What's New

You can find information about the features introduced, enhancements, or other changes made in IBM® DevOps Velocity (Velocity). You can also find the features that were introduced in earlier versions of Velocity.

What's New in 2026.04 (5.2.4)

Release date: 23 April 2026

The following section lists the features, enhancements, or other changes made in Velocity.
Feature Title Description
Added custom sync scheduling for each event while creating an integration You can now define synchronization time for each scheduled event within a plugin when creating an integration. This enhancement includes the following benefits:
  • Provides granular control over the timing of individual synchronization operations
  • Enables improved workload management
  • Enhances performance
  • Allows data updates to align with preferred schedules
Added mandatory field marking On the Create Release page, an asterisk (*) is added to the mandatory fields.

What's New in earlier versions

You can find information about the features introduced in earlier versions of Velocity in the following sections.

What's New in 2026.03 (5.2.3)

Release date: 24 March 2026

The following section lists the features, enhancements, or other changes made in Velocity.
Feature Title Description
Oath integration for MCP server via Keycloak The MCP server in Velocity now supports Oath authentication through Key cloak. You can securely access MCP services and APIs by using token-based authentication that enables seamless integration with Velocity. See DevOps Velocity MCP server.
Faster and more reliable task execution in Releases Release task execution in Velocity now runs faster and more reliably.
Added Analytics in the left-navigation pane A new Analytics tab is now available that enables you to view the dashboards for the teams you create in the Velocity. To access the Analytics tab, you must authenticate with Keycloak using the OpenID Connect (OIDC) method. After authenticating with OIDC, you must perform Helm upgrade. See Analytics Dashboards.

What's New in 2025.12 (5.2.1)

Release date: 12 February 2026

The following section lists the features, enhancements, or other changes made in Velocity.
Feature Title Description
Quick access to Pipeline You can now access Pipeline directly from the left navigation pane. A new Pipeline icon is added so that you can quickly navigate to the Pipeline page.
Enhanced the Gates Readiness Indicator

The Gates Readiness Indicator is enhanced to determine whether a Gates rule passes or fails across any pipeline environment, helping you decide whether a version can be deployed to the subsequent environment. The Gates Readiness Indicator is displayed in three colors: grey, green, and red.

In addition to the Gates Readiness Indicator, the version name is also color-coded to indicate failures in previous environments. The version name appears in amber color when a failure occurs in the previous environment. See Managing pipeline gates.
Added the Jenkins application in the input environment You can now view the Jenkins application name in the input stage of the Pipeline, so that you can identify the configured application.
Enhanced integrations The Integrations page is now enhanced to list all configured integrations under the Integrations tab. See Creating plugin integrations.

What's New in 2025.12 (5.2.0)

Release date: 11 December 2025

The following section lists the features, enhancements, or other changes made in Velocity.
Feature Title Description
Model Context Protocol (MCP) server The new Velocity MCP Server is now available, enabling seamless connections with MCP clients such as Claude Desktop and GitHub Copilot in VS Code. It allows users to retrieve data from Velocity through natural language interactions. This capability is currently released as a Beta feature and is hidden behind a feature flag. Enable it manually to explore and test the new functionality. See DevOps Velocity MCP server.
Gates readiness indicator The new Gates Readiness Indicator is now available. This feature enables you to determine whether a gates rule has passed or failed in any pipeline environment, helping you decide if a version can be deployed to the subsequent environment. The Gates Readiness Indicator displays in three colors: Amber, Green, and Red. See Managing pipeline gates.
Gates rule grouping The new grouping of gate rules for each environment is now available, and you can view the rules for each environment in the gates grouping modal. See Managing pipeline gates.
GenAI metrics The GenAI metrics feature is now available in Velocity as a Tech Preview, providing insights into GitHub Copilot usage, developer engagement, and AI-assisted coding productivity. See GenAI metrics - Tech Preview.
Custom plugin job timeout You can now specify a custom plugin job timeout during plugin integration, which is useful for syncing large data.

What's New in 2025.09 (5.1.11)

Release date: 20 November 2025

The following section lists the features, enhancements, or other changes made in Velocity.
Feature Title Description
Added a new Reset Layout button Added a new Reset Layout button on the Value stream page to reset the layout of the value stream to default layout. See Navigating value streams.
Removed Jenkins (Legacy) and UrbanCode Deploy (Legacy) plugins The Jenkins (Legacy) and UrbanCode Deploy (Legacy) plugins are removed from Installed tab of the Settings > Integrations page.

What's New in 2025.09 (5.1.10)

Release date: 9 October 2025

The following section lists the features, enhancements, or other changes made in Velocity.
Feature Title Description
Enhancements to Hybrid CI/CD pipeline Added support for Hybrid CI/CD pipeline with DevOps Build and DevOps Deploy combination. See Managing hybrid Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) pipeline.
Enhancements to custom mapping Added support for mapping all custom fields of Jira to Velocity. You can map the fields and values of Jira to Velocity. You can filter the dots in Value stream using the issue.extended.<custom field> DevOps Query.
Enhancements to State of the Sprint report Added Sprints field to State of the Sprint report. Based on the Value Stream selected, the Sprints field selects the latest 10 sprints by default. You can add or remove sprints in the Sprints field to generate the report. Currently, when no sprints are selected in Sprints field, the report automatically generates data for the latest 10 sprints. See State of the sprint report.
Migrating UrbanCode Deploy (Legacy) integrations You can migrate integration of UrbanCode Deploy (Legacy) to DevOps Deploy. See Migrating integration of UrbanCode Deploy (Legacy) to IBM DevOps Deploy (Deploy).

