Feature Title

Description

Azure OpenAI Support for the Deployment Genie

Added support for Azure OpenAI LLM integration in Deployment Genie for AI-assisted failure analysis.

See Configure the AI settings for more information.

Enhanced MCP tools to assist with analysis of deployment failures

Added the following MCP tools to enable quick analysis of deployment failures:

-       GetDeploymentFailedSteps: retrieves information on failed deployment steps.

-       GetStepOutput: retrieves step execution logs and output.

-       SearchStepOutputRegex: searches step output using RE2-protected regex patterns.

-       SearchStepOutputHangs: identifies long intervals between log output lines.

Seamlessly integrates with AI agents giving clients flexibility and enhances the developer experience.

See Using the Deploy MCP tools to learn more.

Added support for Security Groups in EntraID Authorization Realm

Added support for security groups in EntraID authorization realm for automatic group creation and assignment during OIDC login.

See Creating an OpenID Connect authorization realm for more details.

EntraID Bearer Token Authentication

Bearer token authentication now supported for Microsoft EntraID.

Amazon S3 Archiving Support

We now provide native support for archiving component versions to Amazon S3 buckets with configurable policies and IAM authentication.  This provides an alternative location for archiving artifacts which brings flexibility, reduces vendor lock-in, and provides IT cost savings.

To enable this, you will add s3 properties to the devops-deploy\server\conf\server\installed.properties file as shown below:

See Archiving version artifacts to Amazon S3 for more information.

Additional truststore support for the Deploy Server

Added support for an additional server truststore that is used alongside the existing JVM default truststore.  This helps in storing keys specific to webhooks, email, and other TLS clients which is beneficial to our customers.

See Keystores configuration for more details.

Deployment Reports Enhancements

The deployment reports are enhanced as follows:

-       Deployment Details report now supports selecting multiple applications and environments simultaneously as shown below:

-       Deployment Details report now includes a column for Snapshot and Description details as shown below:

-       Deployment Details report now has an Approver column to display approver information in the reports that are generated as shown below:

See Deployment reports to learn more.

Plugin Page Enhancements to highlight newer plugins available and to provide a link to the plugin documentation

The Plugin page is enhanced as follows:

-       A new View Documentation option is added to the Available Plugins pages for direct access to plugin documentation.

-       The Installed Plugins page now highlights plugins with newer versions available for upgrades as shown in the example below:

See Installing plug-ins from the Web UI for more details.

Message of the Day formatting

Added CommonMark markdown formatting support (bold, links, lists, headers, code blocks) to the Message of the Day system settings.

Here is an example of the CommonMark markdown usage in a message:

See System settings for more information.

To learn more about the CommonMark syntax, see https://commonmark.org/help/

New process step to Lock Snapshots in a component process

Added a new built-in step for locking snapshots in generic, application, and component processes to better accommodate deployment audit requirements for our customers.

See Creating snapshots for more details.

Added ability to export draft component processes

Added the ability to export draft component processes in JSON and YAML formats for review workflows.   A new Export button is available as shown below:

See Exporting specific component processes for more information.

New Create Tags Permission

We added a new ‘Create Tag’ permission found under Server Configuration to allow one to lock down which roles can create tags in the system.

There is an Edit Tags permission that can be enabled for a role as shown above.

See Tags for more details.

Dependent generic process exclusion

Added option to exclude dependent generic processes from export and import operations.

See Importing and exporting generic processes

Added security updates

The security updates are as follows:

-       Updated Apache Tomcat to 9.0.118

-       Updated log4j to 2.25.4

Container updates

For those looking to make the journey to containerization where the DevOps Deploy Server is installed in a OpenShift or Kubernetes cluster, the following updates were made to support our container deployments:

-       Enhanced air-gap deployment support for non-OpenShift platforms using Bastion host and the skopeo utility.

Feature Title

Description

Enhancement to Submit Job step to allow submission of JCL jobs in parallel (zOS Utility Plugin)

Updated the zOS Utility plugin step, Submit job, to allow a customer to submit multiple JCL jobs in parallel as shown below:

See Submitting JCL jobs in parallel for more details.

As datasets are deployed using the 'Deploy Datasets and USS Files' step, we can now update the USERID, RACF-ID, and timestamp stats shown in ISPF (zOS Utility Plugin)

As datasets are deployed using the ‘Deploy Datasets and USS Files’ step, we can now update the USERID and RACF-ID in ISPF stats to accurately reflect the user that updated that PDS member.   Further, we also update the timestamp to reflect the deploy time for the PDS update.

See Deploy Datasets and USS Files for more information.

Create a sub-version from another version stored in codestation

For incremental versions used for mainframe deployment in IBM DevOps Deploy, you can now create a sub-version from other versions stored in codestation.

See Create Sub-Version from Version for more details.