Changelog

Several new features have been released to improve the user experience when setting up configurations.

There have been a number of feature and user experience updates made to the CircleCI platform, which are described below.

What’s New

CircleCI has now made job and workflow webhooks feature available in open preview for all customers. “Job completed” and “Workflow completed” webhooks send status data, which may include states like success, failed, or canceled whenever a job or workflow reaches a terminal state.

What’s New

On the Plan Usage page, you will now see their network transfer and storage usage data from saving and restoring objects such as workspaces, caches, etc.

What’s New

There is now a button on the top right of the Pipelines page, next to the “Edit Config” button, to manually run a new pipeline from the UI. You must first select a branch, and then the pipeline is run at the HEAD of that branch.

What’s New

In order to improve the overall user experience, the following updates and changes have been made to the CircleCI user interface:

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If you navigate away from an SSH job while it is running, there is currently no process for you to navigate back to the SSH job to cancel the job. If you are on a legacy container plan, this may cause a bottleneck in your queue, resulting in you having to contact CircleCI Support to resolve the issue.

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Previously available to all of our Scale plan customers, we are now allowing all paid customers to access up to 3 Private Orbs. Note that Scale Plan customers will still have full access to an unlimited number of private orbs.

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Some notable updates have been made to our sample configuration templates.

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A new logical statement has been added to the config called matches, which takes a map with two parameters: pattern and value. If the value is a regex match to pattern, the value will be returned as true. This type of regex matching in when statements enables customers who want to filter individual steps or entire workflows based upon branch or tag to do so in a more consistent way that matches whatever logic they want to use.

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Significant performance improvements have been made on the Plan Usage page to reduce page load times, ensuring high usage customers can access and load this page without page timeouts.

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Previously, the Insights experience was scoped at a single branch level. Starting from today, you can now access Insights data across all of your branches, making it easier to understand workflow and job performance across an entire project.

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The Insights landing page has been updated to provide users with detailed performance summaries for each project in an organization. With this update, we have also simplified the landing page to display performance per project and also made it easier for larger organizations to use.

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Previously, CircleCI orb version badges were generated through shields.io, with data provided by a small service that a CircleCI CPE member managed. Although this process was not officially managed by CircleCI, with this update, this feature now consolidates the entire orb version badge generation process within CircleCI.

What’s New

The Context REST API was built to enable secure secrets rotation and move towards having RESTful public APIs. In order to enable GA, our teams made the following improvements:

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The design on the usage summary on the Plan Usage page has been updated. The details shown are now based on the feature available on each plan type. This aligns the design across the different plan types to provide a more consistent user experience.

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Trends data is now available at the organization level. Additionally, trends for the Mean Time To Recovery (MTTR), Throughput, and Duration metrics have been added. As a reminder, Trends provides relative benchmarks for the 24-hour, 7-day, and 30-day time windows against previous time windows.

What’s New

You will now see a faster checkout step in your CircleCI jobs. The built-in checkout step now does a git clone without checkout, followed by checking out the branch (overwriting existing) at the SHA received from the VCS provider. In addition to speeding up the checkouts, a number of Git checkout-related issues have been resolved, resulting in improved reliability of the checkout step.

What’s New

If you have configurations set up to collect test metadata, you will now have an easier time understanding what tests may have failed. On each Job page with a failed test, there is now a box above the steps/tests/artifacts tabs with a summary of how many tests failed, how many tests ran, and links to the names of each test that failed. The links jump to the output of the test failure further down the page. There is also a copy button to the right of each name if you would like to copy the name and rerun it in your personal IDE.

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Insights now persists the current branch when navigating from the pipelines or workflow runs pages. The dashboard displays the current/selected branch instead of defaulting to main. Similarly, on the Insights dashboard, changing workflows on a given branch no longer results in the branch reverting to main.

What’s New

You can now access Trends data on the Job Insights page. As a reminder, Trends provides relative benchmarks for the 24-hour, 7-day, and 30-day time windows against previous time windows.

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You may now export the jobs table from the Insights dashboard as a CSV file. Downloaded reports can be used to run additional offline analysis or share with coworkers.

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Raw metric values are often difficult to interpret and perform actions on without context. The Trends feature provides additional context presenting a relative benchmark against previous performance, enabling you to retrieve more data and gain additional insight into your data. The workflow details page supports trends for the 24-hour, 7-day, and 30-day time windows.

What’s New

You will now be able to access a granular view of your network transfer and storage usage on the Plan Usage page. Storage consists of stored artifacts, workspaces and caches that are core to the CircleCI platform experience, while network captures data transfer such as retrieving a cache in a subsequent job or uploading the job’s artifacts. This change allows you to have more visibility, granularity and control over usage. For more information, including self-serve strategies for optimization, please refer to the Managing Network and Storage Use page for more information.

