Changelog

Keep up to date with our latest
releases and enhancements.

Oct 11, 2024

Oct 11, 2024

Orb Security Setting Update    

Orbs are the leading method to abstract away shared aspects of your pipelines. They make it possible to simplify the complex, share, and maintain jobs and commands across your organization. For large organizations, private orbs cab provide efficiency and scale.

Oct 04, 2024

Oct 04, 2024

Evals Orb version 2.0.0    

With CircleCI’s Evals orb 1.x.x, users were able to configure CircleCI to orchestrate evaluations of their LLM-enabled applications within their CI pipeline.

Jul 10, 2024

Jul 10, 2024

macOS orb version 2.5.2 available    

The newest macOS orb version 2.5.2 resolves an intermittent issue where the wrong IP address was shown in the ssh command string after running a Rebuild with SSH job.

May 08, 2024

May 08, 2024

macOS orb version 2.5.0 available    

The newest macOS orb version 2.5.0 resolves an execution error, “AppleEvent timed out”, previously returned when using the add-safari-permissions command with Xcode 15.x images.

May 06, 2024

May 06, 2024

GCP-CLI orb version 3.2.0 available    

GCP-CLI orb version 3.2.0 has been published. This version introduces support for Windows.

May 03, 2024

May 03, 2024

Flutter orb v2.0.4    

Flutter orb version 2.0.4 resolves an error installing the flutter SDK caused by an incorrect environment variable reference.

Apr 30, 2024

Apr 30, 2024

Introduced an Evals Orb to orchestrate LLM evaluations    

The official CircleCI Evals Orb makes it easy to integrate LLM evaluations into a CI pipeline, and to review evaluation results without context switching. The output of evaluations run through the Evals Orb is stored in CircleCI, and is accessible as a job artifact and as a PR comment added automatically by CircleCI.

Nov 27, 2023

Nov 27, 2023

Amazon SageMaker integration for orchestrating model deployment    

Users can now orchestrate their model deployments across multiple environments through the Amazon SageMaker Orb. They can also track and manage their deployments from within the Releases UI.

Oct 16, 2023

Oct 16, 2023

Bitbucket private orb permissions    

Bitbucket org admins now have the option to enable additional CircleCI permissions for Bitbucket workspace members, for example view private orbs.

Dec 21, 2022

Dec 21, 2022

December Android cimg and machine images update    

What’s New

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

Jul 29, 2022

Jul 29, 2022

Windows Orb v5.0.0    

What’s New

The Windows Orb v5.0.0 migrates to orb tools 11, and sets Windows Server 2022 as the default.

Visit the Windows Orb page on the Developer Hub for more information.

Apr 26, 2022

Apr 26, 2022

Updated CLI commands for private orbs    

What’s New

The orb source, orb info, and orb/config validate CLI commands have been updated to work successfully with private orbs.

Jan 11, 2022

Jan 11, 2022

Free plan updates    

What’s New

We have made some exciting updates to our free plan, including giving teams more build minutes and access to our most popular features formerly only available on paid plans.

Dec 07, 2021

Dec 07, 2021

Private orbs UI    

What’s New

You can now interact with private orbs via the CircleCI web app. A list of your organization’s orbs has been added on the Organization Settings page, and new private orb details pages that open in the orb registry have also been added as part of this release. The orbs list shows all public and private orbs authored by your organization / in your organization’s namespace(s), while the private orb details pages open in the Orbs registry and are flagged with a new “private” badge. Please note you will only be able to see these pages if you are logged in and authenticated; if you are not logged in, you will receive a 404 error.

Oct 29, 2021

Oct 29, 2021

Orb information for private orbs    

What’s New

If you use the CircleCI CLI, you may now use the CLI to run orb information for private orbs.

Oct 27, 2021

Oct 27, 2021

Orbs list    

What’s New

Many customers have been asking for an easy way to manage the orbs they’ve authored, both public or private. To meet this need, we are rolling out a set of orbs usability enhancements inside the Circle app.

Sep 01, 2021

Sep 01, 2021

September feature updates    

Several new features have been released to improve the user experience when setting up configurations.

