The “Ask AI” option in the CircleCI web app is now functioning as expected.

The “Filter” button in the CircleCI web app overlapped with the “Pipelines” drop box on the “All Pipelines” page. This has been fixed.

There have been several updates to the CircleCI web app

All users are now directed to app.circleci.com/home when navigating to the CircleCI web app.

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Linux images now available for preview. The candidate images for amd64 and arm64 have been published as edge releases. Read the Discuss post.

The org picker on the left-hand nav of the CircleCI web app had an issue where it was not rendering properly when a user selected the “Everyone’s Pipelines” dropdown on the “All Pipelines” page. This has now been fixed.

For customers trying to find cost efficiencies in their runner environment we now support spot instances. The feature can also improve reliability when there are unexpected failures. It comes with some risks and we have documented risks and usage. This release also includes some enhancements and security fixes.

CircleCI’s VSCode extension had an issue where it would inconsistently auto-complete certain Windows resource classes & images. This has been fixed. Users do not need to update their VSCode Extension for the fix to be reflected.

Long org names are now truncated properly with an ellipses when shown in the left-hand nav’s org picker in the CircleCI web app.

Users getting started with Releases now have a new guided onboarding flow in the UI to make it easier to install and configure the Release Agent. This new experience simplifies some of the steps and provides instant feedback on whether steps have been successfully completed. With this improved onboarding experience, users can start seeing their releases more quickly.

To simplify the CircleCI web app’s user interface, we have removed the badge in the left-hand navigation that said “Follow x new” which indicated to users that new projects in their organization were available for following.

circleci.com/sign-up now has a “Sign up with Bitbucket” option.

New release of the CircleCI VSCode extension. This fixes an issue where SSH reruns initiated from the CircleCI VSCode extension would intermittently fail.

We have released changes to the CircleCI Web App including a new “User Homepage”, refreshed styling for our left-hand navigation bar, and a top navigation bar that provides shortcuts for user-level actions. To view these updates, log in or navigate directly to app.circleci.com.

For more details, visit our community forum.

A new range of IPs has been added to CircleCI’s macOS Cloud. See the latest IP ranges for macOS.

In the past CircleCI has shown up to three commits for a specific pull request in the UI and returned in “all commit_details” for the jobs API. The commits in the UI linked back to the commit history in the VCS so users could review the commits from the source.

New release of the CircleCI VSCode extension. This completes the fix of an issue with release 2.8.0 where workspace settings get updated without any action by the user.

If a user is logged in to the CircleCI web application, they will now see the correct version of circleci.com which includes a “Go to Application” button in the top-right corner. Previously, they would see a version of circleci.com that had “Sign up” and “Login” buttons in the top-right corner.

Bug Fixes

• fix for hardcoded smtp email in some services
• CVE fixes for web-ui deployment
• fix for duplicate volume in domain-service deployment

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.

Previously, the “Releases” tab would not show in the left-hand navigation of the CircleCI web app when a user had selected “Projects” if the user was viewing an organization that integrated with CircleCI’s GitHub App or GitLab. This has been resolved and the “Releases” tab always shows up now.

New release of the CircleCI VSCode extension. This fixes an issue with release 2.8.0 where workspace settings were updated without any action by the user.

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

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

The “rerun job with SSH” button is now disabled if no SSH keys are detected. Previously, attempting to “rerun job with SSH” would result in a standard rerun if no SSH keys were detected.

New release of the CircleCI VSCode extension. We are aware of an issue where workspace settings are being updated without any action by the user. We are in the process of resolving this issue.

Container Runner:

• Support the user key in the docker executor configuration. This allows you to execute task-agent with a different user than the image’s default. Due to limitations of the Kubernetes API, this feature has some caveats:
  • This key is only supported on the primary container. Service containers will continue to run as the default user.
  • Some user environment variables, such as $PATH, may be reset.
• Further reduction in the memory footprint of Container Runner. This includes a fix for a memory leak that could cause the container-agent Pod to use excess memory and unexpectedly crash under certain workloads.
• Fix for a bug that caused tokens for private AWS ECR images to be cached beyond their expiry, potentially causing image pull errors.

