This release of HCL™ Accelerate is a maintenance release and includes various bug fixes and enhancements. This release is recommended for all customers. This topic provides a summary of enhancements and bug fixes.

HCL™ Accelerate is available in several editions.

A release represents the delivery of multiple applications through one or more phases of a lifecycle. A typical release includes many deployments to test environments and a small number of highly orchestrated deployments to staging and production. Release managers can define milestones that lead up to the release, as well as a plan to deliver participating applications to each phase of the lifecycle.

Use the Home page to view pipelines, releases, and reports defined in your environment.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been adopted by the European Union (EU) and applies from May 25, 2018.

In this tutorial, we integrate Jira work items into a value stream and control value stream data with DevOps query language (DQL) queries.

In this tutorial, you integrate the popular tools Git and Jira into a value stream and link them together.

In this tutorial, you create a custom metric definition and use it to provide data to HCL™ Accelerate.

The installation roadmap is a description of the high-level steps for installing HCL™ Accelerate.

Migrating Docker Compose to Kubernetes

Configuring an email server

Use the Calendar Settings page to manage the appearance of calendar events.

The HCL™ Accelerate security model is organization- and team-based. The organization is the base element; teams belong to organizations. Team members manage releases, events, and deployments. Administrators manage teams and assign users to them.

Control the amount of detail sent to log files.

Create a value stream and then customize it by defining phases and stages that reflect your typical workflow.

Assess project quality, progress, and performance with the HCL™ Accelerate metric data tools.

Manage a value stream's displayed data by applying filters and queries.

Use the DevOps query language to filter the information displayed in your value stream.

Pipelines provide a streamlined method to manage the applications in your development lifecycle. With pipelines, you can auto-generate deployment plans and deploy applications versions to all environments.

Managing Insights dashboards

The HCL™ Launch reports feature provides charts and reports for data imported from HCL Launch.

Use the release details page to view details about a specific release.

Release management is the process of planning, scheduling, and controlling software deliveries.

You can archive a release to remove it from the list of releases.

An event represents a release-related activity that you manage with the calendar. A tag is a label that you can add to a release or an event. You can use tags to filter the Activities list on the Releases page. Tags do not appear on the calendar.

You can restore archived releases, deployment plans, and templates.

A deployment plan is a container for tasks. Tasks define the activities that your team runs to complete a software deployment.

Complete deployments by resolving the tasks in a deployment plan.

A task represents a business-meaningful activity that is associated with a software deployment. Each task is defined on a separate row in a deployment plan. During a deployment, you run tasks defined in the deployment plan to complete the deployment.

A deployment plan can contain user-defined properties. Properties values can be defined at design- or run-time.

Extend HCL™ Accelerate by configuring plug-in integrations to external tools.

Work with external tools by defining integrations.

You can create your own plug-ins and install them in HCL™ Accelerate. After installing custom plug-ins, you can integrate them in your releases, reports, and value streams.

Native integrations add external functionality to releases, deployment plans, and pipelines.

Upload metrics data by using an external client to access API endpoints.

The user interface provides access to reports.

Use the Home page to create one of the following reports.

Use filters to drill down into or broaden the information in the report.

You can organize the layout of report charts in custom reports to put information into a meaningful order.

Use the Home page to view, modify, and remove existing report. You can also create reports from this page.

You can share reports with others in your organization and who are authenticated to HCL™ Accelerate. By default, you see only the reports that you create.

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