Azure DevOps Blog

DevOps, Git, and Agile updates from the team building Azure DevOps

July 2018 - Page 2 of 2 - Azure DevOps Blog

Universal Packages bring large, generic artifact management to VSTS

July 9, 2018 Jul 9, 2018 07/9/18
Alex Mullans
Until now, Package Management has hosted packages that are part of a development ecosystem: NuGet packages for .NET development, npm packages for Node.js and web frontend development, and Maven packages for Java development. We're also continuing to expand our support for new development ecosystem, with support for Python's PyPI packages and...

Supercharging the Git Commit Graph III: Generations and Graph Algorithms

July 9, 2018 Jul 9, 2018 07/9/18
Derrick Stolee
Earlier, we announced that Git 2.18 contains a new commit-graph feature, and we discussed the commit-graph file format. As shipped in Git 2.18, this file only speeds up commit walks by a constant multiple, due to parsing structured data from the commit-graph file. Today, we continue by talking about how we can use the idea of a generation ...

Moving from Hosted XML process to Inheritance process – Private Preview

July 6, 2018 Jul 6, 2018 07/6/18
Dan Hellem
VSTS provides two process customization models, Hosted XML and Inheritance. Hosted XML was designed to allow your customizations to come with you when migrating from TFS. The Inheritance process model is the future of process customization in VSTS. It's simple yet powerful. As more customers import their work into VSTS we have received a lot ...

If I am a VSTS Stakeholder, can I also be an Admin?

July 5, 2018 Jul 5, 2018 07/5/18
Paris Morgan
Today, we’re excited to announce that users with the Stakeholder access level can now be administrators in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). With these upcoming changes, Stakeholders can administer access levels, permissions, and settings – if they have been granted permissions to do so. Previously, they were only able to invite users ...

What’s new in VSTS Sprint 136 Update

July 3, 2018 Jul 3, 2018 07/3/18
Alex Nichols
The Sprint 136 Update of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) has rolled out to all accounts. In this Update we introduce several design changes as part of modernizing our user interface. Watch the following video to learn about a few of the features, which also includes a demonstration of the new navigation and new Work hubs. Here’s an ...