Harness Release Notes Summaries
Explore release notes from the last 30 days across the Harness Platform and modules.
INFO
Please review the full module release notes by selecting a module in the sidebar, or using the View full release notes links beside each module summary.
Platform Release Notes
Platform
View full release notes →Security & Governance
- Introduced configurable notifications for service account tokens, supporting alerts for creation, rotation, updates, and expiration.
- Fixed an issue where policy warnings for service accounts and API keys were not appearing correctly in the user interface.
User & Group Management
- Resolved an issue where deleting a user at the organization or project level incorrectly triggered a last admin warning.
- Fixed the sorting functionality for user groups to ensure they can be correctly ordered by creation date.
Performance & API
- Optimized the List Environments API to prevent timeouts and improve response times by streamlining permission checks.
Interface & Configuration
- Resolved a UI issue where editing a Custom Secrets Manager would trigger a blank error popup if template variables were modified.
- Improved configuration consistency by making module name matching case-insensitive.
Delegate
View full release notes →Security & Secret Management
- Added support for GCP OIDC authentication in JDBC connectors, allowing secure connections to databases without using traditional credentials.
- Upgraded the Helm binary to include the latest security patches and bug fixes.
- Improved secret handling by ensuring the delegate can decrypt secrets before performing Git operations.
- Enhanced privacy by masking secret values in logs during Custom Secret Manager connection tests.
Deployment & Integrations
- Optimized deployment workflows by ensuring the system reaches a steady state before triggering Helm tests in canary and blue-green strategies.
- Improved reliability when fetching large Git repositories by implementing paginated requests to prevent data retrieval failures.
- Resolved connectivity issues for S3 plugins when using AWS IAM role-based authentication.
- Ensured Istio port settings are correctly preserved during Kubernetes Blue/Green deployment traffic shifts.
Observability & Performance
- Improved troubleshooting by surfacing detailed error messages for connection failures.
- Added support for structured JSON logging to improve log analysis and context preservation.
- Introduced configurable memory usage thresholds for more accurate resource management in containerized environments.
Documentation & API
- Clarified documentation for how service override variable identifiers are automatically generated.
- Enhanced API documentation with improved descriptions and examples for configuration updates.
Delegate (Closed Beta)
View full release notes →General Updates
- All updates and improvements for this period are documented on the Delegate release notes page.
Code Repository
View full release notes →Security & Access Control
- Private repositories now remain private when forked to prevent accidental exposure of source code.
- Enhanced branch protection rules to ensure they are consistently applied across all API commit methods.
- Public repositories are now fully supported in the UI, allowing unauthenticated users to browse files, commits, and pull requests.
User Interface & Experience
- View a programming language breakdown on the repository summary page, which is now automatically calculated upon import.
- Receive clearer error messages and naming guidance when attempting to create branches with invalid characters.
- Improved the repository summary to display language information immediately after a repository is imported.
Pull Requests & Branching
- Navigate large sets of changes more easily with new pagination support for pull request and branch comparison commit lists.
- Fixed an issue where file attachments in pull request descriptions were lost when using templates or AI-generated summaries.
- Select validation pipelines for branch rules immediately without needing to trigger the pipeline first.
API & Developer Tools
- The fork-sync API now returns a specific conflict status code when merge conflicts occur, allowing for better error handling.
- Improved the gitignore template API to exclude non-template files and provide more accurate error responses.
- Updated OpenAPI specifications for fork-related endpoints to ensure accurate status code documentation.
- Added character limits for status check reports to ensure system stability and prevent oversized data issues.
Performance & Reliability
- Increased performance and reduced memory usage for large file uploads via Git LFS.
- Resolved issues where listing repositories would fail or return errors if a fork's source repository had been deleted.
AI for DevOps & Automation
Continuous Delivery & GitOps
View full release notes →User Experience & Notifications
- Improved the pipeline execution history with a card-based layout and consolidated service-to-environment summaries.
- Added notification events for when pipelines are waiting for user actions like approvals or manual interventions.
- Resolved a database error that caused some dashboard queries to fail.
- Fixed a UI issue where the overrides variable field would appear blank while editing.
- Corrected the error message displayed during WinRM connection verification to show the accurate default port.
Deployment & Orchestration
- Added support for ECS Scheduled Actions to enable time-based auto-scaling for deployments.
- Introduced a dedicated ECS Scale step to adjust service instance counts without a full deployment.
- Enhanced Native Helm deployments to support decryption of values overrides through service hooks.
- Added support for Host Groups in Physical Data Center deployments, enabling unique credentials for different server sets.
- Improved error messaging for Helm chart fetches to clearly identify authentication issues with external providers.
- Resolved an issue where pipelines were being unexpectedly aborted.
- Fixed a context value error in the artifact list for service steps.
GitOps & Source Control
- Expanded Harness AI to help diagnose and resolve common GitOps configuration and manifest errors.
