Q2 2026 Product Update: Harness Pipeline

Harness Pipeline’s Q2 2026 update introduces 20 enhancements focused on flexible execution, governance, Git workflows, and operational visibility. A beta DAG pipeline model lets stages use explicit dependencies for fan-out, fan-in, and parallel workflows, while pipeline chaining supports looping strategies, matrix exclusions are evaluated before execution, barrier cycles are caught during validation, and cron triggers gain AND-based scheduling. Governance additions include AI-assisted OPA policy authoring, enforcement of policies on Git-backed changes, six-month policy evaluation retention, and cloud storage for large evaluation inputs. The release also adds account-wide execution management, configurable template overrides and semantic template labels, a dry-run API for validating Git-based YAML before commits, expanded tag filtering, Git-tag references for pipelines and input sets, webhook and repository-health monitoring, input-set caching, and Git-based YAML support in dynamic stages. Other improvements include multi-line variables and notifications when pipelines pause for required user action.

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