Introducing HCL DevOps Deploy 8.1.0: Elevate Your CI/CD with Enhanced Security, Usability, and UI

The latest version of our CI/CD Solution, HCL DevOps Deploy (formerly HCL Launch) is here, packed with powerful enhancements to elevate your application release process.

• Enhanced User Interface: Delivering a more intuitive, streamlined experience for improved productivity.
• Stronger Security: Fortified protections to safeguard your applications and data.
• Improved Usability: Optimized workflows to simplify and accelerate your CI/CD pipeline.

HCL DevOps Deploy integrates automation into every stage of continuous delivery and deployment, while offering unmatched visibility, traceability, and auditability to ensure smooth, reliable releases.

To see all the details of 8.1.0, please see the What's New page.

Enhancements in DevOps Deploy 8.1.0:

Moved Navigational Tabs: The Deploy UI page tabs, such as Components, Applications, and so on, are moved from the top of the screen to the left-hand side for usability purposes and to provide standardization across products.

Enhanced Dashboard: Providing insights into Deployment Health, Agent Utilization, Agent Health and Deployment Schedule.

Updated Calendar View: Added a “list view” within the calendar that allows the display of daily deployments in a simplified list format, providing clearer visibility and ease of navigation.

When you click the “List” button (highlighted above), you will see the list as shown below. Clicking the “List” button again will toggle back to the standard view.

Allow a Non-Interactive Console Access: Allow a user to specify the password silently on the command line, either directly or through the use of an environment variable, when running the command to upload “Process as Code” files.

See Using the PAC commands.

Two Separate Options to Cleanup Log Files: Allow a user to configure how frequently to “cleanup” job step log files independently of deployment history.

Customizable Application History View: Allows you to see the start date and end dates of a deployment and a description providing user-supplied information about the specific deployment.

Added Import and Export Options: You can export and import component and application processes in either JSON or YAML formats, as shown below:

Automatic User Account Locking and Deleting: Added the ability to enable/disable user accounts, instead of deleting them. Also, you can select to automatically disable an account, if it has not been used in a designated number of days.
See Locking and deleting user accounts automatically.

Enhanced Webhook Integration for MS Teams: Added new configuration fields to Webhook objects allows you to specify proxy host and port needed for integration with MS Teams.
See Adding webhooks to process.

Mainframe Enhancements

With the DevOps Deploy 8.1.0 release, we also provided the following enhancements to help our zOS customers:

• Support for Java 17
• Enhancement to the 'Remove Redundant Versions' zOS Utility plugin step
• Version Checksum validation enhancement

Important Note about Plugins and the Minimum Supported Java Version

With the release of DevOps Deploy 8.1.0.0, all plugins for DevOps Deploy will require a minimum version of Java 8, or later. This applies to both automation plugins and source configuration plugins used with the product.