Bamboo DC 9.6 - Why is there an "unknown" tag along with the release version ?

[Arya Kumar]

Recently i upgraded our bamboo server from 6.3.1 server version to 9.6 data center version.I followed the documentation and did a step by step upgrade.  After the upgrade, I am able to build and deploy successfully but i haven't been able to figure why and from where this "unknown" tag is coming from. I don't see any errors in the logs.Any help on this is appreciated

[Shashank Kumar · Accepted solution]

Hello Arya,

Welcome to Atlassian community.

In Bamboo 9.4 release there was a new feature introduced to Safeguard your deployment environments against unapproved releases.

To help you make sure that a bad release never takes down your whole production environment (or never does that again), deployment environments now let you set their release approval policy. The policy lets you define the conditions a release must meet before it can be deployed. That is, which environments accept all releases, which ones accept approved releases, and which ones only accept releases that haven’t been marked as broken. If you change your mind later, just update the environment’s settings and you’re good to go.

Learn more about the release approval policy for deployment environments

Because of this the releases have now got a extra tag associated with them. UNKNOWN basically means that the release is neither approved nor broken, see example below

Case 1:

Here release 1 is showing as UNKNOWN because I have neither approved it nor made in broken but I have deployed it to some environment, see below.

Case 2:

Here release 2 is showing as Approved because I have approved it's status after it was deployed.

Regards,

Shashank Kumar

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[Arya Kumar]

Thanks Shashank .I missed this part completely.