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v1.54.6CI/CD & App DeliveryAug 28, 2026
A maintenance release with broad behavior and validation improvements. It adds an opt-in Scaffolder setting and updates the TechDocs dependency requirement for installations.
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breakingTechDocs dependency versions
Applies if you use TechDocs.
TechDocs installations should use
pymdown-extensionsversion10.or newer, normally by upgrading to21. 3 mkdocs-techdocs-coreversion1.or newer.7. 0
All 14 other recorded changesvalue changes 13 · additions 1
value changes (13)
- - Improved task visibility, ordering, retry behavior, permission evaluation, error handling, log redaction, and handling of internal task data.
- - Improved repository path and attachment handling in Bitbucket and Confluence actions.
- - Improved validation of source trees, published files, and served TechDocs content.
- - Improved handling of MkDocs configuration files and additional templates.
- - Improved catalog placeholder paths, property permissions, and location type restrictions.
- - Improved URL reader allow-list matching and cloud storage path handling.
- - Improved catalog location handling for AWS S3 and Azure Blob Storage.
- - OIDC profiles now include email addresses only when the identity provider marks them as verified.
- - Improved proxy request path handling.
- - Improved MkDocs configuration validation and sanitization.
- - Improved handling of GitLab installations with relative base paths and organization discovery scopes.
- - Improved plugin-to-plugin service credential delegation and backend action handling.
- - Improved validation of catalog-provided Kubernetes cluster authentication and Kubernetes resource responses.
additions (1)
- - Added the opt-in
scaffolder.setting for requiring user-provided credentials in supported GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps actions.requireScmUserCredentials
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