What's new in Deployment Automation

This topic describes the new features and enhancements available in Deployment Automation 24.3.

Manage blackouts

Administrators can now restrict the ability of users to schedule, edit, or delete blackouts. Blackouts can be scheduled for a global environment, an application environment, or a resource, and run at specified times or on a regular basis. During a blackout period, no deployments or other processes can run in an environment or on an agent. For more details on user permissions, see Default roles.

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WebLogic plugin

This release includes a new plugin for automating the deployment and management of applications on an Oracle WebLogic Server. The WebLogic plugin provides access to the most common WebLogic deployment operations, using the REST API added with WebLogic version 12c. For details, see Oracle WebLogic plugin.

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Other updates and enhancements

The following enhancements are also introduced:

HTTP proxy support

 

 You can now configure HTTP proxy properties for all outgoing requests made by the Deployment Automation server. For details, see Configure an HTTP proxy.
Shell plugin

A new Temp Directory property, added to Shell script steps, enables you to provide the temporary directory to be used when creating temporary script files. For details, see Run a Shell Script Step or Run a Shell Script with X Arguments Step.
Artifactory source configuration type (SCT)

HTTP proxy configuration is now supported for Artifactory SCT performing outgoing requests to the Artifactory server. For details, see Artifactory SCT.

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Security enhancements

To improve the stability of your installation, this release includes security updates to plugins and fixes to security vulnerabilities.

Plugins

In this release, many third-party libraries with identified vulnerabilities were upgraded to newer and more secure versions.

The following plugins use updated third-party libraries:

Ant

Autosys

Azure

BizTalk

BMC-ARA

Chef
CloudFormation GlassFish IIS-AdminScripts

IIS-AppCmd

IIS-MSDeploy

 Informatica

MicrosoftMQ

 MSBuild MSI

Netscaler

 Puppet

PVCS-checkout

QTP

RPM

ServiceControllerManager
Sharepoint

SQL-JDBC-interactive

 TeamCity
TeamForge

VMwareESX

 VMwareWorkStation
WebSphereMQ WindowsFailoverCluster  

For details about plugins, see Supported plugins.

Fixed security issues

The following third-party potential security vulnerabilities were resolved in this release:

  • CVE-2024-25710

  • CVE-2020-13956

  • CVE-2023-44487

  • CVE-2023-36478

  • CVE-2023-46604

For details about common vulnerabilities, see the National Vulnerability Database.

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Agent JRE updates

The JRE versions supplied with the Deployment Automation server, and used to remotely upgrade the agents, were updated to Azul JRE 8.0.412 and Azul JRE 11.0.23.

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Fixed issues

The following issues were resolved in this release:

ID Summary
OCTCR17AB1654040 Schedule blackouts: Users with Read only permissions can no longer schedule blackouts for Applications, Global Environments, and Resources.
OCTCR17AB1680202 Version cleanup: Versions deployed to deleted resources are now cleaned.
OCTCR17AB1662888 RPM plugin: The RPM plugin is now successfully loaded to the Deployment Automation server.
OCTCR17AB1674175 TeamCity plugin: The TeamCity to Deployment Automation Publisher is now working as expected.

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