Recent Development Updates

Stay up to date with the latest changes and improvements from the Runbook Automation development team.

This page shows recently merged pull requests from both the Runbook Automation product repository and the open source Rundeck repository merged since the last self-hosted release of 5.17.0 on October 22, 2025.

Last SaaS Deployment: November 4, 2025

Recent Changes

Update nimbusJose for CVE-2025-53864

Bouncy Castle 1.79 for CVE-2025-8916

SSM cannot run job for more than 1 hour

Adds configurable SSM execution timeout functionality to allow AWS SSM jobs to run beyond the default 1-hour limit. The changes introduce a new ssm-execution-timeout configuration property that defaults to 3600 seconds (1 hour) but can be adjusted as needed.

Improvement in the create runner endpoint to validate assignedProjects prop format

Fixed an issue to avoid creating a runner via API with a wrong format to the assginedProject property. Currently, the runner is being created even if this property is not correct and it causes an error when listing runner from the GUI or via API

Fix RSS Feeds plugin not recognizing Dates on Microsoft RSS Feeds

Error that occurs when processing RSS feeds that use Z as the timezone indicator instead of standard abbreviations like GMT or UTC.

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About These Updates

The development updates are automatically generated from both our private repository for the commercial product and the public open source repository to provide complete visibility into changes deployed to the SaaS platform. They provide insight into active development features available in the Runbook Automation SaaS solution and will be released with the next Self Hosted release.

Note: These updates only reflect changes deployed to our SaaS platform. Self-hosted customers should refer to the Release Notes section for version-specific updates applicable to their installation.

List Last updated: 2025-11-07