Changelog

What’s New

Image updates for Windows Server 2022, including a variety of package updates as well as the lastest release of current.

For a full list of updated packages and examples using current, visit the Discuss post.

What’s New

The quarterly (Q4) revision updates package versions for the Linux family of images. The updated Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 22.04 images are both available on amd64 and arm64 architecture. Images can be accessed with the following tags:

ubuntu-2004:2022.10.1 ubuntu-2204:2022.10.1

More details can be found in the 2022 October (Q4) Update Discuss post.

What’s New

August updates are available for Android images. These updates include the removal of Android API levels 23 to 26. These API levels are no longer supported by Android and their removal helps eliminate bloat.

The latest updates can be accessed by using the image tag android:2022.08.1.

For more details, please refer to the August 2022 Update Discuss post.

CircleCI server v4.0.0 is now generally available. The feature set for this release are equal to server v3.x. The installation and upgrade processes for v4.x have changed significantly.

Server v4.x offers greatly improved security handling, installation, and update processes. Server v4.x is installed using helm charts and images that can be pulled ahead of time to comply with your security processes. Installation processes can also use artifacts pulled from customer-managed registries. Server v4.x makes improved use of Kubernetes secrets and removes the requirement to grant permissions and network access to third-party tools.

Before upgrading

See the CircleCI server 4.x release notes for upgrade notes for this release.

What’s new in release 4.0.0

New features

• Two new Arm resource classes are now available xlarge and 2xlarge. For more information on using Arm, see the Arm docs.
• CircleCI server v4.x images and helm charts are available for licenced users.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that was causing a huge quantity of error logs in the distributer-internal pod.
• Prometheus is no longer included by default in CircleCI server v4.x.
• The default concurrency limit has been increased to avoid it being reached.
• Docker layer caching volumes are now deleted after 3 days if unused. Previously they were deleted after 7 days.
• kong is now placed behind NGINX to simplify loadbalancer setup.
• The loadbalancer has been renamed from circleci-traefik to circleci-proxy.
• Workflow configurations that are stored in PostgreSQL will migrated to the Object Storage.

Known issues

• Telegraf needs to have its configuration overwritten and base64 encoded.
• When migrating from 3.x to 4.x, workflow configuration migrations will run as an init job and the workflows-conductor-event-consumer and the workflows-conductor-grpc-handler pods will not start until the migration completes. Customers with large PostgreSQL databases should plan accordingly. Migration time can be reduced by scaling the workflow-conductor pods.
• Webhook-service may not work with an externalized Vault.
• Vault may not refresh its client token after a month of uptime.
• Retry with SSH for jobs using the machine executor advertises a private IP address. For this reason, retry with SSH for jobs using the machine executor works as standard for public installations, but for private installs you would need to ensure that you can access the private IP advertised. For example, by using a VPN into your VPC.
• CircleCI 1.0 builds are not supported. If an attempt is made to run a 1.0 build, no feedback will be available in the application to indicate the cause of the issue. If a build is run on your installation and does not show up in the CircleCI application, users should be directed to use the CircleCI CLI to validate the project configuration and get details of the possible cause of the issue.

To learn more about Server 4.x installation, migration, or operations please see our documentation.

What’s New

This release includes updates to the image current tag for Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2019 - Cuda, and Windows Server 2022.

For more detailed information about this release, see the Windows image update Discuss Post.

What’s New

CircleCI has updated our Android images for June. This release updates key software versioning for the Android Docker image cimg/android, in addition to the Android machine image android:2022.06. The Android machine image has a new naming scheme.

For more information on this update, and the new naming scheme, please see the Android Images Discuss post.

You may also directly access the GitHub repository for this Android update by going to the cimg repository.

What’s New

The Q2 standard Linux images have been updated. A patch update was released for Heroku and Git fixes. The updated Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 22.04 images can be accessed with the following tags:

• ubuntu-2004:2022.04.2
• ubuntu-2204:2022.04.2

More details can be found in the 2022 April (Q2) Update Discuss post.

What’s New

The Windows Server 2019 edge images include OS updates and Windows Server 2022 edge image includes several updated packages (nvm, docker-engine) as well as OS updates.

For more information about this update, please see our most recent Windows image updates post on Discuss.

What’s New

A brand new convenience image focused on deployment, cimg/deploy, has been deployed in Beta. We are actively seeking feedback from users during this Beta period

For more information about this image, please refer to the announcement thread on Discuss.

