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Releases are now available in Global search as well as Recent activity. In addition, Releases can be marked as Favorite and tags can be assigned to it.
Releases are now stored in folders. For Customers upgrading from previous version, all Releases will be placed in FlexDeploy folder.
Release security is now inherited from parent folder, which allows for easier management of security permissions for release. Release can override or inherit security from parent folder(s), which is similar to folder and project security. There is no impact to Customers upgrading from previous versions of FlexDeploy.
Release Settings are now available. These settings as release permissions can be defined at the folder or release level. Release settings include various options like Snapshot name syntax, Auto complete package & release after deployment to production, options to automatically add content based on work items etc. See Release Settings for more details.
FLEXDEPLOY-4174 - Snapshot code committers are not allowed to approve gate. This is configured by release setting.
FLEXDEPLOY-6347 - Snapshot name can be customized now using
Snapshot Name
setting which is defined as Groovy script. Supported variables areCurrentDate
,ReleaseName
,SequenceNumber
(FLEXDEPLOY-8781)
Release content (project/packages) can be managed much more easily now. UX is similar to how package files are managed. This process also allows for searching packages of specific project easily (FLEXDEPLOY-2515).
Release content now can be managed by Release Manager role without any knowledge of necessary project/package. This is accomplished by adding Work Items to release and project/packages are added automatically to release content. This behavior is controlled by
Auto-Add Content Options
release setting, which allows adding content based on package work item mapping, new build or previous build associated with work item.Work Items are always added to release when new snapshots are created or new packages are added. This allows release manages to see list of work items being developed for specific release.
FLEXDEPLOY-4299 - removal of project/package from release content now presents confirmation dialog.
Completed releases can now be started if necessary.
Force End Complete option is now available to complete release, which will abort any running executions.
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