March 2025
Added AWS ECR integration for private image use
(Release ID: 1.61) New feature
Added support for integrating the CloudBees platform with AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR). This integration allows you to use your own private container images in workflows.
Include Github Actions information in VSM Dashboards
(Release ID: 1.61) Feature enhancement
Enhanced the Software Delivery Activity VSM dashboard to include workflows and workflow runs from Github Actions (including enriching drill down views).
Strengthened OIDC token security — action may be required
(Release ID: 1.61) Feature enhancement
Enhanced the security of the OIDC token implementation to better align with industry standards. As part of this update, the documentation is improved with clearer guidance, best practices, and examples for configuring trust policies.
Action required
If you’re using OIDC tokens, take the following steps to ensure continued functionality:
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Review the updated documentation for trust policy configuration details and examples.
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Validate your current trust policies against the updated subject claim requirements.
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Understand that this update may not be backward compatible, depending on how your policies are currently defined.
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Prepare now: the rollout begins on April 14.
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Update your configuration in advance to prevent any potential disruption.
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Notification of CloudBees platform GitHub App permissions update request
(Release ID: 1.60.1) New feature
Users have been notified by email that a permission update for the installed CloudBees platform GitHub App is necessary to support an upcoming feature that enables users to view GitHub Actions workflows and runs directly in the CloudBees platform.
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Users can select the link in the settings of their GitHub organization’s installed CloudBees platform GitHub App to review the request.
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By approving the request to grant read-only access to GitHub Actions, users will be able to use the new feature as soon as it is released.
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Enabled hybrid plugin support for security tools
(Release ID: 1.60) New feature
Enhance CloudBees core plugins for seamless integration with the CloudBees platform implicit security orchestration workflow. These updates allow hybrid plugins to function both as plugins and as actions within CloudBees platform. The following security tools are now available as hybrid plugins: Gosec, Trivy, Gitleaks, Grype, SonarQube, Blackduck, and Coverity.
Introduced Component Environment inventory view
(Release ID: 1.60) New feature
Gain visibility into where your component’s artifacts are deployed with the new Component Environment inventory view. This feature allows users to see which environments a particular component’s artifacts are deployed to, improving traceability and deployment insights.
Enhanced platform navigation and contextual awareness
(Release ID: 1.60) Feature enhancement
Improved the user experience with significant updates to navigation and contextual awareness, including:
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A newly designed sidebar navigation with icons
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The ability to collapse navigation into an icon-only view
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The removed sidebar navigation submenu items
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New tabbed navigation within the context of a page (replaces sidebar navigation submenu items)
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The ability to navigate organizations and components using breadcrumbs
Updated feature management entity inheritance behavior
(Release ID: 1.60) Feature enhancement
Maintain independent configurations in feature management. Previously, any feature management entity created in a parent organization was automatically inherited by sub-organizations. With this enhancement, inheritance has been removed, and FM entities created in a parent organization are no longer available in a sub-organization.
February 2025
Register build artifact from GitHub Actions workflow
(Release ID: 1.59) New feature
Use this new action to instrument a GitHub Actions workflow and register a build artifact to CloudBees platform, enabling a workflow to deploy and track the artifact version in the environment inventory.
View component environment inventory
(Release ID: 1.59) New feature
Visualize which environments a component’s artifacts are deployed to with the new component environment inventory view.
Provide input parameters for manual approval jobs
(Release ID: 1.59) Feature enhancement
Provide input parameters as part of a manual approval, making the values available for use in subsequent workflow jobs.
Delete artifact version
(Release ID: 1.58) Feature enhancement
Delete registered artifact versions from the component artifact list view.
January 2025
Added Bitbucket Data Center metrics
(Release ID: 1.57) New feature
View all Bitbucket Data Center metrics directly on the Component Summary and Software Delivery activity pages for better visibility and tracking.
Added a conflict check for ServiceNow blackout windows
(Release ID: 1.57) New feature
Check for conflicting blackout windows before creating a change request in ServiceNow. If a blackout window exists, you can decide whether to proceed, improving control and automation in ServiceNow workflows.
Introduced reusable workflows
(Release ID: 1.57) New feature
Reuse workflows to reduce duplication, simplify maintenance, and promote best practices. Call a reusable workflow within your workflow to streamline automation.
Deploy with the new Chef Client deployment action
(Release ID: 1.56) New feature
Initiate deployments on the Chef Client application directly from a CloudBees platform workflow.
Initiate a Tosca test scan from a workflow
(Release ID: 1.56) New feature
Initiate a Tosca test scan directly from a CloudBees platform workflow. The scan results are available in the workflow logs and the Test Insights dashboard, providing greater visibility and traceability.
Trigger multiple workflows with the new dispatch action
(Release ID: 1.56) New feature
Use the new dispatch-workflows action to trigger multiple workflows in parallel or sequentially from a single main workflow, with status tracking for each workflow. This feature simplifies multi-component releases by enabling a single workflow to invoke deployment workflows across components.
Use sidecar services in jobs
(Release ID: 1.56) New feature
Specify sidecar services in your workflow jobs, such as a database, memory cache, or other required services for building and testing code. Sidecar services are automatically spun up before the job starts and torn down after it completes. While the job is running, it can connect to these services and execute scripts seamlessly.
Added validation to prevent deletion of in-use custom properties
(Release ID: 1.57) Feature enhancement
Delete custom properties with built-in checks to ensure safe removal. If a property is in use, deletion is disabled, and the system alerts the user. The property must be removed from all flag configurations before deletion can proceed.
Improved deployment traceability and environment inventory
(Release ID: 1.57) Feature enhancement
Track built and deployed artifacts. A new environment inventory view shows the latest versions of artifacts in an environment with links to the jobs responsible for the deployment or build. The new artifact deployment history view shows where a particular artifact version was deployed and which version is currently active. Refer to View artifacts deployed in an environment for more information.
Released new REST API documentation
(Release ID: 1.57) Feature enhancement
Introduced new documentation for the CloudBees cloud-native platform REST API. They explain how to integrate with platform data using standard HTTP methods and JSON-formatted responses, including tasks like creating and managing feature flags, target groups, and custom properties. Detailed examples and parameter tables guide you through authentication, retrieving resource IDs, and handling errors. You can automate workflows, build custom integrations, and enhance your CloudBees platform experience with these APIs. Refer to the platform API documentation for more information.
Log in to ECR across multiple regions
(Release ID: 1.56) Feature enhancement
Added support that enables users to log in to Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) across multiple regions, simplifying workflows that require access to ECR repositories in different geographic locations.
Log in to an EKS cluster in a non-default region
(Release ID: 1.56) Feature enhancement
Added support that allows users to log in to an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) cluster in a region other than the default. This enhancement provides greater flexibility for managing clusters across multiple regions.