You may also find this image in the CircleCI GitHub repo.

What’s New

CircleCI has updated our Android images for April. This release updates key software versioning for the Android Docker Image cimg/android, in addition to the Android Machine Image android:2022.04.1.

For more information on this update, please see the Android Images Discuss post.

You may also directly access the GitHub repository for this Android update by going to the cimg repository,

What’s New

The Windows Server 2022 edge image has been updated to include nvm.portable 1.1.9 and docker engine 20.10.14.

For more information about this update, please see the Windows Server 2022 Update Dicuss Post.

What’s New

This update includes CircleCI’s first ‘current’ release of Windows Server 2022, in addition to regular updates for Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 2019 - Cuda.

For more detailed information about this update, please see the Windows image update Dicuss Post.

Before Upgrading

See the What’s new in server 3.x doc for upgrade notes for this release.

What’s New in Release 3.4.0

New Features

• Android images for the machine executor are now available. For more information, see the Using Android Images with the Machine Executor guide.
• The CircleCI Build Agent can now be pulled from a custom Docker registry if required. For more information contact customer support.
• You can now use Amazon Certificate Manager (ACM) to manage your TLS certificates. For more information see the installation docs.
• Kubernetes v1.16 - v1.23 are now supported.
• Workload Identities for installations on GCP are now supported. Workload Identities can be used as an alternative to static credentials. For more informations see the installation docs

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that was causing the jobs page and step output access to run very slow in the CircleCI web app.
• Fixed a bug that was causing the workflows conductor pod to crash and issues with StatsD metrics.

Known Issues

• Before installing v3.4.0 delete the deployment named circleci-server-kube-state-metrics.
• Prometheus is broken in KOTS versions 1.65.0 - 1.67.0. If you rely on this feature, do not upgrade your KOTS version until this issue has been resolved.
• Retry with SSH for jobs using the machine executor advertises a private IP address. For this reason, retry with SSH for jobs using the machine executor works as standard for private installations, but for public installs you would need to ensure that you can access the private IP advertised. For example, by using a VPN into your VPC.
• CircleCI 1.0 builds are not supported. If an attempt is made to run a 1.0 build, no feedback will be available in the application to indicate the cause of the issue. If a build is run on your installation and does not show up in the CircleCI application, users should be directed to use the CircleCI CLI to validate the project configuration and get details of the possible cause of the issue.
• The KOTS admin console cannot be upgraded if your installation is set up to be behind a proxy. The proxy settings will be deleted and cause the KOTS admin console to break.
• Config files will now be stored in the chosen object store (e.g., AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage or Minio). Users can run into errors accessing certain pipelines, if these config files are deleted due to retention policies (e.g., AWS S3 Lifecycle).

To learn more about Server 3.x installation, migration, or operations please see our documentation.

What’s New

The Android Docker and Android VM images have been updated for March, including the inclusion of Android Tiramisu.

For more information about this update, please refer to the CircleCI Developer Hub page.

You may also find more information in the CircleCI Discuss post.

What’s New

On February 15, 2022, the Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 Linux VM images used with our machine executor were deprecated, meaning there will be no new releases or support for these images moving forward. When these images reach end of life (EOL) on May 31, 2022, any pipelines that utilize Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04 images will fail.

In order to prevent unexpected failures and enable you to begin moving to newer images, CircleCI’s Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 Linux virtual machine (VM) images will be temporarily unavailable in late March 2022 and late April 2022, and will become permanently unavailable as of May 31, 2022. During these temporary “brown-out” periods, if you are currently using either of these images, be sure to update your config with a newer Ubuntu machine image before the 14.04 and 16.04 images are removed at the end of May 2022.

For more information about how CircleCI will manage these updates, please see the Deprecating Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 blog post.

What’s New

CircleCI now supports Windows Server 2022. CircleCI has released a new Windows Server 2022 image which enables customers using CircleCI’s Windows executors to take advantage of the latest operating system, IDE (Visual Studio 2022), and software from Microsoft.

At this time, the Windows Server 2022 image will co-exist with the Windows Server 2019 image allowing you to have the option to upgrade while not losing support to your existing image.

For more information about this update, please refer to the Discuss post that has details on how to adopt the image.