What's New in 2025.09 (5.1.9)

Release date: 15 September 2025

The following section lists the features, enhancements, or other changes made in Velocity.
Feature Title Description
Releases You can also use Versions tab to select the version and environment of IBM DevOps Deploy (Deploy) applications for Deploy (ucv-ext-ucd) plug-in integrations.
Individual Measures A new Individual Measures section is added in both the State of Sprint and the Release Readiness Report, to provide deeper visibility into individual contributor performance and engagement across each sprint or release. See State of the sprint report and Release readiness report.
Enhanced CA certificate validation for secure connections You can now configure Velocity to restrict self-signed CA certificates and allow connections only from a trusted set of approved CA certificates. See Configuring trusted certificates in DevOps Velocity .
API Tests A new metric definition API Tests is added to collect and display all API test results from multiple test plugins in a single chart. See Displaying the metrics on the value stream and Metric chart reference.
RabbitMQ Added persistent volume to RabbitMQ services.

What's New in 2025.06 (5.1.8)

Release date: 14 August 2025

The following section lists the features, enhancements, or other changes made in Velocity.
Feature Title Description
Bitnami Bitnami images repository location is updated for nginx andrabbitmq.
Settings Added scroll bar to settings menu.
MongoDB
  1. MongoDB 8.0 is supported for Velocity 5.1.8 or later.
  2. MongoDB 6.0 is not supported for Velocity 5.1.8 or later.
See Table 6.

What's New in 2025.06 (5.1.7)

Release date: 10 July 2025

This is a maintenance release and includes only defect fixes.

What's New in 2025.06 (5.1.6)

Release date: 13 June 2025

The following section lists the features, enhancements, or other changes made in Velocity.
Feature Title Description
Enhancements in metrics dataset table You can use pagination to define the number of items to display in the dataset table. The search functionality is enhanced and data in the table can be sorted in ascending and descending order. See Analyzing Insights data

What's New in 2025.03 (5.1.5)

Release date: 8 May 2025

This is a maintenance release and includes only defect fixes.

What's New in 2025.03 (5.1.4)

Release date: 10 April 2025

The following section lists the features, enhancements, or other changes made in Velocity.
Feature Title Description
Agile Churn metric You can use the Agile Churn metric to calculate the percentage of the change in planned scope of any sprint that impacts the progress and completion of the sprint. See Agile Churn metric
Flow Efficiency metric You can use the Flow Efficiency metric to understand the performance of the team, which shows the ratio of actual development time over the cycle time in percentage. See Flow Efficiency metric.
Change Failure Rate (CFR) metric You can use CFR metric to understand how the changes introduced in software are reliable. It calculates the percentage of changes that fail, which requires rollbacks, hotfixes, or other actions. See Change Failure Rate metric.

What's New in 2025.03 (5.1.3)

Release date: 13 March 2025

This is a maintenance release and includes only defect fixes.

What's New in 2025.02 (5.1.2)

Release date: 13 February 2025

The following section lists the features, enhancements, or other changes made in Velocity.
Feature Title Description
Removal of Docker Compose platform Starting with IBM DevOps Velocity (Velocity) 5.1.2, installing on Docker Compose platform is not supported. You can migrate installation on Docker Compose to Kubernetes. See Migrating DevOps Velocity from Docker Compose to Kubernetes or OpenShift
Multiple stages selection in metric definitions for Lead Time, Cycle Time, and Dev Cycle Time You can select one or more stages in metric definitions for calculating the Lead Time, Cycle Time, and Dev Cycle Time metrics. See Customizing metric definitions for Lead Time, Cycle Time, and Dev Cycle Time.

What's New in 2025.01 (5.1.1)

Release date: 16 January 2025

This is a maintenance release and includes only defect fixes.

What's New in 2024.12 (5.1.0)

Release date: 12 December 2024

The following section lists the features, enhancements, or other changes made in Velocity.
Feature Title Description
Enhancement in link rules You can use pr.description field to create link rules between the integrations. See link rules.

What's New in 2024.09 (5.0.11)

Release date: 21 November 2024

The following section lists the features, enhancements, or other changes made in Velocity.
Feature Title Description
Improvements in retrieving and processing data Improved retrieving and processing data to enhance the performance of the following Software Development Lifecyle (SDLC) events:
  • Builds
  • Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) environment Pipelines
  • Releases
  • Source Code Management (SCM) Commits and Merge or Pull Requests
Burndown chart in State of Sprint report Added burndown chart to State of Sprint report. See State of the sprint report.
API driven application deployment You can use one curl command to deploy the same API driven application in multiple pipelines.

What's New in 2024.09 (5.0.10)

Release date: 17 October 2024

The following section lists the features, enhancements, or other changes made in Velocity.
Feature Title Description
Enhanced the search functionality for charts in Insights page You can now use the search functionality in charts to quickly find the information in the tables. See Analyzing Insights data.

What's New in 2024.09 (5.0.9)

Release date: 19 September 2024

The following section lists the features, enhancements, or other changes made in Velocity.
Feature Title Description
Enhancements to metrics tool tip Enhanced the tooltips for metrics such as P.R.E Risk and P.R.E Deadline. Now, if insights are available for a metric, they will be shown as a tooltip; if not, you’ll see the metric description. If there’s no description, the metric name will be displayed instead.

