Changelog

Keep up to date with our latest
releases and enhancements.

Sep 16, 2021

Sep 16, 2021

Xcode 13 release candidate    

What’s New

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

Sep 13, 2021

Sep 13, 2021

Updated Windows executor images    

What’s New

This update includes updated executor images for Go version 1.17 and Node.JS 14.17.5. CircleCI updates Windows images monthly, which includes Microsoft’s latest patches, as well as renewing Visual Studio 30-day licenses.

Aug 06, 2021

Aug 06, 2021

Xcode 13 Beta 4    

What’s New

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

Aug 03, 2021

Aug 03, 2021

2021 Q3 Linux image bug fix    

What’s New

The Q3 linux image has been patched to resolve a recently discovered PyEnv issue.

For more information about this fix, please see the following Discuss post.

Jul 28, 2021

Jul 28, 2021

2021 Q3 Linux image updates    

What’s New

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

Jul 02, 2021

Jul 02, 2021

Xcode Updates    

What’s New

In order to keep up to date with changes to Xcode, the following updates have been made:

Jun 09, 2021

Jun 09, 2021

Xcode 12.5 Image Now Available    

What’s New

The Xcode 12.5 image, built with Big Sur, is now available on all CircleCI macOS resources. This enables you to build applications for the latest iOS, tvOS, and watchOS versions.

For more information, please refer to the following Discuss post, which can be found here.

Jun 04, 2021

Jun 04, 2021

Additional remote Docker version now available.    

What’s New

An additional version of Docker (v20.10.6) is now available for CircleCI’s remote Docker engine.

May 19, 2021

May 19, 2021

Empty State Improvement on Plan Usage UI    

What’s New

The empty state UI that is displayed when a billing period has been selected for which there has been no credit usage has been improved. This could be the case if you have not used CircleCI recently, or you have just set up your account to start using CircleCI.

Apr 30, 2021

Apr 30, 2021

Updated Windows Executor Images | NuGet    

What’s New

Some users of our Windows executor images may have experienced a recent issue with nuget restore failing to download packages from the nuget.org package source when running choco install before running nuget restore.

Apr 22, 2021

Apr 22, 2021

Updated Windows Executor Image    

What’s New

The Windows executor image has been updated for April, which includes the latest bug fixes and security patches from Microsoft.

Apr 15, 2021

Apr 15, 2021

Insights Metric Glossary + Docs Revamp    

What’s New

Users will now be able to access the Insights Metric Glossary. This feature provides detailed definitions and examples for Insights metrics including how they are calculated, allowing you to make the most of the insights dashboard. Additionally, users can now access a dedicated Insights section in the CircleCI documentation for easy access to detailed Insights content.

Mar 19, 2021

Mar 19, 2021

Android Machine Image    

What’s New

A new Android machine image has been added, with support for nested virtualization and running x86 emulators. With this new image, you can now run Android emulator-based UI tests and other types of builds that require nested virtualization, on CircleCI.

Mar 12, 2021

Mar 12, 2021

Overlay2 on Remote Docker jobs    

What’s New

As a part of a regular update, a change was made to make Remote Docker machines use Overlay2 as a storage driver. This change caused some jobs using Docker Layer Caching (DLC) to fail on COPY steps in Docker multi-stage builds. The issue should get automatically resolved as DLC volumes get rotated, however, if the issue persists, please open a new support ticket so we can help you address the issue.

Mar 11, 2021

Mar 11, 2021

Personal and Project API Tokens Documentation    

What’s New

In order to better support and improve security for customers, our teams have provided some best practices in our CircleCI documentation:

Mar 11, 2021

Mar 11, 2021

Context Environment Variable Rotation Documentation    

What’s New

In order to support and improve security for our customers, the CircleCI documentation has been updated to describe environment variable rotation and how it is important for security. Also included in this documentation update are instructions describing how you can rotate environment variables.

You can find detailed information about these changes here.

Feb 20, 2021

Feb 20, 2021

New Email Notifications for Impersonations    

What’s New

When support needs to impersonate your account to troubleshoot an issue you reported, you will now receive an email to notify you they are doing so.

Feb 20, 2021

Feb 20, 2021

New JSON Toggle in Configuration    

What’s New

You can now view your configuration in YAML with a side-by-side JSON view, enabling you to solve your configuration in a more familiar language.