What’s New

You can now add any combination of SSH key cipher / encoding. Specifically, we now support the ed25519 cipher, openssh encoding, and keys are not restricted to using the older (now non-default) PEM encoding. For more information, see the SSH keys guide in our docs.

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We have improved the error experience on the Pipelines Dashaboard by surfacing the main error and collapsing the details. This allows for quick scan accessibility, reduces visual clutter, and makes for a more consumable format instead of the full stack trace.

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When a new organization has less than 20 pipeline runs within an project, a diagram is displayed to explain the concepts of job vs. workflow vs. pipeline.

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The “Pipelines” link in the CircleCI app sidebar, which leads to the cross-project Pipelines view, is now called the “Dashboard” for a clearer route back to viewing all your runs in one place.

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A selection of time filters have been added to the Insights workflow overview in the CircleCI app. You can now look at 24 hour, or 7/30/60/90 day time windows when reviewing your workflows Insights. Configurable time range is the most popular request on our ideas board, and we are excited to deliver a feature that gives you more granular control over your data.

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You can now easily filter the projects you wish to view on the Insights dashboard page in the UI. This makes navigation easier, allowing you to easily find and view the projects you care about.

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You can now follow and unfollow projects within your organization directly from the Pipelines dashboard. Previously all follow/unfollow options were only available through a redirect to the Add Projects page.

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Job links in the UI are now blue rather than black to make naviagation between pipeline elements easier.

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All organizations can now import environment variables from one project to another, as an alternative to using contexts to share them. This functionality was present on the old UI but initially not released on the new UI. All users can now access it by navigating to “Environment Variables” within project settings.

What’s New

Performance plan credit refills will now be triggered at 2% and refills will be no smaller than 25,000 credits (or 25%). For more information see our billing FAQs.

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Configuration validation is now available in the in-app config editor to visually show config status at the point of adding a config to your project.

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You can now toggle the auto-expand pipleines options on or off in the top-right corner of the pipelines dashboard. This is especially useful if you have pipelines containing many jobs, giving the advantage of keeping these pipelines collapsed, and if you have pipelines containing a small number of jobs you may prefer the auto-expand option.

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The new Custom Plan will automatically track your usage, be able to provide real-time credit usage and balance information, and produce reports to accounting for invoicing. You will also be able to use user seats and be billed via credits for the usage.

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Pipelines can now be triggered via the API for PRs (using PR number instead of branch), PR merge commits, and Forked PRs. This enables you to more easily validate new code from PRs. Triggering on PRs and PR merge commits offers the ability to better validate PRs in a programmatic way. Triggering pipelines on forked PRs is valuable for customers who have open source repositories that are frequently forked.

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All Pipelines are now listed with the commit SHA in front of the commit message, which links directly to the commit in your VCS. This gives you a quick way to get to commits in your VCS from the Pipelines page.

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Multiple contexts can now be used in a Workflow. Previously, workflows were limited to having a single context. Instead of passing in a string to the context key in the config file, a list may be passed containing the contexts to be used in the workflow. This makes updates to contexts easier to manage and more secure.

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Workflow Map connection lines are now straight and do not overlap. When you hover-over of a job, all dependencies from and to that job are highlighted.

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The ‘credits available’ section of the Plan Overview in the UI has been updated to clarify some confusion around understanding credit balance. The bar display has been removed and the credits balance is now clearly shown.

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The config error message shown when there is an empty config file on triggering a pipeline has been improved to both clearly state the problem, and provide a way to get back to project setup to add a config.

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Child orgs now get premium features, including resource class allowance and DLC, from the parent org when plans are shared.

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Commit messages are now displayed along with commit author on the Job page in the New UI.

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The button to manually add a config when starting a new project now reads “Use Existing Config”. Previously, this text read “Add Manually”. Through user research it was found that the new text directly encompasses many more use cases, including existing users with existing config ready to go.

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The Branch and Commit message columns have been combined on the pipelines dashboard view of the new UI making the page easier to scan for the information you require.

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The metadata section at the top of the Job page has been reworked to better group related concepts and include new labelling. This redesign makes it more clear which link is for which feature, especially for those not familiar with icons for branch, commit, PR etc.

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The Pipelines page has been redesigned to merge the Project and Pipeline number columns together and make the font smaller across the whole page. This change allows you to see more pipelines on the dashboard without scrolling.

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Non-admins can now see Plan Overview and Usage pages in the new UI.