Digital.ai Release and Deploy 25.1 version is now live!
Key features of Release 25.1 include:Live deployments - enhance your GitOps deployment tracking capabilities. You can now monitor Flux CD deployments alongside your existing Digital.ai Deploy and Argo CD deployments - all from a single interface.
Backstage Plugin for Release - the new plugin for Backstage provides a unified view of the workflow catalog. You can also run workflows directly from the catalog, streamlining your workflow management within the Backstage UI.
Release task enhancements:
Create Release task now has an option to wait for the release to finish.
Gate task supports a Failing status to help you identify issues faster.
Lock task behavior updated to improve security and ownership. Only users with appropriate permissions can lock or unlock tasks.
Various UI & functionality improvements:
Folder top-menu navigation – quickly jump between folders
Related releases – view and navigate parent and sub-releases
Variables – pre-filling on the Create Release screen, duplicate variables, direct variable links, improved variable list filtering
Template import now supports YAML format
Copy task ID and close the task drawer using the ESC key
Activity Logs renamed to History, now includes: watchers, attachments (to tasks and releases), and quick links to variables
Multi-region HA cluster setup - ensure resilience with failover support. If one data center becomes unavailable, the system can switch to a standby location, minimizing disruption.
Developer & infrastructure enhancements:
Python and Go SDK changes
New API endpoint to retrieve task history
Folder template search API now supports filtering by title and tags
Secret encryption in configuration files
Trigger polling interval updated to 60 seconds
Cron-based scheduled trigger recovery
Task-specific script timeouts can now be configured per task type
Simplified Kubernetes installation: improved truststore setup, better air-gapped support using internal registries, and joint installation of Release Runner and OpenShift Operator via XL CLI
Breaking changes:
License support - only version 4 licenses will be valid for Release 25.1 version
Python SDK updates
End-of-life announcements:
AWS SDK for Java v1.x (for XL CLI Blueprints)
Task modal replaced with Task Drawer
Groovy Sandbox
Updated plugins include: Agility, Airflow, Ansible, Argo CD, AWS, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure DevOps, CheckmarxOne, Confluence, GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Microsoft Teams, Octopus, Remote Completion, Slack, SonarQube, VSTS/TFS, and Change and Risk Prediction (CRP).
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Key features of Deploy 25.1 include:z/OS File Deployments - deploying to z/OS systems is now simpler and more robust, streamlining mainframe deployments with reduced configuration effort.
New SSH-SFTP connection enables automatic text file conversion to EBCDIC (CP1047), eliminating the need for manual transcoding.
Placeholder replacement for z/OS files using configurable file pattern scanning.
Flexible file selection with built-in rules to skip binary files.
Developer & infrastructure enhancements:
XL CLI updates – xl generate now respects user permissions when exporting Configuration Items (CIs), improving security and control.
New XL CLI command – xl kube images helps manage Deploy/Release images for air-gapped or internal Docker environments.
Kubernetes blueprint flexibility – support for different image versions of Release and Deploy within a single blueprint.
Security improvements:
Secret encryption now supported in configuration files
SNI check configuration – control whether SSL communication requires domain name validation in certificates
Custom ports & TLS for SQL Server – support for database connections on custom ports and encrypted TLS connections using CA certificates.
Breaking change - License support - only version 4 licenses will be valid for Deploy 25.1 version.
End-of-life announcement - deprecation of AWS SDK for Java v1.x (for XL CLI Blueprints).
Updated plugins include: AWS, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure, Helm, Kubernetes, Liquibase, Podman, Terraform and WebSphere.
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