Check out "Enhancements" and "Bug fixes" for specific versions of GoCD below. As always, feel free to tell us what you think, or file a bug on GitHub.
We try our best to credit all contributors. Apologies if we miss you out. Let us know and we will change this.Thanks to everyone for contributing patches, feature requests, reporting issues and participating in various discussions.
20.8.0 (latest)
20.7.0
20.6.0
20.5.0
20.4.0
20.3.0
20.2.0
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19.12.0
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20.8.0 (latest)
Materials Page
We have introduced a new Materials Page which lists all the configured materials. The page provides an ability to trigger a material update. For each material you can view the modifications with a corresponding link to VSM.
Support for Branch and Pull Requests
The GoCD Groovy DSL Configuration Plugin adds support for PR and branches in the latest version of the plugin. The plugin provides an ability to templatize a pipeline or an entire workflow to run your builds against each branch and PR. Once a template is defined, the plugin scans the configured repository at a regular interval and for each available branch/PR it builds the corresponding pipelines.
Please report any issues that you observe on GitHub issues.
20.7.0
Dashboard Improvements
In this release, there have been significant improvements to the GoCD dashboard UX:
We have introduced a new stage overview which provides users with quick access to stage details on the dashboard. The stage overview provides information about all the jobs in a stage, gives an option to re-run jobs and to quickly access the job console from the dashboard.
The GoCD dashboard now provides an ability to trigger manual stages.
Other Improvements
Starting this release, Alpine 3.12 based docker images for GoCD Agent are available.
The bundled yum package material plugin has been updated to work on RHEL 8
#8411 - Allow only admins and pipeline group admins to perform check connection on pipeline materials.
Bug fixes
#8416 - Agent SSL Verification with reverse proxy fails
#8427 - Agents going Lost Contact after a while and warnings in the server about remoteBuildRepository
#8460 - Mask authentication credentials in urls on materials tab on pipeline config edit page
#8463 - Fail to perform any GoCD updates due to invalid config repository configuration
#8464 - Added validation for null arguments for exec command
Please report any issues that you observe on GitHub issues.
20.6.0
New Pipeline as code wizard
The Pipeline as code wizard makes it easier for users to define and generate pipeline definitions using the config repo plugin of their choice.
SSL support - Breaking Changes
In GoCD 20.2.0 we had announced the removal of support for TLS on port 8154 using a self-signed certificate. To minimize disruptions, GoCD temporarily provided an option to enable the TLS port.
With this release, GOCD no longer supports configuring TLS within GoCD and will stop bringing up TLS on port 8154. If you have temporarily enabled TLS, and if the agents are configured to use the TLS port 8154 they will have to reconfigured to use port 8153, else the agent will stop connecting to the server.
Business Continuity
GoCD had a failover mechanism to decrease the impact of server failure. This feature was available as part of the paid offering through the Business Continuity Addon.
As part of open sourcing all the commercial components, the Business continuity feature has been incorporated into GoCD core. Please refer to the documentation to know more about the Business Continuity feature.
Data Sharing
The Data Sharing feature has been removed from GoCD.
Other Improvements
#8210 - Allow git material to honor a refSpec as the branch name
#8263 - Better naming for whitelist/blacklist options
#6722 - Showcase a help component for concepts on all SPAs
#8315 - Show help text when plugin role selector is disabled on Roles SPA
#8261 - Added toggle icon to view the text while editing for secure environment variables
#8141 - Improvements and Bug Fixes on Pipeline Config SPA
#8361 - Add client side validations for environment variables on Pipeline Config SPA
Removal
The Debian 8 (jessie) based docker image for GoCD Agent has been removed. Debian 8 (jessie) has reached end-of-life in June 2020. Please use an image based on a newer version of the Debian.
Please report any issues that you observe on GitHub issues.
20.5.0
Support for multiple databases
GoCD 20.5.0, while continuing to use H2 as the default database, introduces support for PostgreSQL without a need for the (previously used) commercial addon. As part of these changes GoCD moved away from using the unmaintained dbdeploy to liquibase for automated database migrations. These changes require a one-time manual migration of the GoCD database running on versions <= 20.4.0 to one compliant with GoCD 20.5.0 and beyond, even if you decide not to migrate to PostgreSQL.
If you are using GoCD commercial addons, please follow the additional instructions to upgrade your GoCD server with addons.
UI/UX refresh
As part of the ongoing UI/UX refresh for improving the user experience, the Templates Authorization page has been rewritten to keep it in sync with other pages, while retaining existing functionality.
Other Improvements
#150 - Agents API (on GoCD server side) provides information about Agent and Agent Bootstrapper versions.
#8127 - Improved performance of pipeline edit on Environments page
#8114 - Agents API to force kill tasks on an agent stuck in Building(Cancelled) state.
#8223 - Improved help text in UI for artifact cleanup options.
Bug fixes
#8220 - Fixed bug when adding notifications using the Notification Filters API.
Please report any issues that you observe on GitHub issues.
20.4.0
Default permissions on new pipeline groups
Starting from 20.4.0, all pipeline groups with no explicit permissions setup can only be viewed and operated by GoCD system administrators. Earlier, such pipeline groups could be viewed and operated by every valid user. This changes it to be secure by default.
UI/UX refresh
As part of the ongoing UI/UX refresh for improving the user experience, the Pipeline Config edit page has been rewritten to keep it in sync with other pages, while retaining existing functionality. Feedback/ideas are welcome, please open an issue here to add your comments.
Other Improvements
#8118 - Update Package and Pluggable SCM page to support auto_update
#8140 - Improving config repository error message while parsing related to rules
Bug fixes
#8119 - Adding a package material via Package page causes the pipeline to fail
#8132 - Fixed Template API update failure when parameter resolution has errors
Deprecations
The Alpine 3.8 based docker image for GoCD Agent has been removed. Alpine 3.8 has reached end-of-life in May 2020. Please use an image based on a newer version of the Alpine.
Please report any issues that you observe on GitHub issues.
20.3.0
New Pluggable SCMs Page
We have introduced a new Pluggable SCMs page to create and manage Plugin Materials.
UI/UX refresh
As part of our ongoing UI/UX refresh for improving the user experience, we have rewritten the Packages and Comparisons page to keep it in sync with other pages and retaining the existing functionality.
Packages Page
Comparison Page
Other Improvements
#2947 - Custom SCM material plugins do not show up in the list of materials when creating a new pipeline
#7022 - Pipeline creation wizard missing package material type
#7860 - Pipelines page: disable delete for pipelines with dependent pipelines
#7889 - [Performace Improvement] Remove unnecessary group by cause while loading dashboard pipeline
Bug fixes
#2197 - Incorrect error message for invalid template name
#7865 - PipelineConfig Create API: ensures pipeline group name check is case-insensitive
#7903 - Maintenance mode message not showed in some pages
#7982 - Fix fingerprint generation for Plugin and Package materials
Please report any issues that you observe on GitHub issues.
20.2.0
Support for Rules on Config Repositories (Pipeline as Code)
In order to provide fine-grained access control over the entities that are created by a config repository, GoCD adds support for defining rules on config repositories that specifies which environments, pipeline groups, pipelines the repository can refer to.
Please refer to the Specifying rules on Config Repository for more information.
Changes to SSL Support
There are important changes to how GoCD handles SSL support. If you are upgrading to GoCD 20.2.0, agents will have to be reconfigured to connect to the server. Please read the GoCD SSL Changes for more information.
Other Improvements
Starting this release, Alpine 3.11 and CentOS 8 based docker images for GoCD Server are available.
#6031 - Improve Pipeline Material auto update mismatch error
#7736 - Improvements to wrapper properties examples
Please report any issues that you observe on GitHub issues.
20.1.0
Improvements to Role Based Access Control
As part of GoCD release v19.11.0, GoCD roles were enhanced to support granular authorization.
This release adds support to configure access permissions for cluster profiles and elastic agent profiles. Support for other GoCD entities will be added in subsequent releases.
#7472 - Cancelled icon is not rendered for cancelled jobs on stage details page
#7509 - Config Repositories does not refresh when an elastic profile is added
#7534 - Pipeline Group API update gives 200 even when a non-existent role is passed
#7557 - Unable to run commands with multi-line arguments configured via UI
#7572 - Dashboard UI not updating on pipeline group authorization updates
#7603 - CPU Spike while visiting Elastic Agents Configuration page
#7654 - Fix for 19.12.0 upgrade failures if pipeline label contains package material name.
#7656 - Pipeline Group Admin should receive a 403 on create pipeline if the group specified does not exist
Deprecations
The Alpine 3.7 based docker image for GoCD Agent has been removed. Alpine 3.7 has reached end-of-life in Nov 2019. Please use an image based on a newer version of the Alpine.
Please report any issues that you observe on GitHub issues.
19.12.0
Read Only View for Config Repository Pipelines
Earlier users had to visit the source control repository to know the pipeline settings of the pipelines defined on config repository. Now, Users will now be able to view configurations of pipelines defined via config repositories in read-only mode within the GoCD application.
Improvements to Role Based Access Control
As part of GoCD release v19.11.0, GoCD added support to configure access permissions to environments using policies at a granular level.
This release adds support to configure access permissions for config repositories. Support for other GoCD entities will be added in subsequent releases.
UI/UX refresh
As part of our ongoing effort towards making the UI/UX consistent across all pages of GoCD, in this release we have rebuilt the following pages:
Elastic Agent Configuration Page
Pipeline Activity Page
Agent Job Run History Page
Other Improvements
#7321 - Introduce Pipeline Comment feature to allow users commenting on a pipeline instance. Please refer to the documentation to know more about pipeline comment feature.
#7229 - Performance improvements to Pipeline Config updates through UI.
#3370 - Add pipeline group name to environment variable context during build assignment.
#7402 - Allow users to rename pipeline group via API.
Please report any issues that you observe on GitHub issues.
19.11.0
Issue with Environment Variables of Environment: There is a known issue with GoCD release v19.11.0: Github issue #7481 causing the secure environment variables defined in an environment not to be persisted on the server. There is a GoCD release v19.12.0, which fixes this issue. It is recommended to use 19.12.0 (or above) installers.
Users on GoCD release v19.11.0 are recommended to use the alternatives mentioned as part of the Github Comment to avoid this issue.
Updated: Monday 23 DEC at 11:00:00 UTC 2019
Role Based Access Control
Traditionally, a Role in GoCD is a group of users. With this release, we are enhancing the purpose of Roles. Roles can now be used to control the access of different entities in GoCD, which earlier were accessible only by System Administrators.
System Adminstrators can configure permissions for a given role using policies at a granular level. This release adds support to configure access to environments, support for more entities will be added in subsequent releases.
Read the GoCD Policy documentation for more details.
UI/UX refresh
As part of our ongoing effort towards making the UI/UX consistent across all pages of GoCD, in this release we have rebuilt the following pages,
Server Configuration Page
Environments Page
Templates Page
Pipelines Page
Other Improvments
#7229 - Performance improvements to Pipeline Config updates through UI.
#6956 - Added support to load multiple plugins as a bundle.
Bug fixes
#7296 - Fix issue with mounting directories as docker volume, if directories already exist
We regularly fix security issues reported by security researchers. Upgrading to the latest release is always recommended.
In this release, a security issue responsibly disclosed by Wasin Sae-ngow was fixed.
Contributors
Aditya Sood, Akshay Dewan, Ankit Srivastava, Antonio Masucci, Aravind SV, Bhupendrakumar Piprava, Dhanashri Pagar, Ganesh S Patil, Isabelle Carter, Jen Marley, Ketan Padegaonkar, Kiera Radman, Kritika Singh, Louda Peña, Lubaina R, Mahesh Panchaksharaiah, Mansi Shah, Marques Lee, Rajiesh N, Riko Stave, Sheroy Marker, Steven Streisguth, Tomasz Setkowski, Varsha Varadarajan, Veerababu Kona, Viraj Patil, Vrushali Waykole
Note
A more comprehensive list of changes for this release can be found here.
Have ideas and want to contribute? Need some help getting started? We're here to help. Reach out to us at support@thoughtworks.com.
Please report any issues that you observe on GitHub issues.
19.10.0
Database cleanup
Please make sure that a GoCD server backup is taken before upgrading to 19.10.0.
There are some unnecessary data in the GoCD database which will be removed upon the first server start after upgrading to 19.10.0.
This cleanup will be done only for completed jobs and will remove historical data related to environment variables, artifact plans, resources and job-related metadata.
This will not affect any information in GoCD's configuration file.
Depending on the size of your database, you may experience some delay during startup while the data is being removed from the database. Please do not kill the GoCD server until the database upgrade completes.
If you do end up killing it, you might need to restore the database from the backup taken before this upgrade.
7d5d01f - Delete cruft from the DB for jobs that are completed.
Improved Agents page
Agents page has been improved in this release. Now it will have 2 tabs - Static and Elastic - for easy viewing and searching of static and elastic agents.
Optional upstream dependencies
Introduced ignore_for_scheduling flag at the pipeline dependency level to improve GoCD's ability to model pipelines, as described in this issue.
This flag allows run of an upstream pipeline to be ignored by the downstream pipeline.
This is useful in cases where a downstream pipeline has multiple materials and wants to have fine-grained control over which materials cause it to run. Previously, this was available only for SCM materials (like git, mercurial, etc). This flag is available on the material edit page, Pipeline Config API and the bundled JSON/YAML config repo plugins.
Other Improvements
Starting this release, Centos 8 based images for GoCD Agent are available
#4756 - Provide an option to sort by duration on the job run history page
#6289 - Expose scm material url and branch as environment variables to tasks
#6602 - Dashboard will show an info icon instead of settings icon for pipeline-as-code pipelines
#7113 - Added 'group' property to Get Pipeline Config API
#7155 - Added support for 'group' attribute in Update Pipeline Config API
Bug fixes
#7002 - Honour hostname in agent autoregister properties
#7037 - Bring back UUID support in SVN post commit hook API
#7064 - Authorization config update API should not need id value
#7067 - Fix for Notification preferences not persisted
#7068 - Enable email support link is pointing to wrong link under preferences tab
#7107 - Fix for job details page error if agent is not yet assigned
#7126 - Fixed no response on deleting an auth config
Deprecations
Starting this release, Fedora based docker image for GoCD Agent will not be published. Users can continue to use the older images and the agent will get auto-upgraded.
Please report any issues that you observe on GitHub issues.
19.9.0
Support for Java 8 and 10 removed
Support for Java 8 and 10 has been dropped from this release. This is in line with our official stance on Java we announced earlier this year post the Java Licensing Changes.
Starting 19.9.0, GoCD Server and Agent would only support Java 11 or 12. Support for Java 13 will be introduced soon. GoCD installers from 19.6.0 come with Java Runtime pre-bundled, so users no longer need to install it separately.
Users might need to upgrade the GoCD Agent Bootstrapper. More information can be found here
Other Improvements
#911 - Moved agent configuration out of the main xml configuration.
#6919 - Improve performance of artifact download and digesting.
