{"id":11141,"date":"2015-08-06T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2015\/08\/06\/team-foundation-server-2015-final-release\/"},"modified":"2024-06-26T12:55:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T19:55:36","slug":"team-foundation-server-2015-final-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/team-foundation-server-2015-final-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Foundation Server 2015 Final Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we released the final version of Team Foundation Server 2015.\u00a0 TFS 2015 is a major step forward, with tons of improvements throughout the development process but with special emphasis on DevOps capabilities.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=533008\">TFS 2015 Trial Download<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=533019\">TFS 2015 Express Download<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/news\/tfs2015-vs\">TFS 2015 Release notes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are all of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/en-us\/downloads\/download-visual-studio-vs.aspx\">TFS 2015 related downloads<\/a>.\u00a0 Look under Visual Studio 2015 for things like Test Professional, under Team Foundation Server 2015 for TFS, Project Server, etc. and under Tools for Visual Studio 2015 for Release Management, Test Agents, etc.<\/p>\n<p>You can, of course, get TFS 2015 through your MSDN subscriber downloads and other places you normally acquire Microsoft software.<\/p>\n<p>I want to call out just a few of the highlights in TFS 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Agile Project Management<\/strong> \u2013 We\u2019ve made so many improvements to our Agile Project Management capabilities that they are hard to count.\u00a0 So many of them came out incrementally on VS Online, but when I look at the rolled up list for TFS 2015, I\u2019m blown away.\u00a0 Improvements include \u2013 Hierarchical backlog management, customizable cards, swim lanes, definition of done, split columns, inline edit, search and filter and many, many more.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/08\/IC801835.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16451\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/08\/IC801835.jpg\" alt=\"Image IC801835\" width=\"730\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/08\/IC801835.jpg 730w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/08\/IC801835-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See more on our <a href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Events\/Visual-Studio\/Visual-Studio-2015-Final-Release-Event\/Agile-Project-Management-in-TFS-2015\">Agile Tooling on Channel9<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Build.vnext<\/strong> \u2013 TFS 2015 brings a major overhaul to the TFS build system that not only addresses numerous points of customer feedback \u2013 like a web UI, change auditing, better agent pool management, high availability, etc. but also unlocks whole new worlds by creating a dramatically simpler extensibility model, providing tasks for building almost anything you want \u2013 Java, Android, IOS, Node.js and more, and a cross platform agent that enables you to build on any platform you choose.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/08\/8836.image_thumb_729C4BF4.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16452\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/08\/8836.image_thumb_729C4BF4.png\" alt=\"Image 8836 image thumb 729C4BF4\" width=\"320\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/08\/8836.image_thumb_729C4BF4.png 320w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/08\/8836.image_thumb_729C4BF4-245x300.png 245w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Continuous Delivery<\/strong> \u2013 Building on the new Build pipeline, extensibility model and cross platform agents, we\u2019ve enabled continuous delivery like never before.\u00a0 You can choose from a wide variety of tasks that will provision Azure infrastructure for your application, deploy the app, run high volume test automation with a new distributed test execution capability, run load tests, run functional tests on 3rd party device clouds, and more.\u00a0 All of this enables you to create a completely automated build-deploy-test-monitor continuous delivery pipeline for friction free flow of code into production.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/08\/1348.image_thumb_62434C17.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16454\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/08\/1348.image_thumb_62434C17.png\" alt=\"Image 1348 image thumb 62434C17\" width=\"720\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/08\/1348.image_thumb_62434C17.png 720w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/08\/1348.image_thumb_62434C17-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Team Project Rename<\/strong> \u2013 And who can forget the #1 UserVoice item for almost 10 years?\u00a0 We\u2019ve finally delivered Team Project Rename in TFS 2015.\u00a0 Rename your Team Projects at will.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/08\/1016.image_thumb3_0FA517D3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16455\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/08\/1016.image_thumb3_0FA517D3.png\" alt=\"Image 1016 image thumb3 0FA517D3\" width=\"484\" height=\"87\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/08\/1016.image_thumb3_0FA517D3.png 484w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/08\/1016.image_thumb3_0FA517D3-300x54.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Git Improvements<\/strong> \u2013 We\u2019ve also made numerous improvements to our Git tooling \u2013 continuing to improve the Pull Request experience, adding support for branch policies that enable you to control the quality of what gets merged into important branches, improved ways of visualizing history, and more.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/08\/IC799234.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16456\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/08\/IC799234.png\" alt=\"Image IC799234\" width=\"730\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/08\/IC799234.png 730w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/08\/IC799234-300x37.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/08\/IC799231.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16457\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/08\/IC799231.jpg\" alt=\"Image IC799231\" width=\"730\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/08\/IC799231.jpg 730w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/08\/IC799231-300x104.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See more on our <a href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Events\/Visual-Studio\/Visual-Studio-2015-Final-Release-Event\/Git-Branches-and-Policies-in-Team-Foundation-Server-2015\">Git tooling improvements on Channel9<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Extensibility<\/strong> \u2013 TFS 2015 brings to TFS the great extensibility capabilities we\u2019ve introduced in VS Online over the past year.\u00a0 Now you can integrate Team Foundation Server with hundreds of your favorite tools with REST, Service Hooks and OAuth.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/explore\/vso-integrations-directory-vs\">Learn more<\/a> about what\u2019s available and how to get them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/08\/8507.image_thumb_3B6EDCE3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16458\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/08\/8507.image_thumb_3B6EDCE3.png\" alt=\"Image 8507 image thumb 3B6EDCE3\" width=\"400\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/08\/8507.image_thumb_3B6EDCE3.png 400w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/08\/8507.image_thumb_3B6EDCE3-211x300.png 211w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pricing and Licensing<\/strong> \u2013 In addition to all the great new capabilities in TFS 2015, we\u2019ve continued to simplify licensing and reduce prices to make it even easier to get in the hands of everyone who needs to participate in your development efforts.\u00a0 Read more details on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/bharry\/archive\/2015\/07\/27\/included-cals-and-tiered-pricing.aspx\">another recent blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>As I mentioned, this is just a scratch on the surface of some of the highlights of changes in TFS 2015.\u00a0 There\u2019s so much more.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s a great release and I hope you do too.<\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we released the final version of Team Foundation Server 2015.\u00a0 TFS 2015 is a major step forward, with tons of improvements throughout the development process but with special emphasis on DevOps capabilities. 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