Release notes
In this section we have summarised the changes to Umbraco Deploy released in each version. Each version is presented with a link to the Deploy issue tracker showing a list of issues resolved in the release. We also link to the individual issues themselves from the detail.
If there are any breaking changes or other issues to be aware of when upgrading they are also noted here.
If you are upgrading to a new major version you can find the details about the breaking changes in the version specific updates article.
We've listed here all changes going back to March 2021 for Deploy 4 and above. For details of releases prior to this date, or older versions, please refer to the package page on our.umbraco.com.
In this section, you can find release notes for each release of Umbraco Deploy.
Under each major version, you can find details about minor and patch releases for the specific major.
- Updated the transfer of user picker values to resolve the user by username in the target environment #180
- Also updated the logic for the member picker to ensure values representing members that don't exist in the target environment are cleared.
- Resolves issue with grid media items in a batched deployment operation.
- Increased size of database fields storing references to account for longer values used in package data Commerce #428
- Include published name in content transfer data to avoid overwriting with draft name if different.
- Optimized content transfers to include only draft and published versions when they exist.
- Updated to version 12.0.1 of
Umbraco.Licensesused for Umbraco Deploy On-Premise.
- Corrected logic for creating redirects on content deployment for variant content.
- Ensured consistent rendering of trailing zeros when using the rounded decimal converter.
- Reduced some logging to debug to reduce noise in log files.
- Added the settings
IsSaaSHosted,HideConfigurationDetailsandHideLocalEnvironmentfor use by Umbraco Heartcore.
- Compatibility with Umbraco 12
- Updated the transfer of user picker values to resolve the user by username in the target environment #180
- Also updated the logic for the member picker to ensure values representing members that don't exist in the target environment are cleared.
- Resolves issue with grid media items in a batched deployment operation.
- Increased size of database fields storing references to account for longer values used in package data Commerce #428
- Include published name in content transfer data to avoid overwriting with draft name if different.
- Optimized content transfers to include only draft and published versions when they exist.
- Corrected logic for creating redirects on content deployment for variant content.
- Ensured consistent rendering of trailing zeros when using the rounded decimal converter.
- Reduced some logging to debug to reduce noise in log files.
- Resolved a low impact security issue found in internal testing when triggering a schema extraction.
- Added configuration for batch package processing and omitting post operation notification handlers.
- Handled use of trailing slash in configured environment URLs.
- Ensured artifacts serialized to disk are no longer processed when the entity is configured to be transferred as content.
- Handled updates to serialized document types on deletion of data types.
- Restricted languages available to editors when deploying variant content to those allowed via the user permissions for languages.
- Tidied up the Deploy dialogs for transfer, compare and restore to align with CMS conventions and remove redundant options.
- Added a database lock to the persistent transfer queue, removing any risk of concurrency issues when adding or removing items from the queue.
- Added support for new form properties introduced in the most recent minor release of Forms 11. #161
- Retained sort order introduced in Umbraco 11 for domains when deploying between environments.
- Resolved issue with progress bar initialization on partial restore dialog
- Handled file not found issue when calculating media file checksum using file metadata
- Added a task to set signatures via the backoffice settings dashboard, ensuring these are calculated and cached before a restore is commenced.
- Provided a configuration option to allow for use of the media file metadata instead of file contents when calculating a checksum.
- Made a new default behaviour which can be tweaked via configuration, of loading all relations into memory once we know we are processing a lot of artifact signatures, and doing look-ups for the relations for each entity from there.
- Optimised the retrieval of relations ensuring excluded relation types aren't retrieved and then filtered in memory.
- Updated the default configuration to exclude the document/media "dependency" relations that were introduced in an earlier minor version of Umbraco 10, and aren't required for including in deployment operations.
- Added a configuration value to allow skipping of "path too long" exceptions with media files (so the media item will be created, but with no file attached).
- Providing a custom message in the case of a hosting environment hard timeout with information and links to options for resolution.
- Fixed display child nodes indicator for tree picker used for selecting items in the remote environment #146
- Added additional logging to indicate which item and pass causes a processing failure if and when one occurs #144
- Compatibility with .NET 7 Umbraco 11
- Updated the transfer of user picker values to resolve the user by username in the target environment #180
- Also updated the logic for the member picker to ensure values representing members that don't exist in the target environment are cleared.