- Fixed an issue where runtime values for GitOps clusters and environments were not clearing properly.
- Resolved a service unavailability issue when parsing SCM webhook payloads.
- Fixed a visibility issue where newly created files or templates in GitHub were not appearing in the interface.
- Improved Bitbucket URL handling and repository caching for Git-based synchronization.
Infrastructure & Security
- Automatically mask Terraform output fields marked as sensitive during pipeline execution.
- Simplified AWS connector validation by removing the requirement for specific EC2 region permissions.
- Supported Google Cloud Storage as a source for Google Managed Instance Group manifests.
Continuous Integration
View full release notes →Security & Compliance
- Restricted secret mounting through Kubernetes configuration YAML to enhance platform security.
- Upgraded core dependencies and plugins, including Artifactory and Kaniko, to resolve known security vulnerabilities.
- Addressed a high-severity vulnerability in the cache proxy server.
- Restored support for AWS EKS pod identity authentication in build steps.
- Fixed an issue where persistent volumes were not correctly applying read-only settings on Kubernetes infrastructure.
Build Caching
- Added automatic dependency caching for Go projects running on Linux.
- Added support for Azure Blob Storage with managed identity and OIDC-based access for build caching.
- Fixed Docker Layer Caching issues when using Google Cloud Storage with external container registries.
- Resolved a compatibility issue that caused certain builds to fail during cache operations.
Visibility & Monitoring
- Added real-time CPU and memory usage metrics to the execution view for better resource visibility.
- Updated build logs to show user-friendly machine size names instead of internal labels.
- Enabled real-time status updates for steps within container-based groups during execution.
Pipeline Orchestration
- Introduced branch-based versioning to allow independent build numbering per branch.
- Enabled branch-based version counters for pipelines using trigger data even when a codebase is not explicitly configured.
- Ensured builds correctly honor custom health check timeouts to prevent unexpected pipeline failures.
Integrations & Connectivity
- Automated proxy detection for Docker builds, eliminating the need for manual configuration of proxy build arguments.
- Fixed build status reporting to Bitbucket when using specific API token authentication methods.
Infrastructure as Code Management
View full release notes →Security & Compliance
- Integrated HashiCorp Vault to natively pull secrets during infrastructure workflows, reducing manual credential management.
- Improved identity provider compatibility for more reliable enterprise authentication.
- Enhanced service account authentication for secure programmatic access to API endpoints.
- Added automated sanitization for sensitive values within infrastructure automation scripts.
Frameworks & Tools
- Expanded Terragrunt support with advanced expressions, security scanning integration, and automated pull request comments.
- Added native support for AWS CDK, allowing teams to define infrastructure alongside existing Terraform options.
- Introduced a command-line tool for secure local planning of infrastructure changes that integrates with remote pipelines.
- Added interface support for managing Ansible inventory configurations within the platform.
Workspaces & Templates
- Redesigned the workspace creation interface for a more intuitive and standardized setup experience.
- Enabled the ability to apply organization templates to existing workspaces via the API.
- Updated templates to support remote codebases and flexible folder path configurations.
Module Management
- Resolved errors occurring when editing or updating entries within the module registry.
- Fixed issues that prevented the successful creation of testing pipelines for modules.
- Corrected connection protocol and discovery path errors within the provider registry.
User Interface & Reliability
- Improved the resource import interface with clearer fields for resource addresses and identification.
- Fixed broken navigation links between onboarding modules and pipeline execution details.
- Resolved display issues and improved accuracy for the cost estimation tool during pipeline execution.
- Enhanced the reliability of infrastructure state data transfers to the server.
- Implemented usage analytics to help drive future platform improvements and onboarding experiences.
Artifact Registry
View full release notes →Build Tool Integration
- Deploy artifacts directly to the registry using standard Maven goals and coordinates.
- Streamlined Gradle integration to support publishing for root and subprojects.
- Optimized registry configuration workflows designed specifically for CI pipelines.
- Automated npm configuration for local, global, or project-level registry access.
Security & Compliance
- Proactive dependency firewall to block or warn on packages based on security vulnerabilities and license rules.
- Real-time policy evaluation providing clear status on whether artifact versions are safe to download.
- Centralized management for upstream proxy policies and dependency tracking within a single dashboard.
CLI & Setup Improvements
- Command-line auditing for dependency lock files and manifests across NPM, Java, and Python ecosystems.
- Instant visibility into package scan results and firewall status via CLI tools.
- Enhanced security using environment variables for registry authentication in automated and local workflows.
AI for Testing & Resilience
Feature Management & Experimentation
View full release notes →Warehouse Native Experimentation
- Run experiments directly on warehouse data using a specialized statistical engine for accurate measurement and confidence intervals.
- Connect and integrate your data warehouse to leverage existing assignment and metric sources.
- Define custom filters to focus experiments and metrics on specific user populations using custom fields.
