Today we released the release candidate for TFS 2015 Update 3.  Update 3 is a modest release with only a few features and bug fixes for top reported issues.

• TFS web install: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=626619
• TFS ISO: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=626620
• TFS Express web install http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=690653
• TFS Express ISO http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=690654
• TFS Office Integration web install http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=626605
• TFS Office Integration ISO http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=629654
• TFS Project Server Extensions EXE http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=733507
• TFS Project Server Extensions ISO http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=690661
• Release notes

The features in TFS 2015 Update 3 include:

• SSH Support in our Git server – 2,690 UserVoice votes.  This will make authentication from Linux and Macs even easier than before.
• Dashboard SDK – Now you can install customized dashboard widgets on your TFS server.  The marketplace is your playground 🙂
• Azure, SCVMM and VMWare provisioning support – Now provision test environments in your CI/CD pipeline in any of Azure, SCVMM or VMWare.

We fixed a lot of bugs.  About 140 in total.  I spent about an hour curating the bug list and below are my results…  I still have to go through the bugs in our Release Management and Test areas.  If I don’t get to that soon, I’ll make sure we get them for our final Update 3 release.  ***UPDATE June 8th *** I’ve added the rest of the bug fixes now.  As you can see, there are quite a few.  I apologize that not all of the titles are intuitive to understand but I’m sure they made sense to someone 🙂 Version control

• VS: Cannot open a deleted file from commit history
• ‘go to child’ button should be disabled when root node is selected in branch history graph
• Can no longer amend just the message in Git Changes when there are modified files present
• “Git for Windows” V2 and V3 are both detected on the machine after V3 is installed on top of V2
• Switching between branches via git.exe causes problems with VS
• Glitches in history graph highlighting
• Create _Branch shortcut collides with Build menu in VS
• VSO defaults to deleted branch and spews lots of error messages…way too hard to get back to a good state
• GIT Pull Request Alert not added properly
• Team Explorer fails with “Object not found – no matching loose object (<sha1>)” when object exists.
• Grammatical error in error message when attempting to open a cloaked solution
• Cherry pick is disabled for the head commit in history
• Can’t use Git LFS with TFS 2015 Update 2
• Refreshing Folder Hierarchy will take so much time due to “TF400030” exception from TFS Object Model.
• Port the queryHistory performance fix to releases/Dev14.3
• Git LFS does not work with VS 2015 update 2
• Port changes made for versioned item linking user story to Update 3.
• Upgrade from TFS 2010 results in TFVC Warehouse Adapter job failing
• Creating PR from VS branches page context menu always uses current branch rather than selected branch
• Spurious Git Pull Request errors in event log
• Remove the 25 commit limit when linking workitems during PR creation
• If there are multiple build definitions configured for the repository the status badge might show the wrong build def for the build

Agile

• Warning when setting a PBI to done, when there is tasks, that are not done.
• User Stories with a child relationship of work item type Bug disappear from the Story Board
• Card styling error in french locale
• Priority changes when user story changes state
• Card styling (coloring) not working correctly in german TFS2015.2
• “New Item” in Board view missing
• Inline image reference is not stored in some cases
• Area path with non-standard characters cause query to fail
• label control/ Label Hyperlinks do not show on web browser
• Areas with single quotes break the WI query system
• TFS WebAccess Stories and Bugs are missing Title Bar
• Web Page control referencing identity field as param throws when value is empty
• Links not working for FieldControl labels
• The identity value for field ‘Created By’ is an unknown identity.
• TF30177 “Cannot insert duplicate key row in object ‘dbo.Constants”
• Query Results widget stuck in loading state in preview mode during configuration
• Hour box not big enough
• Inaccessible parent items prevent backlog from loading
• Navigating to WORK after changing projects with different iterations yields an error
• Accessibility: Dashboard Manager icon has no visual cue on focus
• Accessibility: Add Dashboard icon in Dashboard Manager has no clear visual cue on focus
• Accessibility: Add and delete Dashboard buttons in Dashboard Manager do not work on pressing ENTER
• Query Selector trapping input focus in Config for Query Tile, WIT Chart
• Dashboard Migration does not work when customer upgrades from TFS 2013 Update 1 or prior directly to TFS 2015 Update 1 or higher
• Can’t navigate between dashboards as a stakeholder
• Markdown Widget: VC path resolution fix
• Widget dialog does not respect profile language
• Fix error experience when dashboard update fails
• Adding widgets on a invalid dashboard state adds them as empty.
• Error banner is not cleared in some cases where dashboard goes from invalid to valid state.
• Conflicting widget positions error message is not descriptive
• Avatars aren’t loading in the PR Widget on-prem in dashboards
• Build Chart Widget: The build selector control shows duplicate builds
• Error banner is hidden when in edit mode
• Dashboard: Build failed, but the chart shows a green bar
• Visual Studio Links widget: Open in Visual Studio image is plain purple box
• Dirty state doesn’t prompt user on cancel
• Config: Widget configuration can save, even when it fails to render
• Remove widget zoom from config live-preview
• User Friendly: Tabbing in Edit mode should go through the Configure/Delete buttons not the contents of the widget
• Edit Mode: Close edit mode on ESC
• Stakeholder Banner is missing. User isn’t aware that they’re logged in as a stakeholder
• Error banner is not cleared in some cases where dashboard goes from invalid to valid state.
• Adding widgets on a invalid dashboard state adds them as empty.
• Build Charts Widget: Chart and last completed not in sync
• WIT chart type selection is broken in FireFox
• WIT Chart Widget: Chart Options aren’t displayed until a query is selected
• Source typo: “an” should be “can”
• Sprint Overview – Setting iteration dates doesn’t refresh the widget
• Sprint Burndown graph gets focus when tabbed to but ENTER does not open the lightbox
• Conditional Query Tile, the input field for number shows only 4 digits but allows 5 digits
• Readme files are not always displayed on the Team Project Welcome Page

