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Announcing General Availability for Release Automation v6.2

By Anon Anon posted Jul 29, 2016 03:20 PM

  

Effective: Friday, July 29, 2016

 

We are pleased to announce the availability of CA Release Automation 6.2

 

What’s New:

 

CA Release Automation

 

CA Release Automation 6.2 contains all cumulative updates on top of Release Automation 6.1 and the following new capabilities and improvements:

 

  • New Certifications and Platform Support
    • AIX 7.2 agent support
    • Oracle Linux 6.7 support for all Release Automation tiers
  • Java 8 Support for Agents– Agents can run on Java 8 (Windows, UNIX and AIX)
  • Ability to delete unused environments
  • Public REST API for Permissions Management
    • Get user permissions
    • Set user permissions
    • Set user permissions in batch
    • Get group permissions
    • Set group permissions
    • Set group permissions in batch

TFS 2015 plugin – Allows users to create deployments with the artifacts created on a given build.

You can find more details on these features here 

 

CA Release Automation Continuous Delivery Edition

 

CA Release Automation Continuous Delivery Edition augments core CA Release Automation deployment capabilities with advanced capabilities to help you manage a complex and maturing continuous delivery pipeline.

As part of the CA Release Automation solution set, CA Release Automation Continuous Delivery Edition offers an easily configurable, visual, strategic, control point for managing, orchestrating, and optimizing the continuous delivery pipeline. Its benefits include the following:

  • Efficiently design and release multi-app, multi-team, composite applications from agile output through production—avoiding conflicts, driving collaboration and increasing visibility
  • Connect delivered content with business goals by tracking content such as user stories across the releases
  • Integrate with and orchestrate various tools that participate in your continuous delivery pipeline, enabling teams to leverage their preferred tool chains
  • Plan and execute releases using a flexible, visual interface that gives you complete control over your release cycle
  • Improve quality of processes, teams, and applications by defining and enforcing continuous delivery best practices

 

CA Release Automation Continuous Delivery Edition 6.2 contains the following new capabilities

  • Improved security model
    Allows better control and segregation of duty inside CDE. The release owner can now control who can perform which operation by assigning owners to the different phases and tasks inside the release. Access to third parties is controlled with a list of authorized users per endpoint.
  • Notification alerts
    Minimizes ‘time to action’ by sending email notifications to owners for important events, such as task failure. Notifications are sent automatically to all owners of the relevant task/phase/release.
  • New integration with CA Agile Central
    A new integration task with CA Agile Central (Rally) allows you to check the test case results in Rally to help you decide whether to promote the release to the next phase.
  • Dependency management
    Allows you to manage your functional /API dependencies between applications and avoid deploying partial content. For example, App1 has a new feature that requires a new API in App2. This is a functional dependency. Deploying the new version of App1 without deploying the corresponding version of App2 will break the new capability. You can now define these dependencies so that CDE can alert you when partial deployments are planned.
  • Manual approval on a phase
    Increase control and avoid errors in controlled environments (such as production) by configuring a manual approval on these phases. Only permitted people can approve, and deployment cannot start without this approval.

 

You can find more details on these features here

 

Download!     

 

You can download the software from CA Support site

 

Suggestions for Future Enhancements to CA Release Automation?

 

Should you have suggestions for new actions or comments regarding CA Release Automation, please contact the sales account team/or share your ideas on the CA Communities website:

 

Communities.CA.com

 

Questions, Comments and Your Feedback!

 

Please direct any questions or comments to the CA Support Team or refer to the CA Support Site to open a helpdesk issue

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