Changelog

What’s New

The new Insights dashboard offers engineering teams access to actionable data for optimizing pipelines and getting even more out of CircleCI. With this feature, engineering teams will be better able to understand bottlenecks and identify optimization opportunities. Teams will be able to track workflow & job status, monitor duration and understand their pipeline throughput & mean time to recovery. Finally, Insights will serve to highlight the impact of more efficient CI/CD and to foster a better relationship with customers and provide a better experience. For more information, see the Using Insights guide.

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The config editor available during project setup now visually display mistakes and offers suggestions specific to CircleCI’s configuration schema.

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The new matrix stanza allows you to run a parameterized job multiple times with different arguments. Read more about matrix jobs here.

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API v2 enables new functionality, such as triggering and retrieving pipelines and workflows via the API. Read more about it in our blog post.

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CircleCI’s new usage-based pricing scheme expands your capabilities to optimize and scale CI/CD pipelines. Eliminate queuing, get full access to resources, optimize your compute power, while only paying for what you use. Read about our new pricing model and learn more about usage-based pricing in our blog post.

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• Experimental UI now available to everyone

To try it out, Enable Pipelines in your Project Settings and then click the opt-in banner available on any Job Detail page. We are actively monitoring feedback and bug reports through a poll that appears in the app. The data and commentary we receive directly impacts what we build next, so opt-in to be a part of making CircleCI better!

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CircleCI customers on Performance plans can now run jobs on Windows Server 2019 with popular dependencies— .NET support, Visual Studio, Windows SDK, Docker for Windows, as well as cross-platform workspaces, and caches. Learn more about Windows support here.

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CircleCI enables you to restrict environment variables at run time by adding security groups to contexts. Security groups are definied as GitHub teams. After a security group is added to a context, only members of that security group who are also CircleCI users may access or use the environment variables of the context. See the Restricting a Context documentation for details.

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Orbs are packages of CircleCI configuration shared across projects. Orbs help you simplify YAML configuration, enable you to build on top of CircleCI, and support sharing of standardized configurations across your projects.

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• CircleCI now integrates with the GitHub Checks API, so you can see the status of your CircleCI workflows under the Pull Request Checks tab in the GitHub UI. For more information, see CircleCI Docs.