Feb 19, 2021

Feb 19, 2021

Windows Executor Images Update    

What’s New

The most recent images for the Windows executor now include the .NET Core SDK 3.1. This means you will now have access to the latest version out-of-the-box, as the old Windows version has been deprecated.

Feb 18, 2021

Feb 18, 2021

Configuration Editor Expansion    

What’s New

CircleCI’s in-app configuration editor makes it quick and easy to resolve errors and write your config file. Features include:

Feb 10, 2021

Feb 10, 2021

New Remote Docker Versions    

What’s New

Two new versions of Remote Docker (v19.03.14 and v20.10.2) have been released and are now available for use.

Feb 04, 2021

Feb 04, 2021

Invite Team Button    

What’s New

On a project-specific Pipelines page, there is now a link where you can invite a new team member to the project. When you click this button, a modal pops-up where you can copy a link to the Project page. Any team member who then opens the copied link will auto-follow the project. This feature helps you to get more of your teammates onboard and building with you on CircleCI.

Feb 04, 2021

Feb 04, 2021

Test Output Boxes Now Black    

What’s New

When you navigate to the Tests tab of a job page with failing tests, the output boxes used to have a light grey background with black text. These output boxes now have a black background with white text to match the output boxes in the Steps tab. This change addresses requests from users who dislike reading long outputs on lighter backgrounds.

Feb 04, 2021

Feb 04, 2021

Tooltip Updates    

What’s New

We have introduced a few new tooltips to improve your experience on the platform:

Feb 01, 2021

Feb 01, 2021

Overlay2/XFS filesystem on all Docker jobs    

What’s New

As a part of a regular update, we are rolling out a change to the filesystem in the machines that all Docker executor jobs run on. The filesystem the Docker jobs use will now be XFS with the Overlay2 storage driver. Initial metrics of this change suggest faster and more reliable build times. You will not need to make any changes to take advantage of this update.

Feb 01, 2021

Feb 01, 2021

2021 Q1 Linux Image Updates    

What’s New

The software for the standard Linux Ubuntu 16.04 and 20.04 images has been upgraded to support amd64 and arm64 images. The ARM image specifically is still under preview with overall CircleCI ARM support. The standard images are GA releases.

Jan 29, 2021

Jan 29, 2021

Link to Config and Project Settings from Insights    

Jan 15, 2021

Jan 15, 2021

Concurrency and Parallelism Limits Update    

What’s New

Concurrency and parallelism limits have been increased from 40x to 80x for all new and existing Performance Plan customers.

Jan 08, 2021

Jan 08, 2021

SSH DSA Keys No Longer Accepted    

What’s New

You will now be unable to add SSH DSA keys to projects. Please note that SSH has defaulted to RSA keys for a long period of time and DSA keys have been deprecated. The error message that appears when trying to add a key of this type is unsupported key type: ssh-dss. If you experience this error, please use a more modern supported key type (RSA, ECDSA etc).

Dec 22, 2020

Dec 22, 2020

GPU Linux Machine Images    

What’s New

The GPU Linux machine images have been updated. Images for CUDA v10.2 and v11.1 are now available as ubuntu-1604-cuda-10.2:202012-01 and ubuntu-1604-cuda-11.1:202012-01.

Nov 26, 2020

Nov 26, 2020

CircleCI and GitHub Default Branch    

What’s New

If you change your default branch on GitHub, CircleCI will pick up that change and update the default branch for the project the next time you push some code. This is a bug fix – previously, changes to the default branch would not be picked up. This fix is retroactive and self-healing.

Nov 20, 2020

Nov 20, 2020

Legacy Jobs Redirect to Non-Legacy    

What’s New

When opening a job from the Legacy (jobs-based) run view, if the job has Pipeline data, it will now redirect from the legacy job view without pipeline data to the new UI view. Many cusomers use the legacy jobs-based view to find old SSH jobs, so this helps get to a page where they can cancel these jobs faster.

Nov 03, 2020

Nov 03, 2020

New PHP Docker Convenience Image    

What’s New

A new PHP convenience image has been published. For more infomation see our discuss post.

Oct 30, 2020

Oct 30, 2020

Docker Hub Authenticated Pulls    

What’s New

CircleCI has partnered with Docker to ensure that our users can continue to access Docker Hub without rate limits. As of November 1st 2020, with few exceptions, CircleCI customers should not be impacted by any rate limits when pulling images from Docker Hub. Learn more in our Docker Authenticated Pulls doc.

