November 17, 2022

To: Continuous Delivery Director Customers

From: The Broadcom Continuous Delivery Director Product Team

Subject: General Availability Announcement for Continuous Delivery Director 8.3

 On behalf of Broadcom, we appreciate your business and the opportunity to provide you with high-quality, innovative software and services. As part of our ongoing commitment to customer success, we regularly release updated versions of our products. Today, we are pleased to announce that Continuous Delivery Director 8.3 is now available. 

New features for Continuous Delivery Director include: 

• Integration with Grafana - Build Grafana dashboards and stunning data visualizations with test execution, task execution, and deployment metrics.
• Flexible application model - You can associate an application with more than one business application.
• Application and business application versioning - You can update application versions separately in an associated business application version.
• Build notifications for business application versions - You can automate release creation per business application version through the build notifications.
• Continuous testing agent management page - View, edit, enable/disable, and delete agents in one place with our new cross-project Continuous Testing Agents page.
• Define test tags during runtime - Allow setting the adaptive testing tasks tags in run time.
• Sync test sources before phase execution - A new option was added to sync all relevant test sources before executing an adaptive testing task.
• Application source added to build notifications - Application source parameters ensure CDD can parse build notifications even if application names are not unique.
• Monitor running tests - You can now access a test execution log from a release page to see which tests are executed at any given time.

We have included a Product Brief that details the features and highlights of this release. We also encourage you to visit the Continuous Delivery Director product information page on the Broadcom Support Online website at https://support.broadcom.com/ for more information or read the product documents at https://techdocs.broadcom.com/cdd. 

You can download your copy of Continuous Delivery Director 8.3 from Broadcom Support Online https://support.broadcom.com/. If you have any questions or require assistance please contact Broadcom Customer Care online at https://www.broadcom.com/support/software/contact where you can submit an online request using the Customer Care web form: https://ca-broadcom.wolkenservicedesk.com/web-form?_ga=2.205828371.1432263889.1590607313-713014253.1588711301. You can also call Broadcom Customer Care at +1-800-225-5224 in North America or see https://www.broadcom.com/support/software/contact for the local number in your country. 

Should you need any assistance, our Broadcom Services experts can help. For more information on Broadcom Services and how you can leverage our experience, please visit https://www.broadcom.com/support/ca/services-support/ca-services.

Your success is very important to us, and we look forward to continuing our successful partnership with you.

To review Broadcom Support lifecycle policies, please review the Broadcom Support Policy and Terms located at: https://support.broadcom.com/.

Thank you again for your business.