<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jithine/">Jithin Emmanuel,</a> Engineering Manager, Verizon Media</p><p>Screwdriver team is pleased to announce our newest release which brings in new features and bug fixes across various components.</p><p><b>New Features</b></p><ul><li><a href="https://github.com/screwdriver-cd/screwdriver/issues/1820">Group Events</a> in UI to visualize events started by restarting jobs in one place. </li><li><a href="https://github.com/screwdriver-cd/screwdriver/issues/2319">Template Composition</a> to enable Template authors to inherit job configuration from an existing Template</li><li><a href="https://github.com/screwdriver-cd/meta-cli/pull/43">Lua scripting</a> support in meta cli.</li><li>Launcher now <a href="https://github.com/screwdriver-cd/launcher/pull/390">bundles skopeo</a> binary.</li><li>UI to <a href="https://github.com/screwdriver-cd/screwdriver/issues/2168">highlight the latest event</a> in the events list.</li><li>Notification configuration validations errors can be <a href="https://github.com/screwdriver-cd/screwdriver/issues/2339">made into warnings</a>.</li><li>Build cache <a href="https://github.com/screwdriver-cd/screwdriver/issues/2348">performance enhancement</a> by optimizing compression algorithms. </li><li>Streamline <a href="https://github.com/screwdriver-cd/screwdriver/issues/2315">Collection deletion UI</a> flow.</li></ul><p><b>Bug Fixes</b></p><ul><li><a href="https://github.com/screwdriver-cd/screwdriver/issues/2313">SonarQube PR</a> analysis setting is not always added.</li><li>Session timeout was <a href="https://github.com/screwdriver-cd/ui/pull/661">leading to 404</a>.</li><li>Templates &amp; Commands UI page load time is now <a href="https://github.com/screwdriver-cd/screwdriver/issues/2312">significantly faster</a>.</li><li>Fix Templates <a href="https://github.com/screwdriver-cd/ui/pull/663">permalink</a>.</li><li>Clarify <a href="https://github.com/screwdriver-cd/screwdriver/issues/2303">directions for build cluster</a> queue setup. </li></ul><p><b>Compatibility List</b></p><p>In order to have these improvements, you will need these minimum versions:</p><ul><li><a href="https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/screwdrivercd/screwdriver">API</a> - v4.1.53</li><li><a href="https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/screwdrivercd/queue-service">Queue-Service</a> - v2.0.0</li><li><a href="https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/screwdrivercd/ui">UI</a> - v1.0.598</li><li><a href="https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/screwdrivercd/store">Store</a> - v4.0.2</li><li><a href="https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/screwdrivercd/launcher">Launcher</a> - v6.0.115</li><li><a href="https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/screwdrivercd/buildcluster-queue-worker">Build Cluster Worker</a> - v2.9.0</li></ul><p><b>Contributors</b></p><p>Thanks to the following contributors for making this feature possible:</p><ul><li><a href="https://github.com/adong">Alan</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/DekusDenial">Dekus</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/jithine">Jithin</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/ibu1224">Ibuki</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/wahapo">Kkawahar</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/kumada626">Keisuke </a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/klu909">Kevin</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/parthasl">Lakshminarasimhan</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/pritamstyz4ever">Pritam</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/scr-oath">Sheridan C Rawlins</a><br/></li><li><a href="https://github.com/tkyi">Tiffany</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/yoshwata">Yoshiyuki </a></li></ul><p><b>Questions and Suggestions</b></p><p>We’d love to hear from you. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out<a href="https://docs.screwdriver.cd/about/support"> here</a>. You can also visit us on<a href="https://github.com/screwdriver-cd"> Github</a> and<a href="https://slack.screwdriver.cd/"> Slack</a>.</p>