What's new in 2026.1

Breaking Changes

• 9828 - Changes impacting Self-Hosted Octopus instances with no license key configured
• 9809 - Remove support for detecting us of .NET Full Framework in steps
• 9769 - Ensure auth tokens created while authenticated with a Token have an implicit expiry no later than the one utilized in the request

Other Changes

• 9909 - Added octopus variable to override NuGet source for dotnet scripts
• 9898 - Added the ability for administrators of self-hosted instances to enable exporting OpenTelemetry traces to disk for diagnostic purposes
• 9899 - Added a library of policy examples to the policy creation workflow
• 9894 - Extended claims for OIDC accounts to include namespaced claims
• 9871 - Missing package warning with dynamic packages and concatenation
• 9893 - Fixed bug where some Jira Service Management custom fields were not sending to jira with the correct type, resulting in errors
• 9889 - Enable Rego policy language syntax highlighting in code editor
• 9890 - Add new Argo CD step configuration to support triggering an Argo CD sync when an application is updated
• 9887 - The Recovery Agent can now read child deployment logs, providing accurate diagnostics when deployments using the Create a release step fail
• 9884 - Fix hanging on shutdown for misconfigured audit stream endpoint if there are pending messages
• 9883 - Fixed an issue where health checks failed for tenanted deployment targets
• 9882 - Octopus Server will now use the TLS protocol versions configured in the operating system. This will disable old TLS versions on modern systems
• 9881 - The git resource "Default Branch" on steps now supports fully qualified tag names
• 9876 - For the Package Cache, when the threshold for cacheLowDiskSpaceThreshold or cacheDirectoryFullThreshold is reached, files that have been recently accessed will not be deleted. The Package Cache now supports --cachePackagesInactivityDays, which is Days of inactivity before eviction of cached packages. Default: 20. Additionally we no longer support --cachePackages which deleted from the cache based on creation age, instead that option sets --cachePackagesInactivityDays. If --cachePackages was previously set it will be used as the value for --cachePackagesInactivityDays
• 9877 - Add syntax highlighting for compliance policy Rego language in the code editor
• 9878 - Fix bug where a process template fails validation if it contains an Argo CD step that only creates a pull request for some environments
• 9873 - Package ids with successive special characters cause exception when uploading to build information
• 9880 - Added the Deployment Permissions Report page
• 9875 - Fixed an issue where a stale Argo CD application warning would be shown in the task logs when there was no stale applications
• 9874 - Added an option to select a specific version when creating or editing a process step based on a step-template
• 9868 - Improve reliability of cleaning up worker task lease records when completing a task execution
• 9862 - Added support for sensitive parameter default values in process templates
• 9870 - Prevent releases from being created if a used process template has missing parameter values
• 9836 - Fixed an issue where changing the Maximum Session Duration below default breaks Active Directory authentication
• 9867 - The Recovery Agent is now publicly available for self-hosted instances. No extra configuration is required. Please note: the agent communicates with foundational models through aiproxy.octopus.com, so this address needs to be reachable from your instance
• 9853 - Remove bulk deployment creation feature configuration. If this was disabled, deployments created from the UI with more than one tenant/environment will be created as a bulk deployment server task
• 9860 - Import Project file select option doesn't show the selected file
• 9869 - Add external feed support for NPM registries
• 9863 - No longer deploy to stale Argo CD Applications. Stale applications are ignored and a warning is logged during deployment
• 9857 - Upgrade Octopus Server to .NET 10
• 9859 - Add ability to limit web request body size
• 9856 - Kubernetes Live Object Status now shows a Stale status when data has not been received recently
• 9855 - Fix error in environment UI due to tag sets scope fetching
• 9845 - Package(s) Can't Be Found in Feed On Release Page when using OCI Registry Feed Type
• 9831 - Added telemetry on size of directories used by Octopus
• 9385 - Fix artifacts greater than 2GB failing deployments to offline drop targets
