{"id":13495,"date":"2017-09-19T17:15:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T22:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/?p=13495"},"modified":"2019-02-27T06:14:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T06:14:49","slug":"tfs-2017-update-3-rc-is-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/tfs-2017-update-3-rc-is-available\/","title":{"rendered":"TFS 2017 Update 3 RC is available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we released the Release Candidate for Team Foundation Server 2017 Update 3.\u00a0 Following the pattern of all of our Update 3 releases, TFS 2017 Update 3 is a small release, focused on bug fixes &#8211; mostly a roll up of fixes for issues that we&#8217;ve uncovered as increasing numbers of customers have adopted the TFS 2017 wave of releases.\u00a0 In all, Update 3 has a few dozen bug fixes (see the release notes for details).\u00a0 Because of its narrow scope we anticipate that this RC will be the only Release Candidate and will strive to ship the final release within a month or so.<\/p>\n<p>Update 3 will likely be the final Update in the TFS 2017 family.\u00a0 We have already released the first RC for TFS 2018, with RC2 coming soon and the final release scheduled for later this year.<\/p>\n<p>If you are on TFS 2017, Update 3 will be a good and safe upgrade that will address issues you might hit.\u00a0 We&#8217;d appreciate if you&#8217;d give the RC a try to help us find any final issues before we ship it.\u00a0 Upgrades from the RC to the final release will, of course, be supported.\nImportant links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/news\/releasenotes\/tfs2017-update3\">TFS 2017 Update 3 RC Release Notes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=857134\">TFS 2017 Update 3 RC web installer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=857132\">TFS 2017 Update 3 RC ISO installer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=857131\">TFS 2017 Express Edition Update 3 RC web installer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=857133\">TFS 2017 Express Edition Update 3 RC ISO installer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hopefully you find this release helpful.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you,\nBrian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we released the Release Candidate for Team Foundation Server 2017 Update 3.\u00a0 Following the pattern of all of our Update 3 releases, TFS 2017 Update 3 is a small release, focused on bug fixes &#8211; mostly a roll up of fixes for issues that we&#8217;ve uncovered as increasing numbers of customers have adopted the [&hellip;]<\/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-13495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tfs"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Today we released the Release Candidate for Team Foundation Server 2017 Update 3.\u00a0 Following the pattern of all of our Update 3 releases, TFS 2017 Update 3 is a small release, focused on bug fixes &#8211; mostly a roll up of fixes for issues that we&#8217;ve uncovered as increasing numbers of customers have adopted the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13495","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=13495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13495\/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=13495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}