Release Management (Beta) | Hangar DX podcast

Manage releases, deploys, rollbacks, and cherrypicks in a single dashboard. Works with your CI/CD. Verification and approval workflows with built-in audit logs.

Announcing Release Management

Inspired by Google’s Rapid, Aviator Releases helps teams manage releases, cherrypicks, deployments, and rollbacks. Connect it with your existing CI/CD to enable every engineer to review changelogs and manage deployments from a single dashboard.

• Track whether your changes are already deployed or still pending deployment

• Cut new releases and create cherrypicks across multiple releases with one click

• Control deployments for specific environments with verification and approval workflows

• Automatically rollback with a single click

Releases is still in private beta, please reply here to request invite.

Hangar DX Podcast

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Bug fixes and improvements

MergeQueue

• Updated draft PR title to be more explicit when using batches

• Added new Pilot action removed_from_batch

• Added cron job to clean up dangling mq-tmp and mq-bot branches

• Fixed timeline activities to properly display top and queued

• Affected targets improvements

  • Fixed resync logic

  • Correctly update dependent PRs

  • Properly handle skip line PRs

• Track closed stacked PRs better in parallel mode

• Fixed bug with update_latest config

FlexReview

• Removed global FlexReview suggestion if Teams is enabled

• Fixed bug that assigned PR creator as reviewer

• Fixed duplicate Slack notifications

AttentionSet

• Removed draft PRs from the dashboard

• Fixed the attention count on the dashboard navigation bar

Chrome Extension

• Updated to 1.8

av CLI - v0.0.35

Bug fixes

• av stack reorder detects the commits to reorder properly now

• av commit amend no longer fetches nor pushes to remote

• av commit create no longer fetches nor pushes to remote

Features

• When pushing a branch, av will set some properties on .git/config for programmatic access

• av stack branch now optionally takes the base branch

• New av stack tree UI

• New av stack orphan command to stop managing branches with av

• New av stack switch command to interactively switch the branch

• You can now include the stack tree state in the PR body

• av stack submit added a new option --currrent to create PRs up to the current branch

Behavior changes

• av stack submit will open PR URLs at once at the beginning. This prevents going back and forth between the browser and the terminal.

• av stack sync synced the children by default. This will sync branches in the current stack instead.

• av stack sync will checkout the local trunk branch instead of checking out the detached HEAD.

On-prem release - version 2024.05.02-2

Release notes