Every few months, the CircleCI product organization is going to round up some of the cool stuff we’ve created for you. Read on to learn about the new security, productivity, and speed features you can take advantage of.

Feb 2024

In this first edition, we’re excited to share the changes we think you’ll find most delightful. From security, to productivity and velocity, check out what’s launched and a sneak peek at what’s upcoming!

Security

Whether you use Cloud, Server or self-hosted runner, you’ll see enhancements this quarter. In our Server 4x release, the experience is now significantly more stable and cost-effective to run thanks to the new execution architecture. Config Policies are now fully supported on Server with the 4.3 release, allowing admins to govern their project configurations and specific conditions to allow for pipelines to trigger.

For anyone that uses self-hosted runners, machine runner 3.0 now has more uniform logs and metrics, and simplified setup and maintenance by offering convenient packages that allow you to easily integrate with your preferred cloud templating tool, withfaster feature enhancements to come.

All new plan types will now be able to set up user groups. This means admins can define specific permissions for their team, rather than depend on the inherited permissions from their version control system (VCS).

Productivity

Inbound webhook triggers allow teams to trigger a build based on a change to any source, not just from the VCS but also Docker Hub, Datadog, npm packaging registry and more. For example, you can now listen to every time a Docker image you rely on is updated so you can automate the testing/validation of that image without lifting a finger. This feature, now in open preview, means teams can be more productive and more aware of changes that might impact their work.

Our blog has a great article on a use case for this functionality to optimize MLOps pipelines, and you can read more in the docs.

Customers love the simplicity of using orbs. You can now deploy models using the Amazon SageMaker orb or use the updated Slack orb.

Velocity

Exciting news for our Scale plan customers, you now have access to three new GPU resource classes! CircleCI is the CI/CD of choice for building AI-enabled applications, with these new resources, users have noticed a 75% reduction in build times. Also in support of AI/ML building, our Linux CUDA images have been updated with AI/ML-specific software. Last but not least, anyone who uses the checkout command to check out code will notice a speed improvement.

We look forward to sharing big and small improvements that are in the works next time! If you want to stay in the know on what’s coming up for CircleCI, you can check out our Product Roadmap, or the announcements on CircleCI Discuss.

Here’s a longer list of product changes in the last few months:

Security

Productivity

Velocity

Upcoming