Releasesby IbisDynamic Parallelism for Smarter Testing
UpdateyesterdayUnverifiedAdded Oct 16, 2026
Instead of always starting with full parallelism as set in the config, Dynamic Parallelism can scale the number of parallel nodes your test job needs depending on the number of tests that were selected by Smarter Testing’s Intelligent Test Selection.
Topics: Streaming, Pricing, Performance
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You can now assign a scope to Personal API Tokens, controlling exactly what access a token grants. Previously, every Personal API Token was issued with full admin-level access, regardless of what the token was actually used for. Now, when creating a new token, you can choose one of three scopes - Read, Write or Admin.
Additional AWS fallback regions for machine executor and remote Docker
We are adding two AWS compute regions, us-west-1 and us-west-2 . They join us-east-2 as fallback regions. CircleCI uses a fallback region when capacity is not available in the primary region. This change improves availability. What is affected Machine executor jobs and remote Docker can run in a fallback region.
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Smarter Testing is now generally available for all Cloud customers. Since beta, teams have used test impact analysis, dynamic test splitting, and automatic rerun of failed tests to run fewer tests, run them faster, and get signal sooner, while maintaining full confidence. What’s included Smarter Testing is a comprehensive set of testing capabilities.
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Machine Runner Orchestrator Release 1.0.1
New Run runner VMs on spot nodes to cut compute costs, without failing jobs when a node is reclaimed. Set runner.enableUnsafeRetries on a resource class, and a job that is still running when its VM shuts down is retried on another VM instead of failing. The job restarts from the beginning, so only enable it for jobs that are safe to run more than once.
Runner Release 3.1.13
Machine Runner: Run machine runners on spot or preemptible instances to cut compute costs, without failing jobs when an instance is reclaimed. With the new runner.enable_unsafe_retries option, a job that is still running when the runner receives SIGINT , SIGTERM or SIGHUP is retried on another runner instead of failing.
Introducing Gen2 Arm Resource Classes (Beta)
Gen2 Arm resource classes for Docker and Linux VM / Remote Docker are now available in Beta on CircleCI, delivering priority access to newer-generation Arm CPUs that are up to 94% faster than gen1 for your Linux workloads, at a lower credit cost.
The CircleCI plugin for JetBrains IDEs: watch, debug and manage your runs without leaving the IDE
The CircleCI plugin for JetBrains IDEs is now available on the JetBrains Marketplace . It brings your CircleCI runs, jobs and config into IntelliJ IDEA and the other JetBrains IDEs, so you can see what CI is doing and act on it without switching to the browser.
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