March 12, 2024

To:         Continuous Delivery Director Customers

From:     The Broadcom Continuous Delivery Director Product Team

Subject:  General Availability Announcement for Continuous Delivery Director 8.6

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 8.6 is now available. 

• Security Enhancements - Vulnerable components were upgraded to clear all critical and high vulnerabilities 
• Added Tags to Tokens - To ease on the token management, you can tag a release token, and filter the tokens list by a specific tag. In addition, you can click on the token name, and this will open the token for editing.
• Security Report - Show added/removed items over time - Show daily view of added and removed items.
• Change the setting settings.properties to sign the SAML Auth Request - Add option to send signed SAML authentication request.
• Improve Login process - When SAML is defined, by default hide the password field and show it only if the login username is the super user. In addition you can  store the username in the local storage
• UI/UX Enhancements - 
• You can right click on a release and "open in a new tab" 
• The track improved such the release name is clickable and can be opened in a new tab
• The "Duplicate Release" option added to the release context menu 
• The plugin Last sync date added to the plugins page 
• We improved the tasks drag and drop experience within the release  

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/.

You can download your copy of Continuous Delivery Director 8.6 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.