# Q2 2026 Product Update: Harness Pipeline

DevFeed: [Q2 2026 Product Update: Harness Pipeline](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/q2-2026-product-update-harness-pipeline-13463.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.harness.io/blog/q2-2026-product-update-harness-pipeline>)

Author: Vishal Vishwaroop

Published: 2026-08-06T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Harness Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/harness-blog.md>)

Topics: [ci](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ci.md>), [Git](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/git.md>), [opa](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/opa.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>), [Developer experience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/developer-experience.md>), [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>)

Tags: [2026](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2026.md>), [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [ci](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ci.md>), [developer-experience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-experience.md>), [git](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/git.md>), [opa](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/opa.md>), [pipeline](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pipeline.md>), [pipelines](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pipelines.md>), [update](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/update.md>)

## AI overview

Harness's Q2 2026 Pipeline update introduces beta DAG pipelines, allowing stages to declare explicit dependencies. It also adds looping strategies for chained pipelines, earlier matrix exclusions, template and governance improvements, Git-backed entity enforcement, execution visibility, and a pipeline dry-run API.

## Source excerpt

DAG pipelines, template overrides, OPA enforcement on Git-backed entities, Git Experience monitoring, and 20 pipeline improvements -- Q2 2026 in review. | Blog