{"id":13115,"date":"2017-06-26T16:22:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T21:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/?p=13115"},"modified":"2019-02-27T06:27:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T06:27:17","slug":"tfs-2017-update-2-rc2-is-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/tfs-2017-update-2-rc2-is-available\/","title":{"rendered":"TFS 2017 Update 2 RC2 is available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we shipped the second release candidate for TFS 2017.2.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/en-us\/news\/releasenotes\/tfs2017-update2\">Release notes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=850949\">TFS 2017.2 web installer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=850948\">TFS 2017.2 ISO<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=850950\">TFS 2017.2 Express edition web installer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=850947\">TFS 2017.2 Express edition ISO<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The main differences between RC1 and RC2 are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A bunch of bug fixes<\/li>\n<li>All the localized versions are now available<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At this point, we only know of a couple of dozen bugs that we need to fix before the final release.\u00a0 This is a go-live release and, if you are planning to move to Update 2 at some point, I&#8217;d sure appreciate you installing this and trying it and letting us know if you hit any issues.\u00a0 The final release, assuming all goes well, should be within a month.<\/p>\n<p>Update 2 will be the last &#8220;big&#8221; feature release for TFS 2017.\u00a0 We plan to ship the first preview of TFS v.next in August.\u00a0 Stay tuned for more info on that.\u00a0 We will, likely, have a TFS 2017.3 at some point with a roll up of fixes for any additional reported bugs.<\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we shipped the second release candidate for TFS 2017.2. This post shares some info about this release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":14617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-13115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tfs"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Today we shipped the second release candidate for TFS 2017.2. This post shares some info about this release.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}