Bug fixes
4c54c9b - Fix git failure on Centos 7 based GoCD agent docker images.
#6918 - Error on opening on job details in the absence of cluster profile
#6942 - Rules reordering not working on edit of secret config
#6952 - GoCD page suddenly asking for client certificate
#6968 - Materials API return 404 for existing materials and modifications in 19.8.0
#6973 - Ignore unknown properties while upgrading plugin profile configuration
#6979 - Add missing working directory replacement during agent duplication
Please report any issues that you observe on GitHub issues.
19.8.0
New Pipeline Creation Wizard
We have introduced a new simplified pipeline creation wizard as part of our ongoing UI/UX refresh for improving the user experience.
Feedback/ideas are welcome, please open an issue here to add your comments.
Introduce support for latest API version
GoCD’s APIs are versioned. Accessing an API endpoint requires providing a version number as part of the Accept header. GoCD now allows accessing the latest version of an API by omitting the version number in the header. For instance, you can use Accept: application/vnd.go.cd+json instead of Accept: application/vnd.go.cd.v3+json. More information can be found on GitHub issue #6620.
Ability to trigger a stage only if the previous stage has succeeded
Introduced the attribute allowOnlyOnSuccess for approval at stage level. If the attribute is set to true, the stage can be manually triggered only if the previous stage (if there is one) has resulted in success. More information can be found on GitHub issue #6294.
Java 8 and 10 deprecation
Support for Java 8 and 10 will be removed in the next release of GoCD. GoCD installers come with Java Runtime pre-bundled, so users no longer need to install it separately.
The removal of Java versions is in line with the Java Licensing Changes we had announced earlier this year in this blog post.
Other Improvements
Starting this release, Debian Buster (10) based images for GoCD Agent are available.
#6688 - Allow plugins to execute javascript as part of angular plugin view
#6802 - Add git, hg, svn, p4 version info to support output
#6826 - Optimized GoCD server and agent docker image size
#6832 - Synchronize user info with external sources
Bug fixes
6731045 - Fixed issue with analytics not loading up if AdBlock is enabled. A new version of analytics plugin has been released. Users will have to update to the same.
Please report any issues that you observe on GitHub issues.
19.7.0
Windows Installer Issue: There is a known issue with the fresh install of 19.7.0 windows installers: GitHub issue #6892. There is a 19.8.0 release, which fixes this issue. It is recommended to use 19.8.0 windows installers.
Updated: Friday 06 SEP at 07:25:00 UTC 2019
Bug Fixes
#6666 - Fixes issue with GoCD server/agent not automatically starting on a server restart.
#6674 - Fixes issues with migrating user defined Environment Variables on upgrade to 19.6.0
#6677 - Disable directory listing for assets directory.
#6684 - Bring back GO_ENVIRONMENT_NAME environment variable as part of Job Console.
#6690 - Fixes issue with dependency on sysvinit-tools for RPM distros.
The Elastic Agents plugin extension v4 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for August 2019. Plugin developers should use version 5 of the plugin API.
The notification plugin extension version 3 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in an upcoming release. Plugin developers should use version 4 of the notification plugin api.
The analytics plugin extension version 1 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in an upcoming release. Plugin developers should use version 2 of the analytics plugin api.
The Get Server Info processor version 1 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in an upcoming release. Plugin developers should use version 2 of the Get Server Info processor.
The Pipeline config API version 6 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for Aug 2019. Version 8 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
The Config repo API version 1 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for Aug 2019. Version 2 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
Support for Java 8 has been deprecated. The support for the same will be removed in a release scheduled for November 2019.
The Plugin Info API version 5 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for Sept 2019. Version 6 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
The Pipeline config API version 7 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for Oct 2019. Version 8 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
Unversioned get all materials API has been deprecated in favor of get all materials API v1. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for Oct 2019.
Please report any issues that you observe on GitHub issues.
19.6.0
Known issues: There are two known issues with the 19.6.0 installers: GitHub issue #6666 and GitHub issue #6674 with workarounds mentioned in the issues. There is is a 19.7.0 release, which fixes these issues. It is recommended to upgrade directly to 19.7.0.
Windows Installer Issue: There is a known issue with the fresh install of 19.6.0 windows installers: GitHub issue #6892. There is a 19.8.0 release, which fixes this issue. It is recommended to use 19.8.0 windows installers.
Updated: Friday 06 SEP at 07:25:00 UTC 2019
Secrets Management
We have enhanced support for managing secrets in GoCD. GoCD now provides an ability to refer to secrets defined in an external Secret Manager. With this, apart from referring to secrets, users can manage permissions for these secrets and rotate them without any changes to GoCD configuration.
Support for Secrets Management is provided using plugins. We have introduced a new secrets extension using which plugin authors can write a plugin to support a Secret Manager of their choice. We have built a File based Secret Management plugin which is bundled along with GoCD.
There is some variation in how GoCD server and agents across multiple different operating systems and installer types need to be managed by system admins. To reduce the maintenance overhead and cognitive load, all the installers have undergone varying degrees of changes.
If you are an existing GoCD user upgrading from an older version of GoCD, please read about the changes before performing an upgrade. Users installing GoCD for the first time should not be affected.
Running Dockerized GoCD Containers as Non Root
Starting from this release, GoCD containers run as non-root user, by default. The Dockerized GoCD application will run as go:root (uid:1000, gid:0) user instead of running as root:root (uid:0, gid:0). For more information, checkout Running Dockerized GoCD Containers as Non Root blog post.
Simpler HTTP authentication for agent-server communication
Historically, GoCD agent server communication required SSL/TLS mutual authentication using X509 certificates. GoCD version 19.6 disables mutual TLS by default. This will allow GoCD administrators to terminate agent-server communication at load balancers or reverse proxies.
To turn on the old behavior and enable mutual TLS, set the environment variable GO_USE_TOKEN_AUTH to false.
Starting this release, Alpine 3.10 based docker images for GoCD Agent are available.
#6567 - Order pipeline group names in alphabetical order when cloning a pipeline.
#6225 - Introduce stage building animation on dashboard.
#6471 - Display pipelines and environments defined by config repository.
#6423 - Collect Metrics for Trial XP in GoCD as part of GoCD data sharing.
Security
We regularly fix security issues reported by security researchers. Upgrading to the latest release is always recommended.
In this release, a security issue responsibly disclosed by Heinrich was fixed.
Bug fixes
#6628 - Fix internal server error on consuming Packages Index API.
#6630 - Fix internal server error on consuming Package Repositories Index API.
#6615 - Fix Job requiring elastic agent starves forever in case of multiple reschedule.
#6468 - Shouldn't allow to save pipeline config with empty template.
#6328 - Cancel the scheduled elastic agent jobs on GoCD upgrade from version prior to 19.3.0.
#6565 - Show spinner in modal when performing save/update.
#6547 - Update footer banner message when server is in maintenance mode.
#6017 - Improved error messages in APIs consuming environment variables.
2ad7510 - fixed subversion SASL auth error when subversion material use the svn protocol.
New Deprecations
The Plugin Info API version 5 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for Sept 2019. Version 6 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
The Pipeline config API version 7 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for Oct 2019. Version 8 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
Unversioned get all materials API has been deprecated in favor of get all materials API v1. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for Oct 2019.
Deprecations
The Elastic Agents plugin extension v4 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for August 2019. Plugin developers should use version 5 of the plugin API.
The notification plugin extension version 3 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in an upcoming release. Plugin developers should use version 4 of the notification plugin api.
The analytics plugin extension version 1 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in an upcoming release. Plugin developers should use version 2 of the analytics plugin api.
The Get Server Info processor version 1 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in an upcoming release. Plugin developers should use version 2 of the Get Server Info processor.
The Pipeline config API version 6 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for Aug 2019. Version 8 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
The Config repo API version 1 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for Aug 2019. Version 2 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
Support for Java 8 has been deprecated. The support for the same will be removed in a release scheduled for November 2019.
Breaking Changes
The Fedora 28 based docker image for GoCD Agent has been removed. Fedora 28 has reached end-of-life in June 2019. Please use an image based on a newer version of the Fedora.
The Stage History unversioned API has been removed. Version 1 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
The Plugin Info API version 4 has been removed. Version 6 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
Please report any issues that you observe on GitHub issues.
19.5.0
Replacing X.509 with simpler HTTPs token-based authentication for Agent-Server Communication - Beta feature
This is a beta feature: agent-server commnication can be toggled to use token-based authentication instead of self-signed X.509 certificates from the GoCD server.
To enable token-based auth, set the environment variable GO_USE_TOKEN_AUTH on the GoCD agent to true.
With token-based authentication enabled, agents can use load balancers or reverse proxy DNS names and not GoCD server DNS/IP. It is also not required to expose port 8154 on the GoCD server. TLS termination can happen at the reverse proxy instead.
#6337 - Start Docker deamon process for dind image.
#6325 - Supress warnings thrown in server logs when a user visits job console of jobs either not assigned or not started writing to console.
Versions of Java this release of GoCD works with
Java 8 (Deprecated)
Java 10 (Deprecated)
Java 11
Java 12
Please refer to this blog post for GoCD official stance on supported Java versions.
Deprecations
The notification plugin extension version 3 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in an upcoming release. Plugin developers should use version 4 of the notification plugin api.
The analytics plugin extension version 1 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in an upcoming release. Plugin developers should use version 2 of the analytics plugin api.
The Get Server Info processor version 1 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in an upcoming release. Plugin developers should use version 2 of the Get Server Info processor.
Unversioned get stage history API has been deprecated in favor of get stage history API v1. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for July 2019.
The Plugin Info API version 4 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for July 2019. Version 5 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
Breaking Changes
The Dashboard API version 2 has been removed. Version 3 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
The Fedora 28 based docker image for GoCD Agent has been removed. Fedora 28 has reached end-of-life in June 2019. Please use an image based on a newer version of the Fedora.
Please report any issues that you observe on GitHub issues.
19.4.0
Improved Git and Mercurial material configurations
Introduced username and password (or encryptedPassword) attributes on Git and Mercurial materials. Users can now use these fields to setup credentials in a secure manner, instead of putting credentials in the URL. The YAML, JSON and Groovy config repo plugins have been updated to allow these additional fields on material definitions.
Users can also utilize the newly introduced branch attribute on Mercurial materials to specify the branch instead of specifying in the URL.
Users are advised to move their credentials from the URLs into these attributes. This allows passwords to be encrypted and stored in the configuration.
Changing the material configuration will be treated as a new material for the corresponding pipeline, which in turn will trigger the pipeline.
Introduced support for Java 12
Starting this release, GoCD has now added support for Java 12. All the docker images and installers for Windows and OSX are bundled with a supported version of Java (not necessarily 12).
Please refer to this blog post for our official stance on supported Java versions going forward.
Starting this release, Fedora 30 based docker images for GoCD Agent are available.
#6131 - Show the affected pipelines in Server Health Messages when material update fails.
#6245 - Remove redundant pluginId attribute from agentProfile tag.
#5923 - Improve logging for Access Token API requests.
Bug fixes
#6216 - Fix encryption API to honour "go.encryption.api.max.requests" system property.
#6030 - Modification check failed for material for pipelines that polling is disabled and or are paused.
#6143 - Config Save successfully completes without updating the changes.
#6304 - Allow editing pipelines, agents and env vars for environment with special characters in name.
#6228 - Personal access tokens taking too long to generate.
#6030 - Server health message noise for disabled or paused pipelines with failed modification checks
A security fix regarding GoCD cruise-config.xml save has been identified and fixed in the current release. Users are advised to update their GoCD servers to the latest version.
New Deprecations
The Pipeline config API version 6 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for Aug 2019. Version 7 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
The Config repo API version 1 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for Aug 2019. Version 2 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
Support for Java 8 and Java 10 has been deprecated. The support for the same will be removed in a release scheduled for September 2019.
Deprecations
The notification plugin extension version 3 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in an upcoming release. Plugin developers should use version 4 of the notification plugin api.
The analytics plugin extension version 1 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in an upcoming release. Plugin developers should use version 2 of the analytics plugin api.
The Get Server Info processor version 1 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in an upcoming release. Plugin developers should use version 2 of the Get Server Info processor.
Unversioned get stage history API has been deprecated in favor of get stage history API v1. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for July 2019.
The Dashboard API version 2 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for June 2019. Version 3 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
The Plugin Info API version 4 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for July 2019. Version 5 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
The Fedora 28 based docker image for GoCD Agent has been deprecated and will not be built after June 2019 release of GoCD. This will be done as Fedora 28 will reach end-of-life in June 2019.
Breaking Changes
TFS workspace location on GoCD agents has been changed to be a server workspace, rather than a local workspace. See: #5427 - for more information. This can affect users who use TFS materials.
The Alpine 3.6 based docker image for GoCD Agent has been removed. Alpine 3.6 has reached end-of-life in May 2019. Please use an image based on a newer version of the Alpine.
Please report any issues that you observe on GitHub issues.
19.3.0
Multi-cluster support for Elastic Agent
Now elastic agent can be created in different cluster based on the cluster profile. Elastic Profiles SPA is updated to reflect cluster profiles and elastic agent profiles.
To know more about about Cluster Profiles click here.
Introduced elastic agent extension v5 to support cluster profiles. For more info refer Elastic Agent Plugin Endpoint documentation.
Upgrade instructions: In order to perform a graceful upgrade, it's advised to use the maintenance mode to make sure that all running elastic agent jobs have finished, before upgrading to 19.3.0 or a later release of GoCD. If not, you might need to cancel any previously started elastic agent jobs after the upgrade.
Improved Backup SPA
SPA is updated to show real-time progress of your GoCD server backup.
#2123 - Git shallow clone will also apply to submodules.
#6190 - Improved login page design and added a logout page.
#5885 - Provided an option to create pipeline within a group from dashboard.
#5978 - Added webhook endpoint for hosted bitbucket servers.
#6043 - Allow reordering of pipelines from config repositories. This adds an optional display_order property for pipelines defined in config repositories, which allow you to order pipelines.
Improve consistency of some error messages generated by GoCD server.
macOS installers will no longer ship as osx .app files. The installers now ship as a zip file, with a shell script. We believe this provides much better flexibility and allows users to run the GoCD agent and server in a location of their choice.
Bug fixes
#5956 - Fixed issue with environments API incorrectly rendering encrypted variables as ****** instead of the correct encrypted value.
#5886 - Do not allow assigning an agent to an environment defined in config repository environment.
#5968 - Fix spurious e.map is not a function javascript error for notifications.
#5974 - Unable to expand/collapse environments with name containing special characters.
#5962 - GoCD shows HTTP Basic Auth dialog when after user is logged out.
#6011 - Fix errors with parsing git log when coloring is turned on using .gitconfig.
#5967 - Environments api will accept either encrypted_value or value.
#3635 - GoCD can update git submodules if a custom name is provided for one.
#5973 - Fixed issue with expanding environment panel with name containing special characters
New Deprecations
The Elastic Agents plugin extension v4 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for August 2019. Plugin developers should use version 5 of the plugin API.
