{"id":511,"date":"2015-05-15T11:36:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T11:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2015\/05\/15\/visual-studio-online-update-may-15th\/"},"modified":"2019-02-16T22:46:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T22:46:40","slug":"visual-studio-online-update-may-15th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/visual-studio-online-update-may-15th\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio Online Update &#8211; May 15th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we are deploying our sprint 82 work for VS Online.&nbsp; This is a very BIG deployment &ndash; lot&rsquo;s of stuff.&nbsp; You can read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/news\/2015-may-15-vso\">release notes<\/a>.\nFirst and foremost <strong>Build.VNext is here!<\/strong>&nbsp; It is now in Public Preview and everyone can try it.&nbsp; We also now have a hosted build pool so you don&rsquo;t have to install a local build agent on Windows if you don&rsquo;t want to.&nbsp; If you want to build on Linux or the MacOS, you will still need to setup up local agent for now.\nSince I offered a early peek at Build.VNext on my blog a month or so ago, I&rsquo;ve been inundated with people requesting to have their account enabled.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s been really great to see how much interest there has been.&nbsp; Now everyone has it and you don&rsquo;t need to ask for it any longer.\nI&rsquo;ve also gotten a ton of questions about enabling something akin to gated checkin and checkin policies for Git.&nbsp; This deployment introduces Branch policies that enable this.&nbsp; We have not yet exposed an extensibility mechanism but plan to in the future.&nbsp; For now we have a build policy that&rsquo;s akin to gated checkin and a code review policy.&nbsp; Very cool.\nThis deployment also brings a bunch of agile planning enhancements that I think you are going to love.\nCheck out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/news\/2015-may-15-vso\">release notes<\/a> for all the details and see you again soon!<\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we are deploying our sprint 82 work for VS Online.&nbsp; This is a very BIG deployment &ndash; lot&rsquo;s of stuff.&nbsp; You can read the release notes. First and foremost Build.VNext is here!&nbsp; It is now in Public Preview and everyone can try it.&nbsp; We also now have a hosted build pool so you [&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":[8],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-vsonline"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>This week we are deploying our sprint 82 work for VS Online.&nbsp; This is a very BIG deployment &ndash; lot&rsquo;s of stuff.&nbsp; You can read the release notes. First and foremost Build.VNext is here!&nbsp; It is now in Public Preview and everyone can try it.&nbsp; We also now have a hosted build pool so you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","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=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/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=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}