Build

• Build vnext failed on chinese/jpn
• Unable to filter builds by tags on Firefox
• Error while setting permissions on a user of a build
• Scheduled build fires on wrong day
• TFS 2015 Build Agent doesn’t work if the service account has an underscore in its logoname
• User Project Collection Build Service needs the AdminWorkspaces global permission(s)
• getBuildBadge vso-node-api fails without ‘All Scopes’
• TFS Build 2015: Command Line Task doesn’t find “copy” & “Del”
• Incorrect binding redirect in TFS 2015 TFSBuildServiceHost.exe.config
• Revision number not calculated correctly when build definiton contains squared brackets
• Customer time formatting in profile preferences ignored
• curl was not found in the path in builds
• Build Script does not work on a Gated Build after an upgrade from TFS 2013 Update 3
• Create New Build Definition page is broken in Chrome
• Build service identities duplicated when cloning a server or when performing team project collection split scenarios
• Failure to display build results with large number of warnings
• Misleading error message when quing new build with shelveset
• Many extensions with cross platform build tasks will not work on prem in Update 2 due to Node version mismatch
• Image in Reason column on Build page is not properly clipped
• subversion repository options not sticking
• Build Failing with Invalid solution configuration and platform
• build fails because of npm install
• Invalid source label format when labeling sources on successful build.
• Git Repository Label Format not allowing Variables

Admin

• Password not accepted through Xamarin License build step
• In-place upgrade from Dev12 Update5 to Dev14 Update2 does not unconfigure TFS services
• Scheduled backup configuration wizard fails if TLOG backup interval is greater than 100 minutes
• Correct ISO names for Dev14 Update3
• Proxy server TFS 2015U2.1 shows blank URL
• Improper fallback behavior for port/vdir when reading configuration db settings.
• Collection splitting issue
• admin console crash: stack overflow exception while loading collection list in admin console
• Post upgrade – Database cleanup jobs not working
• Team Project did not delete completely
• TFS web doesn’t play well with terminated HTTPS
• Can’t view Source Code on TFS Web behind Reverse Proxy
• The identity picker dropdown in the right side reviewer section is cut off
• Users with alternate credentials can not be deleted / is recreated on use
• UpgradeToDev11Beta2 job fails when upgrading test cases from TFS 2010

Java

• Password not accepted through Xamarin License build step
• In-place upgrade from Dev12 Update5 to Dev14 Update2 does not unconfigure TFS services
• Scheduled backup configuration wizard fails if TLOG backup interval is greater than 100 minutes
• Correct ISO names for Dev14 Update3
• Proxy server TFS 2015U2.1 shows blank URL
• Improper fallback behavior for port/vdir when reading configuration db settings.
• Collection splitting issue
• admin console crash: stack overflow exception while loading collection list in admin console
• Post upgrade – Database cleanup jobs not working
• Team Project did not delete completely
• TFS web doesn’t play well with terminated HTTPS
• Can’t view Source Code on TFS Web behind Reverse Proxy
• The identity picker dropdown in the right side reviewer section is cut off
• Users with alternate credentials cannot be deleted / is recreated on use

Extensibility

• Jenkins service hook triggers builds for deleted branches
• Month and Day value are switched when specifying part of time
• Excessive “Global” fields available as options in Alert query fields including what looks to be Microsoft Internal Fields
• Some alert emails not being sent/received for comments on Code Reviews
• After Upgrade from TFS 2013 (Update 4) to TFS 2015 (Update 1) email alerts are not being sent
• Can’t manage events in team rooms
• TFS 2015 Update 2 – Alerts – An email notification is not working, if two or more alerts of the same alert (different “Send To”) are created
• Notification subscription links broken for projects with a space in the title
• TFVC code review emails not displaying names correctly
• View All Alerts no longer available in TFS 2015 Update 2.
• TFS services hook not “Slack” label on chinese version

• Changing the location in load test editor resets the cloud settings under run settings
• Set TimingDetailsStorage default to AllIndividualDetails option
• When a test creates folders with path > MAX_PATH, after-test action fails
• .testsettings not taken into account
• The default .testsettings file in Visual Studio does not contain some of the applications used by the Test Agent in the exclude list
• Test Execution gets aborted abruptly
• Warning in deploy test agent task displays ‘system.collections.generic.hashset’ instead of machineName
• Maven in Release pipeline
• Source Filter in Run Functional task is not required for Test Plan
• VsTest task is failing if full paths of 2 DLLs are given separated by semicolon
• No results visible on Release Test tab when group by ‘Test Suite’ and Environment selected ‘All’
• Visual Studio Test task doesn’t upload test results if results folder is configured in runsettings file
• I edited a build definition, checked ‘Code Coverage Enabled’ in Visual Studio Test, then queued a build with UnitTest project. The build failed
• vstest.console error initializing logger with URI ‘logger://Microsoft/TestPlatform/TfsLogger/v1’.  The logger will not be used.
• Invalid exception when run testing from Hosted Build Agent
• TC/TA with VS2015.2 not working
• Screen capture file upload retries after the failure with file not found error
• web test run window no longer wraps text
• Fetch test results in RM irrespective of environment state
• tcm run /publish leaving MTM tests in progress for VSTS
• Add Indexes on Warehouse Test Tables to speed up CSS Node Update and Work Item Delete queries
• TestManagementHttpClient.GetTestRunsAsync does not respect top parameter
• Test results in Release not visible after job completes, but environment still in progress, waiting on post deployment approval

Release Management

Brian