What's New in Argo CD v3.4

Explore Akuity’s Argo CD resources → https://akuity.io/blog/argo-101-what-... In this video, Nitish (Software Engineer at Akuity and Argo CD maintainer) walks through the Argo CD 3.4 release and highlights what’s new, what’s changing, and what you need to watch out for when upgrading. The focus of this release is “day-2 operations” — helping teams operate Argo CD at scale in real production environments. You’ll learn about key new features like cluster-wide reconciliation pause for incident response, ApplicationSet UI improvements, Microsoft Teams workflow migrations, Helm value file globbing, and major application list filtering upgrades. The video also covers important breaking changes, including cluster version formatting updates and behavioral changes in health reporting. Key Takeaways Argo CD 3.4 focuses on operating safely in production with features like cluster-wide reconciliation pause, better incident response controls, and improved observability for large environments. ApplicationSet now has a UI panel (behind a feature flag), Helm value file glob patterns simplify environment management, and application filtering is significantly more powerful. Teams must migrate Microsoft Teams notifications to Power Automate workflows, and adjust to Kubernetes version format changes and updated health status behavior to avoid automation issues. Timestamps 00:00 Introduction to Argo CD 3.4 00:25 Release cadence & support lifecycle 00:57 Why this release starts at 3.4.1 01:16 Day-2 operations theme overview 01:48 Pause reconciliation for clusters 02:52 Emergency hotfix workflow challenges 03:18 ApplicationSet UI overview 04:11 Feature flag behavior 04:44 Microsoft Teams workflow migration 05:59 Helm value file glob patterns 07:16 Application list filtering improvements 09:00 Kubernetes version format breaking change 10:08 Health status behavior changes 10:55 Wrap-up & upgrade reminder Helpful Links Learn more about the Akuity Platform → https://akuity.io/akuity-platform?utm... Request a demo → https://akuity.io/get-in-touch?utm_me... Follow Akuity on LinkedIn:   / akuityio   Contact support: https://akuity.io/connect-with-akuity... Hashtags #ArgoCD #Kubernetes #GitOps #DevOps #Helm #CloudNative