Deprecations
The notification plugin extension version 3 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in an upcoming release. Plugin developers should use version 4 of the notification plugin api.
The analytics plugin extension version 1 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in an upcoming release. Plugin developers should use version 2 of the analytics plugin api.
The Get Server Info processor version 1 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in an upcoming release. Plugin developers should use version 2 of the Get Server Info processor.
Unversioned get stage history API has been deprecated in favor of get stage history API v1. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for July 2019.
The Dashboard API version 2 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for June 2019. Version 3 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
The Plugin Info API version 4 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for July 2019. Version 5 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
The Alpine 3.6 based docker image for GoCD Agent has been deprecated and will not be built after May 2019 release of GoCD. This will be done as Alpine 3.6 will reach end-of-life in May 2019.
The Fedora 28 based docker image for GoCD Agent has been deprecated and will not be built after June 2019 release of GoCD. This will be done as Fedora 28 will reach end-of-life in June 2019.
Breaking Changes
The Elastic Agent Profiles API version 1 has been removed. Version 2 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it. With the introduction of support for clusters all Elastic Agent Profiles need to be associated with a cluster. Since version 1 of the API does not support clusters, as an exception this API had to be removed without deprecation.
The Dashboard API version 1 has been removed. Version 3 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
The System Admins API version 1 has been removed. Version 2 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
The Roles API version 1 has been removed. Version 2 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
The Users API version 2 has been removed. Version 3 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
Unversioned Get Stage Instance API has been removed in favor of Get Stage Instance API v1.
The Ubuntu 14.04 based docker image for GoCD Agent has been removed. Ubuntu 14.04 has reached end-of-life in April 2019. Please use an image based on a newer version of the Ubuntu.
The elastic agent plugin extension version 3 has been removed. Plugin developers should use version 4 of the elastic agent plugin api to allow adding support for job completion request. Users should upgrade their plugins to the latest version to see these new features.
GoCD will now require minimum git version 1.9. This has been done to improve support for cloning git submodules.
For Pipelines using git materials, ignored files will also be cleaned from the working directory. The command has been changed to git clean -dffx instead of git clean -dff.
Please report any issues that you observe on GitHub issues.
19.2.0
Access Tokens
We have introduced support for personal access tokens. GoCD users can now generate tokens through the application or the Access Token API and use them to access the GoCD APIs rather than passing their username & password. The tokens inherit the privileges of the user who created them.
Personal Access Token:
Access Token Management
To know more about about Access Tokens click here.
Github Oauth, GitLab Oauth and LDAP authorization plugins are migrated to authorization extension v2 to support access token based authentication for APIs. Please provide feedback/ideas by opening a GitHub issue on respective repository.
Google Oauth plugin is upgraded to use authorization extension v2 however it does not have support for access token based API authentication.
Improved pipeline pause information
Paused pipelines now show the time at which they were paused, along with the reason for pausing.
New User Management Page
We have rewritten the User summary page, now known as User Management, to improve the user experience. Please provide feedback / ideas by opening a GitHub issue
Config Repo Improvements
b2c6384 - Reparse and merge ConfigRepos on any change in Config Repo configuration. (#5792)
ed02069 - Allow users to configure empty secure environment variables.
738f763 - Better error messages on Config Repo SPA in case of invalid ID.
d9d3c0a - Expand the Config Repo panels that are in an error state. (#5650)
#5756 - Added support to add global SCMs through config repo.
32cfcc5 - Introduced Authorization Extension version 2.
Other Improvements
3317123 - Show maintenance mode updated by timestamp along with date. (#5786)
2b64f3f - Better error messages on plugins page when an installed plugin is incompatible with the GoCD server. (#5614)
6a560ee - Display pause timestamp on the dashboard when a pipeline is paused. (#5719)
2665b54 - Show agents assigned to environments via config repository. (#5761)
3317123 - Added time stamp for the last triggered maintenance mode. (#5786)
Bug fixes
9a1eaf3 - Do not remove MaterialHealthStateScope for Config Repo materials. (#5651)
ba49547 - Disable job settings link for pipelines defined in Config Repo on elastic profiles page. (#5604)
3f2fc49 - Made status report button state on elastic profiles page consistent with the status report button on plugins page. (#5776)
6c4da91 - Fixed environments api version 2 etag generation issue. (#5807)
38e68d0 - Render console log containing new line character ("\n"). (#5037)
#5705 - Fix for high CPU usage on console logs/tests page.
#5897 - Killing agent via stop command honors the process ID.
#5788 - Fixed back button navigation on dashboard.
New Deprecations
The Fedora 28 based docker image for gocd agent has been deprecated and will not be built after June 2019 release of GoCD. This will be done as Fedora 28 will reach end-of-life in June 2019.
The Dashboard API v2 has been deprecated. This version of the API will be removed in a release scheduled for June 2019. Version 3 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
Deprecations
The elastic agent plugin extension version 3 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for Mar 2019. Plugin developers should use version 4 of the elastic agent plugin api to allow adding support for job completion request. The docker, docker swarm, kubernetes and ecs plugins have been migrated to the new versions, and users should upgrade their plugins to the latest version to see these new features.
The notification plugin extension version 3 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for Mar 2019. Plugin developers should use version 4 of the notification plugin api.
The analytics plugin extension version 1 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for Mar 2019. Plugin developers should use version 2 of the analytics plugin api.
The Get Server Info processor version 1 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for April 2019. Plugin developers should use version 2 of the Get Server Info processor.
The Dashboard API v1 has been deprecated. This version of the API will be removed in a release scheduled for March 2019. Version 2 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
Unversioned Get Stage Instance API has been deprecated in favor of Get Stage Instance API v1. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for April 2019.
The Users API v2 has been deprecated. This version of the API will be removed in a release scheduled for April 2019. Version 3 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
The System Admins API v1 has been deprecated. This version of the API will be removed in a release scheduled for April 2019. Version 2 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
The Roles API v1 has been deprecated. This version of the API will be removed in a release scheduled for April 2019. Version 2 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
The Ubuntu 14.04 based docker image for gocd agent has been deprecated and will not be built after April 2019 release of GoCD. This will be done as Ubuntu 14.04 will reach end-of-life in April 2019.
The Alpine 3.6 based docker image for gocd agent has been deprecated and will not be built after May 2019 release of GoCD. This will be done as Alpine 3.6 will reach end-of-life in May 2019.
74e4e3c - Support for DES was deprecated as part of 18.7.0 release in favor of AES. The support for DES is removed as part of this release. Users who have defined encrypted values in their configuration repositories should update them to use AES encryption. (#5646)
Please report any issues that you observe on GitHub issues.
19.1.0
GoCD Maintenance mode
GoCD maintenance mode can be utilized by the GoCD system administrator to safely restart or upgrade the GoCD server without having any running jobs reschedule when the server is back up. Initiating maintenance mode will cause various sub-systems of GoCD to stop working making sure server is not performing any operation.
To know more about about GoCD Maintenance Mode click here.
Improved Pipeline as Code experience.
Continuing on the road towards improving GoCD's pipelines as code / config repositories experience, this release introduces the ability to export a GoCD pipeline to a format which can be used by the config repository plugins (for instance, YAML or JSON plugins). You can then check in these pipeline definitions to a repository and remove them from GoCD's config.
More improvements to this feature are in pipeline. Add your feedback or suggestions here
45aab5e - Show validation errors on config repo SPA. (#5711)
6c88929 - Performance improvement to loading multiple Config Repos on server restart. (#5663)
b851373 - Adding Server version information in v2 ServerInfoProcessor. (#5686)
Other Improvements
d6f7b49 - Allow user to override server keystore password using system environment. (#5592)
51919ab - Set extra properties for the agent, from server. (#5666)
143054f - Plugin Info request processor versioning. (#5654)
792ae61 - Show cancelled by on the dashboard on hovering over a stage. (#5683)
a06b497 - Improved performance of Envrionments API. (#5698)
Bug fixes
9a1eaf3 - Do not remove MaterialHealthStateScope for config repo materials. (#5651)
773b68d - Fix for header issue on edit pipeline. (#5596)
e6fd8f7 - Show error on delete when artifact store is referred in pipelines. (#5634)
90e2523 - Plugin settings modal show save failure error. (#5645)
ee08190 - Decrease z-index to make admin menu render on top of console controls. (#5659)
a9812de - Toggle TFS workspace location on agent. (#5427)
c647a96 - Artifact store delete message was not visible on error.
70f9448 - Updated clone auth config message to use newly created auth config id.
Deprecations
The elastic agent plugin extension version 3 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for Mar 2019. Plugin developers should use version 4 of the elastic agent plugin api to allow adding support for job completion request. The docker, docker swarm, kubernetes and ecs plugins have been migrated to the new versions, and users should upgrade their plugins to the latest version to see these new features.
The notification plugin extension version 3 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for Mar 2019. Plugin developers should use version 4 of the notification plugin api.
The analytics plugin extension version 1 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for Mar 2019. Plugin developers should use version 2 of the analytics plugin api.
The Get Server Info processor version 1 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for April 2019. Plugin developers should use version 2 of the Get Server Info processor.
The Dashboard API v1 has been deprecated. This version of the API will be removed in a release scheduled for March 2019. Version 2 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
Unversioned Get Stage Instance API has been deprecated in favor of Get Stage Instance API v1. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for April 2019.
The Users API v2 has been deprecated. This version of the API will be removed in a release scheduled for April 2019. Version 3 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
The System Admins API v1 has been deprecated. This version of the API will be removed in a release scheduled for April 2019. Version 2 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
The Roles API v1 has been deprecated. This version of the API will be removed in a release scheduled for April 2019. Version 2 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
The Ubuntu 14.04 based docker image for gocd agent has been deprecated and will not be built after April 2019 release of GoCD. This will be done as Ubuntu 14.04 will reach end-of-life in April 2019.
The Alpine 3.6 based docker image for gocd agent has been deprecated and will not be built after May 2019 release of GoCD. This will be done as Alpine 3.6 will reach end-of-life in May 2019.
74e4e3c - Support for DES was deprecated as part of 18.7.0 release in favor of AES.The support for DES is removed as part of this release. Users who have defined encrypted values in their configuration repositories should update them to use AES encryption. (#5646)
Please report any issues that you observe on GitHub issues.
18.12.0
Manage Config Repositories through UI
We have added a new Config Repositories page. This page lists existing config repos and allows CRUD (Create-Read-Update-Delete) operations for a config repo. This page has the ability to show errors and allows users to force a check of the repository.
UI/UX Improvements
The Elastic agent profiles page now provides the ability to view jobs configured for an elastic profile.
Admin Menu has been improved for better accessibility.
Other Improvements
0a15ede - Performance improvement to loading multiple Config Repos on server restart. (#5010)
df76be9 - GoCD Admins can now configure the server to set HSTS header as part of HTTPs response. (#5557) Refer docs for configuring the header.
We regularly fix security issues reported by security researchers. Upgrading to the latest release is always recommended. In this release, a security issue responsibly disclosed by Jake
and Imran Siddiqui was fixed.
Bug fixes
cb9ab57 - Fixed an issue where the first personalization tab showed all pipelines on page load. (#5512)
bbeebad - Fix for email notification not sent on job cancellation due to timeout. (#5370)
0efb7d0 - Allow javascript to be executed in the plugin settings modal. (#4797)
b00b026 - Fixed links pointing to pipeline dependency graph. (#5535)
Installer Changes
OSX installers are now bundled with adoptopenjdk JRE 8, commit 6814d48 - fixes an issue with Server and Agent not working on JRE >=9. (#3934)
Support for Java 11 was introduced in 18.10.0. Windows installers have been changed to bundle with OpenJDK 11.
Deprecations
With the introduction of AES for encryption/decryption in release 18.7.0, we are deprecating support for DES. Support for DES is retained to support DES cipher-texts configured in config-repos and will be available till the last release of GoCD for the year 2018. The Encryption API is updated to return a AES cipher-text, users are encouraged to update their DES cipher-texts in config-repos using this API.
The elastic agent plugin extension version 3 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for Mar 2019. Plugin developers should use version 4 of the elastic agent plugin api to allow adding support for job completion request. The docker, docker swarm, kubernetes and ecs plugins have been migrated to the new versions, and users should upgrade their plugins to the latest version to see these new features.
The notification plugin extension version 3 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for Mar 2019. Plugin developers should use version 4 of the notification plugin api.
The analytics plugin extension version 1 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for Mar 2019. Plugin developers should use version 2 of the analytics plugin api.
The Dashboard API v1 has been deprecated in this release. This version of the API will be removed in a release scheduled for March 2019. Version 2 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
Breaking Changes
Windows installers are now bundled with OpenJDK 11. In absence of 32 bit JDK distributions from OpenJDK we have stopped providing 32 bit windows installers from this release.
With this release there will be limited support for IE11. Visual bugs can be expected on this browser.
Contributors
Aditya Sood, Akshay Dewan, Ankit Srivastava, Aravind SV, Armin G Jazi, Bhupendrakumar Piprava, Chandrakanth Nagaraj, Ganesh S Patil, Huimin Li, Isabelle Carter, Jen Marley, Jyoti Singh, Ketan Padegaonkar, Kiera Radman, Kritika Singh, Louda Peña, Lubaina R, Mahesh Panchaksharaiah, Marques Lee, Naveen Bhaskar, Pranav Bansod, Rahul Pargaonkar, Rajiesh N, Sana Jahan, Steven Streisguth, Tomasz Setkowski, Varsha Varadarajan, Vishal Devgire, Vrushali Waykole
Note
A more comprehensive list of changes for this release can be found here.
Have ideas and want to contribute? Need some help getting started? We're here to help. Reach out to us at support@thoughtworks.com.
Please report any issues that you observe on GitHub issues.
18.11.0
Improvements
7203cb3 - Allow artifact plugins to introduce new environment variables to be used by subsequent tasks. (#5188)
Performance Improvements
In this release, users with ~100 or above agents will see a significant performance improvement on the agents page and when invoking the agents API. In 18.10, due to upgrading some libraries to support Java 9 (and beyond) there were some performance regressions with the agents page (and the agents API).
451cef0 - Improve performance of some pipeline lookups in the database by removing a cast operation.
dcf69b0 - Do not lookup pipelines by both label and counter, prefer a counter. (#5256)
f0d1a6e - Use byte arrays (instead of strings) to represent the config XML. This improves performance of some of the admin pages and also quickly renders large configuration XML.
With the introduction of AES for encryption/decryption in release 18.7.0, we are deprecating support for DES. Support for DES is retained to support DES cipher-texts configured in config-repos and will be available till the last release of GoCD for the year 2018. The Encryption API is updated to return an AES cipher-text and users are encouraged to update their DES cipher-texts in config-repos using this API.
The elastic agent plugin extension version 3 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for Mar 2019. Plugin developers should use version 4 of the elastic agent plugin api to allow adding support for job completion request. The docker, docker swarm, kubernetes and ecs plugins have been migrated to the new versions, and users should upgrade their plugins to the latest version to see these new features.
