August - 2024
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As we move through August, Ozone is pushing boundaries with more powerful updates and features! The 1.2.31 update focuses on optimizing your release approval workflows, enhancing security visibility, and improving sync management. Whether you're fine-tuning your release processes, managing secrets, or ensuring seamless integration across tools, this release delivers robust solutions.
For insights on our previous updates, check out our earlier release notes here.
Optimize Your Pipeline Releases with New Approval & Integration Tools:
We’re excited to introduce several enhancements to streamline your release management. Our new Centralized Approval Catalog allows you to oversee and manage your workflows from a single location, ensuring complete visibility and control over your approval processes. We’ve also introduced Custom Approval Stages, which allow you to define and tailor approval stages to match your unique workflow requirements.
Additionally, our new Slack and Jira Integrations keep you informed with instant updates and seamless issue tracking, ensuring your team stays synchronized throughout the release cycle. To enhance your workflow oversight further, we’ve added a Real-time Sync Progress Display, giving you real-time visibility across all providers to manage deployments more effectively and address any issues promptly.
Helm Management:
In this release, we significantly improved Helm chart management, making your deployments more organized and efficient. With the introduction of Dedicated Helm Channels, you can now create and manage specific channels for your Helm charts, which helps structure your deployment processes.
This feature allows you to maintain a more organized approach to managing your charts. Furthermore, the new capability to Link Helm Charts Directly from these channels simplifies the deployment and tracking of your Helm charts across various environments, streamlining your workflow and improving control over your deployments
Enhanced Security:
We’re enhancing your security management with several updates designed to provide deeper insights and greater visibility.
We’ve also introduced New Security Views for pipelines, offering detailed insights into microservice security, pipeline runs, and release runs. These updates ensure you have unparalleled visibility and control over your security metrics, helping you maintain a robust security posture throughout your development lifecycle.
Real-time sync progress:
Stay on top of your workflows with Ozone’s enhanced Sync Progress Display! Now, real-time sync progress is visible for all providers, giving you greater transparency and control over every stage of your deployment process."
Boost Performance Testing with J-Meter:
In our ongoing efforts to enhance performance testing, we’re introducing the new J-Meter Task Integration. This update expands your testing capabilities by providing more robust options and deeper insights into your application’s performance under various conditions. With J-Meter, you can conduct more comprehensive load testing, helping you optimize application performance and ensure reliability across different scenarios.
Advanced Secret Management:
We’ve made significant improvements to our secret management system. We’ve renamed 'Variables' to 'Secrets' for better clarity and security. In addition, we’ve added support for Azure Key Store and GCP Secret Store, allowing you to easily manage sensitive data with your preferred secret store provider. This enhancement ensures a more secure and streamlined process for handling sensitive information, improving overall data protection.
Smoother Pipeline Management:
Our latest update brings Improved Response Formats for pipeline and release run statuses, enhancing the clarity and efficiency of tracking and managing your pipeline activities. With this update, you’ll find it easier to interpret response data, which facilitates better management of pipeline processes and release activities, ultimately leading to a more streamlined workflow.
Enhanced Pipeline Monitoring:
We’re introducing a new integration with the NewRelic Logging API to optimize your pipeline monitoring. This integration allows you to capture and analyze pipeline run logs more effectively, providing deeper insights into your pipeline performance. With enhanced visibility and the ability to troubleshoot and optimize workflows more easily, this feature helps ensure that your pipelines run smoothly and efficiently.