What’s New in Release 2.19.14

Notes

In March 2022 updates to CircleCI server v2.x will stop. Support for customers using CircleCI server v2.x will continue.

• There has been a change to how you will checkout using tags in jobs. Branch tags will now be referenced by either CIRCLE_TAG or +refs/heads/tag/path. For example, git checkout --force "$CIRCLE_TAG" or git fetch --force origin '+refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master'

Fixes

• Security patches for the exim image
• Replaced deprecated GitHub API endpoint for teams

Known Issues

• On static (non-AWS) installations with NONE selected under storage driver settings, tests can be split only by file name or file size. If a user attempts to split tests by timing data, static instances will split them by file name instead.
• If any changes have been made to your networking configuration from the default, you should run the following steps to ensure you can use SSH to inspect your builds (for further information on SSH reruns see the SSH Rerun Guide):
  • For customers using AWS, make sure that you have the latest Launch Configuration configured for Nomad clients, and that exiting Nomad clients were spun up using the Launch Configuration.
  • On each Nomad Client machine, create /etc/circleci/public-ipv4
  • This file should contain the public (if applicable) or private IP of the nomad client

What’s New

On March 15, 2022, GitHub will be changing which keys are supported in SSH and removing unencrypted Git protocol. As a result of this change, any image you have used in a job from a project created between November 2, 2021 and January 13, 2022 will require a version of OpenSSH greater than or equal to version 7.2.

CircleCI has updated the version of OpenSSH for supported machine images and next-generation Docker convenience images in anticipation of this breaking change.

To avoid pipeline failures on Tuesday, March 15, 2022, CircleCI recommends that if you are using deprecated Machine images or deprecated Docker convenience images, upgrade to a supported image. If upgrading an image is not possible, you can regenerate SSH keys for impacted projects to avoid pipeline failures on March 15, 2022.

For more information regarding this change and how to regenerate SSH keys, please refer to this support article.

Before Upgrading

See the What’s new in server 3.x doc for upgrade notes for this release.

What’s New in Release 3.3.1

Fixes

• CircleCI runner can now be used when server is installed behind a proxy.
• Fixed a bug that was causing some intermittent broken dependency caches.
• Removed outdated cert trust stores from some images. They were found to be causing access issues to some server installations.
• Fixed a bug that was affecting runner updates.
• SSH reruns now work when server is installed behind a proxy.
• Replaced deprecated GitHub API endoint for teams.

Known Issues

• Retry with SSH for jobs using the machine executor advertises a private IP address. For this reason, retry with SSH for jobs using the machine executor works as standard for private installations, but for public installs you would need to ensure that you can access the private IP advertised, for example, by using a VPN into your VPC.
• CircleCI 1.0 builds are not supported. If an attempt is made to run a 1.0 build, no feedback will be available in the application to indicate the cause of the issue. If a build is run on your installation and does not show up in the CircleCI application, users should be directed to use the CircleCI CLI to validate the project configuration and get details of the possible cause of the issue.
• The KOTS admin console cannot be upgraded if your installation is set up to be behind a proxy. The proxy settings will be deleted and cause the KOTS admin console to break.

To learn more about Server 3.x installation, migration, or operations please see our documentation.

What’s New

A new update has been released for the standard 20.04 Linux images for both amd64 and arm64.

For more detailed information about this update, please see the Linux Machine Executor Images Discuss post.

What’s New

The new Clojure Convenience Image (‘cimg/clojure’) is now generally available. This image replaces the soon-to-be-deprecated legacy image (‘circleci/clojure’).

For more information on this release, please see the CircleCI Discuss post.

You may also find more information in the Clojure image GitHub repository.

What’s New

We have released a new image update for Windows, in addition to an update for Visual Studio 2019 16.11.9.0. You can access these updates via our “edge” tags.

For more information about this update and refresh, please see the Windows image update Discuss post

Before Upgrading

See the What’s new in server 3.x doc for upgrade notes for this release.

What’s New in Release 3.2.2

Notes

• The rerun workflow endpoint now returns workflow ID rather than the message accepted.

Fixes

• TLS is terminated outside of frontend so the SSL server has been completely removed from the frontend container.
• Moved the default certificate logic from KOTS to helm.
• Fixed the build agent image version used in server v3.x. The image used previously was causing problems with runner.

