This release of HCL™ Accelerate 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 life cycle. 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 life cycle.

Use the Home page to view value streams, releases, and insights defined in your environment.

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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.

Install HCL™ Accelerateon Docker Compose container orchestrator.

HCL™ Accelerate is designed as a containerized application and can be installed in a Kubernetes cluster, which is a supported platform for production instances of HCL Accelerate.

You can install HCL™ Accelerate as an OpenShift application in the following ways,

You can uninstall HCL™ Accelerate by stopping the server and removing the product containers.

HCL™ Accelerate plugin installations on air-gapped networks.

Upgrade your installation to the full version.

Upgrade your Docker Compose installation.

Upgrade your Kubernetes installation.

You can upgrade HCL™ Accelerate in OpenShift using the following ways,

All production instances of HCL™ Accelerate must be installed on a Kubernetes platform. As a part of this migration, the instance of MongoDB need to be re-installed in a Kubernetes-accessible location. To migrate your MongoDB database, follow the steps below. After completion of these steps, follow the Kubernetes installation procedure to complete the installation of HCL Accelerate.

Starting with HCL™ Accelerate version 3.1.0, OpenShift installation via templates is no longer supported. It is highly recommended to migrate OpenShift template installation of HCL Accelerate to Kubernetes Helm charts on your next upgrade. After the successful migration, follow the Kubernetes upgrade directions.

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.

Configure your license or apply a trial key.

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.

Viewing value streams using list and card view layouts.

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

Insights reports are generated for the data that is aggregated in the Value streams, Pipelines, and Release categories. You can generate reports by clicking a button and then shared with the required stakeholders. You can run the following insights reports in HCL™ Accelerate.

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 plugin integrations to external tools.

Plugin versions incompatible with HCL™ Accelerate are prevented from installing.

Work with external tools by defining integrations.

Delete no longer needed integrations.

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

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

Use GraphQL to query API endpoints via HTTP.

The user interface provides access to reports.

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

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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