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What's new

These are the most important features you'll get by upgrading from 3.16.1 to 3.16.2

Octopus 3.16

Changes in 3.16

See our release blog post for more details.

New Features

Octopus 3.16 removes the requirement to install Mono when deploying to Linux and MacOS targets. It does this by using a self-contained .NET Core build of Calamari.

Improvements

  • Support for Okta as an authentication provider
  • ScriptCS has been upgraded to version 0.17.1
  • Resolved issue introduced by Let's Encrypt API change

Breaking Changes

The latest version of ScriptCS has introduced some breaking changes so it's important to review their release notes before upgrading. This only affects projects with script steps written using C#, which are powered by ScriptCS under the hood.

Upgrading

This release contains a post-install data fix that may take a few minutes, depending on the size of your Events table, so please ensure you allow time for this to complete. In our testing with 180,000 records in the EventsTable took ~3 seconds to upgrade.

If you are running the watchdog service, please ensure this is stopped during the upgrade.

All of the usual steps for upgrading Octopus Deploy apply.

Release notes

These are the features and fixes you'll get by upgrading from 3.16.1 to 3.16.2.

Changes in Octopus Server 3.16.2

  • 3546 - The server side cross check of downloaded packages versions now uses semantic version rules instead of a strict string comparison
  • 3626 - Octopus now ensures only a single database schema upgrade is running at any given time, making Octopus HA upgrades more robust
  • 3708 - Tentacle retention policy now applies to packages used in Run a Script steps
  • 3723 - The task page now provides better insights into why a task hasn't started yet

Changes in Octopus Server 3.16.1

  • 3697 - Fall back to SHA1 certificates on Windows 2008 32 bit if SHA256 is not supported
  • 3699 - Duplicate variable message is now logged as a warning to make it more discoverable for customers
  • 3701 - Polling tentacles now log errors in the main connection retry loop
  • 3722 - Include guest account enabled state in anonymous metrics reporting