Harness outage, 28 September 2026

File Store Expression Degraded : Returning Null

Started
Resolved
28 Sept 2026, 11:30 UTC
Impact
Minor

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### Summary On September 28, 2026, some customers on Prod-2 experienced failures in CD pipeline steps that read File Store content using pipeline expressions \(e.g., `<+fileStore.getAsString(...)>`\). Affected expressions returned null instead of the expected file content, causing dependent steps to fail or behave incorrectly. The issue was traced to a platform update that tightened authorization checks on File Store APIs. The update was rolled back, and File Store expressions have been working normally since. ### Customer Impact * Only pipeline steps on Prod-2 that read File Store content via expressions were affected. Pipelines that do not use File Store expressions were not impacted. *...

1 Oct 2026, 17:28 UTC

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