- Resolves issue with grid media items in a batched deployment operation.
- Increased size of database fields storing references to account for longer values used in package data Commerce #428
- Include published name in content transfer data to avoid overwriting with draft name if different.
- Optimized content transfers to include only draft and published versions when they exist.
- Corrected logic for creating redirects on content deployment for variant content.
- Ensured consistent rendering of trailing zeros when using the rounded decimal converter.
- Reduced some logging to debug to reduce noise in log files.
- Resolved a low impact security issue found in internal testing when triggering a schema extraction.
- Added configuration for batch package processing and omitting post operation notification handlers.
- Handled use of trailing slash in configured environment URLs.
- Ensured artifacts serialized to disk are no longer processed when the entity is configured to be transferred as content.
- Handled updates to serialized document types on deletion of data types.
- Restricted languages available to editors when deploying variant content to those allowed via the user permissions for languages.
- Tidied up the Deploy dialogs for transfer, compare and restore to align with CMS conventions and remove redundant options.
- Added a database lock to the persistent transfer queue, removing any risk of concurrency issues when adding or removing items from the queue.
- Added support for new form properties introduced in the most recent minor release of Forms 11. #161
- Resolved issue with progress bar initialization on partial restore dialog
- Handled file not found issue when calculating media file checksum using file metadata
- Added batch settings option providing resolution to large content or media transfers hitting Azure service limit #128
- Resolved issue with media restore when database items exist and files don't (backport fix to V4) #123
- Fixed issue with use of HTTP timeout setting (V9+)
- Introduced and used caching in deploy operations to improve performance.
- Scheduled content transfers.
- Added ability to download Deploy artifacts (.uda files) as a zip archive from the management dashboard.
- Indented the JSON representation of Data Type configuration details in the .uda files for ease of review #85
- Fixed issue with transfer of Forms prevalue sources from text files that include captions.
- Fixed issue with scheduled publish date being time shifted on deployments when source and target servers are running in different timezones.
- Fixed issue with deployment of root node value for Umbraco Forms's "save as Umbraco node" workflow #133
- Fixed incorrect availability of workspace restore in production environment (V9 and V10 only)
- Added close button to "Transfer now" dialog
- Resolved registration of deployable types to support configuration for "backoffice edition".
- Fixed selection of workspace for compare dialog
- Optimized existence checks in connectors
- Restore missing partial restore option in content and media tree roots (V9+)
- Fixed extract trigger URL in PowerShell script distributed with Deploy On-Premise (V9+)
- Improved deserialization of exceptions for clearer reporting (V9+)
- Compatibility with .NET 6 and Umbraco 10
- Tidied up the Deploy dialogs for transfer, compare and restore to align with CMS conventions and remove redundant options.
- Added a database lock to the persistent transfer queue, removing any risk of concurrency issues when adding or removing items from the queue.
- Added a task to set signatures via the backoffice settings dashboard, ensuring these are calculated and cached before a restore is commenced.
- Provided a configuration option to allow for use of the media file metadata instead of file contents when calculating a checksum.
- Made a new default behaviour which can be tweaked via configuration, of loading all relations into memory once we know we are processing a lot of artifact signatures, and doing look-ups for the relations for each entity from there.
- Optimised the retrieval of relations ensuring excluded relation types aren't retrieved and then filtered in memory.
- Updated the default configuration to exclude the document/media "dependency" relations that were introduced in an earlier minor version of Umbraco 10, and aren't required for including in deployment operations.
- Added a configuration value to allow skipping of "path too long" exceptions with media files (so the media item will be created, but with no file attached).
- Providing a custom message in the case of a hosting environment hard timeout with information and links to options for resolution.
- Fixed display child nodes indicator for tree picker used for selecting items in the remote environment #146
- Added additional logging to indicate which item and pass causes a processing failure if and when one occurs #144
- Added batch settings option providing resolution to large content or media transfers hitting Azure service limit #128
- Resolved issue with media restore when database items exist and files don't (backport fix to V4) #123
- Fixed issue with use of HTTP timeout setting (V9+)
- Introduced and used caching in deploy operations to improve performance.
