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April 2018 - Azure DevOps Blog

What’s new in VSTS Sprint 133 Update

April 30, 2018 Apr 30, 2018 04/30/18
Alex Nichols
The Sprint 133 Update of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) has rolled out to all accounts. In this Update we continue to expand on the languages and platforms we support build and release. Check out the demo video for an overview of the features and a look at YAML and the release definition templates. YAML builds, which has been in preview...

Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.04.27

April 27, 2018 Apr 27, 2018 04/27/18
Willy-P. Schaub
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics, listed in no specific order: TOP STORIES RADIOTFS VIDEOS TIP: If you want to get your VSTS news in audio form then be sure to subscribe to RadioTFS . Here are some ways to connect with us...

VSTS Public Projects Limited Preview

April 27, 2018 Apr 27, 2018 04/27/18
Jamie Cool
Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) offers a suite of DevOps capabilities to developers including Source control, Agile planning, Build, Release, Test and more. But until now all these features require the user to first login using a Microsoft Account before they can be used.  Today, we’re starting a limited preview of a new capability that...

Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.04.20

April 20, 2018 Apr 20, 2018 04/20/18
Willy-P. Schaub
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics, listed in no specific order: TOP STORIES WHAT’S NEW VIDEOS TIP: If you want to get your VSTS news in audio form then be sure to subscribe to RadioTFS . Here are some ways to connect with us...

Release Flow: How We Do Branching on the VSTS Team

April 19, 2018 Apr 19, 2018 04/19/18
Edward Thomson
Whenever I talk to somebody about Git and version control, one question always comes up: How do you do your branching at Microsoft? And there’s no one answer to this question. Although we’ve been moving everybody in the company into one engineering system, standardizing on Git hosted in Visual Studio Team Services, what we haven’t done...

What’s new in VSTS Sprint 132 Update

April 17, 2018 Apr 17, 2018 04/17/18
Alex Nichols
The Sprint 132 Update of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) has rolled out to all accounts and includes several features to help you scale your build and release pipeline. If you have multiple, dependent teams in your organization working on large products, check out the new build completion trigger. It allows you to chain two related ...

TFS 2018 Update 2 RC2

April 17, 2018 Apr 17, 2018 04/17/18
Erin Dormier
We have released Team Foundation Server 2018 Update 2 RC2. You can see details about Update 2, including some key new features, in our RC1 blog post. RC2 is our last planned release before TFS 2018 Update 2 RTW. Here are some key links: TFS 2018.2 RC2 Release Notes TFS 2018.2 RC2 Web Installer TFS 2018.2 RC2 ISO TFS 2018.2 RC2 Express Web ...

Power BI and VSTS – Integration made easy

April 16, 2018 Apr 16, 2018 04/16/18
Romi Koifman
We are excited to announce an easy-to-use solution for integrating Power BI with VSTS Analytics. You don’t have to know how to write OData queries anymore! Our new feature Analytics views makes getting VSTS work tracking data into Power BI simple, and it works for the largest accounts. Similar to a work items query, an Analytics View ...

Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.04.13

April 13, 2018 Apr 13, 2018 04/13/18
Willy-P. Schaub
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics, listed in no specific order: TOP STORIES VIDEOS TIP: If you want to get your VSTS news in audio form then be sure to subscribe to RadioTFS . Here are some ways to connect with us...