Prior to this release, when users commit changes to Git, Copado Essentials always generated a feature branch and commited changes to this feature branch. This approach promotes best practices and ensures that changes follow a proper pull request review process prior to merging.

While the above approach remains a best practice, we have also received feedback from users who would like the ability to commit directly to a target Git branch. The direct branch commits feature is now available in this release.

Please note that the Direct Branch Commit feature is currently disabled by default. If you would like this feature to be enabled for your team, please reach out to Copado Essentials Support.

We are glad to announce that the org sharing feature is now enabled by default for all new teams. Previously, this feature was disabled by default and was only enabled upon user requests.

A recent change at GitLab API has caused authentication requests from third-party apps including Copado Essentials to have failed. The GitLab authentication issue has been addressed in this release.