Both Machine and Container Runner:

• Optimize the download and storage caching of new task agent versions.

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.

Before upgrading

See the CircleCI server 4.5 release notes and upgrade guide for this release.

The copy in the email that a user receives when being invited to an organization that integrates with CircleCI’s GitHub App or GitLab has been updated for clarity.

The favicon for CircleCI’s web app should now always render a CircleCI icon.

Projects integrated through GitHub App now support Auto-Cancel Redundant Workflows.

Previously, when users tried to connect their VCS with a GitHub account that was already linked to a separate CircleCI account, they would encounter a status 500 error. This would manifest in the CircleCI UI as an inability to list repositories on the form to create a project and the screen appeared frozen. Users that run into this scenario will now no longer see a frozen screen and instead be redirected to a page where they see an error message telling them remediation steps.

When a newly onboarded user has no data for the “Insights” part of the CircleCI UI, we now do not show the Insights link in the dropdowns on the All Pipelines page

If a user stops the onboarding process at either the onboarding survey, the “Connect Code” page, or the “Create Project” page; when they return back to CircleCI they will resume at the step where they stopped instead of starting again from the first step in the flow.

We have removed support for Release Agent versions older than v1.0.0. Users who haven’t updated their agent will no longer see their components or releases in the UI until they upgrade to the latest version.

We will end support for all 1.x variants of runner launch agent on July 31st 2024. It has been replaced with Machine Runner 3.0. You can learn more about machine runner and migration here.

We are introducing parameter limits to improve responsiveness of the trigger pipeline API and limit potential abuse. The new limits will be as follows:

Open policy agent for config policies has been bumped from v0.54 to v0.63.

Note: If you are running CircleCI Server, you will need version 4.4.3 of server to take advantage of these runner features.

Change Log

• updated task agent version
• bug fixes for oidc-service

Changes:

• Add logs to capture previous rollout state
• Fix invalid steps bug
• Fix bug when executing commands when Argo Rollouts was missing

Get access to all your CircleCI usage data via our Usage API.

Changes:

• Added support for proprietary labels circleci.com/component-name and circleci.com/version that will replace app and version. Currently the old labels are still supported, but it is recommended to migrate to the new ones as soon as possible, since support for them will be dropped in an upcoming releases. NOTE When migrating to the new circleci.com/component-name and circleci.com/version labels, rolling back to a version with the old app and version labels is supported only if the deployment or rollout is managed by Helm.
• Fixed an issue with rollbacks failing when the deployment was managed by Argo Rollout and Helm was not being used.

Gitlab projects now support Auto-Cancel Redundant Workflows. Reducing spend and queuing for highly active projects. For more information on see our documentation.

Orgs that integrate with CircleCI’s GitHub App or GitLab had a check to ensure that the name being submitted did not already exist. We have modified this from being an exact check to a check that ignores the case.

For example, if an org named ‘test org’ has already been created, another org named ‘Test Org’ will not be permitted.

If a job name contains a “/” character (ie. “foo/bar”), CircleCI will correctly set the VCS commit status for the full job name as opposed to only the part after the “/”. This update applies to new projects created on or after April 5, 2024. Projects created before April 5, 2024 are not impacted.

If your project was created before April 5, 2024 and your job name has a “/” in its name, email sebastian@circleci.com to have the new behavior enabled for your project.

We have removed the ability to generate in-app invites for GitHub OAuth and Bitbucket integrated organizations. Users trying to join existing CircleCI organizations with a GitHub OAuth or Bitbucket integration will no longer need an invitation from an existing team member.

For more information on the updated steps, see our documentation.

We have optimized config compilation, with up to 40% improvement in compilation times for very large configs.

Following the adoption of HTTPS checkout in place of SSH-based checkout for projects that connect to GitHub App, the project creation page and the trigger creation page have been updated so users are no longer required to enter a SSH key.