- Scheduled content transfers.
- Added ability to download Deploy artifacts (.uda files) as a zip archive from the management dashboard.
- Indented the JSON representation of Data Type configuration details in the .uda files for ease of review #85
- Fixed issue with transfer of Forms prevalue sources from text files that include captions.
- Fixed issue with scheduled publish date being time shifted on deployments when source and target servers are running in different timezones.
- Fixed issue with deployment of root node value for Umbraco Forms's "save as Umbraco node" workflow #133
- Fixed incorrect availability of workspace restore in production environment (V9 and V10 only)
- Added close button to "Transfer now" dialog
- Resolved registration of deployable types to support configuration for "backoffice edition".
- Fixed selection of workspace for compare dialog
- Optimized existence checks in connectors
- Restore missing partial restore option in content and media tree roots (V9+)
- Fixed extract trigger URL in PowerShell script distributed with Deploy On-Premise (V9+)
- Improved deserialization of exceptions for clearer reporting (V9+)
- Display of configuration information and schema comparison on the deploy "settings" dashboard.
- Optional, automated clear of memory cache
- Resolved issue with redirect functionality when records are deployed between environments (part of CMS #10066)
- Surfaced information about configuration for the ignore of broken dependencies in the dialog that presents the error information
- Fixed a CSS rendering issue for the deploy content dashboard's workspace display, when more than four environments are available.
- Retained compact JSON formatting when transferring grid values
- Adds support for deploying new relation type property introduced in CMS 9.4
- Fixes layout issue on workspaces dashboard when more than 4 environments are configured.
- Backoffice deployment of members and member groups.
- Fixed bug with deployments of templates involving alias renames
- Amends to timing of file operation initialization to ensure third party components complete setup (V9 only).
- Added .NET 6 version of environment variable syntax for Umbraco Cloud configuration settings.
- Added support for deployment of history clean-up settings on Document Types.
- Updates connection string initialization to earlier in the pipeline to ensure it's available for external component configuration.
- Fixed casing of Deploy folder in App\Plugins referenced from the custom "no nodes" page.
9.0.0 (September 27th 2021)
- V9 release on .NET 5 compatible with CMS V9.
- Updated the transfer of user picker values to resolve the user by username in the target environment #180
- Also updated the logic for the member picker to ensure values representing members that don't exist in the target environment are cleared.
- Resolves issue with grid media items in a batched deployment operation.
- Increased size of database fields storing references to account for longer values used in package data Commerce #428
- Include published name in content transfer data to avoid overwriting with draft name if different.
- Optimized content transfers to include only draft and published versions when they exist.
- Corrected logic for creating redirects on content deployment for variant content.
- Ensured consistent rendering of trailing zeros when using the rounded decimal converter.
- Reduced some logging to debug to reduce noise in log files.
- Added configuration for batch package processing and omitting post operation notification handlers.
- Handled use of trailing slash in configured environment URLs.
- Ensured artifacts serialized to disk are no longer processed when the entity is configured to be transferred as content.
- Handled updates to serialized document types on deletion of data types.
- Tidied up the Deploy dialogs for transfer, compare and restore to align with CMS conventions and remove redundant options.
- Added a database lock to the persistent transfer queue, removing any risk of concurrency issues when adding or removing items from the queue.
- All items listed under the 9.5.3, 10.1.3 and 11.0.1 releases (other than those indicated as only applying to higher versions).
- Added batch settings option providing resolution to large content or media transfers hitting Azure service limit #128
- Resolved issue with media restore when database items exist and files don't (backport fix to V4) #123
- Fixed issue with use of HTTP timeout setting (V9+)
- Fixed issue with scheduled publish date being time shifted on deployments when source and target servers are running in different timezones.
- Introduced and used caching in deploy operations to improve performance.
- Scheduled content transfers.
- Added ability to download Deploy artifacts (.uda files) as a zip archive from the management dashboard.
- Indented the JSON representation of Data Type configuration details in the .uda files for ease of review #85
- Fixed issue with transfer of Forms prevalue sources from text files that include captions.
