Q3 2025 Product Update: Accelerating Continuous Delivery (CD) Innovation

Welcome back to the quarterly update series! Catch up on the latest Harness Continuous Delivery innovations and enhancements with this quarter’s Q3 2025 release. For full context, check out our previous updates:

• Q1 2025 Product Update: All the Latest Features Delivered by Harness
  
  
• Unlocking Innovation: Harness Q2 Feature Releases That Accelerate Your DevOps Journey
  
  

The third quarter of 2025 has been all about deepening control, strengthening integrations, and enhancing deployment reliability across the Harness CD ecosystem. Here’s a roundup of everything new this quarter.

Deployments

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Salesforce Deployment Support (Alpha Release)

Harness Continuous Delivery now supports automated deployment for Salesforce, enabling teams to deploy Salesforce DX projects and pre-built unlocked packages (2GP) directly from version control systems like Git, GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket. The integration offers flexible authentication options and lets teams define target Salesforce orgs as infrastructure, empowering seamless and secure metadata deployments through automated pipelines.

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Serverless V4 Deployments

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Users can now perform basic deployments using Serverless Framework V4, with Node.js 22 runtime support and authentication via the SERVERLESS_ACCESS_KEY environment variable. Rollback to V3 is available if needed.

Explore complete details in the product documentation.

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Google Cloud Run Deploy - Skip Traffic Shift & Multi-Tagging

allows teams to define target Salesforce orgs as infrastructure. A new Skip Traffic Shift option in the Google Cloud Run Deploy step allows creating new revisions without an immediate traffic shift. The Traffic Shift step now supports assigning multiple tags to revisions, making traffic routing and management easier for easier traffic routing and management.

Explore complete details in the product documentation.

VM Infrastructure Support for Containerized Step Groups

Harness extends containerized execution with support for VM infrastructure, enabling container step groups to run on Linux VMs as an alternative to Kubernetes clusters. This feature is controlled by a feature flag and is available upon request.

Explore complete details in the product documentation.

Canary Traffic Routing Hosts Field Supports Comma-Separated List

The Host field in Canary Traffic Routing now supports accepting a comma-separated list of hosts, enhancing flexibility in routing configurations.

ECS Deployment Correctly Respects Folder Path Setting for Scaling Policy

Fixes have been applied where ECS deployments now respect the folder path option for scaling policies, correctly selecting all files from the specified folder rather than expecting a single file path.

Explore full details in the product documentation.

Helm Deployments Should Not Uninstall if Failed on the First Release

Harness now provides the option to disable automatic uninstall on a first release failure during Helm deployments, allowing easier debugging and investigation without losing the failed release state.

Explore full details in the product documentation.

Connectors

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Azure Function Deploy via ACR Connector

Connect Azure Cloud Provider connectors to Azure Container Registry (ACR) for seamless deployment of Azure Functions.

Explore complete details in the product documentation.

Terraform with Azure Connectors

Harness continuous deployment (CD) now supports Azure connectors in all Terraform steps (plan, apply, destroy, etc.), extending the flexibility of infrastructure-as-code for hybrid and multi-cloud deployments.

Explore complete details in the product documentation.

Continuous Verification

Dynatrace Grail Logs as a Health Source

Harness now supports Dynatrace Grail Logs as a health source for deployment verification. By integrating Dynatrace connectors configured with a Platform URL and Platform Token, you can monitor logs in real-time during deployments—helping to identify issues earlier and ensuring greater environmental stability.

Explore complete details in the product documentation.

Rollbacks and Failure Handling

Enhanced Rollback Stage Action

Manual intervention during deployment failures is now smarter. When a Run step fails and you choose to roll back the stage manually, Harness will automatically execute the rollback stage action instead of marking the workflow as failed. This enhancement brings greater resiliency and control to recovery workflows.

Pipeline Flexibility and Productivity

Resource Requests in Container Steps

Configure CPU and memory resource requests directly in the Container Step UI, to ensure opitmized and reliable execution of resource-intensive tasks.

User Group Selection in Email Steps

Select user groups when configuring Email Steps to enhance collaboration and communication workflows.

Explore complete details in the product documentation.

GitOps Enhancements

First-Class GitOps ApplicationSet Support

Harness now treats GitOps ApplicationSets as key native entities, allowing for easy creation via the UI or REST APIs, with support for all Argo CD generator types. ApplicationSets integrate with Harness Services and Environments for RBAC, deployment tracking, and unified visibility. Features include importing existing ApplicationSets, Terraform management, PR pipeline automation, sync policies, audit logging, and hierarchical application views—making large-scale GitOps management simpler and more powerful.

Value Replacement Secret Injection: Secret Resolution in ng-manager

Support for secret expressions now extends beyond Helm files to resource manifests, specifically secrets, enabling direct injection from external secret management systems, such as Vault, into Argo CD applications.

Handle Deletion of Entities

New flows are being tracked and developed to help handle the clean deletion of GitOps entities, targeting the automation of deletion processes and reducing the need for manual intervention.

Service Summary for GitOps Apps

The Service Summary page now provides an improved view of deployments through GitOps apps, showing artifact and chart versions deployed, which helps with enhanced visibility and troubleshooting.

Enhanced GitOps Cluster Detail Page and Scalability

The GitOps Cluster Detail Page now has improved navigation, detailed credential information, inline editing, and an app listing pane. At the same time, optimizations to reconcile thousands of GitOps applications improve scalability and reduce processing time.

Moving Forward

Each of these enhancements demonstrates Harness’s dedication to simplifying complex deployments while empowering teams with secure, scalable, and highly flexible continuous delivery tools.

As we look ahead to the next update cycle, we anticipate further advancements in performance, observability, and governance across both Continuous Delivery (CD) and GitOps domains.

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