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What's new

These are the most important features you'll get by upgrading from 3.8.6 to 3.8.7

Auto-deploy improvements - More inclusive auto-deploy rules to account for long-running deployments scenarios.

Read the upgrade guide for more details on upgrading from your current version to Octopus 3.8.

These are the features and fixes you'll get by upgrading from 3.8.6 to 3.8.7.

2732 - Projects can be configured to allow deployments to commence while there are no targets
2822 - Fix deployments crashing when there is a variable called ##
3037 - Script step run as Source Code always sets "Wait for packages to be downloaded" to false
3074 - Do not show variables in library variable sets that are scoped to environments for which a user is not authorized
3132 - Octopus UI resoures (e.g. JS, CSS) have been split into vendor and application bundles
3136 - Error is now displayed when deleting an environment that is used in a lifecycle, deployment step or team

2626 - Rolling deployments can have now window size bound to a variable
3006 - You can now configure the retry attempts used when downloading packages from external NuGet feeds
3072 - Improved performance when downloading packages from external NuGet feeds over HTTP, we no longer query the feed for all versions of a package
3091 - Running a health check step for a particular role will no longer exclude machines in other roles from the deployment
3106 - The NetworkStream is now closed properly when downloading packages from external NuGet feeds over HTTP
3121 - Fixed step failures due to network problems with polling Tentacles not being promptly reported
3123 - Added table support to the Markdown filter in variable replacement
3124 - Resolved issue with task logs not being migrated for 2.6 > 3.x migrations
3126 - Web Application and Virtual Deployment step now retries if there is an error finding the parent site
3127 - Fixed a problem causing high CPU usage during the "Apply Retention Policy" task
3128 - Resolved Octopus Manager import error importing feeds when feed exists in target
3130 - On Server 2016 Tentacles Calamari now supports extracting packages resulting in long paths
3131 - image/x-icon and image/svg+xml MIME types are now supported for Octopus Manager export/import