Oct 20, 2020

Oct 20, 2020

New Machine Images    

What’s New

New Ubuntu 16.04 and 20.04 Linux machine images are now available. For more information, and usage examples, see our discuss post.

Oct 09, 2020

Oct 09, 2020

Bitbucket API Deprecation Update    

What’s New

Bitbucket announced the deprecation of its /2.0/teams and most /2.0/users endpoints and some response fields as part of its transition to their new “workspaces” domain model and API. Workspaces will replace teams; both of these concepts map directly to orgs in CircleCI. There should be no impact to customers.

Sep 17, 2020

Sep 17, 2020

Release 2.19.07    

What’s New in Release 2.19.07

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug that was preventing authentication to China region ECR images in the docker executor.
  • Removed the recursive chown from startup of the fileserverd service. In instances of heavy usage this was causing the startup process to take a long time, or in some cases, startup was blocked.

Known Issues

  • If any changes have been made to your networking configuration from the default, you should run the following steps to ensure you can use SSH to inspect your builds (for further information on SSH reruns see the SSH Rerun Guide):
    • For customers using AWS, make sure that you have the latest Launch Configuration configured for Nomad clients, and that exiting Nomad clients were spun up using the Launch Configuration.
    • On each Nomad Client machine, create /etc/circleci/public-ipv4
    • This file should contain the public (if applicable) or private IP of the nomad client

Aug 11, 2020

Aug 11, 2020

Previous MacOS Trials No Longer Display as MacOS Plans in UI    

What’s New

Fixed a bug that was causing previous macOS trials to show as $0 plans on the Plan Overview page. Old trials are no longer visible in the UI.

Jul 16, 2020

Jul 16, 2020

Docker v19.03.12 Now Available for Remote Docker    

What’s New

If you use Remote Docker in your Pipelines (setup_remote_docker) you now have the option of choosing Docker v19.03.12. For more information see the Discuss post. For usage information, and a full list of available versions see the Remote Docker Docs

Jul 14, 2020

Jul 14, 2020

Next-Gen Elixir Docker Convenience Image Now Available    

What’s New

Next-gen Elixir docker image now available. For full details see the discuss post.

Jul 08, 2020

Jul 08, 2020

New Linux Machine Executor Image    

What’s New

New Ubuntu 16.04-based machine executor image, ubuntu-1604:202007-01 now available. For full details see the discuss post. For usage information see the Configuration Reference.

May 22, 2020

May 22, 2020

CircleCI’s Next-Gen Rust Convenience Image has been Released    

What’s New

image: cimg/rust:1.43.0

May 21, 2020

May 21, 2020

CircleCI’s Next-Gen Ruby Convenience Image has been Released    

What’s New

image: cimg/ruby:2.6.5

May 21, 2020

May 21, 2020

Docker v19.03.8 Now Available via Remote Docker    

What’s New

Docker v19.03.8 now available via Remote Docker (setup_remote_docker). Read more in the Discuss post and in the Docs Building Docker Images guide.

May 20, 2020

May 20, 2020

CircleCI’s next-gen OpenJDK convenience image has been released    

What’s New

image: cimg/openjdk:14.0

May 19, 2020

May 19, 2020

CircleCI’s next-gen Go convenience image has been released    

What’s New

image: cimg/go:1.13

May 18, 2020

May 18, 2020

CircleCI’s Next-Gen Node Convenience Image has been Released    

What’s New

image: cimg/node:12.16

May 01, 2020

May 01, 2020

Xcode 11.5 Beta 1 Image Released    

What’s New

Xcode 11.5 Beta 1 image has been released. Read more here.

Apr 23, 2020

Apr 23, 2020

New Machine Executor Image with Docker 19.03    

What’s New

A new Machine executor image ubuntu-1604:201903-01 is now availabe, with Docker 19.03 pre-installed. See this Discuss post for the list of the versions of core software also available in this image. Check out the Machine executor docs for instructions on how to use this image with the Machine executor.

Apr 15, 2020

Apr 15, 2020

Release 2.19.02    

What’s New in Release 2.19.02

Fixes

  • In the LDAP login flow we now use an anonymous form to POST LDAP auth state, rather than sending it as a GET parameter. Previously, when a user authenticated using LDAP, their username and password were sent in plaintext as part of a query parameter in a GET request. As requests are over HTTPS, this left usernames and passwords in request logs, etc. This issue is now fixed.