Changelog

What’s New

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

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.

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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.

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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.

What’s New

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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.

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.

What’s New

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

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.

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.

What’s New

You can now navigate to your Config Editor and Project Settings from the Insights dashboard. Previously, you would have had to leave Insights and navigate to the dashboard/pipelines tab to access these settings. This update provides easier access to these settings.

What’s New

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

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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).

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.

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.

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.

What’s New

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

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.

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.

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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.

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

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.

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

What’s New

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

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.

What’s New

image: cimg/rust:1.43.0

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image: cimg/ruby:2.6.5

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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.

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image: cimg/openjdk:14.0

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image: cimg/go:1.13

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image: cimg/node:12.16

What’s New

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

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.

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.

What’s New

Xcode 11.4 (GM) image is released. Read more here.

What’s New

Xcode 11.4 image has been updated. Read more [here]https://discuss.circleci.com/t/xcode-11-4-updated-image/35474).

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URLs for onboarding pages have been consolidated for security and improved usability. They now follow this structure:

What’s New

URLs for Settings pages have been consolidated for security and improved usability. They now follow this structure:

What’s New

Scheduled workflows are now available as pipelines in both the new UI, and the API.

What’s New

Wait and queue times can now be accessed for each job in the new UI. Hover over the i next to the Duration at the top of the job details page, and the wait time and queue time appear as a tooltip. This information has been added to the new UI to make it easier to get information on edge-case failures in your pipelines.

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The new UI URL sub-domain structure has been updated for improved security and usability. The new structure makes it easier for developers to interact with URLs like breadcrumb items.

What’s New

Read more in our Xcode 11.4 Beta 3 image announcement.

What’s New

The Legacy Jobs view in the new UI provides an overview for all jobs, regardless of whether they have pipeline processing enabled. We are aiming to move all customers over to pipeline processing, and this view has been added to provide the information you need for all projects during this transition period. Access the Legacy Jobs view at the end of the Pipelines List page.

What’s New

Read the March update on CircleCI Docker Convenience Images here.