Enhancements
We’ve all been there—trying to track down the agent running your job or figuring out why no agent has picked it up yet. It’s time-consuming and frustrating, often involving searching through a long list for an agent’s name.
Well, now that’s all much simpler. Each job has a link directly to the agent running it. And if you’re using clusters, you get a link to the queue of agents even before the job gets picked up.
We’ve seen people use this feature to proactively address long-lived agents that start to flake, stopping them before they cause too much trouble. But that’s not all. You can now easily hone in on wait times in queues and refactor your agent infrastructure to allocate more computing resources where they’re needed most.
It’s a simple change, but sometimes that’s what really counts. Enjoy. 😊
Enhancements
Quality of life improvements
★ Pro and Enterprise plans
Manage teams through the REST API→
Parity between APIs for those who prefer REST.
Faster reassignment for lost agents→
Spend less time waiting for lost agents.
Find test suites faster→
Bookmark your most visited test suites, and get run data at a glance.
Bulk stop agents→
Manage your agents from the command line.
★ Pro and Enterprise plans
Investigate jobs from the waterfall view→
Quickly jump from the waterfall view to a job's logs.
1% improvements
A glimpse into some of the smaller features, fixes, and enhancements our engineering and product teams are constantly shipping.
| Fix | Interpolate environment variables as part of group configuration. | Pipelines |
| Fix | Fix the 404 issue when clicking rebuild. | Pipelines |
| Fix | Fix the UI bug with parallelism by including the number in the build header. | Pipelines |
| Fix | Correctly terminate single-job instances in elastic-ci-stack. | Pipelines |
| Fix | Ensure audit logs include all pipeline update steps. | Pipelines |
| Feature | Allow for ordering annotations by priority using `--priority`. | Pipelines |
| Fix | Prevent cluster queues from becoming the default when changing their descriptions. | Pipelines |
| Fix | Transition builds to `started` when no longer failing. | Pipelines |
| Fix | Fix slow response times when getting `repositories.json` file. | Pipelines |
| Fix | Fix title element for default cluster queue page. | Pipelines |
| Fix | Fix `Unknown` Slack notifications on skipped builds. | Pipelines |
| Enhancement | Add `soft_failed` attribute to trigger jobs API presenter. | Pipelines |
| Fix | Fix signed pipelines with wait steps. | Pipelines |
| Fix | Resolve `github_commit_status` from `Pending` when using groups and wait steps. | Pipelines |
| Fix | Ensure agent registration happens when using clusters. | Pipelines |
| Fix | Display correct UI status for group step pills that contain skipped and running jobs. | Pipelines |
| Fix | Move jobs in `WAITING_FAILED` and to `CANCELED` when a build is canceled. | Pipelines |
| Fix | On Windows, allow case-insensitive interpolation of runtime environment variables. | Pipelines |
| Enhancement | Add `ClusterId` to Buildkite environment variables. | Pipelines |
| Enhancement | Add support for pipeline templates in the Terraform provider. | Support |
| Enhancement | Release v0.2.0 of the Migration CLI. | Support |
| Fix | Fix `--target` option implementation in the docker-compose plugin. | Support |
| Feature | Add `--buildkite-inline-cache` property to the docker-compose plugin. | Support |
| Fix | Fix an issue with the usage of `list-object-v2`. | Support |
| Enhancement | Add device-level IO limit options to the Docker plugin. | Support |
| Enhancement | Container-definitions configuration is now optional on the ECS plugin. | Support |
| Enhancement | Improve SSO IP pinning for users on IPv6 addresses. | Platform |
| Enhancement | Expand Buildkite emoji library. | Platform |
| Enhancement | Notify organizations when reaching either 50% or 80% of inclusion usage. | Platform |
| Enhancement | Allow CSV export of organization members. | Platform |
| Enhancement | Improve display of hidden API access token values. | Platform |
| Enhancement | Identify inactive notification services via `Last sent` timestamps. | Platform |
| Enhancement | Include more information in the empty state when no data is available due to data retention. | Test Analytics |
| Fix | Fix missing suite reliability chart hover tooltip. | Test Analytics |
| Fix | Adjust suite title and public badge positioning to account for long titles. | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Update docs to reflect currently available test frameworks. | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Remove `beta` reference in docs for languages out of beta. | Test Analytics |
| Fix | Remove double footer border on Test Analytics views. | Test Analytics |
| Fix | Ensure test runner exits with correct exit code in the JavaScript Test Collector. | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Refresh run issues documentation. | Test Analytics |
| Fix | Remove `Continue setup` link when user doesn't have full access to the suite. | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Remove ActiveSupport dependency from test collector Ruby gem. | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Update JUnit XML setup instructions to guide users to the Buildkite plugin. | Test Analytics |
| Enhancement | Clearly indicate which API calls require access token authentication. | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Promote organizations and add new teams endpoints to API documentation. | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Provide detail on how to manage clusters, queues, and agent tokens via UI or API. | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Explain how to migrate unclustered agents and pipelines to a cluster via UI or API. | Documentation |
| Enhancement | Create new documentation section for Buildkite Packages, including a step-by-step tutorial. | Documentation |
| Feature | Add `--allowed-environment-variables` option to agent start. | Agent |
| Enhancement | Cap agent retries to 24 hours for cases that previously tried forever. | Agent |
| Fix | Prevent agent from retrying more requests that will never succeed. | Agent |
| Enhancement | Upgrade agent to run on Go 1.22. | Agent |
| Enhancement | Log enabled experiments on agent start. | Agent |
| Enhancement | Extend graceful cancellation from checkout phase to all job phases. | Agent |
| Enhancement | Allow silencing of specific warning logs using `--disable-warnings-for`. | Agent |
| Fix | Resolve Git commit information automatically when using a custom checkout hook. | Agent |
| Fix | Fix PowerShell hooks on Windows. | Agent |
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