What's New in 2024.06 (5.0.8)

Release date: 20 August 2024

The following section lists the features, enhancements, or other changes made in Velocity.
Feature Title Description
Displaying the draft pull requests in value stream You can now display and query the draft pull requests in Git Hub using the pr.draft query. See DevOps query language (DQL).
Enhancements in Release readiness report

The Release readiness report is enhanced with the addition of Release summary section. Velocity uses Generative AI capabilities to generate the Release summary that provides an overview of the activities including feature development, enhancements, bug fixes, and improved user experience performed during the release. See Release readiness report.

What's New in 2024.06 (5.0.7)

Release date: 11 July 2024

The following section lists the features, enhancements, or other changes made in Velocity.
Feature Title Description
Enhancements in Automation tasks You can manage the automation task by assiging to any user or group.
Enhancements in Insights You can filter the chart data by Application and Environment in the Coverage by Line, Coverage by Function, and Coverage by Branch charts.
Enhancements in Insights sample report Enhanced Insights sample report for better user experience. Added README file with instructions to generate the custom reports. See Downloading sample report.
Improvements in User Interface Minor user interface improvements in Value Stream and Releases pages.

What's New in 2024.06 (5.0.6)

Release date: 13 June 2024

The following section lists the features, enhancements, or other changes made in Velocity.
Feature Title Description
Editing the integrations in value streams view You can edit the integrations in value streams view using the Manage integrations. For additional information, see Manage integrations.
Permissions for installing Velocity in Kubernetes Cluster level permissions are not required to install Velocity in Kubernetes. You can install with namespace level permissions.
Filtering dots with time

You can use Time filter to view the dots based on the waiting time in the same stages of the value stream. The possible Time filter values are 30 Days, 60 Days, 90 Days, 6 Months, and 1 Year. For additional information, see Navigating value streams
Enhancements in Deployment Frequency You can select the application for which the deployment frequency metric calculation is required. See DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics
Displaying incident severity levels in Time To Restore Service (MTTR)

You can now filter the severity levels when you add Time To Restore Service metric and view the severity levels on the valuestream page.

See DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics.

What's New in 2023.12 (5.0.5)

Release date: 9 May 2024

The following section lists the features, enhancements, or other changes made in Velocity.
Feature Title Description
Deployment Frequency The name of the metric Production Deployment Counts is now changed to Deployment Frequency.
Edit metric definitions You can edit the metric definition for the metrics such as Cycle Time, Lead Time and DevCycle Time from the Value streams page. See Displaying the metric bar.
Pipeline gates for solution version You can use any of the following gates to deploy the applications into different environments using a solution version:

  • Approver gate

  • Metric gate

  • Status gate

See Managing pipeline gates.
Roles and permissions for solution version You can view, create, edit, delete, unlink or deploy the solution versions if you are assigned with any of the roles listed in the following table:
Roles Solution version permissions
View Create / Edit / Delete / Unlink Deploy
Developer (team)






Lead developer (team)






Lead Release Manager






Pipeline Designer






Pipeline Executor






Release Manager






Value Stream Manager






Value stream Viewer






Viewer






Integrations You can enable or disable multiple integrations at any particular time. Select the required integrations and then Select Actions appears. Click drop-down list of Select Actions and select Disable or Enable.

What's New in 2023.12 (5.0.4)

Release date: 11 April 2024

The following section lists the features, enhancements, or other changes made in Velocity.
Feature Title Description
Enhancements in DevOps Query (DQL) You can add global DQL query to value stream, so that the query is applicable for all phases of the value stream. For more information, see global DQL query.
Enhancements in Releases Enhanced the user interface of the Releases for better user experience.
Enhancements in dots stage change calculation Enhanced the performance of dots stage change calculation.

What's New in 2023.12 (5.0.3)

Release date: 21 March 2024

The following section lists the features, enhancements, or other changes made in Velocity.
Feature Title Description
Solution version

Solution version is the combination of different versions of one or more applications. It displays the snapshot of different versions of the applications at particular point of time.

For more information, see this page.
Enhancements in ServiceNow automated task You can now specify the Change Request Number instead of Change Request System ID in the ServiceNow-Update Change Request and Change Task and ServiceNow-Wait Change Request tasks. With this enhancement you can select the Change Request Number from a drop-down list while creating the task.

For more information, see this page.
Enhancements in user interface navigation The Home, Value Streams, Releases, and Insights menu's are rearranged to vertical plane for the better user experience.
Enhancements in Alerts mechanism for change in status of dots You can set alerts for stages when there is a change in status of dots. You can set showAlerts property to true or false for enabling or disabling the alert for stages.

For more information, see this page.
Enhancements in Swimlanes You can filter the dots using the Business Value under FEATURE of the Swimlanes.

What's New in 2023.12 (5.0.2)

Release date: 8 February 2024

The following section lists the features, enhancements, or other changes made in Velocity.
Feature Title Description
Enhancements in ServiceNow automated task You can create and update ServiceNow change task from the Velocity application while creating and updating the ServiceNow change request.

For more information, see this page.
Displaying of gate rules You can view the number of rules and approvers for each gate.