Known Issues

• Retry with SSH for jobs using the machine executor advertises a private IP address. For this reason, retry with SSH for jobs using the machine executor works as standard for private installations, but for public installs you would need to ensure that you can access the private IP advertised, for example, by using a VPN into your VPC.
• It is currently possible for multiple organizations under the same CircleCI server account to have contexts with identical names. This should be avoided as doing so could lead to errors and unexpected behavior.
• CircleCI 1.0 builds are not supported. If an attempt is made to run a 1.0 build, no feedback will be available in the application to indicate the cause of the issue. If a build is run on your installation and does not show up in the CircleCI application, users should be directed to use the CircleCI CLI to validate the project configuration and get details of the possible cause of the issue.
• The KOTS admin console cannot be upgraded if your installation is set up to be behind a proxy. The proxy settings will be deleted and cause the KOTS admin console to break.
• Runner cannot be used when server is installed behind a proxy.
• Let’s Encrypt certificate generation does not work. You will need to provide your own certificates or use the default certificates provided.

To learn more about Server 3.x installation, migration, or operations please see our documentation.

What’s New

A new remote docker version (v20.10.11) has been released and is now available for use.

For more detailed information about the currently supported remote docker versions and how to run them, refer to the CircleCI docker technical documentation.

What’s New

CircleCI’s quarterly Linux machine images are now available. The following updated Ubuntu 20.04 images are available for both amd64 and arm64:

• ubuntu-2004:202111-01

This November refresh updates software included in the image, which can be found in this Discuss post.

Refer to the machine executor docs for more information about how to use the machine executor and these images.

What’s New

The new MySQL convenience image cimg/mysql is now in Beta. This image is designed to replace circleci/mysql which will soon be deprecated. We are actibely looking feedback from users during the Beta period.

For more information about this image, please refer to the Announcement thread on Discuss.

You may also find more information in the GitHub repo for this image.

What’s New

The new MariaDB convenience image cimg/mariadb is now in Beta. This image is designed to replace circleci/mariadb which will soon be deprecated. During this Beta perios, we are looking for feedback.

For nore information about this image, please refer to the following post in Discuss

You may also find more information in the GitHub repo.

What’s New

The new Redis convenience image cimg/redis is now in Beta. This image is designed to replace circleci/redis which will soon be deprecated. During this Beta periodwWe are looking for feedback from users.

For more information about this image, please refer to the Announcement thread on Discuss.

You may also find more information about this image in the redis GitHub repo.

What’s New

CircleCI will be deprecating all legacy convenience images on December 31, 2021 and moving to supporting only next-gen convenience images. This change is being made to better serve our customers, while ensuring that these next-gen convenience images are consistently reliable. The next-gen CircleCI convenience images are designed from the ground up for an execution environment, and designed to be faster, more efficient, and most importantly, more reliable.

For more information about this upcoming change, please refer to the following Discuss post, which can be found here

What’s New

The new PostgreSQL convenience image (cimg/postgres) is now generally available. This image replaces the soon-to-be deprecated legacy image (circleci/postgres).

• Refer to the following CircleCI Discuss post for more information about this update, which can be found here.
• You may also find more information about this release in the following CircleCI GitHub repository, which can be found here.

What’s New

The new Android convenience image (cimg/android) is now generally available. This image replaces the soon-to-be deprecated legacy image (circleci/android).

Refer to the following resources for more detailed information about this update.

• Developer Hub page
• CircleCI Discuss post
• GitHub repository

What’s New

The Xcode 13 RC image is now available on CircleCI macOS resource classes. This image replaces Xcode 13 Beta 5. For further details, please see the Image Manifest.

Note: This image contains potentially breaking changes for NodeJS and Ruby 2.5 users upgrading from Xcode 12 images. For more information about these potential changes, refer to the following Discuss post.

What’s New

Xcode 13 Beta 4 image is now available on our macOS resource classes. This image replaces Xcode 13 Beta 2.

For more detailed information about this release, please see the Image Manifest.

Note: This image contains potentially breaking changes for NodeJS and Ruby 2.5 users. Please see the Release Notes for more details.

What’s New

CircleCI’s quarterly Linux machine images are now available. The following updated Ubuntu 20.04 image is now available:

• ubuntu-2004:202107-01

This July refresh updates software included in the image. Refer to the machine executor docs for more information about how to use the machine executor and this image.

Please see the following Discuss post for more detailed information about these updates.