v6.71.0

v6.71.0 (2026-08-06)

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Changed

• Update buildkite-agent to v3.136.2 #1855 (@renovate[bot])
• Update buildkite-agent to v3.136.1 #1853 (@renovate[bot])

Internal

• Return to released goss binary #1854 (@scadu)

Agent Changelog (v3.136.2)

What's Changed

✨ Added

• A-1641: Consume control-plane OTLP exporter configuration from registration by @lox in buildkite/agent#4165

🐛 Fixed

• fix: Skip post-fetch mirror scan without URL by @pda in buildkite/agent#4172
• fix: Backport #4179 warm mirror hit fix to v3 and release v3.136.2 by @pda in buildkite/agent#4186

🏠 Internal

• fix: Restore local mirror warm-hit performance by @pda in buildkite/agent#4171
• [Backport] e2e tests: Include job logs in agent logs by @DrJosh9000 in buildkite/agent#4177
• build(deps): bump the cloud-providers group with 10 updates by @dependabot[bot] in buildkite/agent#4184
• Allow releases from diverged v3 history by @pda in buildkite/agent#4188

Full Changelog: buildkite/agent@v3.136.0...v3.136.2

Agent Changelog (v3.136.1)

What's Changed

✨ Added

• A-1641: Consume control-plane OTLP exporter configuration from registration by @lox in buildkite/agent#4165

🏠 Internal

• fix: Restore local mirror warm-hit performance by @pda in buildkite/agent#4171

Full Changelog: buildkite/agent@v3.136.0...v3.136.1

Agent Changelog (v3.136.0)

What's Changed

✨ Added

• feat: add non-cone mode support for sparse checkout by @lox in buildkite/agent#4127
• Document step parallelism updates by @catkins in buildkite/agent#3941
• A-1547: Add --job-context-dir to configure job coordination file locations by @zhming0 in buildkite/agent#4142
• Add provider-neutral repository access credentials by @pda in buildkite/agent#4152
• feat: Populate on-host mirrors from remote mirrors by @pda in buildkite/agent#4161
• feat: Refresh reused checkouts from remote mirrors by @pda in buildkite/agent#4162
• feat: Clone fresh checkouts from remote mirrors by @pda in buildkite/agent#4163

🐛 Fixed

• Fix commit verification with non-default branches by @petetomasik in buildkite/agent#4094
• A-1553: Restore OTel job attributes as resource attributes by @zhming0 in buildkite/agent#4137

🔧 Changed

• SUP-6153: Warn instead of comment when submodule init is skipped for sparse checkout by @lizrabuya in buildkite/agent#4143
• Honour cone mode on git older than 2.35 by @lox in buildkite/agent#4130

🏠 Internal

• Add development environment setup instructions by @lox in buildkite/agent#4129
• Upgrade to Go 1.26.5 by @DrJosh9000 in buildkite/agent#4134
• build(deps): bump github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-go/v2 from 2.7.1 to 2.8.1 by @dependabot[bot] in buildkite/agent#4136
• build(deps): bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.82.0 to 1.82.1 by @dependabot[bot] in buildkite/agent#4135
• Upgrade go-pipeline to v0.18.0, jwx to v3.2.0 by @DrJosh9000 in buildkite/agent#4139
• Fix flaky TestIsStdinIsReadableWithAPipe by draining stdin in the test helper by @claude[bot] in buildkite/agent#4140
• docs: Requirements and delivery plan for remote Git mirrors by @pda in buildkite/agent#4158
• Bound Cmd.Wait so a leaked stdout/stderr pipe can't hang hooks by @claude[bot] in buildkite/agent#4141
• feat: Add remote Git mirror foundations by @pda in buildkite/agent#4160
• build(deps): bump the cloud-providers group with 11 updates by @dependabot[bot] in buildkite/agent#4167
• ci: Update Test Engine client to v3 by @meghan-kradolfer in buildkite/agent#4168

New Contributors

• @claude[bot] made their first contribution in buildkite/agent#4140
• @meghan-kradolfer made their first contribution in buildkite/agent#4168

Full Changelog: buildkite/agent@v3.135.0...v3.136.0

Upgrading

Perform a CloudFormation stack update with the following URL:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/buildkite-aws-stack/v6.71.0/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):