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title: July
slug: release-notes/july-2024
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createdAt: 2026-04-29T13:59:52.755Z
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# July 31, 2024

## DevOps Intelligence

**SonarQube Enterprise Edition now supported**: DevOps Intelligence has expanded tool support to include SonarQube Enterprise Edition, accommodating your DevOps stable of tools.

**New test category, Blocked, supported**: DevOps Intelligence now supports **Blocked** test cases, expanding report statuses to include test cases that could not be performed because of any blockers.

**QMetry now supported**: DevOps Intelligence has expanded tool support to include QMetry for test management, accommodating your DevOps stable of tools.
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# July 24, 2024

## Cost & Asset Management

**FinOps maturity widget release for Kyndryl Bridge and CAM**: This widget offers a clear view of on-demand, reserved instances, and savings plan consumption across AWS and Azure. Users can compare their consumption with FinOps benchmarks, enhancing the management of commitment-based discounts by highlighting patterns and trends. It allows benchmarking against industry standards, identifying areas for improvement, and enabling informed decisions for efficient cloud resource management.
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# July 17, 2024

## Kyndryl Bridge

**Enhanced global navigation**: The Kyndryl Bridge account switcher now displays the name of the account being viewed to help users better understand the account context and expedite daily activities such as support and demos.

## Console

**Enhanced Console experience**: The user experience in Kyndryl Bridge Console has been improved to streamline interactions. Enhancements include UI changes in text formatting and alignment, and improved hover state behaviors. These updates are implemented on the Chrome and Firefox browsers.

## Services Catalog

**New Azure Stack HCI Assessment for existing customers**: Users with an existing Azure HCI Stack subscription can now access the full Azure Stack HCI Assessment native integration from Bridge. This assessment allows you to evaluate the solution and integrate on-premises systems with Azure, enabling you to run virtual machines and containerized workloads locally while connecting to Azure for cloud-based services such as observability, security, and unified operations. Future enhancements will include integration with Console via widgets and storage of assessment results within Bridge.
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# July 11, 2024

## Platform Management

**Activation email enhancements**: To improve the account activation process and reduce the number of expired invitations, a new permission allows only permitted users to resend the activation email to users.

**Personal accounts deletion**: Administrators can now trigger an account offboarding to initiate a soft deletion for personal accounts with a long period of inactivity. Email notifications will automatically send to designated users.

**Control Tower UI updated**: The user interface of the Control Tower has been updated to improve the user experience.

## Services Catalog

**UI page enhancements**: To improve the customer experience, the following pages have been updated:

- Request for Quote
- Request for Subscription
- Request for Consultation
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# July 4, 2024

## Kyndryl Bridge

**Terms and Conditions updated**: All Kyndryl Bridge users are now required to review and accept the Terms and Conditions before using any Kyndryl services.

## Platform Management

**Enhancements to account ownership**: The Kyndryl Bridge team can now change the account owner after the account onboarding process is complete. This technique allows the transfer of account ownership to account managers or delivery partners following the initial setup.

**New access groups available for Kyndryl AIOps**: New service-specific access groups have been created to view, operate, and administrate the Kyndryl AIOps service

## Services Catalog

**STAAR subscription available in Kyndryl Bridge**: STAAR is now integrated in Kyndryl Bridge, which allows users to submit subscription requests for this service.
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