Changelog

What’s New

The Insights landing page has been updated to provide users with detailed performance summaries for each project in an organization. With this update, we have also simplified the landing page to display performance per project and also made it easier for larger organizations to use.

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.

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.

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.

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.

What’s New

Test Insights is now available to all cloud customers in Open Preview. Test Insights is our most requested Insights feature, so we are excited to deliver this feature to users. With Test Insights, you will now be able to analyze test performance within your most recent executions and identify additional opportunities for test optimization.

For more information about how to access the Test Insights preview, refer to this Discuss page.

What’s New

The Context REST API was built to enable secure secrets rotation and move towards having RESTful public APIs. In order to enable GA, our teams made the following improvements:

What’s New in Release 2.19.12

Fixes

• Removed support for 1.0 builder graceful shutdown on auto-scaling events
  • This alleviates Python 2 security vulnerabilities

Known Issues

• On static (non-AWS) installations with NONE selected under storage driver settings, tests can be split only by file name or file size. If a user attempts to split tests by timing data, static instances will split them by file name instead.
• 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

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

The design on the usage summary on the Plan Usage page has been updated. The details shown are now based on the feature available on each plan type. This aligns the design across the different plan types to provide a more consistent user experience.

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.

What’s New

Trends data is now available at the organization level. Additionally, trends for the Mean Time To Recovery (MTTR), Throughput, and Duration metrics have been added. As a reminder, Trends provides relative benchmarks for the 24-hour, 7-day, and 30-day time windows against previous time windows.

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.

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.

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.

What’s New

Today we are enabling private orbs for our Scale customers.

What’s New

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

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.

What’s New

You will now see a faster checkout step in your CircleCI jobs. The built-in checkout step now does a git clone without checkout, followed by checking out the branch (overwriting existing) at the SHA received from the VCS provider. In addition to speeding up the checkouts, a number of Git checkout-related issues have been resolved, resulting in improved reliability of the checkout step.

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

We have initiated a preview of hosted Arm resources on CircleCI. Arm is an architecture that is quickly gaining traction for server workloads. Organizations choose Arm because of its faster performance, which results in faster workloads and significant cost savings compared to x86-based architectures. An essential piece of migrating workloads to Arm is having Arm support in your CI system. If you are on a usage-based plan, including the Free plan, you may request access to the Arm preview. We are making two arm64 resources available: arm.medium and arm.large.

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

If you have configurations set up to collect test metadata, you will now have an easier time understanding what tests may have failed. On each Job page with a failed test, there is now a box above the steps/tests/artifacts tabs with a summary of how many tests failed, how many tests ran, and links to the names of each test that failed. The links jump to the output of the test failure further down the page. There is also a copy button to the right of each name if you would like to copy the name and rerun it in your personal IDE.

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

Insights now persists the current branch when navigating from the pipelines or workflow runs pages. The dashboard displays the current/selected branch instead of defaulting to main. Similarly, on the Insights dashboard, changing workflows on a given branch no longer results in the branch reverting to main.

What’s New

You can now access Trends data on the Job Insights page. As a reminder, Trends provides relative benchmarks for the 24-hour, 7-day, and 30-day time windows against previous time windows.

What’s New in Release 2.19.11

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that didn’t allow more than 50 aliases in a configuration

Known Issues

• On static (non-AWS) installations with NONE selected under storage driver settings, tests can be split only by file name or file size. If a user attempts to split tests by timing data, static instances will split them by file name instead.
• 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

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

What’s New

You may now export the jobs table from the Insights dashboard as a CSV file. Downloaded reports can be used to run additional offline analysis or share with coworkers.

What’s New

Raw metric values are often difficult to interpret and perform actions on without context. The Trends feature provides additional context presenting a relative benchmark against previous performance, enabling you to retrieve more data and gain additional insight into your data. The workflow details page supports trends for the 24-hour, 7-day, and 30-day time windows.

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).

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

You will now be able to access a granular view of your network transfer and storage usage on the Plan Usage page. Storage consists of stored artifacts, workspaces and caches that are core to the CircleCI platform experience, while network captures data transfer such as retrieving a cache in a subsequent job or uploading the job’s artifacts. This change allows you to have more visibility, granularity and control over usage. For more information, including self-serve strategies for optimization, please refer to the Managing Network and Storage Use page for more information.

What’s New in Release 2.19.10

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused ‘git checkout’ to fail in go-git.
• Fixed a bug in the YAML parser in picard dispatcher to support config-str to have more than 50 YAML aliases.
• Fixed a bug where s3 retention policy deleted test results from an older job.
• Reduced the likelihood of ‘out-of-sequence’ commit statuses.
• General security updates.

Known Issues

• On static (non-AWS) installations with NONE selected under storage driver settings, tests can be split only by file name or file size. If a user attempts to split tests by timing data, static instances will split them by file name instead.
• 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

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

You can now add any combination of SSH key cipher / encoding. Specifically, we now support the ed25519 cipher, openssh encoding, and keys are not restricted to using the older (now non-default) PEM encoding. For more information, see the SSH keys guide in our docs.

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 in Release 2.19.09

Fixes

• Better handling of non-alphanumeric characters in authentication passwords for Docker executors. Fixed a bug that was preventing the use of ~ and ? in the Docker ID password field under the auth key.
• General security updates.

Known Issues

• On static (non-AWS) installations with NONE selected under storage driver settings, tests can be split only by file name or file size. If a user attempts to split tests by timing data, static instances will split them by file name instead.
• 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

The runner feature is now available to customers on the Scale plan. Using runners, you can run private workloads using your own infrastructure while also using CircleCI’s cloud offering. Organizations can also use runners to build on specialized hardware. Learn more about runners in the Runner Overview doc.

What’s New

The Scale plan is now available, providing improved support for enterprise organisations, including access to self-hosted runners, custom concurrency limits, our largest compute resouces and customizable annual billing options.

What’s New

We have improved the error experience on the Pipelines Dashaboard by surfacing the main error and collapsing the details. This allows for quick scan accessibility, reduces visual clutter, and makes for a more consumable format instead of the full stack trace.

What’s New

When a new organization has less than 20 pipeline runs within an project, a diagram is displayed to explain the concepts of job vs. workflow vs. pipeline.

What’s New

The “Pipelines” link in the CircleCI app sidebar, which leads to the cross-project Pipelines view, is now called the “Dashboard” for a clearer route back to viewing all your runs in one place.

What’s New

A selection of time filters have been added to the Insights workflow overview in the CircleCI app. You can now look at 24 hour, or 7/30/60/90 day time windows when reviewing your workflows Insights. Configurable time range is the most popular request on our ideas board, and we are excited to deliver a feature that gives you more granular control over your data.

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.