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Changelog

Keep up to date with our latest
releases and enhancements.

Release 2.17.01    

What’s New in Release 2.17.1

Bug fixes

  • Addressed a configuration issue with VM Service running into rate limiting errors when calling out to the AWS API. This prevented VM Service from spinning up machine and remote_executors.
  • Fixed issues around nomad garbage collection only garbage collecting every 4 hours. This could prevent nomad jobs from running in environments with heavy usage.

Release 2.17.00    

What’s New in Release 2.17

Known Issues

There have been reports of our backpressure settings being too aggressive due to lack of nomad garbage collecting, as well as issues with the Vm Service overwhelming AWS API Limits. If you are on 2.17, you should upgrade to 2.17.1.

Performance Plan Seat Allotment Alert    

What’s New

Performance Plan customers will now be alerted when they have used up their user seat allotment. These customers will need to update their subscription to allow all of their team members to use CircleCI.

Restricted Contexts    

What’s New

CircleCI enables you to restrict environment variables at run time by adding security groups to contexts. Security groups are definied as GitHub teams. After a security group is added to a context, only members of that security group who are also CircleCI users may access or use the environment variables of the context. See the Restricting a Context documentation for details.

Release 2.16.02    

What’s Fixed in Release 2.16.2

  • Bug Fix: Fix a rare condition that causes some threads to be stuck in certain use cases.

New Status Gauge Icon    

What’s New

In an effort to improve incident reporting, CircleCI replaced status banners with a gauge icon in the application.
Our goal is to provide you with a better understanding of your pipeline’s current system health which includes CircleCI infrastructure and common external dependencies. Before, banners hid root cause and communicated issues to everyone even though the incident was relevant to few. Now, a gauge icon will give you a dynamic view into general infrastructure health and fast access to https://status.circleci.com for deeper details.

New Privacy Setting    

What’s New

CircleCI uses 3rd-party tracking pixels to analyze traffic and optimize our marketing efforts (read our privacy policy to learn more). You can now disable these pixels within the CircleCI application by opting out. To do this, click the drop down menu under your picture and follow User Settings > Privacy & Security to check the opt-out box.

Release 2.16.01    

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Getting Started Page Changes    

What’s New

Projects are no longer checked by default on the Getting Started page to avoid causing all unintended projects to start building.

Orb Licensing    

What’s New

Orbs are now licensed out from CircleCI to users under the MIT open-source license agreement. Refer to the Licensing page of the Orbs Registry for details.

New SSH Key Error Message    

What’s New

An error message is now returned if adding an SSH key fails.

Plan Display Updates (February 2019)    

What’s New

  • Usage banner is now shown on non-job pages to help users of the Free plan understand their usage.

What’s Fixed

  • Added back ability to start a macOS trial on Plan Settings page.

Orbs List Update    

What’s New

It is now possible to sort the list of orbs according to their usage by running the circleci orb list --sort command.

Log Downloads Feature    

What’s New

For customers with large logs, there’s now a way to open the log file in a separate browser in addition to to downloading the file.

Plan Display Updates (December 2018)    

What’s New

  • Plan Usage now shows the number of DLC projects and Active Users for the billing period for Performance customers.

What’s Fixed

  • For customers on Manually Invoiced OSX plan, your plan type will now properly display on the Plan Overview page.

Performance Improvement    

What’s New

For customers with many branches, the branch picker will now load only a subset of branches to improve performance.

What’s Fixed

Insights tab will now load properly when visiting from jobs, workflows, or settings tabs.

Release 2.16.00    

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Orbs Inside Orbs    

What’s New

Orb elements can now be composed directly with elements of other orbs. For example, you can now have an orb that looks like the following:

Usage Warning Fix    

What’s Fixed

The usage warning banner for Free users has been updated to exclude build minutes from OSS projects.

My Branches Fix    

What’s Fixed

The My Branches button on the Jobs or Workflows pages has been fixed to display all relevant branches.

CircleCI is 33% Faster    

What’s New

  • CircleCI infrastructure upgrades have improved build times by 33%.
  • The free tier will change from 1500 to 1000 minutes on December 1st, 2018.
  • Notifications have been updated reflect the 1,000-minute free plan, so you can project your future usage needs.

Xcode 10.1 Image Availability    

What’s New

  • Xcode 10.1 macOS image has been released for CircleCI.
  • Select the image by adding the following to a job in your .circleci/config.yml file:
macos:
  xcode: 10.1.0
  • Xcode is now version 10.1 Build 10B61.
  • The Command Line Tools are now version 10.1.
  • This image upgrades to the latest macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 (17G3025).
  • This image removes the simulators for WatchOS 4.2.
  • The system Ruby is unchanged at 2.3.7p456, but Ruby 2.4.5 and 2.5.3 are now available by using chruby.
  • This image removes the additional Ruby 2.3.7 that was available to chruby.
  • NodeJS is now version 11.0.0
  • Yarn is now 1.12.1.

Insights and Workflows Improvements    

What’s Fixed

  • Insights now supports branch names with slashes in them.
  • Workflows list page now supports displaying git tags.

Workflow Notifications    

What’s New

  • Basic workflow notifications are now available.
  • If you have workflows configured as part of your project, you will start receiving workflow-level email notifications.
  • Refer to the Notifications document for details.

CircleCI Orbs General Availability    

What’s New

Orbs are packages of CircleCI configuration shared across projects. Orbs help you simplify YAML configuration, enable you to build on top of CircleCI, and support sharing of standardized configurations across your projects.