For more information, see this page.
Displaying of Events Added No Events Found message when there are no events created in Events tab on Releases page.

What's New in 2023.12 (5.0.1)

Release date: 23 January 2024

The following section lists the features, enhancements, or other changes made in Velocity.
Feature Title Description
Enhancements in Value Streams You can view only five individual sprints and releases data, when you set View value stream data by to Sprint and Release in Value Stream and Swimlane tab. The remaining past sprints and releases are grouped together and displayed as Past Sprints and Past Releases.

What's New in 2023.12 (5.0.0)

Release date: 12 December 2023

The following section lists the features, enhancements, or other changes made in Velocity.
Feature Title Description
Additional vendor specific properties You can view any additional vendor specific properties in value streams.
Proxy for plug-in index Added support to set proxy for plug-ins index URL. Use mutation updatePluginIndexProxySetting in GraphQL API for setting the proxy.
Incident type issues as dots You can view Incidents type issues of Service Now and Jira Service Management tool as dots in Value streams.
DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics You can use DORA metrics to evaluate performance of the team. The available DORA metrics are Lead Time for Changes, Production Deployment Counts, and Time to Restore Service (MTTR). For additional information, See DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics.
Status gate

A new Status gate is added to provide more control over the deployment of applications into different environments. See Managing pipeline gates.
Dev Cycle Time

A new Dev Cycle Time is added to the value stream page to customize the business-specific measures. See Displaying the metrics on the value stream.
Aha! Plug-in

A new Aha! plug-in is added in Velocity to integrate Aha! application with Velocity. The plug-in extracts the Product Value of an Aha! feature to store it as business value in the Jira issues linked with the Aha! feature and displays it in value streams. The business value associated with the value stream will help you to prioritize your work based on the based on the features that are most valuable for customers.

For information on Aha! plug-in integration, see Plug-in documentation.

Note: Currently you can only see the business value only for the Aha! issues that are linked to a Jira issue in the value stream.

New search capability is added to filter the value stream dot consisting of business value using DQL search. You can use issue.businessValue item in the DQL search to filter the value stream dots associated with business value. See DevOps query language (DQL).
Milestone Risk Estimator Plug-in

A new Milestone Risk Estimator plug-in is added in Velocity. The milestone risk estimator determines the risk of completing the sprint. The milestone risk estimator calculates the risk based on the time taken for the completed sprint. It compares the time of completed sprint with the time of the in-progress sprint. See Milestone risk estimation.

For information on Milestone Risk Estimator plug-in integration, see Plug-in documentation.

What's New in 4.0.15

Release date: 26 October 2023

Docker compose
Auto starting for Docker compose uses docker compose V2. The command line syntax to use docker compose is changed from 
docker-compose up -d
to 
docker compose up -d
Renaming Automated and Manual gates
The Automated gate is renamed as Metric gate and Manual gate is renamed as Approver gate. However, the functionality of gates remain same.

What's New in 4.0.14

Release date: 7 September 2023

UrbanCode Deploy plug-in
  • A new UrbanCode™ Deploy plug-in is available in plug-in marketplace Settings > Integrations > Available for IBM UrbanCode Velocity version 4.0.9 or later. The new plug-in provides performance improvements and more flexibility with IBM UrbanCode Velocity features. The old plug-in has been renamed to UrbanCode Deploy (Legacy).

What's New in 4.0.13

Release date: 17 August 2023

IBM Entitled Registry
You must authenticate with the IBM Entitled Registry for online installation of IBM UrbanCode Velocity . Refer instructions in this page.
Value stream
On the Create Value Stream window, perform any of the following actions:
  • Click Create to create value stream with the basic information includes Name and Team. The value stream is created using the JSON template. You can configure the value stream later using Edit value stream map.
  • Click Create & Configure to create value stream with integrations and stages or phases of the value stream.
For more information, see this page.
Compliance gate
Compliance gate provides more control over the deployment of application versions into different environments based on the conditions defined in the compliance rule. You can define compliance rules such as number of approvals required for a pull request to deploy the application versions. For more information, see this page.
Hybrid Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) pipeline
You can create a hybrid continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline to deploy the application versions into different environments. For more information, see this page.
External YAML configuration file
You can import the external YAML configuration file into IBM UrbanCode Velocity from the user interface. For more information, see this page.
OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication
You can log in to IBM UrbanCode Velocity using the OIDC authentication. On the Settings page, click Authentication > OIDC > Configure OIDC to configure the OIDC in IBM UrbanCode Velocity . For more information, see this page.
Jenkins (Legacy) plug-in migration
You can migrate integrations of Jenkins (Legacy) to new Jenkins. For more information, see this page.
Initial Sync date for Jenkins
The default initial sync date for new Jenkins plug-in is 30 days.
Local License Server (LLS)
Local License Server is supported in IBM UrbanCode Velocity . For more information, see this page.
Insights
Removed Analytics tab under insights page.

What's New in 4.0.12

Release date: 15 June 2023

External YAML configuration file
You can create minimal value realization of different DevOps tools into IBM UrbanCode Velocity immediately using external configuration file. Define all your required configuration properties in ucv.yml and import into IBM UrbanCode Velocity using GitHub plug-in integration. After importing, apply the ucv.yml configuration file to IBM UrbanCode Velocity for implementing the configuration defined in configuration file. For more information, see this page.

What's New in 4.0.11

Release date: 25 May 2023

This release of IBM UrbanCode Velocity includes various defect fixes.

