Changelog

What’s New

A bug has been fixed in the circle-android utility in the machine image used in the Android orb, where the wait-for-boot step would hang.

The Android cimg and machine images will both be built using Ubuntu Jammy 22.04 in the near future.

Visit the Discuss post for more information.

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What’s New

A new set of convenience images have been developed that focus specifically on deployment.

• cimg/deploy
• cimg/aws
• cimg/azure
• cimg/gcp

For more information, visit the Discuss post.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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