Traffic & Testing Control
- Redistribute users across treatments to collect unbiased feedback without altering targeting rules.
- Update user distribution and reseed bucketing programmatically using the new Traffic Reallocation API.
Governance & Data Privacy
- Maintain data privacy by processing experiment queries directly in your warehouse without storing raw event data.
- Enforce configuration standards to prevent feature flags with missing descriptions, owners, or invalid naming from reaching production.
Chaos Engineering
View full release notes →Visibility & Reporting
- Added experiment run reports to the user interface.
- Integrated execution logs into the experiment timeline view for improved visibility during runs.
- Corrected the total faults count displayed in experiment run reports.
- Added live logging and enhanced error handling for load test execution.
- Unified the report generation process and introduced an API to retrieve report data.
- Improved the reliability of logs during service discovery.
Configuration & Management
- Added support for project, organization, and account-level variables within expressions.
- Introduced a tabbed layout for probe and action detail pages to simplify navigation.
- Fixed an issue where creating faults from organization-level templates failed.
- Enabled central management of deprecated faults through the enterprise hub.
- Streamlined the interface by removing legacy log options for older infrastructure types.
Reliability & Execution
- Improved the reliability of Java-based faults by adding a fallback mechanism for identifying running processes.
- Added validation to ensure load tests only run when explicitly enabled, preventing unauthorized execution.
AI Test Automation
View full release notes →Configuration & Task Management
- Introduced task versioning to help you track changes and manage different iterations of your automation tasks.
Last updated Mar 12, 2026
Incident Management & Visibility
- View all active pages in a centralized dashboard to track responder status, escalation progress, and acknowledgment states.
- Assign custom display names to alert rules for easier identification and management across the organization.
Automation & Integrations
- Execute native ServiceNow actions directly within runbooks using fields automatically synced from your instance, eliminating the need for manual webhook configuration.
- Create and reuse organization-scoped webhook templates to standardize and accelerate integration setup.
Support & Documentation
- Access reorganized documentation with tailored onboarding paths and task-oriented guides for administrators, responders, and mobile users.
AI for Security & Compliance
Security Testing Orchestration
View full release notes →Visibility & Reporting
- Corrected an issue where exemption status tab counts failed to update accurately when using the filters.
Security Issue Management
- Improved the accuracy of security finding links to ensure the correct detail page is displayed when multiple issues share the same title.
Supply Chain Security
View full release notes →Dependency Management
- Added a dependency table to visualize direct and indirect relationships for all dependencies in a repository.
User Interface Updates
- Optimized the SBOM overview tab by moving Supplier information into the side panel for a cleaner interface.
Security Scanning
- Improved the reliability of OWASP scans by providing options to configure OSS Index authentication or use NVD as a vulnerability data source.
AI for Cost & Optimization
Cloud Cost Management
View full release notes →Cost Optimization & Recommendations
- Kubernetes node pool and workload recommendations now support and display cloud billing tags, such as AWS allocation and environment tags.
- Improved the reliability of Asset Governance rules by implementing a retry mechanism for background data loading to ensure consistent recommendation generation.
- Resolved an issue where the recommendation presets screen failed to load due to unsupported configuration options.
Commitment Management
- Introduced a new option to disable atomization in the Commitment Orchestrator, allowing for fixed, long-term capacity management for highly predictable workloads.
Anomaly Detection & Insights
- Fixed a reporting error where service-level anomalies in Kubernetes clusters incorrectly displayed total cluster costs instead of specific service costs.
- Resolved an issue where workload anomalies showed labels as undefined in the service field.
- Improved the anomalies drilldown list to correctly render resource names and details when viewing multiple resources.
Automation & Governance Rules
- Fixed a display issue in RDS rules where the traffic-based rule type selection was incorrect.
- Updated AutoStopping rules to disable the edit button if the associated connector has been deleted, preventing configuration errors.
External Integrations
- Fixed an issue in the Jira integration where the reporter field value was not correctly passed during ticket creation.
- Resolved a bug that prevented comments from being saved when creating Jira tickets for cost recommendations.
User Interface Improvements
- Fixed a UI error that occurred when adding an AWS region to a node pool preset, ensuring users can navigate back to the presets page after saving.
Software Engineering Insights
View full release notes →Canvas & Visualization
- Introduced the SEI Canvas for visualizing and managing engineering data.
- Added the ability to create, edit, view, and delete Canvas objects for customized reporting.
- Published comprehensive documentation for using and configuring the SEI Canvas.
Access Control & Permissions
- Implemented Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) specifically for the Software Engineering Insights module.
- Updated the platform permissions reference to include granular access controls for SEI features.
Integrations & Efficiency Tracking
- Introduced a new integration for ServiceNow to ingest service management data.
- Enabled the use of ServiceNow data within DORA metrics to track engineering efficiency.
- Added support for configuring Efficiency Profiles to better measure organizational performance.
- Enhanced team configuration settings for more granular control over tool integrations.