- Fixed issue with deployment of root node value for Umbraco Forms's "save as Umbraco node" workflow #133
- Fixed incorrect availability of workspace restore in production environment (V9 and V10 only)
- Added close button to "Transfer now" dialog
- Resolved registration of deployable types to support configuration for "backoffice edition".
- Fixed selection of workspace for compare dialog
- Optimized existence checks in connectors
- Restore missing partial restore option in content and media tree roots (V9+)
- Fixed extract trigger URL in PowerShell script distributed with Deploy On-Premise (V9+)
- Improved deserialization of exceptions for clearer reporting (V9+)
- Retained compact JSON formatting when transferring grid values
- Display of configuration information and schema comparison on the deploy "settings" dashboard.
- Optional, automated clear of memory cache
- Resolved issue with redirect functionality when records are deployed between environments (part of CMS #10066)
- Surfaced information about configuration for the ignore of broken dependencies in the dialog that presents the error information
- Fixed a CSS rendering issue for the deploy content dashboard's workspace display, when more than four environments are available.
- Backoffice deployment of members and member groups.
- Added support for deployment of history clean-up settings on Document Types (V4 only)
- Fixed bug with deployments of templates involving alias renames
- Amends to timing of file operation initialization to ensure third party components complete setup (V9 only).
- Added .NET 6 version of environment variable syntax for Umbraco Cloud configuration settings.
- Removed the redundant and misleading deploy operations available on the form "entries" menu item. #83
- Improved reliability of extractions triggered from Umbraco Cloud git deployment operations by introducing a new marker file used only on start-up.
- Improved reliability of extractions on new Cloud infrastructure by wrapping and throttling the file system watcher events.
- Fixed issues with styling and scripts on the custom “no content” page displayed when Deploy is used.
- Fixed issue with language deployment when fallbacks are configured.
- Added support for deployment of CMS tabs and groups
- Added support for backoffice transfer of data from custom packages or solutions
- Add deep-link to deploy dashboard from transfer queue, so will be shown on click from "open transfer queue" (if CMS version supports deep dashboard links) #57
- Added clear signature operation for minor updates of Deploy or CMS
- Fixed issue with forms deployment where workflows are deleted via code.
4.1.4 (September 7th 2021)
- Resolution of issue with failed extractions on vNext infrastructure.
4.1.3 (August 3rd 2021)
- Resolution of issue with failed extractions on vNext infrastructure.
- Added serialization converter for control of number of decimal places - #465 (internal)
- Resolved issue with unnecessary empty records being created in destination database - #444 (internal)
- Resolved issue with transfer of content templates when variants are enabled - #385 (internal)
- Ensured datatype move action triggered serialization and allows deployment to target environment - #10
- Resolve UI issue where dialog closes if not accurate on selecting node from target environment for restore - #4
4.1.0 (March 25th 2021)
- Management dashboard for triggering and viewing status of deployment operations
- Release of Deploy On-Premises
4.0.1 (March 23rd 2021)
- Enabling Deploy 4 to work in new Cloud infrastructure
- Improved reliability of extractions triggered from Umbraco Cloud git deployment operations by introducing a new marker file used only on start-up (back-port from 4.4.0).
2.1.4
- Resolution of issue with failed extractions on vNext infrastructure.
2.0.18 + 2.1.3 (July 6th 2021)
- Updating Cloud vNext related configuration
Deploy Contrib contains community contributions for Umbraco Deploy targetted for version 8 and above.
It offers connectors for the most popular Umbraco community packages. These are used by Deploy to aid with the deployment and transferring of content/property-data between environments.
- Block grid editor support and fix for null reference exception (10+)
- Further caching for deploy operations.
- Block grid editor support and fix for null reference exception (10+)
- Further caching for deploy operations.
- Block grid editor support and fix for null reference exception (10+)
- Further caching for deploy operations.
- Used caching in value connectors to improve performance.
- Fixed issue with transfer of nested content string values using item templates (for example commencing with "{{") that were erroneously considered as JSON.
- Optimized existence checks in connectors
- Fixes issue with deployment of nested content properties within Document Type grid editor values. #82
- All items listed under the 9.1.1, 10.1.1 and 11.0.1 releases (other than those indicated as only applying to higher versions).
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