What's New in 4.0.10

Release date: 4 May 2023

Automation tasks
Added Download log file for automation tasks.
Deployment plan
Added search functionality for Application, Environment, Integration, Version, and Process fields in the deployment plan for automation task of external plug-in integrations.
Known issues
Auto promotion with gates is not working when approved from Input stage for hybrid pipeline.

What's New in 4.0.9

Release date: 30 March 2023

Jenkins plugin
  • A new Jenkins plugin is available in plugin marketplace Settings > Integrations > Available for IBM UrbanCode Velocity version 4.0.9 or later. The new plugin provides performance improvements and more flexibility with IBM UrbanCode Velocity features. The old plugin has been renamed to Jenkins (Legacy).
Cycle Time Key Performance Indicator (KPI)
The Cycle Time KPI measures the efficiency of a dot to reach the defined target. You can define the target using the status rule. You can add, edit, and delete status rule. For more information, see this page.
Lead Time Key Performance Indicator (KPI)
The Lead Time KPI measures the efficiency of a dot to reach the defined target. You can define the target using the status rule. You can add, edit, and delete status rule. For more information, see this page.
Automation task
The Dynamic fields feature is enabled for automation task. You can use Dynamic fields feature to assign snapshot and component version statuses on failure or success of the task.
Manual gates approval
  • You can add groups for approving the manual gates.
Known issues
Deployment of UrbanCode Deploy application from IBM UrbanCode Velocity using UrbanCode Deploy version 7.3.1.0 is not working. As a workaround, you can use UrbanCode Deploy version 7.3.0 for deploying the UrbanCode Deploy application from IBM UrbanCode Velocity . The issue will be fixed in UrbanCode Deploy release version 7.3.1.1.

What's New in 4.0.8

Release date: 21 February 2023

Creating disabled plug-in integration
  • You can create a plugin integration with disabled status by clicking Settings > Integrations > Installed > Add integration. In the Add integration window, click Show hidden properties, and then clear Enabled to create a disabled plugin integration. Additional information on this page.

What's New in 4.0.7

Release date: 2 February 2023

This release of IBM UrbanCode Velocity includes various defect fixes.

What's New in 4.0.6

Release date: 13 January 2023

IBM UrbanCode Velocity session extension
Session extension notification is displayed for extending the IBM UrbanCode Velocity session.
Helm port
You can use any port number for Velocity installation.

What's New in 4.0.5

Release date: 5 December 2022

Demo data
Added Delete button to delete demo data.
RabbitMQ
Add /rabbit to IBM UrbanCode Velocity URL to access rabbitmq management console.

What's New in 4.0.4

Release date: 14 November 2022

RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ upgraded to version 3.10.7.

What's New in 4.0.3

Release date: 31 October 2022

Insights
On the Insights page, select the required dashboard and press Ctrl+P to generate the portable document format (pdf) of dashboard reports. Additional information on this page.

What's New in 4.0.2

Release date: 19 October 2022

DQL builder
On the Edit value stream page, click DQL Builder to create the query. In the DQL Builder screen, after creating query click Test to view results for the selected query. Additional information on this page.

What's New in 4.0.1

Release date: 4 October 2022

Manual gates approval email notification
The manual gates approval email notification contains the Stage Name, Manual Gate Name, Application Name, and Version Name of the application for which the approval is requested. Additional information on this page.

What's New in 4.0.0

Release date: 13 September 2022

Value stream Onboarding
On the Value streams page, click Create value stream to create the new value stream using the UI without using the JSON file. The Create Value Stream window is displayed with three steps: Basic information about the value stream, Integrations to use in value stream, and Stages or phases for value stream. Additional information, see this page.
VSM JSON Editor
Use the online code and tree editors to directly edit Value stream map (VSM) JSON files in IBM UrbanCode Velocity . Starting with IBM UrbanCode Velocity version 3.0, you no longer need to download the JSON and edit a local copy. Now you can edit VSM JSON files directly within the product web interface. On the Value streams page, use the VSM JSON code and tree editors to edit and save the value stream workflow file. In code and tree views, the editors allows you to perform the following tasks:
  • Create new versions.
  • Edit versions.
  • Review and revert past versions.
  • View version creators and dates created.
  • Import and download versions.
  • View JSON file contents including creator, version number, and date created.
  • You can format, compact, repair JSON data, and save with overwrite protection for simultaneous user editing scenarios.

In tree view, you can perform the following tasks:
  • Change Type, Insert, or Append the Auto, Array, Object, or String field types.
  • Extract objects and arrays.
  • Remove fields.
Value stream multi-branching
On the Value Streams page, visual multi-branching allows you to view stages in parallel by separating your tasks based on a given query. An edit mode button enables drag and drop functionality, zooming in and out, panning, scrolling, and reset controls with the capability of switching to a non-edit view mode. Additional details are found here.

On the Value Streams page, Git multi-branching allows you to monitor different branches coupled with coordinated dot linking based on a given query. View Git multi-branching information here.

Added the IN operator to the DevOps query language.

