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Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.12.14

December 14, 2018 Dec 14, 2018 12/14/18
Edward Thomson
Happy Friday! Now that I live in Jolly Old England, the holiday festivities have begun (if you're not British, you might not know the whole of December is reserved for parties). So this will be the last top stories post for 2018, but don't worry, I'll be back in 2019. In the meantime, here are some great DevOps articles that I found this week.

Blocking malicious versions of event-stream and flatmap-stream packages

November 28, 2018 Nov 28, 2018 11/28/18
Buck Hodges
On November 26, 2018, the npm package manager released security advisory 737 regarding the flatmap-stream package. It was determined that this package was malicious, and contained harmful code. In addition, the popular event-stream package was modified to make use of the harmful flatmap-stream package. These malicious packages were apparently...

What’s new in Azure DevOps Sprint 143 Update

November 27, 2018 Nov 27, 2018 11/27/18
Anisha Pindoria
Sprint 143 Update of Azure DevOps is rolling out to all organizations. In this update, draft pull requests is now available in Azure Repos which allows you to easily create work in progress that may not include everyone. We are also releasing new features in Azure Artifacts, including the ability to exclude files in artifact uploads and get provenance information on packages. Watch the following video to learn more about these features.

Run your CI with Jenkins and CD with Azure DevOps

November 22, 2018 Nov 22, 2018 11/22/18
Ashok Kirla
Azure release pipelines provide you with the first-class experience to integrate with Jenkins. You can have Jenkins as your Continuous Integration (CI) system and use Azure DevOps Release for your Continuous Deployment (CD) and get all the benefits of Azure DevOps like: In this example you will build a Java web app ...