directory) authentication now works if Octopus is setup in a virtual directory
• 2001 - Improved Integrated Windows (Active Directory) sign in performance while improving resilience to Active Directory server performance issues and other failures.
• 2047 - Upload full package immediately if delta compression has been disabled.
• 2055 - Deployment Steps are now correctly filtered when validating the Azure Accounts involved in deploying a Release to a particular Environment
• 2060 - Fixed recursive variable substitution inside #{each} blocks.

• 2013 - Prevent multiple Octopus installations from unintentionally exceeding license limits
• 2014 - Manually entering schedule date now correctly schedules a deployment in IE11
• 2016 - When adding roles to a team the Add button is now shown once a role is selected.
• 2019 - Deletions from octo.exe or client now audited and will be displayed in the audit trail
• 2029 - Database migrations will be applied to the correct schema
• 2031 - Don't enforce that AccountId exists on cloud service step when migrating from 2.6
• 2032 - Bring back support for config transform files in subfolders
• 2033 - Selecting script syntax now selects the syntax you chose
• 2037 - Only show machines that are part of the deployment in the package acquisition task log
• 2043 - Update syntax higlighting mode for the script editor when the user changes script syntax

• 1582 - IIS bindings preserved (i.e. not removed and re-added) if no changes required.
• 2020 - Now prevents creating a Machine with no Uri via the API and prevents server from crashing on startup if there are invalid Machines
• 2021 - Allow the database upgrade script that added the DeployedBy column to be run multiple times as a workaround for some customers. Also increased the database operation timeout to the maximum to allow more time for these scripts to succeed.
• 2022 - Fixed a typo in the Windows Service feature page

• 2005 - Resolved issue with PowerShell 2.0 and sensitive-variables
• 2006 - Fixed issue with Azure process now allows a deployment with no machines targeted
• 2012 - Account to target Environment restrictions now correctly allow Accounts to be used in deployments to "Any Environment", specified by leaving the Account Environments setting empty

• 1617 - Added reporting capability as per http://docs.octopusdeploy.com/display/OD/Reporting
• 1801 - Limit the number of tasks that can be run in parallel per Octopus Server node (defaults to 5)
• 1803 - Created specific Azure Step Types as per http://octopusdeploy.com/blog/azure-changes
• 1843 - Added configuration section for managing Octopus Server High Availability nodes as per http://docs.octopusdeploy.com/display/OD/High+Availability
• 1873 - Reduced the size of Calamari by splitting the Azure functionality into a separate Calamari.Azure package
• 1884 - Tentacle Upgrades can now be performed using the UI like they were in Octopus 2
• 1902 - Octopus Server and Tentacle now support TLS 1.2 which requires .NET 4.5
• 1914 - Allow setting physical path when deploying Azure Web Apps allowing you to deploy to a subfolder of the web site.
• 1925 - Tasks can be filtered by the Octopus Server node that is assigned to the task
• 1926 - Active tasks on the Tasks page are now filtered by the task filters
• 1928 - Added a url for load balancers that will return 200 when an Octopus Server node is not in maintenance mode
• 1985 - Provide a configuration setting to allow Azure PowerShell module to be loaded from installed location, rather than the version packaged with Calamari.

• 2565 - Tentacle.exe register-with copes better with machine model changes

• 1937 - Relax license enforcement
• 1955 - Windows Service and IIS App Pool Custom Account Passwords are now treated correctly as Sensitive values by default.
• 1984 - Custom Expressions now save correctly for Windows Service and IIS App Pool Custom Account Password values.
• 1986 - Removed duplicate -variables argument from offline drop PowerShell script.
• 1988 - The OfflineDrop .cmd file now executes the .ps1 file in the local folder instead of incorrectly targeting the path where the package was built.

• 1962 - Octopus Server configuration change to disable unnecessary CRL checking
• 1980 - Added a command line option to export Tentacle thumbprints to a file

• 1900 - Added the variable Octopus.Acquire.DeltaCompressionEnabled to toggle delta compression when sending packages

• 1559 - Better sanitization of IIS Host Binding
• 1581 - IIS binding correctly replaces SSL certificates
• 1833 - Fixed a bug in how we decide which retention policy to apply to files on Tentacles during a deployment
• 1837 - Added a command to set file paths for NuGet repository, artifacts and task logs
• 1841 - Fix rendering issues in Edge
• 1945 - Prevent running duplicate configuration transforms due to case of transform file-name
• 1958 - Remove task queue timeout for all but scheduled tasks
• 1960 - Improved handling for missing bin directory issue when copying to custom installation directory.

