DevOps Change Velocity release notes
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Summary of DevOps Change Velocity Release Notes - Australia Release
The ServiceNow® DevOps Change Velocity application centralizes your DevOps data visibility, automates and accelerates change processes, and provides insights to measure DevOps performance. The Australia release introduces several enhancements focused on integrations, security, deployment flexibility, and operational health monitoring.
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Key Features
- Enhanced JFrog Integration: Automatically gather evidence from JFrog and create change records seamlessly with improved integration that now supports secure bearer token authentication, aligning with JFrog's updated security policies.
- HTTP Proxy Support for Docker Deployments: Connect DevOps Change Velocity through HTTP proxy settings configured via environment variables, enabling smoother deployments in proxy server environments.
- Health Scan Improvements: Detect callback processing problems, incorrect access control rule associations, verify the presence of all DevOps tables and metadata, and confirm complete role inheritance for DevOps roles to maintain instance integrity.
- Auto-close Change Requests Without Additional Plugins: Change requests can be auto-closed without requiring the installation of the Change Management - State Model [Legacy] plugin, simplifying configuration.
- Jira Integration Security: Authenticate Jira connections using OAuth 2.0 with three-legged OAuth (3LO) for secure, delegated access.
- Bitbucket Cloud Authentication Update: Connect to Bitbucket Cloud using basic authentication with email and API tokens containing required scopes due to the deprecation of app passwords by Bitbucket.
Activation Information
DevOps Change Velocity is available through the ServiceNow Store. Customers must request installation from the store. The store also provides cumulative release notes and access to other available ServiceNow applications.
Related ServiceNow Applications
- Performance Analytics: Provides dashboards and KPI reporting for process optimization and service quality improvement.
- Change Management: Offers systematic control over change lifecycle to minimize disruptions to IT services.
- Agile Development: Manages and tracks software development lifecycle with an iterative, flexible approach.
- Risk Management: Supports continuous risk monitoring, structured workflows for risk assessments, and improves risk-based decision-making.
The ServiceNow® DevOps Change Velocity application improves visibility into your DevOps data in a single system, automates and accelerates change processes, and helps you gain insights to measure the performance of your DevOps environment. DevOps Change Velocity was enhanced and updated in the Australia release.
DevOps Change Velocity highlights for the Australia release
- Gather JFrog evidence seamlessly and create change records automatically.
- Connect to JFrog using the secure bearer token authentication.
- Connect to DevOps Change Velocity through HTTP proxy settings in your Docker deployment.
See DevOps Change Velocity for more information.
Changed in this release
- Enhanced JFrog integration with DevOps Change Velocity
- Gather JFrog evidence seamlessly and create change records automatically using the improved JFrog integration with DevOps Change Velocity.
- Bearer authentication in JFrog
- Connect to JFrog using the secure bearer token authentication to comply with JFrog’s updated security policies.
- HTTP proxy for Docker
- Connect to DevOps Change Velocity through HTTP proxy settings using environment variables in your Docker deployment for instances that run a proxy server.
- Health scan enhancements
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- Identify any callback processing issues in your instance.
- Identify any access control rule (ACL) that is incorrectly associated with a role in your instance.
- Verify whether all DevOps tables are present in your instance and confirm whether all metadata in sys_* tables is present.
- Verify whether all DevOps roles in your instance contain all expected roles, including inherited roles.
- Auto close without Change Management - State Model [Legacy] plugin
- Change requests can now be auto-closed without requiring you to install the Change Management - State Model [Legacy] plugin.
Activation information
Install DevOps Change Velocity by requesting it from the ServiceNow Store. Visit the ServiceNow Store to view all the available apps, and for information about submitting requests to the store. For cumulative release notes information for all released apps, see the ServiceNow Store version history release notes.