DQL builder
The Search with DQL field displays all possible queries and operators for the typed query in value streams and swimlanes.
Dynamic swim lanes
Use dynamic swim lanes to quickly display vital project information across various organizational roles enabling informed work flow decisions. Dynamic swim lanes are adaptable and provide tailored data sets according to the different roles and requirements detailed in the following table.
Role Dynamic swim lanes view
Developers, scrum masters, daily stand-up View work items per person, show and hide selected stages, and choose sprint view for displaying pointed data sets.
Development managers, director Check overall sprint status, view stage position of work items, display remaining work from past sprints for possible future sprint allocation, and click SPRINT for a consolidated work item view displaying the current status.
Scrum masters, development managers For tracking targeted Epics, use the pinning feature to keep the prioritized items at the top of the list.
All roles Dynamic swim lanes display current state of releases, contents of both upcoming and past releases, determine when work items are released, view work items per stage, and click RELEASE for a detailed release contents list and click SPRINT for the same result.
Pipeline
On the Pipeline tab:
  • Expanded smart gating: On any environment except Input, you can add automated gates for time on metrics in the environment. Key capabilities of automated gates include the following:
    • Occurrence period allows you to gate on time for the selected Metric type based on a set of required criteria specified for the gate that occurs in one of the following past periods:
      • None
      • Minutes
      • Hours
      • Days
      • Weeks
      • Months

        Note: Specifying an Occurrence period is an example where results are not directly tied to a build or version and provide a wider range of gating flexibility.
      Duration is the value of the period for the gate.
    • Data set includes subsets of data specific to the selected Metric type that allows you to limit the information scope for the metric.
    • Field includes field values available that are a subset of the selected Data set.
    • You can gate on application specific custom metrics specified in Insights that are listed in the Metric type drop-down.

Data Generator plugin
If you have the required permissions, an Install demo data button on the Getting Started page is displayed that enables you to install the Data Generator plug-in. If the demo data plug-in is installed, it will populate IBM UrbanCode Velocity with demo data allowing you to view value streams, pipelines, and other areas of the product with sample data. On the Settings page, you can delete the sample data at any time by disabling the Data Generator integration.
Customizable roles and global scope
When you click Settings > Authorization > Roles, roles and permissions capabilities are expanded by providing flexibility for customization requirements including the following features:
  • Create, modify, and delete customized roles.
  • Expanded number of roles on the Value streams, Insights, and Settings pages.
  • Added global scoped permissions that allow you to access product areas regardless of team association.
  • Static roles are immutable and may support customization in a future version.

Plugins integrations
On the IBM UrbanCode Velocity Home page, click Settings > Integrations. The Integrations page is displayed with three tabs:
  1. Configured
  2. Installed
  3. Available

The Configured tab lists all the plug-ins that are configured for integration. The Installed tab displays all the plug-ins that are installed by default with the IBM UrbanCode Velocity installation. The Available tab displays all the supported plugins for IBM UrbanCode Velocity

Additional information on this page.

What's New in 2.6.5

Release date: 15 August 2022

Manual gates approval
The email notification is sent to all selected manual gate approvers. To get the email notification, you must select the Send email alert to any user that requires manual approval checkbox in gates modal. Additional information on this page.

What's New in 2.6.4

Release date: 5 August 2022

Plugin documentation
On the home page, under help question mark help icon menu, updated the plugin documentation link.

What's New in 2.6.3

Release date: 19 July 2022

This release of IBM UrbanCode Velocity includes various defect fixes.

What's New in 2.6.2

Release date: 7 July 2022

Value streams
To enhance the IBM UrbanCode Velocity performance, added Contributor metrics to vsm-data-metrics feature flag. You can enable vsm-data-metrics feature flag to use contributor metrics and other metrics.

What's New in 2.6.1

Release date: 21 June 2022

Enhanced IBM UrbanCode Velocity performance.

What's New in 2.6.0

Release date: 31 May 2022

Value streams
  • Background service: Kubernetes and OpenShift installations can see the significant change in performance and stability of the application. Segregating the value stream metrics calculation based on the data complexity helped to improve the performance and stability.
  • Quick filters search: You can use search bar for searching through Releases, Sprints, Types, and Priority.

Pipelines
  • Improved performance to handle large data in pipelines.
Releases
  • RabbitMQ: Improved various RabbitMQ request to improve performance in Releases and Deployment plan.
  • Approving wait for approval task: Wait for approval task can be approved or rejected by designated or not designated user. For more information, see this page.
  • Release stories: Release stories are removed temporarily for the enhancement purpose. You can used Release readiness report for viewing the issues of the releases.
MongoDB
MongoDB version 4.0 is no longer supported. For Docker Compose, MongoDB version 4.2 is installed and upgraded automatically. For Kubernetes and OpenShift installations, you need to install or upgrade MongoDB to a supported version separately. For more information, see this page.
OpenShift installation using service template
OpenShift installation using service template is no longer supported and removed from installer. You can migrate your OpenShift installation to Helm charts during your upgrade to version 3.1.0. or later. For more information, see this page. For assistance with migration, contact support.

What's New in 2.5.8

Release date: 28 April 2022

Deployment plan
Improved performance in deployment plan page.
Security
Fixed minor security vulnerabilities.

What's New in 2.5.7

Release date: 12 April 2022

Deployment plan
  • Improved performance in deployment plan page.
  • Fixed deployment plan page loading time.
DevOps Deploy plug-in
Improved deployment plan performance to enhance UrbanCode Deploy plug-in performance.