• 932 - Step and step template edit pages now prompt for unsaved changes
• 1619 - Step template to clean configuration transform files will now prevent null Path error if no matching files were found
• 1794 - Fix a bug where custom expressions for step template parameters didn't always show correctly
• 1871 - Special variable for the previous successful deployment ID is now available
• 1881 - Show Ignore Offline Machines option during deployment preview
• 1897 - Added the variable Octopus.Action.Package.IgnoreVariableReplacementErrors to treat variable replacement errors as warnings
• 1920 - Re-implement Tentacle deregister-from command.
• 1927 - Automatic retry if uploading a package fails
• 1935 - Fix an issue that prevented retention policies running for projects with thousands of releases
• 1946 - Configuration transform errors are treated as warnings when Octopus.Action.Package.IgnoreConfigTransformationErrors is set to true
• 1954 - Deleted buttons that user is unable to execute are hidden by default

• 1878 - New packages will be committed to the built-in NuGet repository at regular intervals instead of waiting until the end of re-indexing

• 1752 - Applying retention policy avoids file system resource contention that was generating IO exceptions.
• 1930 - Allow forward-slash in variable names
• 1932 - Improve exception reporting in server logs with explanations and help links

• 1808 - Correctly set Local System as executing user of windows service to ensure it can be applied if the service was previously run under a different account
• 1923 - Fix null reference in Calamari script when deploying a new service not previously deployed
• 1924 - PowerShell Script Steps are now executed with the -NonInteractive argument

• 1907 - Open packages with FileShare.Read to reduce conflicts between anti-virus scanner and Tentacle
• 1916 - Allow health check to return drive information where free space < 1KB
• 1917 - Scoped ProjectIds on ServerTasks now remapped as part of migration
• 1919 - Resolved issue deploying to Azure targets introduced in 3.0.15

What happened to 3.0.14? Some customers experienced an issue with a SQL Database Upgrade script timing out so we decided to pull this release and go straight to 3.0.15 to avoid confusion.

• 1832 - Scheduled deployments date input updated to support popup date picker
• 1845 - Improve performance of events queries
• 1856 - Temporary certificate generated for Azure script execution is removed and not pushed up to server
• 1864 - Package feed details load independently of release details to make release page responsive sooner
• 1887 - Prevent installation of additional High Availability node if license is insufficient
• 1889 - New-OctopusArtifact now encodes the name parameter correctly
• 1892 - Change Calamari file system retry logic to a maximum time not a number of retries
• 1895 - Removed 20 minute timeout from manual tasks
• 1910 - Increased the timeout for SQL Upgrade Scripts to cater for longer running upgrades
• 1911 - Improve logging and wait for service to stop in Calamari BeforePostDeploy script
• 1913 - Bugfix for environment variable not being saved on creation of child steps

• 1848 - Integrated Windows authentication improvements
• 1861 - Bound text field shows correctly if loaded value appears to be bound
• 1863 - Help text escaped correctly describing transformation defaults
• 1877 - Only the cluster leader will re-index the built-in NuGet package repository

• 1519 - Promote buttons now hidden if the user has insufficient permissions
• 1706 - Workaround for Mono FileNotFoundException when calling Directory.EnumerateFiles with relative path
• 1807 - Dashboard API only returns previous items that did not have any warnings or errors.
• 1838 - Trailing spaces on variable names removed when persisted
• 1839 - Remove missing NuGet packages from the built-in package repository on re-index
• 1852 - 'Remove additional files' (Octopus.Action.Azure.RemoveAdditionalFiles) and 'Preserve App_Data' (Octopus.Action.Azure.PreserveAppData) variables for use when deploying Azure Web Apps.
• 1869 - Enable IIS-style logging of HTTP requests (opt-in)
• 1870 - Older deployments will appear faded on the Project Overview page

