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What's new

These are the most important features you'll get by upgrading from 3.6.2 to 3.7.9

Octopus 3.7

Changes in 3.7

New Features

Improvements

Upgrading

Read the upgrade guide for more details on upgrading from your current version to Octopus 3.7.

Octopus 3.6

Automatic deployment enhancements

Renovated automatic deployments to allow a Project Trigger to fire when any machine event happens. Find out more on the blog.

Upgrading

Read the upgrade guide for more details on upgrading from your current version to Octopus 3.6.

Release notes

These are the features and fixes you'll get by upgrading from 3.6.2 to 3.7.9.

Changes in Octopus Server 3.7.9

  • 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

Changes in Octopus Server 3.7.8

  • 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

Changes in Octopus Server 3.7.7

  • 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

Changes in Octopus Server 3.7.6

  • 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

Changes in Octopus Server 3.7.5

  • 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

Changes in Octopus Server 3.7.4

  • 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

Changes in Octopus Server 3.7.3

  • 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

Changes in Octopus Server 3.7.2

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

Changes in Octopus Server 3.7.1

  • 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

Changes in Octopus Server 3.7.0

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

Changes in Octopus Server 3.6.2

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