The notification plugin extension version 3 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for Mar 2019. Plugin developers should use version 4 of the notification plugin api.
The analytics plugin extension version 1 has been deprecated. This version will be removed in a release scheduled for Mar 2019. Plugin developers should use version 2 of the analytics plugin api.
Breaking Changes
The alpine 3.5 based docker image for GoCD agent has been removed since alpine 3.5 has reached end of life.
The Template Config API v3 has been removed. Version 4 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
The Pipeline Config API v5 has been removed. Version 6 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
The Feeds API for getting a Stage no longer supports the pipeline_label URL parameter. Users should use the pipeline_counter parameter instead.
Please report any issues that you observe on GitHub issues.
18.10.0
Support for Java 10 and 11
While we continue to support Java 8, GoCD has now added support for Java 10 and 11. With Oracle moving towards a 6 month cadence for newer releases we are evaluating the process to keep in sync with the new cadence. Watch this space for more information in the coming releases.
Environments Page
Originally the Environments page grouped the pipelines by environment with an option for admins to edit the environment. With the introduction of the new pipeline dashboard users have an option to group the pipelines by Pipeline Group or Environment.
With this release we have moved the environments page under the Admin tab. This page lists all the configured environments with an option to edit them.
Elastic Agent Extension V4
Upgraded the Elastic Agent Extension to Version 4. With this version GoCD notifies the plugin on completion of Job
run by an elastic agent.
69559f9 - Added support for referencing Environment Variable in Pipeline Label. (#5180)
1ed99a0 - Allow non-admins to view all analytics other than dashboard analytics. (#5237)
Bug fixes
7b83e68 - Validate fetch artifact config before save. (#5202)
9f17781 - Set status 503 when backup is in progress. (#5222)
fa31d58 - Fix for email notification filter not acknowledging 'Only if it contains my check-ins'. (#5238)
1cce495 - Fix ETag computation for DataSharing Settings API. (#5184)
0349a02 - Timer triggered pipelines are not scheduled on a standby server. (#5234)
Deprecations
The alpine 3.5 based docker image for gocd agent has been deprecated and will not be built after November 2018 release of GoCD. This will be done as alpine 3.5 will reach end-of-life in November 2018.
With the introduction of AES for encryption/decryption in release 18.7.0, we are deprecating support for DES. Support for DES is retained to support DES cipher-texts configured in config-repos and will be available till the last release of GoCD for the year 2018. The Encryption API is updated to return a AES cipher-text, users are encouraged to update their DES cipher-texts in config-repos using this API.
The Pipeline Config API v5 has been deprecated in release 18.7.0. This version of the API will be removed in a release scheduled for November 2018. Version 6 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
The Template Config API v3 has been deprecated in release 18.7.0. This version of the API will be removed in a release scheduled for November 2018. Version 4 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
The elastic agent plugin extension version 3 has been deprecated. This versions will be removed in a release scheduled for Mar 2019. Plugin developers should use version 4 of the elastic agent plugin api to allow adding support for job completion request. The docker, docker swarm, kubernetes and ecs plugins have been migrated to the new versions, and users should upgrade their plugins to the latest version to see these new features.
The notification plugin extension version 3 has been deprecated. This versions will be removed in a release scheduled for Mar 2019. Plugin developers should use version 4 of the notification plugin api.
The analytics plugin extension version 1 has been deprecated. This versions will be removed in a release scheduled for Mar 2019. Plugin developers should use version 2 of the analytics plugin api.
Breaking Changes
We have stopped building ubuntu 12.04 based docker image for gocd agent as ubuntu 12.04 is now end-of-life.
Contributors
Aditya Sood, Akshay Dewan, Ankit Srivastava, Aravind SV, Bhupendrakumar Piprava, Chandrakanth Nagaraj, Danilo Sato, Ganesh S Patil, Huimin Li, Isabelle Carter, Jen Marley, Jyoti Singh, Ketan Padegaonkar, Kiera Radman, Kosta Welke, Louda Peña, Lubaina R, Mahesh Panchaksharaiah, Marques Lee, Naveen Bhaskar, Pranav Bansod, Rahul Pargaonkar, Rajiesh N, Ravi Ranjan, Senthil R, Steven Streisguth, Tina Vinod, Varsha Varadarajan, Vishal Devgire
Note
A more comprehensive list of changes for this release can be found here.
Have ideas and want to contribute? Need some help getting started? We're here to help. Reach out to us at support@thoughtworks.com.
Please report any issues that you observe on GitHub issues.
18.9.0
Backups on a schedule
This release allows performing a backup on schedule. GoCD now allows executing a script once the backup completes. This feature removes the need for GoCD administrators to execute and monitor custom "cron-like" jobs to ensure that backups are completed.
For example: Users can now add the following snippet to the config XML to perform a backup once a night at 10pm on weekdays and call the /usr/local/bin/upload-to-s3 script after the backup is done:
Upgraded the Analytics Extension to Version 2. This version adds support for showing analytics on the Agents and Value Stream Map(VSM) page.
Notification Extension V4
Version 4 of the Notification Extension enchances the existing Stage Status notification message to include the material fingerprint. It also provides details of previous stage(if any) responsible for triggering the current stage.
Bug fixes
8e0966d - Fixed scroll behaviour of filter tabs on the dashboard when navigating using the tabs dropdown. (#5097)
0fdfe21 - Fix the search box width on the add/edit views modal on the dashboard.
Deprecations
The ubuntu 12.04 based docker image for gocd agent has been deprecated and will not be built in the upcoming releases of GoCD. This is done because ubuntu 12.04 is now end-of-life.
The alpine 3.5 based docker image for gocd agent has been deprecated and will not be built after November 2018 release of GoCD. This will be done as alpine 3.5 will reach end-of-life in November 2018.
With the introduction of AES for encryption/decryption in release 18.7.0, we are deprecating support for DES. Support for DES is retained to support DES cipher-texts configured in config-repos and will be available till the last release of GoCD for the year 2018. The Encryption API is updated to return a AES cipher-text, users are encouraged to update their DES cipher-texts in config-repos using this API.
The Pipeline Config API v5 has been deprecated in release 18.7.0. This version of the API will be removed in a release scheduled for October 2018. Version 6 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
The Template Config API v3 has been deprecated in release 18.7.0. This version of the API will be removed in a release scheduled for October 2018. Version 4 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
Please report any issues that you observe on GitHub issues.
18.8.0
Flexible & Personalized Dashboard
We have made several improvements to the pipeline view on the new dashboard to make it more personal and relevant to our users.
Group pipelines either by pipeline groups or environments
Create personalizations based on your preference
Make views more relevant by showing only those pipelines that are building or failed
Re-order views to your liking
Accessibility Improvements
We have made some accessibility improvements which makes it easier for people
using screenreaders to use the new dashboard.
Data Sharing Update
As of this release (18.8), GoCD collects information regarding jobs run by elastic agents and pipelines added through config repo. These metrics help us gauge the effectiveness of the pipeline as code feature and elastic agent plugins.
#4965 - Improve performance of config saves when config repositories are configured.
Breaking changes
GoCD is no longer an OAuth provider. This integration was primarily used for integration with Mingle and the commercial business-continuity addon. Users who have been using GoCD's OAuth provider for the commercial business-continuity addon should read the business-continuity release notes before upgrading their GoCD servers.
Bug fixes
d5fd967 - Fetch artifact task should support ./ as source directory for backward compatability. (#4810)
#4971 - Do not expose gocd server class-loader to a plugin.
#5020 - Request logging broken after loading indicator was introduced in version 18.7.0.
#3390 - Deleting pipeline config via API don't notify scheduleService to cancel job
dfa0d22 - Fixed config repo cloning using API. (#5013)
Deprecations
The ubuntu 12.04 based docker image for gocd agent has been deprecated and will not be built in the upcoming releases of GoCD. This is done because ubuntu 12.04 is now end-of-life.
The alpine 3.5 based docker image for gocd agent has been deprecated and will not be built after November 2018 release of GoCD. This will be done as alpine 3.5 will reach end-of-life in November 2018.
With the introduction of AES for encryption/decryption in release 18.7.0, we are deprecating support for DES. Support for DES is retained to support DES cipher-texts configured in config-repos and will be available till the last release of GoCD for the year 2018. The Encryption API is updated to return a AES cipher-text, users are encouraged to update their DES cipher-texts in config-repos using this API.
The Pipeline Config API v5 has been deprecated in release 18.7.0. This version of the API will be removed in a release scheduled for October 2018. Version 6 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
The Template Config API v3 has been deprecated in release 18.7.0. This version of the API will be removed in a release scheduled for October 2018. Version 4 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
Please report any issues that you observe on GitHub issues.
18.7.0
External Artifacts
Introduced support for publishing and fetching artifacts from an external artifacts store.
We have introduced a new Artifacts Plugin Extension for plugin authors to write plugins which support artifact stores of their choice.
Introduced Artifact Plugin for Docker Registry to store and fetch docker images from the docker registry.
Better encryption
We have moved towards using AES for encryption/decryption over DES. All DES cipher-text in cruise-config.xml will be migrated to AES cipher-text. Support for DES is retained to handle DES cipher-texts configured in config-repos. DES encryption is deprecated, check the deprecation notes for more details.
Data Sharing
GoCD now shares some (non-personally identifiable) information about the instance, to help improve the experience and performance. All GoCD system administrators will see a notification message about it and will have a chance to review the information sent and make a decision about it.
New Loading... screen
The GoCD server now starts up into a "Loading …" screen early on in the process. So, if you have scripts waiting on the port to be open, instead use the server health API, which will succeed with an HTTP status of 200 once the server is up. Till then, it'll fail with an HTTP status of 503.
These APIs have been replaced with a versioned API and users are encouraged to use these instead.
The Plugin Info API v3 deprecated in 18.3.0 has been removed in 18.7.0. Version 4 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
Deprecations
With the introduction of AES for encryption/decryption in this release, we are deprecating support for DES. Support for DES is retained to support DES cipher-texts configured in config-repos and will be available till the last release of GoCD for the year 2018. The Encryption API is updated to return a AES cipher-text, users are encouraged to update their DES cipher-texts in config-repos using this API.
The Pipeline Config API v5 has been deprecated as of this release. This version of the API will be removed in a release scheduled for October 2018. Version 6 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
The Template Config API v3 has been deprecated as of this release. This version of the API will be removed in a release scheduled for October 2018. Version 4 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
In order to move towards supporting JRE version 9 and upwards, this release upgrades several libraries used by GoCD, including spring, hibernate, mybatis. See #4785, #4749 and #4768.
Breaking changes
APIs now respond with an HTTP status code 403(Forbidden) instead of the 401(Unauthorized) when authenticated users are not authorized to view or perform operations on a resource.
URLs containing any un-normalized paths (/../, ./ and /.), semicolon (; and %3B), encoded forward-slash (%2F), backslash (\, %5C), encoded percent (%25) will be rejected.
The pipeline config API version 3 and version 4 have been removed. Please use version 5 of the pipeline config API.
The elastic agent plugin extension version 1 and (a development version 2) has been removed. Plugin developers should use version 3 of the elastic agent plugin api to allow adding support for agent status report and plugin status report. The docker, docker swarm, and ecs plugins have been migrated to the new versions, and users should upgrade their plugins to the latest version to see these new features. Users using ECS plugin >= 4.0.0, docker swarm plugin >= 3.0.0, docker plugin >= 0.9.0 and kubernetes elastic agent >= 1.0.0 need not upgrade.
Bug fixes
#4737 - Secure variables that were not masked in task plugins are now masked properly.
#4805 - Pipeline history page pagination was broken.
These APIs have been replaced with a versioned API and users are encouraged to use these instead.
The Plugin Info API v3 has been deprecated as part of 18.3.0. This version of the API will be removed in a release scheduled for July 2018. Version 4 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
Please report any issues that you observe on GitHub issues.
18.4.0
Previously, there was a warning about not upgrading to 18.4. In 18.5, an issue around pipelines created using the pipeline config API showing twice on the dashboard was fixed. We haven't been able to replicate issue #4723 around pipelines created using JSON and YAML plugins, we suspect it might be an issue with the individual's setup. [Updated: 2018 May 11, 11:45 UTC]
Performance fix
This release primarily addresses performance issue caused by a config save, which slows down several requests because of a long-running database query executed in order to update the dashboard.
We have performed some optimizations in order to significantly reduce the number of SQL calls executed. Read more about it #4706 - here and #4705 - here.
Improvements
#4664 - Improved logging on GoCD server when agent registration fails.
#4610 - Add an origin attribute on fetch task. The origin attribute indicates where to fetch the artifact from. For all artifacts fetched from the gocd server, the value is 'gocd'
These APIs have been replaced with a versioned API and users are encouraged to use these instead.
The pipeline config API version 3 and version 4 have been deprecated as part of 18.2.0 and will be removed in a release scheduled for June 2018. Version 5 of the pipeline config API has been introduced to add the new pipeline unlock behavior attribute (#3943).
The elastic agent plugin extension version 1 and (a development verion 2) has been deprecated. These versions will be removed in a release scheduled for June 2018. Plugin developers should use version 3 of the elastic agent plugin api to allow adding support for agent status report and plugin status report. The docker, docker swarm, and ecs plugins have been migrated to the new versions, and users should upgrade their plugins to the latest version to see these new features.
The Plugin Info API v3 has been deprecated as part of 18.3.0. This version of the API will be removed in a release scheduled for July 2018. Version 4 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
Please report any issues that you observe on GitHub issues.
18.3.0
New Dashboard Page out of Beta
After we released the improved GoCD Dashboard (beta) in 18.2.0, we made several bug fixes and performance improvements based on feedback from our users. The GoCD dashboard improves performance for large GoCD instances with thousands of pipelines. In 18.3.0, we have replaced the older version of the dashboard with this improved dashboard which will be available as the default option to all GoCD users.
Enhancements to GoCD's Plugin Architecture
We have been working on a few improvements to our plugin architecture.
Support for adding plugin alerts to GoCD's Errors and Warnings section:
GoCD provides an ability for plugins to add Error and Warning messages. These messages will show up along with the GoCD's own Errors and Warnings. Plugins now have an ability to notify users with any plugin error or warning messages which shows up in GoCD.
Multiple Extension Support for Plugins:
Plugins can now implement multiple extensions. This will allow plugin developers to create a single plugin to support multiple extensions which complement each other. E.g This would allow one to write a new GitHub PR workflow plugin with both SCM and Notification extensions.
The plugin info API v4 has been introduced to represent plugins which implement multiple extensions. The two changes are:
"type" is no longer at plugin level. It's at an extension level.
"extension_info" was an attribute. It's now a list called "extensions".
Notification Extension V3:
Introduced Version 3 of Notification Extension. This version adds a new message to notify agent state changes.
Analytics Extension Point:
There is a new analytics extension point which allows analytics to be embedded into GoCD. We are continuing to work on it and you'll hear more about it soon.