Jun 09, 2021

Jun 09, 2021

Private Orbs for All Paid Plans    

What’s New

Previously available to all of our Scale plan customers, we are now allowing all paid customers to access up to 3 Private Orbs. Note that Scale Plan customers will still have full access to an unlimited number of private orbs.

May 13, 2021

May 13, 2021

Updated Sample Config Templates    

What’s New

Some notable updates have been made to our sample configuration templates.

Apr 28, 2021

Apr 28, 2021

Dynamic config via Setup Workflows    

What’s New

Dynamic config via Setup workflows is now generally available for customers to use CircleCI jobs to generate pipeline parameters and configurations. These generated parameters and configurations are appended to the existing pipeline and enable customers to dynamically generate configurations based on runtime inputs. Since this functionality is already used in existing workflows/jobs structure, orbs can be used as part of setup workflows, which will enable you, and the community at large, to cover different dynamic configuration use cases by building orbs for different use cases.

Apr 14, 2021

Apr 14, 2021

First Party Orb Version Badge Service    

What’s New

Previously, CircleCI orb version badges were generated through shields.io, with data provided by a small service that a CircleCI CPE member managed. Although this process was not officially managed by CircleCI, with this update, this feature now consolidates the entire orb version badge generation process within CircleCI.

Mar 31, 2021

Mar 31, 2021

Release 3.0.0    

What’s New in Release 3.0.0

Server 3.0 is now generally available. The newest version of server offers the ability to scale under heavy workloads, all within your own Kubernetes cluster and private network, while still enjoying the full CircleCI cloud experience. Server 3.0 includes the latest CircleCI features, such as orbs, scheduled workflows, matrix jobs, and more. For existing customers interested in migrating from 2.19 to 3.x, contact your customer success manager. Server 3.0 will receive monthly patch releases and quarterly feature releases.

Feb 18, 2021

Feb 18, 2021

Private Orbs for Scale Customers    

What’s New

Today we are enabling private orbs for our Scale customers.

Aug 25, 2020

Aug 25, 2020

Developer Hub    

What’s New

We now offer a way for our user community to find all the best CI/CD config optimizations, migration guides/tools, and CircleCI docs, along with assets like CI configuration packages through CircleCI orbs and a newly designed Docker convenience image library, in one convenient place on our new developer hub. Check out the announcement here.

May 07, 2020

May 07, 2020

Help Icon now in New UI    

What’s New

There is now a “help” icon and button on the main navigation of the new UI. When expanded, this menu includes links to Docs, Discuss, Support, Premium Support, Orbs and Feature requests.

Apr 22, 2020

Apr 22, 2020

Slack Orb integration is Back in New UI Project Settings    

What’s New

Slack has been a powerful way for orgs to get status updates and custom alerts. We’ve brought it back in the new UI under Project Settings to aid users to solve their problems more efficiently while remaining in their Slack workflow.

Jan 30, 2020

Jan 30, 2020

Deploy to Windows Containers with the Updated Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Orb    

What’s New

With this update, CircleCI users can deploy directly from their CI/CD pipeline to Windows containers. Read Google’s announcement here.

Visit the GKE orb page for more information.

Sep 13, 2019

Sep 13, 2019

New Command to List and Unlist Orbs    

What’s New

To unlist your published orbs from the registry, use the new circleci orb unlist CLI command. For details, refer to the help page. Unlisted orbs remain world-readable when referenced by name but will not appear in the search results of the orb registry. Unlisted orbs can be listed again using the circleci orb unlist <namespace/orb> false command.

Feb 08, 2019

Feb 08, 2019

Orb Licensing    

What’s New

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

Dec 21, 2018

Dec 21, 2018

Orbs List Update    

What’s New

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

Nov 30, 2018

Nov 30, 2018

Orbs Inside Orbs    

What’s New

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

Nov 07, 2018

Nov 07, 2018

CircleCI Orbs General Availability    

What’s New

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

Sep 28, 2018

Sep 28, 2018

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

What’s New

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