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5.5.0 Release Notes

5.5.0 Release Notes

Name: "Fairweather orchid tower"
Release Date: August 8th, 2024

Overview

Check out the new features and enhancements for PagerDuty Runbook Automation commercial offerings and Rundeck Community included in this release.

Highlights

Automatic Runner Selection for Job Execution

The Enterprise Runner is most commonly used to dispatch automation to nodes within environments that are not directly accessible by Runbook Automation (cloud or self hosted). With this latest enhancement, users can assign subsets of their node inventory to each Runner so that the Runners used for Job execution are dynamically selected. This reduces the complexity of Job authoring and enables customers to target multiple environments with a single Job execution.

Full documentation on the Runner’s Remote Node Dispatch can be found here.

Runner Node Dispatch

Runners as Nodes

There are many cases where users need to execute automation tasks on the Runner’s host. A frequent example of this includes retrieving an artifact, script, or Ansible playbook from Git. It is also common for customers with a physically distributed footprint - such as in retail, hospitality, or food & beverage - to place a single Runner in each location and then target each location with automation. Previously, the configuration and execution of automation for these use-cases was complex and non-intuitive.

With this release, Runner’s hosts are natively added as nodes to the Node Inventory and can be targeted with automation. This reduces the time to set up your Project for automation and simplifies the Job creation and execution. Full documentation on the Runners as Nodes can be found here.

Runner as a Node

Missing Executions Fix

If you had upgraded to our 5.4.0 release and noticed some executions missing from the UI this is fixed in 5.5.0. This only affected customers that have previously run version 4.16.0 and older that upgraded to 5.4.0. With the upgrade to 5.5.0 the executions are shown properly in the UI.

Runbook Automation Updates

Also includes all Open Source updates from below

Additional Updates

  • Resource Model Runner filter is not displayed as expected
  • PagerDuty webhook plugin should return 400 on mismatched signature instead of 500
  • Fix: Runner - Cyberark Key Storage Plugin Doesn't Work with CCP Mode

Rundeck Open Source Product Updates

Here is a link to the full list of public PRs

Ansible Plugin Updates

Community Contributors

Submit your own Pull Requests to get recognition here!

Staff Contributors