Docker Images
A new Docker image GoCD Agent is available for Debian 9.
Improvements
#4644 - Environments page no longer lists the pipeline instances, this page is only for listing the available environments and editing them.
#4617 - Ability to turn-off logging of JVM-args and Environment variables to STDERR on GoCD Agent and Server startup.
#4607 - Remove flash filter from agent remoting endpoint
#4278 - Change in Build and Test Artifact XML representation
#4559 - Upgraded Objenesis library to fix performance issues around object cloning.
These APIs have been replaced with a versioned API and users are encouraged to use these instead.
The pipeline config API version 3 and version 4 have been deprecated as part of 18.2.0 and will be removed in a release scheduled for June 2018. Version 5 of the pipeline config API has been introduced to add the new pipeline unlock behavior attribute (#3943).
The elastic agent plugin extension version 1 and (a development verion 2) has been deprecated. These versions will be removed in a release scheduled for June 2018. Plugin developers should use version 3 of the elastic agent plugin api to allow adding support for agent status report and plugin status report. The docker, docker swarm, and ecs plugins have been migrated to the new versions, and users should upgrade their plugins to the latest version to see these new features.
The Plugin Info API v3 has been deprecated as part of 18.3.0. This version of the API will be removed in a release scheduled for July 2018. Version 4 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
The Agent Docker Image for Debian 7 is deprecated as part of 18.3.0 and will be removed in a release scheduled for May 2018. Users should upgrade to a newer version of the Debian image.
Breaking changes
The old plugins page which was deprecated in 18.2.0 has been removed
Known Issues
There are a few known minor issues when triggering pipelines on the new dashboard:
#4647 - Trigger buttons do not get disabled if the pipeline was force triggered and material update is in progress
#4452 - Horizontal scroll appears in Trigger With Options Materials popup
#4481 - CCTray corner cases: NullPointerException because of a pipeline not being in the config when the dashboard looks to update itself.
There is a known issue with API authentication:
API requests that wait for a authentication challenge before sending the credentials in the Authorization header fail with 401.
This is due to a bug introduced in the pull request #4585 - 'SPAs - redirect to login page if unauthorized'.
The bug essentially responded with a 401 http response before the WWW-Authenticate header could be added. More details can be found in the github issue #4682.
Contributors
Aditya Sood, Akshay Dewan, Akshay Mayekar, Ankit Srivastava, Ankur K, Aravind SV, Bhupendrakumar Piprava, Christoph Burgmer, Ganesh S Patil, Isabelle Carter, John Eismeier, Jyoti Singh, Ketan Padegaonkar, Kiera Radman, Louda Peña, Lubaina R, Mahesh Panchaksharaiah, Marques Lee, Naveen Bhaskar, Rafael Nunes, Rajiesh N, Senthil R, Steven Streisguth, Ted Timmons, Tomasz Sętkowski, Varsha Varadarajan
Note
A more comprehensive list of changes for this release can be found here.
Have ideas and want to contribute? Need some help getting started? We're here to help. Reach out to us at support@thoughtworks.com.
Please report any issues that you observe on GitHub issues.
18.2.0
New Dashboard Page (Beta)
New Dashboard Page
This release of GoCD ships with a 'preview' version of the new dashboard page (can be accessed using '/go/dashboard'). This improves performance for large GoCD instances with thousands of pipelines. It does so by:
keeping track of the state of the dashboard in memory (instead of being pulled from the DB).
rendering the response as a JSON (instead of HTML). This improves the rendering time by several hundred times on the server.
a javascript based frontend that is several thousand times faster on large instances, reducing the CPU usage of your browser. Your laptop battery will thank you. :)
reduces the polling rate when the dashboard is shown in a browser tab that is hidden.
Please report any issues that you observe on GitHub issues. This new dashboard will replace the existing dashboard in one of the upcoming releases of GoCD.
To make it easier to see information about your elastic agent and check logs in case of issues, elastic agent plugins can now provide an elastic agent status report. This report is available from the agents page, and from the job detail page. Docker, Docker Swarm, and Amazon ECS plugins implement this status report feature.
Elastic Agent Plugin Status Report
Elastic Agent Plugin Status Report
To make it easier to see information about elastic agent cluster, elastic agent plugins can provide a report about all running agents and the state of the cluster. This report is available from the plugins page. Docker, Docker Swarm, and Amazon ECS plugins implement this status report feature.
The old pipeline schedule API has been deprecated and users should upgrade to the new API.
6dfa18f - Introduction of server health messages API. (#4256).
This endpoint will render the warnings and errors that were earlier visible only when clicking on the "errors and warnings" modal on the GoCD server
0353bb6 - Introduction of Template Authorization API. (#3081).
9c4829e - Support gitlab@ urls for gitlab webhooks. (#4211)
Many GitLab installations use gitlab@ as a git user. This was once a default user for GitLab installs. Due to this the urls for ssh connections from gitlab can include this user.
Improvements
Introduce environment variables GO_MATERIAL_HAS_CHANGED and GO_MATERIAL_${material name or dest}_HAS_CHANGED to indicate if materials have changed from the previous pipeline run, and if materials have changed, which materials have changed. Read more about these variables in the help documentation.
Docker images
We have introduced the GoCD Agent Docker in Docker image. This can be used to run the docker related tasks such as building a docker image, pushing to a registry etc. Advanced use-cases include containerizing the application and running tests using DInD.
With the introduction of the server health messages API, we can now show server health messages on some of the pages introduced in the last several releases, viz. roles, authorization configuration, agents, elastic profiles, plugin settings.
#3899 - Fixed an infinite redirect issue when logging in using web based authentication plugins
#3926 - Handle console logs better with utf-8 encoding
157f12d - Enforce http(s) URL scheme for tracking tools. (#4356)
This will add an http:// prefix to tracking tool links that do not start with http:// or https://.
The plugin settings request is supported for the SCM and Package repository extensions on the plugins SPA. The plugin settings that can be configured for scm and package repo plugins are made use of only on the server side.
Deprecations
As of release 18.2 the following (unversioned) APIs have been deprecated and will be removed in 18.5 (scheduled to be released in May 2018):
These APIs have been replaced with a versioned API and users are encouraged to use these instead.
The pipeline config API version 3 and version 4 have been deprecated and will be removed in 18.5 (scheduled to be released in May 2018). Version 5 of the pipeline config API has been introduced to add the new pipeline unlock behavior attribute (#3943).
The elastic agent api version 1 and (a development verion 2) has been deprecated. These versions will be removed in 18.5 (scheduled to be released in May 2018). Plugin developers should use version 3 of the elastic agent plugin api to allow adding support for agent status report and plugin status report. The docker, docker swarm, and ecs plugins have been migrated to the new versions, and users should upgrade their plugins to the latest version to see these new features.
Plugins upload form has been removed from the new plugins page. It is still available in the old plugins page, which will be removed in release 18.3.0 (scheduled to be released in March 2018).
Breaking changes
Version 1 of the users api has been removed. Version 2 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
Known issues
There are a few known issues when triggering pipelines using the trigger with options feature on the new dashboard:
#4488 - If for a material no revision selected on trigger with options, schedules with latest revision
#4489 - If invalid revision specified do not trigger pipeline
#4448 - Pipeline with lock behavior specified continues to be locked after run completion under certain conditions
Contributors
Akshay Dewan, Akshay Mayekar, Ankit Srivastava, Ankur K, Aravind SV, Bhupendrakumar Piprava, Charles Bryant, Christian Lövsund, Don Stewart, Ganesh S Patil, Isabelle Carter, Jyoti Singh, Ketan Padegaonkar, Kiera Radman, Louda Peña, Lubaina R, Mahesh Panchaksharaiah, Marques Lee, Naveen Bhaskar, Paul Thomas, Rajiesh N, Senthil R, Varsha Varadarajan
Note
A more comprehensive list of changes for this release can be found here.
Have ideas and want to contribute? Need some help getting started? We're here to help. Reach out to us at support@thoughtworks.com.
f9ad399 - Validate roles assigned to stage authorization on template update through API. (#4185) #4176
63d7d0f - Test artifacts configured using config-repo is uploaded to GoCD server's build artifacts' default location. (#4083) #4071
1442a09 - Get Pipeline Config API failed to find pipeline for remote configured pipelines. (#4010) #4008
addf343 - Fix path of logback-include.xml. (#4145)
d409d23 - Fix whitelist in configrepo hg material. (#4191)
8971a71 - Do not allow agent to register with duplicate elastic agent id. (#4133)
Docker Images
Published an updated GoCD Server and Agent docker image for the latest version of Alpine (3.7)
Breaking Changes
As of release 17.5, authentication plugin endpoints have been deprecated. Support for authentication plugin endpoints has been removed in 18.1 release. The following plugins will not work unless been migrated to use the Authorization Plugins endpoint:
23eb465 - Delete cruft for new jobs as they complete. (#4219)
This bug fix breaks jobs feed API. We will no longer render the environment variables, resources and build artifacts in the job xml api
Version 2 of the plugin info API which was deprecated in 17.9.0 release is removed in this release. Version 3 of the API is available.
The pipeline pause API now results in Conflict (HTTP 409) with an error if the pipeline is already paused.
The pipeline unpause API now results in Conflict (HTTP 409) with an error if the pipeline is already unpaused.
Deprecations
As of release 17.11, version 1 of the users API is deprecated. This version of the API will be removed in 18.2.0 release (scheduled to be released in February 2018). Version 2 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
Plugins upload form has been removed from the new plugins page. It is still available in the old plugins page, which will be removed in release 18.2 (scheduled to be released in February 2018).
979fa50 - Addition of pipeline count information to about page. (#3960)
Bug Fixes
ab1ccf8 - Fix config file validation to not use file system to validate paths. This caused issues in certain cases where the server working directories were using symlinks. (#4026) #3984
6660a1b - Show 'console log not available' error in build details page's console tab when console.log file is not available. (#3998) #3773#3650
e48d958 - Fixes console.log file not being available at server if websocket connection is closed while waiting for logs. (#3999) #3986
ee992e6 - Fixes issue in agent zip installers in which agents fail to register if their log directories' path have spaces in them. (#3976) #3966
e6c9b3a - Fixes issue with stale cache being used in CCtray which caused users associated with plugin-roles to not see pipelines which they were authorized to see otherwise. (#3955) #3954
449cbc3 - Allows overriding default Go server ports when using windows service. (#4038) #3982
Security Fixes
488712d - Token based approach for agent registration. (#4014)
Adds a new endpoint to get token from server in exchange of agent uuid. The token for a given agent is issued for unknown agents only - already registered or pending agents cannot request for a token.
Agent requests for a token before registration if required. This token is stored on agent's disk and reused for registration calls.
Note: As a result of this fix, Go-lang agents need to be updated to work with GoCD server versions 17.12 or higher, else the agent's registration would fail.
Golang agent users can follow up with the author on this issue.
Alternatives to using the VNC flag are mentioned in this comment.
Deprecations
As of release 17.11, version 1 of the users API is deprecated. This version of the API will be removed in 18.1.0 release (scheduled to be released in January 2018). Version 2 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
As of release 17.5, authentication plugin endpoints have been deprecated. Support for these plugins will be removed in 18.1 (scheduled to be released in January 2018). Plugin developers are encouraged to migrate their plugins to use the Authorization Plugins that were introduced. The following plugins are affected by this deprecation:
Plugins upload form has been removed from the new plugins page. It is still available in the old plugins page, which will be removed in release 18.2 (scheduled to be released in February 2018).
As of release 17.9, version 2 of the plugin info API is deprecated. This version of the API will be removed in 18.1.0 release (scheduled to be released in January 2018). Version 3 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
f501efc - Move over to logback from log4j for logging. (#3831)
Switching to logback solves a number of logging related issues such as #3588, #3557 and #3403
The users should now configure logging using corresponding logback.xml instead of log4j.properties for both server and agents (docs).
This has been marked as a breaking change since GoCD would no longer honour log4j.properties file. Users managing log4j.properties file externally would have to update their scripts to use the logback.xml instead.
Support for phusion based docker server and agent images have been removed this release. We provide support for the docker images for GoCD agents across the following operating systems - Alpine 3.5, CentOS 6 & 7 , Debian 7 & 8, Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04 & 16.04
Performance Fixes
eb7305e - Fixes memory leak issue in agent-bootstrapper/launcher caused by server upgrades. (#3792)
Bug Fixes
cef6649 - Fixes a race condition during Job reschedule. (#3891)
a1f9945 - Improves checksums for agent jar(s) download. (#3884)
4db7e52 - Does not show the settings icon for config repo pipelines on VSM. (#3892) (#3881)
686c76d - Fixes issue with users authenticated using WebBasedAuthentication not assigned the right permissions. (#3878)
API Changes
cba778c - Introduced health check API for Server. (#3912)
e4d041b - Introduced v2 of Users API to support bulk deletion. (#3720)
Docker Images
We have made a few changes to the GoCD Server (Changelog) and the GoCD Agent (Changelog) Docker images.
Deprecations
As of release 17.9, version 2 of the plugin info API is deprecated. This version of the API will be removed in 17.12.0 release (scheduled to be released in November 2017). Version 3 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
As of release 17.11, version 1 of the users API is deprecated. This version of the API will be removed in 18.1.0 release (scheduled to be released in January 2018). Version 2 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
As of release 17.5, authentication plugin endpoints have been deprecated. Support for these plugins will be removed in 18.1 (scheduled to be released in January 2018). Plugin developers are encouraged to migrate their plugins to use the Authorization Plugins that were introduced. The following plugins are affected by this deprecation:
With release 17.5.0 support for in-built password file and LDAP/AD authentication had been deprecated. In this release support for this has been removed in favour of the bundled LDAP and Password File plugins respectively.
Important: After the 17.9 release, we made an announcement asking users to hold off upgrading their GoCD instance. We found an issue (#3834) affecting a small set of users. This release provides a fix for the same.
Critical Bug Fixes
05598d8 - Unable to start the server after 17.9.0 upgrade. (#3834)
Other Changes
176ebc2 - Fix for no plugins visible after 17.9.0 upgrade. (#3829)
Sep 11 13:00 UTC 2017: We are investigating an issue (#3834) with upgrades affecting a small number of users. Please hold off on upgrading to 17.9.0 until further notice.
Improvements
928c585 - Grouping elastic profile by plugin ID. (#3772)
We have created an organized view of the elastic agent profiles. Now, you can view them by the type of elastic agent plugin (Docker Swarm, OpenStack, ECS etc.), making it easier to find a particular profile.
1c1f2fe - Administrators can choose to edit a Pipeline with one-click from the Value Stream Map.
4c9e3c9 - Removed memory leaks from agent bootstrapper.
GoCD agents are designed to automatically upgrade themselves when the GoCD server is upgraded. This requires the currently running agent to release all resources before exiting and handing over control to a newer version of the agent process. There were some file system resource and memory leaks that have been identified which affect versions of go-agent bootstrapper between 17.4 and 17.8. We recommend that users either upgrade their gocd server and agent versions to the latest version, or restart the agent process to release any memory and filesystem resources that may be locked by the agent process.
e538ba0 - Check if agent is disabled before job assignment.
d47180f - Addition of a few more fields to materials form which is used in creation of pipelines.