GitHub Checks is now supported    

What’s New

  • CircleCI now integrates with the GitHub Checks API, so you can see the status of your CircleCI workflows under the Pull Request Checks tab in the GitHub UI. For more information, see CircleCI Docs.

New Docs Search and Org Switcher Update    

What’s New

  • The Documentation search bar has been completely redesigned and improved to provide a full page of aggregate results, see CircleCI Docs.

Release 2.15.00    

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New Orb CLI Commands, New Plan Views, New API Doc    

What’s New

  • The CircleCI CLI command orb list now has an optional flag, --json, that provides machine-readable output. In addition, the CLI command orb source has been updated to allow you to pull any version, including dev versions, for example:
circleci orb source mynamespace/myorb@dev:foo
circleci orb source mynamespace/myorb@1.2.3
circleci orb source mynamespace/myorb@volatile
  • Cloud Performance plans have been updated to display multiple periods of usage data on the Settings page.

Reusable Commands and Executors, Xcode 10 Image, and macOS Plan Settings Updates    

What’s New

  • CircleCI 2.1 config keys are now available for reusing commands, executors, and parameters to simplify your .circleci/config.yml file. See the Reusing Config document for examples and instructions. Refer to the Configuring CircleCI reference for 2.1 syntax requirements.

New Project Default, Switch CLI Prompt, Plan Updates, and Disabled Fixed Notification    

What’s New

  • New projects are now created with 2.0 config by default and have Build Processing enabled.

Jobs Page Rerun Workflow button, EOL 1.0, and CircleCI Docs Menu Updates    

What’s New

  • A Rerun workflow from beginning button is now on the Jobs page.

Performance Plan Overview Includes Number of Projects with DLC Enabled    

What’s New

  • Performance customers can now see the number of active projects with DLC enabled on the Plan Overview page.

Auto-Cancel Workflow Builds, Updated CLI, and Plans Page Updates    

What’s New

Enable Build Processing, New API Endpoint for Triggering Projects with Workflows, and Performance Fix    

What’s New

  • It is possible to trigger workflows with the CircleCI API using a new endpoint. See the Trigger a Build by Project section of the CircleCI API Projects Documentation.
    • You must go to your Project Settings in the CircleCI app to Enable Build Processing (preview) as a prerequisite for using this endpoint.
    • IMPORTANT – This endpoint does not yet support the build_parameters options that the job-triggering endpoint supports.
    • You may safely go back by disabling the radio button for this feature on your Advanced Settings for your project if jobs or workflows fail the new build processing.

Resolved Issues

  • Resolved a known performance issue which caused a frozen page for organizations with many branches.

Workflows Improvements, Active Users View, and Alerts    

What’s New

  • The Workflows page of the CircleCI app now displays the username associated with rerunning a workflow, approving a job, or cancelling a job.

Xcode 9.4.1, Plan Overview page updates, and Bug Fixes    

What’s New

  • The Xcode 9.4.1 image was released on CircleCI 2.0. To select version 9.4.1 for a job, add the following to your .circleci/config.yml file:
        macos:
          xcode: "9.4.1"
  • If you are on the Performance Plan, you can now view available credits on the Plan Overview page of your Organization Settings in the CircleCI app.

Updates

  • Fixed a known issue with the CircleCI workflows UI due to . period character in the workflows name.

Release 2.14.01    

This patch release fixes an issue introduced in 2.14.0. Please review the fix(es):

Fixed: Docker executor does not support configurable resource classes.

Build Service and Config as Code    

What’s New

Preview of improved builds service

CircleCI has developed an improved builds service that is ready for preview. The improved build service is the first step to a healthy roadmap of parameterized commands, config reuse across projects, improved DRY support, and better error reporting.

Release 2.14.00    

What’s New in Release 2.14

This release contains service migrations for contexts and is a required upgrade. The following updates and fixes are also of note:

Improved Config Schema Error Transparency    

What’s New

With 2.0 you can do a lot more with the config.yml file. However, there are those times when edits result in schema errors. The CircleCI config processor now creates and returns a specialized Job that references the specific schema error(s) in the Job list.

Support for Test Splitting with Workflows    

What’s New

The following features and additions are now available.

Release 2.13.00    

What’s New in Release 2.13*

  • Fixed: Due to a certificate not being imported jobs were unable to submit after a container restart.
  • Fixed: Stability issues within contexts service.
  • Fixed: vm-service issue where AWS ECS and EBS volumes were left used. Added better idempotent client retries, API eventual consistency handling.

Release 2.12.1    

The installable version of CircleCI v2.12.1 fixes an issue introduced in 2.12.0. GitHub cloud integrations were unable to create new contexts.

Release 2.12.0    

The installable version of CircleCI v2.12.0 fixes an issue in which an error occurs when uploading artifacts to S3 by updating AWS SDK for Java from v1.10.69 to v1.11.328.

Release 2.11.0    

This release fixes an issue with overwriting the known_hosts.local file. The fix allows keys to remain and enables the CircleCI upgrade process to append keys.

Release 2.10.0    

The installable version of CircleCI v2.10.0 fixes an issue in which jobs were unable to submit after a container restart due to the certificate not being imported.

Release 2.9.0    

The installable version of CircleCI Server 2.9.0 includes the following improvements and bug fixes:

Xcode 9.3 available on CircleCI 2.0 for macOS    

We have released the Xcode 9.3 image on CircleCI 2.0. Add the following to your .circleci/config.yml file to select that version of Xcode in your jobs:

macos:
  xcode: "9.3.0"

Release 2.8.0    

The installable version of CircleCI 2.8.0 includes the following fixes and improvements: