March 2020

Optimizing for stability during the global health pandemic

March 30, 2020 Mar 30, 2020 03/30/20

Gloridel Morales

Azure DevOps serves as the foundation of the engineering system for many of our customers, as well as for most of Microsoft itself. With so much uncertainty arising from the COVID-19 global health pandemic, during this time we believe our overriding focus for Azure DevOps needs to be stability and reliability.

Introducing the New Pull Request Experience for Azure Repos

March 19, 2020 Mar 19, 2020 03/19/20

Apeksha Awasthi

Try out Azure Repos' mobile-friendly and faster pull request experience with new features like adding required reviewers per pull request, comparing multiple iterations, and accepting suggested changes within the pull request!

Supporting SHA-2 algorithm in SSH on Azure DevOps

March 18, 2020 Mar 18, 2020 03/18/20

Jimson Chalissery [MSFT]

With the release of OpenSSH 8.2 last month, connections to SSH servers using SHA-1 was disabled by default in the OpenSSH client. We understand that this move helps improve the security of SSH connections, by encouraging all users to adopt the SHA-2 class of algorithms, generally considered safer. However, this resulted in OpenSSH users not ...

March patches for Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server

March 10, 2020 Mar 10, 2020 03/10/20

Gloridel Morales

This month, we are releasing fixes for security vulnerabilities that impact our self-hosted product, Azure DevOps Server 2019, as well as the following older Team Foundation Server releases: TFS 2015, TFS 2017 and TFS 2018.