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November 2018 - Azure DevOps Blog

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 ...

Announcing Azure DevOps Server 2019 RC1

November 21, 2018 Nov 21, 2018 11/21/18
Erin Dormier
Yesterday, we announced Azure DevOps Server 2019 RC1. This is the evolution of TFS and the first release with our new brand and new navigation. We've added a ton of new features which you can read about in our release notes.

DevOps for Blockchain Apps

November 15, 2018 Nov 15, 2018 11/15/18
marcmercuri
Blockchain has emerged from the shadow of its cryptocurrency origins to be seen as a transformative data technology that can power the next generation of software for multi-party Enterprise and consumer scenarios.  With the trust and transparency that blockchain can deliver, this shared data technology is seen as a disruptor that can ...

Xcode 8.0-8.3.2 deprecation on Azure Pipelines hosted agents

November 13, 2018 Nov 13, 2018 11/13/18
Anisha Pindoria
This September, Azure Pipelines delivered Microsoft-hosted build support for Xcode 10 on the day it was released. Now that our community builds fewer than 1 percent of apps with older versions of Xcode 8, we will focus on supporting Xcode 8.3.3 and higher. Effective November 28, 2018, we are ending support for older versions of Xcode on ...