8f6cc6c - Send request headers from server to plugins.
0eab696 - Stage and job related warnings should not be logged for a rerun stage/job. (#3753)
8f66499 - Fixes select all bug on admin edit in environment page. (#3737)
793d198 - Redirect authenticated user to home page on re-authentication.
Docker Images
GoCD images make logs available to docker by writing them to STDOUT. Users can access the logs anytime by executing docker logs in both server and agent containers.
We've launched an updated GoCD Agent docker image for the latest version of Alpine (3.6)
Breaking Changes
If you are using the commercial Amazon ECS Elastic Agent Plugin, upgrading to GoCD 17.9.0 would require a plugin upgrade to V2.0.0.
Deprecations
As of release 17.9, version 2 of the plugin info API is deprecated. This version of the API will be removed in 17.12.0 release (scheduled to be released in December 2017). Version 3 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
As of release 17.5, authentication plugin endpoints have been deprecated. Support for this plugin will be removed in 18.1 (scheduled to be released in January 2018). Plugin developers are encouraged to migrate their plugins to use the Authorization Plugins that were introduced.
As of 17.5, support for in-built password file and LDAP/AD authentication have been deprecated. Support for these authentication mechanisms would be removed in 17.10 release (scheduled to be released in October 2017). Existing configuration will be automatically migrated to use the new in-built password file and LDAP/AD authentication plugins. No other actions necessary.
As of 17.8, the phusion based docker server and agent images are deprecated in favour of the new docker server and agent images. Support for the phusion images will be removed in 17.11.0 (scheduled to be released in November 2017). We provide support for the docker images for GoCD agents across the following operating systems - Alpine 3.5, CentOS 6 & 7 , Debian 7 & 8, Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04 & 16.04
Other Changes
dc39953 - Config repo change attribute "plugin" to "pluginId". (#3672)
3c9a8f1 - Addition of a toggle to make pipeline quick edit page as a default page. (#3722)
19210e4 - Always open console tab when job name is clicked. (#3742)
Contributors
Ankit Srivastava, Ankur K, Aravind SV, Bhupendrakumar Piprava, Emily Luke, Ganesh S Patil, Jyoti Singh, Ketan Padegaonkar, Louda Peña, Lubaina R, Mahesh Panchaksharaiah, Naveen Bhaskar, Pedro Carriço, Rajiesh N, Senthil R, Stephen Murby, Suzie Prince, Tim Brown, Varsha Varadarajan
Note
A more comprehensive list of changes for this release can be found here.
Have ideas and want to contribute? Need some help getting started? We're here to help. Reach out to us at support@thoughtworks.com.
ThoughtWorks now offers a new commercial plugin which allows you to run elastic agents on Amazon ECS. The plugin takes care of spinning up and shutting down EC2 instances based on the need of your deployment pipeline. For more information about this, click here.
Improvements
1ccb029 - Ensure order of auth_config is used to authenticate users. (#3608)
36d546e - Removed support for Team Foundation Server 2010. Users can continue to use GoCD with TFS 2012, 2013, 2015 and Visual Studio Team Services.
d7c4d16 - Display pause text in pipeline history. (#2784)
52ac924 - Save agent hostname and ip address as part of build history. This information will be displayed on the job details page for all kinds of agents. (#3368)
Docker Images
Some improvements have been made to reduce the size of the docker GoCD server image. Please check the changelog here.
Some improvements have been made to create slimmer docker GoCD agent images. Please check the changelog here.
We provide support for the docker images for GoCD agents across the following operating systems - Alpine 3.5, CentOS 6 & 7 , Debian 7 & 8, Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04 & 16.04
Deprecations
Features that become superseded or irrelevant become deprecated, and are scheduled to be removed in some timeframe.
The following features have been deprecated. Please note the timeframe of when they will be removed.
As of 17.5, support for in-built password file and LDAP/AD authentication have been deprecated. Support for these authentication mechanisms would be removed in 17.9 release (scheduled to be released in September 2017). Existing configuration will be automatically migrated to use the new in-built password file and LDAP/AD authentication plugins. No other action necessary.
As of 17.5, authentication plugin endpoints have been deprecated. Support for this plugin will be removed in 18.1 (scheduled to be released in January 2018). Plugin developers are encouraged to migrate their plugins to use the Authorization Plugins that were introduced.
As of 17.8, the phusion based docker server and agent images are deprecated in favour of the new docker server and agent images. Support for the phusion images will be removed in 17.11.0.
We provide support for the docker images for GoCD agents across the following operating systems - Alpine 3.5, CentOS 6 & 7 , Debian 7 & 8, Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04 & 16.04
Important: This release comes on the back of 17.6.0 as we have identified a critical security vulnerability with 17.5.0 and 17.6.0. If you are on 17.5.0 or 17.6.0, please upgrade immediately to this version to keep your GoCD server secure. We want to give sometime for users to upgrade before disclosing the details of the vulnerability.
17.6.0
Important
There has been a critical security vulnerability identified with this release, fixes for the same have been provided in 17.7.0. If you are on 17.6.0, please upgrade immediately to 17.7.0 to keep your GoCD sever and agent secure.
Security Fixes
This release has critical security fixes to prevent CSRF, XSS and Session hijacking exploits. We highly recommend users to upgrade to keep your GoCD server and agent secure.
Thanks 4cad for reporting these issues.
Improvements
42c681d - Added option to skip agent startup on windows. (#3577)
This adds a /START_AGENT=NO to prevent the agent service from starting up when performing a headless installation on windows. See the documentation for more details.
2c95a10 - Improve timestamp rendering on some pages. (#3574)
This improves the timestamp rendering on the job details, stage details and pipeline compare pages. You will now see timestamps in your local timezone.
9450dba - Add a "Rerun Failed" button to rerun failed jobs. (#3570)
The in-built password file authentication plugin now supports bcrypt, which is a stronger password hashing function. GoCD server administrators should migrate SHA1 passwords to use bcrypt instead.
API Enhancements
Introduced a GitHub webhook API to accept push events on a GitHub repository or repositories in a GitHub organization.
Bug Fixes
88f1678 - Disable trigger with options button for view user in the environments page. (#3602)
dba8212 - Javascript error when saving user preferences. (#3576)
30615dc - Reduce the amount of plugins that an agent downloads and initializes. (#3584)
This should reduce the amount of data an agent downloads when a plugin is installed, or the server is upgraded. This will also help reduce the amount of memory used by the GoCD agent process.
Breaking Changes
8dfb1a9 - Removed Environments Config API v1. (#3606)
Version 1 of the Environment Config API was deprecated in 17.3. Version 2 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
Deprecations
Features that become superseded or irrelevant become deprecated, and are scheduled to be removed in some timeframe.
The following features have been deprecated. Please note the timeframe of when they will be removed.
As of 17.5, support for in-built password file and LDAP/AD authentication have been deprecated. Support for these authentication mechanisms would be removed in 17.9 release (scheduled to be released in September 2017). Existing configuration will be automatically migrated to use the new in-built password file and LDAP/AD authentication plugins. No other action necessary.
The Authorization Plugin endpoints were introduced as an extension to the existing Authentication Plugin endpoints, with this Authentication Plugin endpoint were deprecated as of 17.5.0. Support for this plugin would be removed in 18.1 (scheduled to be release in January 2018). Plugin developers are encouraged to migrate their plugins to use the new Authorization Plugins.
There has been a critical security vulnerability identified with this release, fixes for the same have been provided in 17.7.0. If you are on 17.5.0, please upgrade immediately to 17.7.0 to keep your GoCD sever and agent secure.
Authorization Plugin
Authorization Plugin extension was released as beta in GoCD 17.2.0, over the last couple of releases there has been more work done around fine tuning the endpoint. With this release we are taking the Authorization Plugin endpoint out of beta.
Action required: Early adopters of this extension will have to update their plugins to handle the updated API calls before upgrading GoCD. Refer to the Authorization Plugin Endpoint documentation for the latest changes.
The built-in LDAP and password file based authentication mechanisms have been deprecated and disabled in favor of separate plugins which implement the new Authorization Plugin extensions. The new plugins provide more functionality, with the benefit of allowing users to customize the behavior of these plugins. These plugins are bundled with the GoCD server, so no action will be required from users. Existing passwordFile and ldap configuration would be migrated to make use of these plugins.
LDAP/AD authentication plugin
The bundled LDAP/AD authentication plugin will now allow users to connect to and authenticate with multiple LDAP/AD servers in their organizations. Early adopters of this plugin using the experimental build will have to make changes to their config. Refer to the plugin changelog to see the changes between experimental release to latest stable release.
Introduced a roles API that allows admins to manage user roles.
Bug Fixes
9cec83f - Stop very large file systems (EFS) from being identified as having no space. (#3426)
Large filesystems like EFS, have an amount of storage that exceeds what can be addressed with a java long type (263-1). Any storage space greater than 263-1, will be shown to be 263-1.
2b06534 - Pipeline not getting unlocked upon a successful run. (#3497)
Fixed a issue of pipelines not getting unlocked even upon a successful run of the last stage during a race condition.
26bfeab - Avoid catastrophic regex backtracking during config save. (#3551)
Fixed an issue to avoid catastrophic regex backtracking during xsd validation of custom task command.
2a21e7c - Using UTF-8 to read console to fix encoding issue. (#3486)
Version 2 of the Templates API was deprecated in 17.1. Version 3 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
Deprecations
Features that become superseded or irrelevant become deprecated, and are scheduled to be removed in some timeframe.
The following features have been deprecated. Please note the timeframe of when they will be removed.
Support for in-built password file and LDAP/AD authentication have been deprecated as of this release. Support for these authentication mechanisms would be removed in 17.9 release (scheduled to be released in September 2017).
As of release 17.3, version 1 of the Environment Config API was deprecated. This version of the API will be removed in 17.6 release (scheduled to be released in June 2017). Version 2 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
The Authorization Plugin endpoints were introduced as an extension to the existing Authentication Plugin endpoints, with this we are deprecating the Authentication Plugin endpoint. Support for this plugin would be removed in 18.1 (scheduled to be release in January 2018). Plugin developers are encouraged to migrate their plugins to use the new Authorization Plugins.
87b223c - Errors/warnings box in the header. (#3378)
b9e1c20 - Colored border to bottom of job details header. (#3408)
Authorization Plugin (Beta)
There has been more work done around fine tuning the Authorization Plugin endpoints, as part of this some of the plugin API calls have changed. Action required: Early adopters of this extension will have to update their plugins to handle the updated API calls before upgrading Go. Refer Authorization Plugin Endpoint documentation for the latest changes.
eddecb7 - Verify Connection API response has status, message and errors. (#3395)
Performance Improvements
11f19db - Moving pipeline state to a separate table which for now contains locked information about the pipeline. Read locks is held only if we are loading the state from db. (#3204)
Other Improvements
0ac7678 - Displaying pipeline schedule time as localtime on dashboard, environments page and pipeline-history page. Users can hover over it to see timezone information. (#3417)
d13f81a - Switch agent-bootstrapper to use the new logging mechanism. The bootstrapper now has its own agent-bootstrapper-log4j.properties file under the config directory. (#3267)
567820c - Switch agent-launcher to use the new logging mechanism. The launcher now has its own agent-launcher-log4j.properties file under the config directory.
b1af25f - Display plugin name instead of plugin id in the dropdown in the elastic agent profiles page. (#3324)
Bug Fixes
ba510ad - Server now checks if the elastic agent is brought up by the same plugin as was expected by the scheduled elastic job during assignment. (#3418)
b0f4359 - Handle pluggable task view when task plugin is missing. (#3320)
404002e - Render the elastic agent icon only if the plugin info exists for the elastic agent. (#3314)
#3267 - On GoCD agents installed on windows or if using the zip installers, logs will now be written to logs directory instead of the working directory. This would be a breaking change only if there are custom scripts relying on the logs location.
Deprecations
Features that become superseded or irrelevant become deprecated, and are scheduled to be removed in some timeframe.
The following features have been deprecated, along with the timeframe when they will be removed.
As of release 17.1, version 2 of the Templates API was deprecated. This version of the API will be removed in 17.5 release (scheduled to be released in April 2017). Version 3 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
As of release 17.3, version 1 of the Environment Config API was deprecated. This version of the API will be removed in 17.6 release (scheduled to be released in June 2017). Version 2 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
Docker Images and AMIs
The GoCD server docker image is now alpine based with support for volume mounts.
To find out what changed in the docker server image, please refer to the changelog.
You can download the docker images for GoCD agents across the following operating systems - Centos 6 & 7 , Debian 7 & 8, Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04 & 16.04
To find out what changed in the docker agent images, please refer to the changelog.
The old phusion based docker images have been moved, they can found under gocd-server-deprecated and gocd-agent-deprecated. We shall stop support for these images in release 17.7 (scheduled to be released in July 2017).
We have an Amazon Linux based AMI for the GoCD Server making it very simple to launch GoCD server on your AWS EC2 instance.
We have an Amazon Linux based AMI for a demo GoCD Server and Agent making it very simple to get started with GoCD on your AWS EC2 instance.
Feedback is appreciated. Please log your feedback or issues on github for the following -
There has been more work done around fine tuning the Authorization Plugin endpoints, as part of this some of the plugin API calls have changed. Action required: Early adopters of this extension will have to update their plugins to handle the updated API calls before upgrading Go. Refer Authorization Plugin Endpoint documentation for the latest changes.
Other Improvements
262c107 - Pipeline Quick Edit, disable edit until save completes. (#3266)
Bug Fixes
8224568 - This fixes 17.2.0 upgrade failures in cases where cruise_config xml had encrypted values with spaces. (#3244)
4db0550 - Agents page retain sort order across page refresh. (#3226)
73e0292 - Elastic Agents, fixed reduntant agent creation calls to the plugin. (#3193)
On GoCD servers installed on windows or if using the zip installers, logs will now be written to logs directory instead of the working directory. This would be a breaking change only if there are custom scripts relying on the logs location.
The gocd/gocd-server docker image now uses alpine as the base image. The phusion images are still supported for GoCD 17.3.0 and can be found at gocd-server-deprecated should you wish to use it.
The gocd/gocd-server docker image no longer recognizes the latest tag. Please use docker pull gocd/gocd-server:v17.3.0 instead.
The gocd/gocd-agent docker image no longer exists. We have a variety of agent images for different distributions. If you wish to continue with the old agent image, please use gocd-agent-deprecated instead.
Deprecations
Features that become superseded or irrelevant become deprecated, and are scheduled to be removed in some timeframe.
The following features have been deprecated, along with the timeframe when they will be removed.
