v6.68.0

v6.68.0 (2026-07-01)

Full Changelog

Changed

• Update buildkite-agent to v3.129.0 #1820 (@renovate[bot])
• Update buildkite-agent to v3.130.0 #1824 (@renovate[bot])
• Update session-manager-plugin to v1.2.835.0 #1823 (@renovate[bot])
• Update aws-cli to v2.35.13 #1822 (@renovate[bot])
• Build goss from source #1821 (@scadu)
• Enhance termination script with improved metadata fetching #1814 (@nsuma8989)
• Update changelogs for upcoming v6.67.0 #1818 (@lizrabuya)

Agent Changelog

What's Changed

✨ Added

• Agent identity now available in lifecycle hooks. The agent-startup and agent-shutdown hooks now receive BUILDKITE_AGENT_IDS and BUILDKITE_AGENT_NAMES — comma-separated lists of the IDs and names of all agents registered by the process, in spawn order. Autoscalers and other hook consumers can discover registered agents from the hook environment instead of querying the API - by @catkins in buildkite/agent#4023
• feat: add support for GIT LFS checkout by @lizrabuya in buildkite/agent#3909
• Debounce buildkite-agent job promise-failure via the Job API by @jordandcarter in buildkite/agent#3996

🐛 Fixed

• Avoid overriding BUILDKITE_GIT_SPARSE_CHECKOUT_PATHS when agent has no sparse config by @lizrabuya in buildkite/agent#4029

🔧 Changed

• feat: Add --reject-parse-warnings flag to fail pipeline upload on p… by @ss1909 in buildkite/agent#4031

🏠 Internal

• Stacked review changes for #3996 by @moskyb in buildkite/agent#4027
• A-1414: support hosted cache by @zhming0 in buildkite/agent#4028
• A-1453: tune cache restore s3 backend concurrency and part size by @zhming0 in buildkite/agent#4037

Full Changelog: buildkite/agent@v3.129.0...v3.130.0

Agent Changelog (v3.128.0 → v3.129.0)

What's Changed

✨ Added

• Concurrently register spawn by @DrJosh9000 in buildkite/agent#4014
• redactor add: Add optional filtering like env vars by @DrJosh9000 in buildkite/agent#3605
• Add meta-data set-batch command by @pda in buildkite/agent#3791

🔧 Changed

• Skip tracking unchanged slices in ReadFromEnvironment (suppress BUILDKITE_GIT_SUBMODULE_CLONE_CONFIG log noise) by @lizrabuya in buildkite/agent#4015

🏠 Internal

• perf: speed up job integration tests by @lox in buildkite/agent#3842
• chore: put cache logs in collapsed group by @buildkate in buildkite/agent#4017
• chore: resolve default cache configuration file by @buildkate in buildkite/agent#4018
• fix(cache): set flag as name singular by @buildkate in buildkite/agent#4024

Full Changelog: buildkite/agent@v3.128.0...v3.129.0

Upgrading

Perform a CloudFormation stack update with the following URL:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/buildkite-aws-stack/v6.68.0/aws-stack.yml

If you want to launch a new stack, you can use this link (make sure not to use your production AWS account, create a new one for CI):