• 1418 - Improve helpfulness of errors when REST API client encounters a proxy server error.
• 1600 - Add a validation check on adding Environments (API) to teams to stop null values
• 1732 - Migrator: Option to limit import of historical data (releases, deployments, events, server tasks, server task logs)
• 1753 - PowerShell script steps will now respect unicode characters
• 1776 - Improved the Release version auto-increment logic
• 1817 - Filtering the deployment targets provides visual feedback for targets applicable to each step
• 1824 - Hydra now configures the Tentacle Windows Service to use the new version
• 1834 - Provide better error messages if export is partially imported.
• 1850 - Only log Error in GetMemberExternalSecurityGroupIds(String username) if it really fails
• 1851 - Prevent Octopus from crashing when marking a task as complete and the database is unavailable
• 1853 - Migrator: Export is not exporting LibraryVariableSetSnapshots
• 1854 - OctopusPhysicalFileSystem: Extra retry after deleting a file or directory
• 1855 - Migrator: Importing server tasks logs is slow
• 1858 - Migrator now supports importing deployments that originated in Octopus 1.6
• 1859 - Calamari updated to filter matching packages by version before generating hash from contents to increase performance.
• 1860 - Delete and Copy operations in Calamari will only retry failed operations instead of every operation

• 1767 - Improved the display of long Project names that don't have spaces
• 1768 - Improved the display of long release versions on the Dashboard
• 1814 - Text Encoding of Variable Substitution files are now preserved after transformation
• 1819 - When an Octopus Server has reached its licensed number of Users the server will now prevent any new AD users from signing in explaining the reason
• 1826 - The Process Tab UI now correctly indicates Parallel and Rolling deployments
• 1828 - Long Task names no longer obscure the deployment date/time.
• 1829 - History in Task Summary page now shows 3.0 Tasks, not just 2.6 Tasks.
• 1831 - Tentacle setup - Text updated to indicate "add deployment target" instead of legacy "add machine"
• 1836 - Octopus Server will no longer consider 3.1 the maximum available update

• 1665 - Log file names no longer clash with new installs of Octopus Server
• 1747 - Migrator from 2.6->3.0 now imports project logos
• 1813 - Corrupted log lines no longer cause the Migrator to stall
• 1821 - Block deployment permissions scoped to a project now work correctly
• 1823 - Import process will now merge VariableSets

• 1774 - Proxy configuration is not used by Calamari
• 1775 - Hand icon appears when hovering over Task Summary
• 1783 - Fixed an exception when trying to set a variable to a date
• 1793 - Provide more informative exception when uploaded Azure Management cert is password protected
• 1797 - Show correct Azure web app & service icons when target is disabled
• 1802 - Enable Azure steps to run in parallel on Octopus
• 1810 - Spinner on NuGet Package Search dialog is misaligned
• 1811 - Properly align blocking tasks on Task Progress screen
• 1818 - SSH and Offline Drop Location passwords could be overwritten when not specified

• 1790 - Updated the TeamCity plugin to support --deploymenttimeout parameter for Octo.exe
• 1799 - Automatic release creation will now continue enumerating projects instead of breaking on the first failure
• 1786 - Cloud Service Deployment Target dropdown values now load and bind correctly
• 1789 - Correct license message will be displayed when Octopus Server can be updated
• 1739 - ActivityLog files are now deleted when deleting documents that have Activity Logs, like ServerTasks
• 1782 - Deployments no longer fail if a manual step happens after package acquisition
• 1791 - Added a warning to the Azure target pages about the changes we are planning for 3.1
• 1780 - Enabled DtdProcessing on XML reader to fix DTD security exception due to default value change in .Net 4.0
• 1806 - Better error reporting for Migration
• 1758 - Fixed a NullReferenceException in TaskLogFileWriter that occurred during the Import process
• 1779 - Now migrating SMTP Settings from 2.6 to 3.0
• 1781 - Now imports deprecated FTP and Azure steps but prevents subsequent deployment
• 1764 - Package retention policies for the Built-in NuGet feed will now be respected properly
• 1772 - Re-enabled pagination for library packages and feeds
• 1785 - Now supports Windows Services with apostrophe/single-quote in the name
• 1788 - Step Template drop down now correctly highlights the selected option in edit mode
• 1750 - Sensitive values are now masked consistently across all types of logs
• 1796 - Azure SubscriptionId is now validated before allowing you to save
• 1787 - Arguments for sc.exe are now quoted and escaped more consistently when configuring Windows Services

• 1509 - Now prevents you from adding ActiveDirectory groups to the "Everyone" team
• 1718 - The Plugins Module has been revived
• 1770 - Cascading deletes now work as expected (for example, deleting users now also deletes them from teams)
• 1777 - Health check now uses Environment property rather than WMI to get machine host name
• 1778 - License is now migrated from 2.6 to 3.0
• 1771 - Octopus Server will no longer crash when checking for cancelled tasks if the database becomes unavailable
• 1769 - Hydra now uses the latest Octopus Installers which ensure Tentacles are reconfigured after update