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Enterprises should prioritize securing their software artifacts to protect intellectual property (IP), maintain compliance, and mitigate supply chain risks. A strong security posture requires a deep understanding of access management, distribution controls, compliance enforcement, and software lifecycle governance.

We are excited to introduce a new capability in Bitbucket Pipelines – Step Failure Strategies. This is the first of a set of new features allowing developers to implement more comprehensive logic and control-flow inside their CI/CD pipelines. Failure Strategies are designed to give you explicit control over how your pipeline behaves in the event that an individual step within the pipeline fails.

We are excited to announce the release of ARM builds in the Pipelines cloud runtime. Our release of Linux based ARM runners in cloud allows you to build and deploy software for ARM-based systems with all the benefits of our fully managed CI/CD platform. To use the new cloud ARM runners in your pipeline, make the following modifications to your bitbucket-pipelines.yml file.

Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines power modern DevOps. They enable teams to deliver software faster, with greater reliability and confidence. However, as development accelerates, ensuring security, compliance, and quality becomes increasingly complex. Automated policy checks streamline CI/CD pipelines by addressing these challenges directly.

The Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) is a methodology that provides a structured process for developing high-quality software in a timely and cost-effective manner. The SDLC outlines software development as a series of tasks, creating a management framework focused on efficiency and quality. Software development is a tightly interwoven process that balances costs, deadlines, and capabilities.

The speed of today’s software development lifecycle is only getting faster. However, the complexity of today’s pipelines make it hard to track and manage the processes software releases must go through. With increasing regulatory pressures, ensuring and proving your software has gone through the necessary quality controls is no longer nice to have – it has become a necessity.

The core concept of developer experience (or DevEx) is simple: happy developers are more effective developers. Great developer experiences create opportunities for success, while poor DevEx leads to frustration and delays. Though the concept is easy to grasp, real-world developer experiences depend on many complex factors.