What's New in 2.5.6

Release date: 29 March 2022

MongoDB
MongoDB is no longer shipped with the offline installation files. It is recommended to pull the MongoDB images from the MongoDB source.
Security
  • RabbitMQ - Fixed security vulnerabilities.
  • Added authentication to multiple queries.
  • Fixed multiple unprotected queries.

What's New in 2.5.5

Release date: 14 March 2022

LDAP
On the Settings page, when you click Authentication > LDAP and then click the Import users button, you can check for valid and invalid LDAP configurations.

What's New in 2.5.4

Release date: 25 February 2022

LDAP
On the Settings page, when you click Authentication > LDAP, the required fields are obvious and indicated with red asterisks for admins for readily editing and configuring LDAP.
Plugins
Based on the your installed version of IBM UrbanCode Velocity , plug-ins not compatible with that version are prevented from installing in the product. If the installed version of IBM UrbanCode Velocity is equal or greater than the product version that the plugin supports, the installation of the plugin is possible. Plugins prevented from installation are detailed for the following three scenarios:
  • On the Settings page, click the Plugins tab.
  • Locate the required plugin in the list and click the Install button.
  • The error Plugin is only supported on IBM UrbanCode Velocity versions equal to or greater than x.x.x is displayed on the right side of the Status field for that plug-in.
  • On the Settings page, click the Plugins tab.
  • Click the Load plugin button.
  • In the Load a custom plugin window, click in the Plugin Image field and enter the required plug-in.
  • Click the Submit button.
  • The error Plugin is only supported on IBM UrbanCode Velocity versions equal to or greater than x.x.x is displayed in the Load a custom plugin window.
  • On the Settings page, click the Integrations tab.
  • Locate the required plugin and then click on the overflow menu and select Upgrade.
  • In the Status field for the plugin, Upgrade failed is displayed.
For scheduled events plugins, perform the following steps:
  • On the Settings page, click the Plugins tab.
  • Locate the required plugin and then click the Add integration button.
  • In the Add Integration window, click the Show hidden properties check box.
  • Click in the Initial Sync Date field to specify only pulling data after the selected date on the initial run.
  • Fill in the remaining required fields in the Add Integration window.
  • Click the Add button.

If the plugin does not support the sync feature, the Initial Sync Date field is not displayed when you click the Show hidden properties check box in the Add Integration window.

Kubernetes
Based on the responsiveness of a given Kubernetes environment, you are able to configure liveness and readiness probes and specify dynamic timeouts to prevent persistent removal of pods.

What's New in 2.5.3

Release date: 14 Feburary 2022

Releases

On the Releases page, when you perform the following:

  • Click a release activity.
  • Click a deployment plan.
  • Click the Create task button.
  • Click the Type drop-down and select Email.
  • In the Create task window, fill in the required fields.
  • Click the Save button.
  • For the Email task, click the Start task icon.
  • Receive the email and either click the Approve or Reject button. The default function is no security enforcement via login before task is accepted or rejected.
To enable the feature flag for this functionality, perform the following:
  • In a browser window, enter HTTPS://hostname:port/featureflags
  • In the Enter a feature name to enable it text field enter authorized-approval.
  • Click the Enable button.
Ingress controller
Installation issues for Kubernetes version 1.22 and later are resolved and upgrading from previous versions is recommended. Starting with Kubernetes version 1.19, the new resource type IngressClass is available. If your Ingress controller utilizes the IngressClass functionality, the default setting of ingress.className="nginx" works with the IngressClass functionality out of the box. If your Ingress controller does not utilizes the IngressClass functionality, specify --set ingress.className="" for it to properly function. Note: For Kubernetes version 1.19, the networking.k8s.io/v1 API was added for the Ingress resource and is utilized for the IBM™ UrbanCode Velocity Ingress installation. For Kubernetes version 1.22, the previous networking.k8s.io/v1beta1 API is deprecated and removed.
OpenShift template to Helm migration
The OpenShift template to Helm migration is planned for IBM UrbanCode Velocity version 2.5.4 when the OpenShift template installation is no longer available. At your earliest opportunity, make the required preparations for the migration to Helm. If you require additional assistance, contact support.

What's New in 2.5.2

Release date: 10 January 2022

Pipelines
On the Pipeline page, when you click the overflow menu on any environment except Input, you can select Override Inventory to manually modify and update a pipeline.
Releases
On the Releases page, an overall performance improvement is achieved for page loading. Functionally, the dialog box below the calendar now lists only events versus releases and events.
Roles
General performance improvements across the entire product.
Passwords
Regardless of the global permissions assigned to a user, you can modify your own password for the following conditions:
  • Your User type is Local.
  • Click Settings > Authorization > Users and then click the overflow menu and select Change password.
Security
Corrected the security issues including the following:

What's New in 2.5.1.iFix01

Release date: 16 December 2021

2.5.1.iFix01
Fixed security vulnerability for Apache Log4j 2 / Log4Shell.
Insights update
On the Insights page, when you click the Reports tab, available reports include the following:
  • Pipeline snapshot
  • Deployment audit
  • Deployment duration (Beta)
Security
  • The 2.5.1.ifix01 addresses the issue of the security vulnerability to CVE-2021-44228, Apache Log4j 2 / Log4Shell.
  • Fixed security vulnerabilities.

