Every few months, the CircleCI product organization is going to round up some of the cool stuff we’ve created for you. Read on to learn about the new security, productivity, and speed features you can take advantage of.
Feb 2024
In this first edition, we’re excited to share the changes we think you’ll find most delightful. From security, to productivity and velocity, check out what’s launched and a sneak peek at what’s upcoming!
Security
Whether you use Cloud, Server or self-hosted runner, you’ll see enhancements this quarter. In our Server 4x release, the experience is now significantly more stable and cost-effective to run thanks to the new execution architecture. Config Policies are now fully supported on Server with the 4.3 release, allowing admins to govern their project configurations and specific conditions to allow for pipelines to trigger.
For anyone that uses self-hosted runners, machine runner 3.0 now has more uniform logs and metrics, and simplified setup and maintenance by offering convenient packages that allow you to easily integrate with your preferred cloud templating tool, withfaster feature enhancements to come.
All new plan types will now be able to set up user groups. This means admins can define specific permissions for their team, rather than depend on the inherited permissions from their version control system (VCS).
Productivity
Inbound webhook triggers allow teams to trigger a build based on a change to any source, not just from the VCS but also Docker Hub, Datadog, npm packaging registry and more. For example, you can now listen to every time a Docker image you rely on is updated so you can automate the testing/validation of that image without lifting a finger. This feature, now in open preview, means teams can be more productive and more aware of changes that might impact their work.
Our blog has a great article on a use case for this functionality to optimize MLOps pipelines, and you can read more in the docs.
Customers love the simplicity of using orbs. You can now deploy models using the Amazon SageMaker orb or use the updated Slack orb.
Velocity
Exciting news for our Scale plan customers, you now have access to three new GPU resource classes! CircleCI is the CI/CD of choice for building AI-enabled applications, with these new resources, users have noticed a 75% reduction in build times. Also in support of AI/ML building, our Linux CUDA images have been updated with AI/ML-specific software. Last but not least, anyone who uses the checkout command to check out code will notice a speed improvement.
We look forward to sharing big and small improvements that are in the works next time! If you want to stay in the know on what’s coming up for CircleCI, you can check out our Product Roadmap, or the announcements on CircleCI Discuss.
Here’s a longer list of product changes in the last few months:
Security
- Nov 7th Server 4.3.0, Server 4.3.1 release, Server 4.4 release
- Nov 7th Machine Runner 3.0, Runner 3.0.17
- Nov 30th Container runner now includes SSH rerun capability
- Jan 18th Project Settings UI uses SHA256 instead of MD5
- Nov 17th Audit logs now show who accessed and other details
Productivity
- Nov 17th Inbound webhooks
- Nov 2nd Tag triggered builds in GitHub App projects
- Dec 20th GitHub App triggers in UI can be deleted
- Nov 27th Amazon SageMaker orb (open preview)
- Dec 13th GitHub App and GitLab slack orb
- Jan 10th simplify project creation for GitHub App users
- Nov 30th Status badges for GitHub App and GitLab users
- Dec 6th Support for Docker24 tag
- Nov 7th Accessibility toggle to output to screen reader
- Jan 26th Double coded tests tab
Velocity
- Nov 16th New GPU compute available on scale plan
- Nov 17th Linux CUDA image includes AI/ML specific software
- Jan 25th Change to accelerate code checkout command
Upcoming
- Release Agent - upcoming changes in March 2024, read more in the docs.