HCL DevOps Deploy 2025.03 (8.1.1) Now Available

Announcing the release of HCL DevOps Deploy 8.1.1 (2025.03): HCL DevOps Deploy (formerly known as HCL Launch) is an application-release solution with automation infused into continuous delivery and continuous deployment (CI/CD) process while providing robust visibility, traceability and auditing capabilities.

There’s new enhancements and features in the 8.1.1 release to improve the user interface, security, as well as usability of the solution.  To see all the details of 8.1.1, please see the What's New page.

Enhancements in DevOps Deploy 8.1.1:

Enhanced the New Dashboard View

Optimized dashboard statistics reporting time to more quickly update the dashboard with latest deployment details. See Dashboard for more details on how it tracks, analyzes, and monitors your deployments and agents better than before.

Added Support for Java Distribution on AIX Hosts Running the Deploy Agent

Manage Java on your AIX agents, as shown in the example below: 

See Managing Java packages on an agent for more details.

Enhanced the ”Maintenance Blackouts” Feature

Create a “maintenance blackout” with a usual recurrence pattern, description, schedule, and a calendar view.

See Management of maintenance blackouts for more information.

Enhanced the Deployment Log User Interface

• A “toggle” option allows you to hide skipped steps in the deployment log.
• A ”status” filter to show the execution steps by its status, such as: Any, Not Executed, Success, Cancelled, and Failed. With this change, you’ll get a quicker review of the output in a deployment execution.

Added Support for Java 11 in FIPS Mode

Install the server, agent, and agent relay on IBM Semeru Runtimes, which includes FIPS 140-3. Also, you can enable FIPS manually on the systems running the server, agent, and agent relay.

See FIPS mode enablement for more information.

Added a Secure Property for Changing Tomcat Private Key Password

The Tomcat private key password can be changed using the tomcat.key.password property in the secured-installed.properties file.

See Changing passwords for the Tomcat keystore for more information.

Added a “Cancel” Option for Deployments Stalled in ”Waiting to Start” State

Cancel stalled deployments in the ”waiting to start” state. 

See Cancelling stalled deployments for more information.

Added Support to Allow One to Select Multiple Required-role Option for Application and Component Processes

Assign multiple roles while editing application and component processes.

See Creating component processes for more details.:

Added REST APIs to Get Deploy Tokens with Their Expiration Dates

• getAuthTokensForUser to get authentication tokens for a specific user.
• getAuthTokens to get a list of all authentication tokens.
• getAuthToken to get details of a specific authentication token.
• revokeAuthToken to revoke a specific authentication token.

Added REST API to Get Task ID and Task Details for Manual Task Approvals Using Only ApplicationProcessRequestId

Added the getApplicationProcessRequest CLI endpoint to return the task ID and details associated with approval processes of an application process request.

See Get applicatlon process request properties for more information.

Added REST APIs to Import and Export Application Processes

• importApplicationProcess to import an application process. See Import an application process.
• exportApplicationProcess to export an application process. See Export an application process.
• importComponentTemplateProcess to import a component template process. See Import component template from json file.
• exportComponentTemplateProcess to export a component template process.  See Export a component template to a json file.
• importComponentProcess to import a component process. See Import a component process.
• exportComponentProcess to export a component process. See Export a component process.

Mainframe Enhancements

With the DevOps Deploy 8.1.1 release, we’ve provided the following enhancements for our zOS customers:

• Submit job plugin step enhanced to handle job archival in a more reliable manner
• Wait-for-job plugin step enhanced to handle job not found behavior
• Z Inventory feature is now supported for agent versions prior to the 7.3.1 release
• V2 version types use CP commands for deploying datasets as opposed to XMIT commands in the past

Process As Code (PAAC)

A new Process as Code (PAAC) feature aims to allow users to configure their processes as code and store them in a git repository as a single source of truth. The processes can be written in a JSON or YAML format and the PAAC tool comes with scripts to interface with DevOps Deploy to update the processes.

As your code is committed to a git repository or a pull request is initiated, leverage our utility scripts to upload the new process as code to your Deploy Server. 

Summary

As you can see from all of the enhancements above, we’re fully committed to the HCL DevOps Deploy product and will continue to enhance the solution with heavy emphasis on the feedback of our customers. Investment is occurring across the board in the solution, including the mainframe, container deployments, processes as code, and more.