What's New in 2.5.0

Release date: 03 November 2021

Insights update
On the Insights page, when you click the Reports tab, available reports include the following:
  • Pipeline snapshot
  • Deployment audit
  • Deployment duration (Beta)
Release deployment plans
Optimized deployment rendering for improved performance including memory, CPU, and utilization of user sessions.
Installations and upgrades
For installations and upgrades of OpenShift and Kubernetes, at the Choose the platform prompt, you are presented with Kubernetes or OpenShift (Using Helm) as the platform. You can currently install IBM UrbanCode Velocity using service templates and the process should yield successful results without encountering any issues.
Note: Starting with future versions, installations of IBM UrbanCode Velocity as an OpenShift application using service templates will be deprecated and you should prepare migration to using Helm charts. If you are planning to migrate to using Helm charts, create a support ticket here and we will help you with the transition process. Otherwise, check upcoming release notes for more details when more information is available.
New roles and global scope
When you click Settings > Authorization > Roles, roles capabilities are expanded including the following features:
  • Addition of new roles.
  • Security for Value streams, Insights, and Settings.
  • Assign roles and manage global roles.
Help
For the Help icon:
  • When you click the question mark help icon, you can select either of the following items:
    • Documentation
    • Getting started
      • Redesigned the Getting started page.
      • Upon initial login, all users including admin are directed to the Getting started page.
    • Support portal
    • Ideas portal
    • Plugins
    • About
  • Changed the Help icon to the ? icon.
Settings
The Settings icon turns yellow for either or both of the following conditions:
  • User authentication is not configured.
  • Integrations are not installed.

What's New in 2.4.5

Release date: 24 August 2021

This release of IBM UrbanCode Velocity includes various defect fixes.

What's New in 2.4.4

Release date: 09 August 2021

Value stream update
On the Value Streams page, query recalculations are minimized and performed only when required.
Settings
On the Settings page:
  • When you click either the Integrations or Plugins tabs, you can Search for integrations or Search for plugins by entering the integrations or plugin names in the respective fields to list matches in either of the Name fields.
  • When you click either the Integrations or Plugins tabs, you can perform the following functions:
    • On the Integrations tab, you can sort the Name, Status, Type, and Last sync fields in ascending or descending order by clicking on the required table header field.
    • On the Plugins tab, you can sort the Name and Status fields in ascending or descending order by clicking on the required table header field.
  • When you click Email server:
    • In the Mail server sender name field, you can enter the name.
    • In the Mail server address field, you can enter a customizable alternate email address for messages sent from IBM UrbanCode Velocity .
  • Integration statuses polling function removed that displays a warning on the Settings icon.

What's New in 2.4.3

Release date: 26 July 2021

Value stream update
Added pr.approvals.count to query the number of approvals on a pull request to the DQL.
Pipeline update
On the Pipeline page, the manual deployment functionality is available in the auto-promotion environment.
Release update
On the Releases page, when you click a NAME, click a Plan, click the Create task button, in the Type drop-down select Delayed, in the Delay type drop-down select Delay by selecting a number of minutes, and in the Minutes field, you can enter the number of minutes between tasks.
IBM CloudPak
IBM CloudPak version 2.4.2 is released.
IBM UrbanCode Velocity login
On the IBM UrbanCode Velocity login page after an unsuccessful login attempt with error message displayed, the next attempt clears the message with a loading spinner and displays again if unsuccessful.
User Access Key Management table timestamps
When you click Settings > User Authorization > User Access Keys and hover either the Created or Last Used fields, a tooltip with a precise timestamp is displayed. The timestamp will not display when you hover over Not used. An example timestamp is Monday, February 15th 2010, 3:25:50 pm displayed in the tooltip.

What's New in 2.4.2

Release date: 13 July 2021

Reports
On the Reports page, updated the UI for an enhanced user experience.
Pipeline updates
On the Pipeline page, updated styles to improve color contrasting for versions and added buttons for alphabetical sorting of applications in ascending and descending order.
IBM CloudPak
IBM CloudPak version 2.4.2 is released.
Settings
On the Settings page for Plugins or Email Server, improved styles and wording for improved readability.
Security
  • When IBM UrbanCode Velocity has not been previously installed, a self-signed SSL certificate will be automatically generated for you with a duration of two years.
  • Fixed security issues.

What's New in 2.4.1

Release date: 01 July 2021

MongoDB replica sets
MongoDB replica sets are supported if configured by the customer. Additional details are found here.
Security
  • For Docker Compose upgrades of IBM UrbanCode Velocity with a default certificate replaced with a custom certificate, the installer tracks the latter certificate and reads the associated files from the directory location.
  • Fixed security issues.

What's New in 2.4.0

Release date: 23 June 2021

Value stream update
Added the IN operator to the DevOps query language.
Pipeline updates
  • On the Pipeline page, open pipeline deployment allows you to directly deploy and launch applications in Azure DevOps.
  • API-driven pipeline applications enable you to effectively populate the pipeline and move dots through the system solely through build and deployment uploads. You can use either the Create new application or Use existing application options to perform the aforementioned functions.
  • On the Pipeline page, improved UI layout features for the join release modal windows.
Auto-generated user access keys
Integrations support the capability to auto-generate the required user access keys that is implemented on a plugin by plugin basis. Refer to the plugin documentation page for the latest updates.
Security
Set administrator password at install. Existing installations via upgrades are not affected.
Reporting
On the Insights page, removed the UrbanCode Deploy Reports tab deprecated since version 2.0 and replaced with a combination of Insights dashboards and reports.