As of release 17.1, version 2 of the Templates API was deprecated. This version of the API will be removed in 17.4 release (scheduled to be released in April 2017). Version 3 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
As of release 17.3, version 1 of the Environment Config API is deprecated. This version of the API will be removed in 17.6 release (scheduled to be released in June 2017). Version 2 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
Docker Images and AMIs
The GoCD server docker image is now alpine based with support for volume mounts, with this going forward there will be no more support for phusion based images.
You can download the docker images for GoCD agents across the following operating systems - Centos 6 & 7 , Debian 7 & 8, Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04 & 16.04
We have also introduced an Amazon Linux based AMI for the GoCD Server making it very simple to launch GoCD server on your AWS EC2 instance.
GoCD currently supports password-file, LDAP and plugin based authentication.
In addition to authentication, GoCD offers authorization by restricting certain operations to specific users and groups of users ("roles").
Without the use of authorization plugins, roles can only be managed through GoCD and it does not provide an ability to use roles defined in systems used for authentication (for example in LDAP groups). With this limitation, administrators need to configure roles in multiples places.
The introduction of the authorization plugin endpoint (Beta) allows GoCD to delegate both authentication and authorization of users to plugins. The plugins will have the flexibility to use any identity service providers like LDAP, Google, GitHub etc.
Authorization Plugin Endpoint (beta) documentation is available. We have built LDAP Authentication plugin using the Authorization Plugin Endpoint, this plugin supports only authentication. We would recommend developers to write plugins which support both authentication and authorization and provide us feedback to enhance this endpoint.
Feature Enhancements
c088435 - Template Authorization UI and API enhancements.
All pipeline group admins by default provided view permission to templates. Super admin can restrict this access.
Super admin can provide template view access to users/roles.
Allow template admins to delete templates via UI and API
Other Improvements
3b9f54b - Go server/agent services do not get started on a new installation for debian and rpm based installations in order to allow users to make configuration changes before starting them up. (#3119)
Bug Fixes
7ddf84e - User search functionality - Search through plugins implementing AuthenticationExtension. (#3107)
ad1a118 - Sort resources and environments alphabetically on agents page selector dropdown. (#3134)
Multiple UI fixes on the old and new themes.
Security Fixes
a837fc0 - Ensures passwords in git or hg material url's is masked before logging or using in server health message. (#3171)
Breaking changes
8f88269 - Removed support for API based plugins. (#3102)
Below is the list of plugins that will stop working in 17.2.0
As of release 16.12, version 2 of the Pipeline Config API was deprecated. Version 3 of the API is available going forward. Users are encouraged to use it.
As of release 16.12, version 1 of the Plugin Info API was deprecated. Version 2 of the API is available going forward. Users are encouraged to use it.
Stopped support for git versions older than 1.9.
As of release 16.12, git versions older than 1.9 were deprecated. Users are recommended to upgrade git on the GoCD server and agents (if git is used as a material). We are aware that the linux distributions have an older version of git installed by default. Please refer to this and/or this to upgrade git.
Deprecations
Features that become superseded or irrelevant become deprecated, and are scheduled to be removed in some timeframe.
The following features have been deprecated, along with the timeframe when they will be removed.
As of release 17.1, version 2 of the Templates API was deprecated. This version of the API will be removed in 17.4 release (scheduled to be released in April 2017). Version 3 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
Optimization to full config save through UI and API to give significant improvements in the config save time. Our performance runs show full config save times reduced by half.
Starting with the 17.1 release of GoCD, Server and Agents will only run with Java 8. Users are encouraged to upgrade to the latest release of GoCD with Java 8.
Windows installations of GoCD need not install Java 8 separately since the Windows installer comes bundled with a JRE. However this may require users to upgrade the agent installer on Windows.
If you have trouble while upgrading to Go version 17.1, please take a look at the
troubleshooting page in the
documentation.
7a48c1a - Removed GoCD OpenSocial Gadget (Card activity tab) and Pipeline Dashboard Widget in Mingle. (#1908)
As of release 16.12, the OpenSocial gadgets was deprecated. This feature is now removed because of a couple of reasons —
(a) there's not enough evidence of many users using this feature in a way that'll impact their usage of GoCD
(b) the underlying implementation framework (Apache Shindig) hasn't been maintained for quite some time and contained several security vulnerabilities.
7274d23 - Removed Version 2 and 3 of the Agents API. (#2984)
As of release 16.12, version 2 and version 3 of the Agents API was deprecated. Version 2 of Agents API was introduced in 15.3.0 and version 3 of the API was introduced in 16.8. These versions of the API have been removed in favor of version 4 of this API. This API is backward compatible, and users are encouraged to use it.
As of release 16.11, version 1 of the Templates API was deprecated. Users are encouraged to use Version 3 of the API which is backward compatible with Version 1.
f2ac6b1 - Removed support for text based API support log. (#2975)
The following features have been deprecated, along with the timeframe when they will be removed.
As of release 16.12, git versions older than 1.9 are deprecated. Support for git versions older than 1.9 will be stopped in 17.2 (scheduled to be released in February 2017). Users are recommended to upgrade git on the GoCD server and agents (if git is used as a material). We are aware that the linux distributions have an older version of git installed by default. Please refer to this and/or this to upgrade git.
As of release 16.12, version 1 of the Plugin Info API is deprecated. This version of the API will be removed in 17.2 release (scheduled to be released in Feb 2017). Version 2 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
As of release 17.1, version 2 of the Templates API is deprecated. This version of the API will be removed in 17.4 release (scheduled to be released in April 2017). Version 3 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
As of release 16.12, version 2 of the Pipeline Config API is deprecated. This version of the API will be removed in 17.2 release (scheduled to be released in Feb 2017). Version 3 of this API is backward compatible, and users are encouraged to use it.
As of release 16.7, Java API based Go Plugins have been deprecated. Support for running these plugins will be removed in 17.2 (scheduled to be released in February 2017). Plugin developers are encouraged to upgrade their plugins to use JSON message based plugin API. to build plugins.
Below is the list of plugins that will stop working in 17.2.
Note: The GoCD team has built a shim that allows migration of all plugins with minimal change. We are actively working with plugin authors to ensure that these plugins are migrated over in time for 17.2.
The entire application has been refreshed to sport a flat look.
If you have feedback or issues with the new look please log them at GitHub.
Agents Page
A brand new snappy and light-weight replacement for viewing and managing agents!
The old page is still available as a toggle.
If you have feedback or issues with the new agents page please log them at GitHub.
Elastic Agents
Elastic agents is now a fully supported feature in GoCD.
To be able to use elastic agents, you should install an existing elastic-agent plugin, or write your own. Once the plugin is installed you must configure an "elastic agent profile" that you can associate with the jobs that require elastic agents.
TFS Upgrade
We have upgraded to TEE SDK 14.0.3. Users will now be able to use GoCD with TFS 2012, 2013, 2015 and Visual Studio Team Services. Please file an issue if you're having issues connecting to TFS repositories. Earlier versions of TFS are no longer supported and may not work.
Pipeline Edit Link
Users can now directly navigate to the pipeline settings page from the stage and job detail page.
9aabf48 - Introduced version 2 of Plugin Info API to provide complete metadata for plugin type package-repository and icons for plugins that provide it.
Other Improvements
fddc9fe - Improve performance of downloading of agent jars on a server upgrade. (#2813)
5387e21 - Handling cleanup of agent and launcher jars from previous version of agent during an upgrade. (#2789)
b97b635 - Generate additional windows installers to be able to package 32 bit and 64 bit JRE.
There are two flavors of Server and Agent installers for Windows, one packaged with 64 bit JRE and the other with 32 bit JRE. 32-bit JREs only allow up-to 2GB of memory. Because large GoCD servers usually need more than 2GB of heap size, we recommend using a Server with 64 bit JRE. Agents should continue to use 32 bit JRE unless required.
b763d31 - Generate SHA-256 webserver certs instead of SHA-1. (#2842)
The self-signed web-server certificate that GoCD generates is now a SHA-256 certificate instead of a SHA-1 certificate. SHA1 certificates have been deprecated by most browser vendors and users will start to see a warning in their browsers.
Any new installations of GoCD will generate a SHA-256 certificate. For existing installations, users should remove the file config/keystore to allow GoCD to regenerate a new server certificate. Depending on your end-to-end transport security settings you may need to configure the -rootCertFile argument to the GoCD agent.
Bug Fixes
b34da2d - Bug fixes to ensure that git gc on the config repository works as expected.
a34c6dc - Allow dots in the repository and package id. (#2844)
Miscellaneous fixes to the new quick edit and agents pages.
5052154 - Removed Pipeline Config API V1. This API was deprecated since 16.7 and has been replaced with version 3. Version 3 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
Microsoft Internet Explorer versions older than 11 are no longer supported. Please use IE 11 or higher. Microsoft Edge is recommended.
Deprecations
Features that become superseded or irrelevant become deprecated, and are scheduled to be removed in some timeframe.
The following features have been deprecated, along with the timeframe when they will be removed.
We shall be stopping support for git versions older than 1.9 in three months time (Feb 2017). Users are recommended to upgrade git on the GoCD server and agents (if git is used as a material). We are aware that the linux distributions have an older version of git installed by default. Please refer to this and/or this to upgrade git.
The GoCD api support page http://your-server:8153/go/api/support supports JSON and plain-text outputs. JSON has been the default since release 16.6. We will be removing the plain-text output in release 17.1 (scheduled to be released in Jan 2017). It is much simpler to consume the JSON output than the plain-text output.
As of release 16.12, the OpenSocial gadgets have been deprecated. This feature will be removed in 17.1 (scheduled to be released in Jan 2017). This has been done for a few of reasons —
(a) there's not enough evidence of many users using this feature in a way that'll impact their usage of GoCD
(b) the underlying implementation framework (Apache Shindig) hasn't been maintained for quite some time and contain several security vulnerabilities.
As of release 16.12, version 1 of the Plugin Info API is deprecated. This version of the API will be removed in 17.2 release (scheduled to be released in Feb 2017). Version 2 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
As of release 16.11, version 1 of the Templates API is deprecated. This version of the API will be removed in 17.1 release (scheduled to be released in Jan 2017). Version 2 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
As of release 16.12, version 2 and version 3 of the Agents API is deprecated. Version 2 of Agents API was introduced in 15.3.0 and version 3 of the API was introduced in 16.8. These versions of the API will be removed in 17.1 release (scheduled to be released in Jan 2017). Version 4 of this API is backward compatible, and users are encouraged to use it.
As of release 16.5, Java 7 support was deprecated. Java 7 support will be removed in 17.1 release (scheduled to be released in January 2017). GoCD works great with Java 8, and users are encouraged to use it.
As of release 16.12, version 2 of the Pipeline Config API is deprecated. This version of the API will be removed in 17.2 release (scheduled to be released in Feb 2017). Version 3 of this API is backward compatible, and users are encouraged to use it.
As of release 16.7, Java API based Go Plugins have been deprecated. Support for running these plugins will be removed in 17.1 (scheduled to be released in January 2017). Plugin developers are encouraged to upgrade their plugins to use JSON message based plugin API. to build plugins.
Below is the list of plugins that will stop working in 17.1.
Note: The GoCD team has built a shim that allows migration of all plugins with minimal change. We are actively working with plugin authors to ensure that these plugins are migrated over in time for 17.1.
e3d3360 - Allow pipeline group admins to create or update SCMs.
d646cfc - Added a blank check for build tasks' attributes.
5a54b2b - Change current directory of agent's batch file in windows 8.
008f4f4 - Fix the checkbox to allow known users to login in server configuration page.
e49cac1 - Handling empty responses from package material plugins.
Breaking changes
No breaking changes in this release.
Deprecations
Features that become superseded or irrelevant become deprecated, and are scheduled to be removed in some timeframe.
The following features have been deprecated, along with the timeframe when they will be removed
As of release 16.11, version 1 of the Templates API is deprecated.
This version of the API will be removed in 17.1 release (scheduled to be released in January 2017).
Version 2 of the API is available, and users are encouraged to use it.
As of release 16.5, Java 7 support was deprecated.
Java 7 support will be removed in 17.1 release (scheduled to be released in January 2017).
GoCD works great with Java 8, and users are encouraged to use it.
As of release 16.7, version 1 of the Pipeline Config API was deprecated.
This version of the API will be removed in 16.10 release (scheduled to be released in Oct 2016).
Version 2 of this API is backward compatible, and users are encouraged to use it.
As of release 16.7, Java API based Go Plugins have been deprecated.
Support for running these plugins will be removed in 17.1 (scheduled to be released in January 2017).
Plugin developers are encouraged to upgrade their plugins to use JSON message based plugin API. to build plugins.
Below is the list of plugins that will stop working in 17.1, unless those changes are made.
This is a new page for managing agents, which should feel a lot more light weight and snappier than the existing agents page.
We would really appreciate your feedback to make this page better. If you notice any issues or bugs with this page, please submit a bug report on GitHub
How do I use this?
Click on the "Check out the new agents page" on the agents page that you're familiar with.
Known issues
#2735 - Agents Bulk update API: Enabling a pending agent returns 400 bad request
Improvements
53d0d42 - Show details about linux distribution flavors and versions. (#2608)
cc69476 - Filter for pipeline history view. (#2391)
API enhancements
687d454 - Added new API to manage pipeline templates. (#2233)
f8ab50a - Added PATCH support for environments update API, this will allow you to specify pipelines and agents that should be added and/or removed in a single API call.
09c864e - Added Agents API V4. This adds a 'build_details' property with relevant links to the job that is currently building on the agent.
Bug fixes
2d8ec07 - Spaces are not trimmed from environment variables. (#1411)
845ee9b - Tweak the agent registration protocol a bit. (#2558)
ee9cdae - Escape the jar URL to allow symbols such as # (needed when running GoCD on Mesos).
Security fixes
1f2a189 - Do not display the value of secure environment variable in templates view. (#2652)
Performance improvements
53ab276 - Removed an extra post merge validation. (#2594)
Breaking changes
No breaking changes in this release
Deprecations
Features that become superseded or irrelevant become deprecated, and are scheduled to be removed in some timeframe.
The following features have been deprecated, along with the timeframe when they will be removed
As of release 16.5, Java 7 support was deprecated.
Java 7 support will be removed in 17.1 release (scheduled to be released in January 2017).
GoCD works great with Java 8, and users are encouraged to use it.
As of release 16.7, version 1 of the Pipeline Config API was deprecated.
This version of the API will be removed in 16.10 release (scheduled to be released in Oct 2016).
Version 2 of this API is backward compatible, and users are encouraged to use it.
As of release 16.7, Java API based Go Plugins have been deprecated.
Support for running these plugins will be removed in 17.1 (scheduled to be released in January 2017).
Plugin developers are encouraged to upgrade their plugins to use JSON message based plugin API. to build plugins.
Below is the list of plugins that will stop working in 17.1, unless those changes are made.