• 9846 - Update Microsoft.Data.SqlClient dependency to 6.1.4
• 9841 - Added support for additional SCIM filter expressions
• 9842 - Added ability to clone runbooks with tags
• 9838 - snapshots project id not matching up with the runbook project id
• 9610 - added option for replacing entries in .config files in "Deploy an Azure App Service" steps
• 9844 - Fix bug where default parameters aren't properly resolved when the same process template is referenced more than once in a deployment process
• 9825 - Fix issue where the default values file isn't updated if there are other files listed in the Argo CD Helm source
• 9837 - Sensitive variable values on the project variables page now correctly display as asterisks for users with view-only permissions instead of appearing empty
• 9833 - UI error when attempting to run non version controlled runbook in a version controlled project
• 9820 - Create a release based on a previous release
• 9822 - Fix deploy bicep template leaving unused Git Dependency
• 9827 - Add License Configuration in the Windows Octopus Manager
• 9806 - Fixed an issue where external NuGet feeds returned cached requests from the source instead of the latest available packages and versions
• 9824 - Project variables can be stored in both the database and version control, leading to duplicates on the Project Variables page
• 9793 - Fixed git-sourced packages from ADO repositories with spaces in the repository name not being found
• 9700 - Display runbook scoped variables on the Variable Preview page
• 9656 - Support child steps for Run a Script steps without target tags
• 9792 - Let users turn off the onboarding state on the Projects page
• 9821 - Fixed an issue where the code editor cursor would jump to the first line while editing large code blocks
• 9455 - Fix bug where unnecessary variable set snapshots are created
• 9819 - Improved manual intervention and guided failure buttons with clearer visual styling and more intuitive button ordering
• 9818 - Fix for importing existing library variable set
• 9816 - Fix issue where Kustomize and some Helm sources are displayed as Directory in the UI
• 9814 - Fix new release deployment triggers restricting deployments to environments belonging to the first phase of the associated lifecycle
• 9794 - Improved filtering and UX on the Users list screen
• 9812 - Conditionally emit the -no-color arg for terraform, based on the feature flag
• 9791 - Markdown support is missing from various tenant variables pages
• 9810 - Fix latest release deployment triggers restricting deployments to environments belonging to the first phase of the associated lifecycle
• 9807 - Added support for sensitive subscription webhook header value
• 9798 - Fixed bug with UI filtering for aws-ecs-cluster targets
• 9795 - Database statistics being out of date can affect query performance
• 9805 - Changing process template update behaviour no longer causes the page to jump/reload
• 9790 - Added the ability to set a default Powershell Edition in the global settings
• 9785 - Updated UI to display unscoped deployment freezes seperate from active freezes
• 9653 - Fixes long release names wrapping incorrectly in Live Status
• 9784 - Fix tenant tags and channel name not displaying on Project Dashboard with Kubernetes Live Object Status enabled
• 9781 - Introducing Octopus Recovery Agent. For application developers and devops engineers who are faced with a deployment failure, the Octopus Recovery Agent helps diagnose the root cause of deployment failure and provides intelligent steps to accelerate recovery
• 9646 - Lifecycle phase retention incorrectly marked as inherited
• 9778 - Upgrade Calamari to be built on .NET 8
• 9782 - Rename "Kubernetes Object Status" to "Step Verification"
• 9777 - Fixed react hook violation that broke deployment timeline button
• 9756 - Add default option to runbook retention
• 9768 - Added the ability to set a default Powershell Edition in the project settings
• 9770 - Task Log now correctly parses ANSI color codes
• 9771 - Project dashboard now shows Live Status environments in the same order as the default lifecycle
• 9753 - ConcurrencyTag variable not behaving as expected when scoped to runbook
• 9766 - IsActive property is not respected when creating new Users via the API
• 9762 - Upgrading Octopus Server's Autofac dependency from 8.4.0 to 9.0.0
• 9759 - Fixed a bug where saving in the Add Certificate drawer would always cause the page to be replaced with an error page