Aravind SV, Ganesh S Patil, Juhi Jariwala, Ketan Padegaonkar, Mahesh Panchaksharaiah, Matt Devlin (Mdevlin4 on GitHub), Sumanth Kumar Mora, Naveen Bhaskar, Rajiesh Narayanan, Tim Anderegg, Tomasz Sętkowski, Varsha Varadarajan, Venkata Jaswanth, Zabil Cheriya Maliackal
Currently, editing a pipeline means navigating through multiple pages (and page refreshes), for modifying stages, jobs with tabs for options and environment variables, etc. Quick edit to make it smoother.
With this feature, you can change a pipeline's materials/stages/jobs/tasks simultaneously and update it as single operation. This feature also uses the new pipeline config API to make your configuration changes quicker.
How do I use this?
Click on "Quick Edit" button on the pipeline edit page.
Click on "Normal Edit" button to get back to old edit page.
Why is this beta?
We are working on adding few missing features like:
dc78601 - Added validation of the encryptedPassword attribute of password aware materials - SVN, P4, TFS.
Security Fixes
faa6a2a - Removed displaying url's from the not found page. (#2584)
ca7ff9c - Changed the package material check-connection request from GET to POST. (#2550)
Deprecations
Features that become superseded or irrelevant become deprecated, and are scheduled to be removed in some timeframe.
The following features have been deprecated, along with the timeframe when they will be removed
As of release 16.5, Java 7 support was deprecated.
Java 7 support will be removed in 17.1 release (scheduled to be released in January 2017).
GoCD works great with Java 8, and users are encouraged to use it.
As of release 16.7, version 1 of the Pipeline Config API was deprecated.
This version of the API will be removed in 16.10 release (scheduled to be released in Oct 2016).
Version 2 of this API is backward compatible, and users are encouraged to use it.
As of release 16.7, Java API based Go Plugins have been deprecated.
Support for running these plugins will be removed in 17.1 (scheduled to be released in January 2017).
Plugin developers are encouraged to upgrade their plugins to use JSON message based plugin API. to build plugins.
Below is the list of plugins that will stop working in 17.1.
The new extension point allows the gocd server (with the help of plugins) to spin up and shut down agents on demand.
This extension point allows plugin developers to write plugins that allow GoCD to hook into and leverage various technologies
like Docker, AWS,
GCE, Kubernetes.
Developers can start building their own elastic agent plugins by forking the
skeleton plugin
and looking at a sample docker plugin
as an example reference implementation. The plugin API documentation can be found here.
API Enhancements
ee281ec - Added v3 of agents API to render (read-only) elastic agent attributes.
Security Fixes
d8cd812 - Disallowed directory listing of certain folders on the GoCD server.
d05746b - Added a friendlier error message on failing to send test email.
fb32102 - Disallowed Plugin Interact endpoint for non Authentication Plugins.
4d871a6 - Add cache control and pragma header to login page.
Breaking Changes
e7bb87b - Added a custom header to the Create Backup API.
914974d - Added a custom header for the Create Artifact API.
Performance fixes
670df79 - Re-use SSL connections by specifying a user principal as part of all remoting connections.
4c472e1 - Used fixed delay instead rate execution of agent ping thread.
Deprecations
Features that become superseded or irrelevant become deprecated, and are scheduled to be removed in some timeframe.
The following features have been deprecated, along with the timeframe when they will be removed
As of release 16.5, Java 7 support was deprecated.
Java 7 support will be removed in 17.1 release (scheduled to be released in January 2017).
GoCD works great with Java 8, and users are encouraged to use it.
As of release 16.7, version 1 of the Pipeline Config API was deprecated.
This version of the API will be removed in 16.10 release (scheduled to be released in Oct 2016).
Version 2 of this API is backward compatible, and users are encouraged to use it.
As of release 16.7, Java API based Go Plugins have been deprecated.
Support for running these plugins will be removed in 17.1 (scheduled to be released in January 2017).
Plugin developers are encouraged to upgrade their plugins to use JSON message based plugin API. to build plugins.
For GoCD developers
8806f6b - Added a vagrant file to allow local development and testing of GoCD.
Contributors
Aravind SV, Ganesh Patil, Jyoti Singh, Ken Mugrage, Ketan Padegaonkar, Mahesh Panchaksharaiah, Naveen Bhaskar, norcnorc, Rajiesh Narayanan, Sumanth M, Tomasz Setkowski, Varsha Varadarajan, Zabil Cheriya Maliackal
GoCD configuration under SCM (a.k.a Config repositories)
Manage pipeline configurations from one or more source-control repositories (think "git repository") and modify them externally.
You can find more details about it here,
and watch a quick demo of this feature here.
Known issues
Upgrading the agent to 16.7.0 before upgrading the server is known to cause issues. Users are advised to first upgrade the server to 16.7.0 before they upgrade the agent.
In case you are seeing issues with the agent not starting up after the upgrade, please see this comment.
d4a7639 - Support for updating whitelists using pipeline configuration API.
Security fixes
103340c - Upgraded all agent-server communication to use HTTPS by default. Read more about how to improve security of your GoCD setup.
3d2afad - Pluggable tasks secure configurations are encrypted before saving to xml configuration. (#903)
657feb3 - Added missing security headers on a few pages to activate web browser protection.
6909484 - Escaped the error message in the repositories page. (XSS).
Breaking changes
f58e900 - Removed Agents API v1, users should use version 2 of the. Agents API
5602048 - Removed old backup API, users should user version 1 of the. Backup API
Deprecations
Features that become superseded or irrelevant become deprecated, and are scheduled to be removed in some timeframe.
The following features have been deprecated, along with the timeframe when they will be removed
As of release 16.5, Java 7 support was deprecated.
Java 7 support will be removed in 17.1 release (scheduled to be released in January 2017).
GoCD works great with Java 8, and users are encouraged to use it.
As of release 16.7, version 1 of the Pipeline Config API was deprecated.
This version of the API will be removed in 16.10 release (scheduled to be released in Oct 2016).
Version 2 of this API is backward compatible, and users are encouraged to use it.
As of release 16.7, Java API based Go Plugins have been deprecated.
Support for running these plugins will be removed in 17.1 (scheduled to be released in January 2017).
Plugin developers are encouraged to upgrade their plugins to use JSON message based plugin API. to build plugins.
Below is the list of plugins that will stop working in 17.1.
#2314 - Handling the triggering of a pipeline for monolithic repositories using a whitelist.
For example, in a repository 'baz' with folders/projects 'foo/bar' and 'foo/qux' one
can trigger the pipeline only on changes to 'foo/bar' by configuring it as a whitelisted folder.
API Enhancements
#2240 - Added a URL endpoint to grab a snapshot of the GoCD config git repository.
For example, backup the config repo 'config-repository' using:
#2283 - Changed the existing API /api/support to return information in JSON format for easier parsing.
This end point also returns more information to identify performance bottlenecks.
#2239 - Added a version API to get the version of Go server.
Performance Improvements
#2248 - Improved page load performance across the board.
Deprecations
Features that become superseded or irrelevant become deprecated, and are scheduled to be removed in some timeframe.
The following features have been deprecated, along with the timeframe when they will be removed
As of release 16.5, Java 7 support was deprecated.
Java 7 support will be removed in 17.1 release (scheduled to be released in January 2017).
GoCD works great with Java 8, and users are encouraged to use it.
Upcoming Feature - Config in a repository
This release also adds foundation for reading pipeline configuration from the material's repository.
This feature is still in development and more details can be found
here.
Note
A more comprehensive list of changes for this release can be found here.
We've graduated from being Java 8 compatible to officially supporting it!
You can see our journey to this milestone
here.
GoCD will continue to support Java 7 till release 17.1 scheduled for January 2017. Post that, we will exclusively support Java 8. We recommend that you plan for and upgrade to Java 8 (for both GoCD server and agents) before the 17.1 release.
Performance
#2145 - Handle large modifications made to SCM materials without memory issues on the agent.
Materials
Fixes around handling git rebase
#2110 - Fix automatic build loop after a git rebase.
#2136 - Warnings on VSM if pipeline is built with incompatible revisions.
Deprecations
Features that become superseded or irrelevant become deprecated, and are scheduled to be removed in some timeframe.
The following features have been deprecated, along with the timeframe when they will be removed
As of release 16.5, Java 7 support is deprecated.
Java 7 support will be removed in 17.1 release (scheduled to be released in January 2017).
GoCD works great with Java 8, and users are encouraged to use it.
Note
A more comprehensive list of changes for this release can be found here.
Important: There are several security fixes to prevent XSS, CSRF and remote execution exploits. We highly recommend this upgrade to keep your GoCD server and agent secure.
Performance
#2106 - Handle eviction/expiry of composite-keys from GoCache.
Note
A more comprehensive list of changes for this release can be found here.
Contributors
Special thanks again to drrb for reporting and verifying all of the security vulnerabilities in this release.
Important: This release fixes several XSS and CSRF vulnerabilities which can be exploited in earlier versions. As the changes are extensive, patches for older releases will not be provided. We recommend all users to upgrade to this version to safeguard your GoCD server.
These security vulnerabilities were responsibly disclosed by drrb. We want to give users some time to upgrade, before providing more details about the vulnerabilities. We will work with drrb on the specifics of providing these details, soon.
The old java API-based plugin extensions for tasks and package repositories has been deprecated. Developers are encouraged to use the new JSON message-based APIs to author plugins.
These APIs will be removed in the September release of GoCD.
In light of downward trend in Solaris installers, we are now considering a timeline to stop providing Solaris installers for GoCD. Users can continue to use the generic zip files to run GoCD on Solaris. However the support for Solaris will be on a best-effort basis.
We will stop providing Solaris installers from the July release of GoCD.
Note
A more comprehensive list of changes for this release can be found here.
Contributors
Special thanks to drrb for reporting and verifying all of the security vulnerabilities in this release.
We are moving to a more regular release schedule, and so you might see releases with mostly issues fixed, while bigger level features are in progress across releases.
Important features and bug fixes in this release -
The comprehensive list of changes for this release can be found here.
Thanks!
Tomasz Setkowski, Sean Escriva for making this release of GoCD better!
15.3.1
What's new in GoCD 15.3.1
Important: 15.3.1 has been removed from the downloads page because it had an issue which could have caused problems during configuration save. The issue
mentioned is fixed in 16.1.0. The rest of the issues mentioned below are a part of 16.1.0 as well. We highly recommend upgrading to 16.1.0.
The comprehensive list of changes for this release can be found here.
15.3.0
New API for editing pipelines
A convenience JSON HAL compliant API for modifying pipelines. Check
api.gocd.org for usage details.
Get informed about updates
A new version of Go CD is released every few months, with this feature you'll now be notified about the latest supported release (if you are running an older version).
The comprehensive list of changes for this release can be found
here.
Thanks!
Tomasz Setkowski, Steve Hill, Alex Schwartz, Pooja R, Srinivas Upadhya, Xiao Li, Sandy Gordon, Arun Kumar, Björn Andersson, Federica Luraschi, Graham Christensen, Parker Shelton, Justin, Max Griffiths, Ashok Gowtham M, Massood, Ben Overmyer,James M. Greene, Ashwanth Kumar, Jakub Narloch, Alex Voitau, Joakim Wånggren, Paul Clarkin, X O and markuswehrle for making Go better.
15.2.0
Improvements to the console log
GoCD now supports rendering of ANSI color codes to show you much more beautiful console logs. Additionally, Go will automatically follow the logs as your build produces it, very much like your favorite terminal program.
Authentication end-point
With the newly exposed authentication end-point, Go users can now add custom authentication schemes through plugins. Read the blog
post for details.
Setup hostname when auto-registering agents
You can now specify a property agent.auto.register.hostname to setup the hostname when
auto-registering an agent.
API Improvements
Go's APIs are fairly old, have inconsistent and unpredictable content types (csv, xml, json, plain text).
Going forward, we would like to announce an ongoing effort to improve and migrate existing APIs to use something that is more modern, easy to discover, learn and build API clients for.
This new plugin endpoint introduced in 15.1 allows Go's already long list of source code materials to be extended without making changes to the core!
Support for this endpoint brought along support for GitHub pull requests, contributed by an external contributor @ashwanthkumar (so exciting!), with support from a Go core contributor, @srinivasupadhya.
You'll never need to wish that Go supported your favorite kind of material repository, you can implement support for it yourself!
Here's how the GitHub pull requests plugin looks in action (below). Read more about it in this blog post. Watch out for more improvements in the UI around this area.
New plugin endpoint for "Notifications"
Continuing on the path of opening up different parts of Go for extension, Go 15.1 introduces a new plugin endpoint for notifications. At this point, Go notifies the plugin of changes in the status of every stage, as it happens! This allows
for quite a lot of use cases, and we are excited to see plugins written against this endpoint even before release (yay, open source!).
@matt-richardson has written a really nice generic notification plugin, which sends build notifications to any websocket listener! @ashwanthkumar has written a great plugin to notify Slack about build status changes. @srinivasupadhya has written a couple of nice notification plugins to update pull request statuses in GitHub and Atlassian
Stash.
This contribution by @alexschwartz helps declutter the Go Dashboard, by allowing the pipeline label to be trimmed, per material. This feature is really useful when dealing with unwieldy 40 character
SHAs in pipelines with git/mercurial materials in them. This feature allows this:
Starting from Go 15.1, Go's console logs will have timestamps for every line. This is very useful for finding out long-running parts of tasks. Here's how it looks:
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This release is filled with many other notable features, changes and fixes, such as:
#848 - Support for Mercurial versions 2.0 and greater.
#781 - Post-commit hook for Mercurial (contribution by Go team alumnus, @sachinsudheendra).
#768 - A beta feature to upload plugins directly from within the Go plugins tab (contribution by @pwen and @pamo).
#700 - Run multiple agents as services - for Linux (contribution by @bernardn).
#400 - Large part of a long-pending upgrade from Jetty 6 to Jetty 9 (turned off, by default in 15.1 - Waiting for some performance fixes on Jetty's side).
#104 - Agents do not restart because of a server restart, any more (plugin sync issue fixed).
#725 - Pipeline instance information through APIs.
#941 - Small improvement around config save -Look for a lot more around this area soon!
#877 - Performance improvements around CCTray and APIs.
44 - Revise how new pipelines appear under 'Personalize'. Thanks @mmb for the contribution. (docs)
699 - Users can comment on pipeline run history. (docs) Note: This feature needs some improvements
listed here. Therefore the feature is turned 'off' for this release. To turn 'on' the feature, see details.
Thanks @mmb, @gajwani,@fkotsian & @bsnchancontribution.
Bug Fixes
716 - Multiline commit comments don't trigger notifications. Thanks @mythgarr for the contribution.
360 - Unable to 'clean working directory' when recursive symlinks are present. Also, improved logging for error scenario. Thanks @mmb & @gajwani for the contribution.
770 - 'Check connection' for package materials fails in 'new pipeline creation' wizard when there are many other task plugins registered.
Others
688 - Change command error stream prefix to STDERR. Thanks @mmb for the contribution.
769 - Remove unnecessary logging from test environment. Thanks @hammerdr for the contribution.
14.3.0
New Features
396 - Automate running 'X' instances of a particular job and achieve faster results by parallelization. (docs)
